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When activist groups face strategic disagreements about institutional engagement

Our activist collective is split between people who want to work within existing institutions and people who want to build alternatives, and we can't decide whether to apply for city funding because half of us think it's compromise and half think it's pragmatism.

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A shared commitment to change can encompass fundamentally different theories about how change happens, creating decision-making paralysis.

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