Our activist collective can't decide whether to criticize our city's truth and reconciliation report as inadequate or celebrate it as progress and the disagreement is splitting us along lines that feel deeper than strategy. Some of us think any engagement legitimizes a broken system while others see it as our only pathway to change.
More people experience this than they realize.
Activists discover their different theories of change create fundamental conflicts about whether to engage with or resist institutional reconciliation processes.
“Where Are You with Truth and reconciliation commissions?”
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