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Scenario

When organizing partners disagree on reform versus radical change

My organizing partner and I have been working on criminal justice reform for three years and we've started disagreeing fundamentally about whether we should work within the system or focus on more radical alternatives. We're both committed to the cause but I'm worried we're pulling the movement in opposite directions instead of building something coherent together.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Strategic differences about systemic change can fracture the very partnerships that make political work possible.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The examined political life?”

Peri

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