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.
Strategic differences about systemic change can fracture the very partnerships that make political work possible.
“Where Are You with The examined political life?”
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