My organizing partner and I are working on criminal justice reform but we keep hitting walls because they believe the system can be reformed toward Ubuntu principles while I think it needs to be abolished and rebuilt. Our community needs us to work together but our different theories of change are making it hard to strategize effectively.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people committed to Ubuntu justice are struggling to collaborate across fundamentally different beliefs about whether existing systems can be transformed.
“Where Are You with Ubuntu justice — healing over punishment?”
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