My organizing partner and I disagree about whether to focus our limited volunteer hours on voter registration in swing districts or helping with direct services in our own struggling neighborhood. We both believe in maximizing impact but we're working from completely different theories of change.
More people experience this than they realize.
Activist partnerships fracture when partners operate from different models of how social change happens.
“Where Are You with Utilitarian justice — greatest good?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.