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When activist groups can't align on working within versus outside the system

My community organizing group has some members who want to work within the system and others who think that's just legitimizing oppression, and we can't agree on strategy. We're spending all our energy on internal debates instead of actual organizing, but the strategic differences feel too important to just ignore.

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Strategic disagreements often reveal different theories about how change happens that cannot be resolved through compromise alone.

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