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What happens when a single-issue group achieves its goal but can't agree on next steps

Our neighborhood group formed to oppose a development and we won, but now half of us want to keep organizing around other issues and half want to dissolve and there's this weird energy where people are afraid to say they just want out.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Success can be as destabilizing as failure when people joined for one specific purpose and that purpose no longer exists.

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