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When activist groups split over tactics and political strategy

Our activist collective has been doing mutual aid work for three years and some of us want to start engaging with electoral politics while others see that as selling out to the system we're trying to change. The meetings are getting tense and people are starting to avoid each other outside of organizing work and I'm worried we're going to fracture over this when our community needs us most.

Juana
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A group united by shared values is discovering that those values can lead to completely different conclusions about how to create change.

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