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Scenario

How to navigate community divisions over civil disobedience tactics in environmental activism

Our environmental justice group is split on whether to support the activists who chained themselves to the pipeline equipment - half of us think it was necessary and powerful, and half think it hurt our credibility with the community leaders we've been building relationships with for months. The divide is starting to feel personal and I don't know how we move forward together.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group committed to environmental justice is discovering that tactical disagreements are revealing deeper conflicts about strategy, relationships, and what kind of change they're actually trying to create.

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Juana
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“Where Are You with Environmental activism and civil disobedience?”

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