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When your mutual aid group disagrees about working with local government

Our community mutual aid group started during the pandemic with shared politics but now we're arguing about whether to work with the city on their housing initiative and it's revealing that we have different theories about how change happens and different relationships to government power.

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What we've seen

Crisis-born solidarity gets tested when the emergency recedes and deeper political differences emerge about strategy, compromise, and the role of state power in social change.

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