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When community organizing reveals different stakes in the same fight

Our neighborhood group has been fighting this development project for months and some of us want to keep organizing while others think we should take the compromise the city offered and I can't tell if the people pushing for the compromise are just tired or if they're the ones who won't be as affected by the outcome.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Solidarity fractures when abstract principles meet the reality that people have different levels of investment in and capacity for sustained resistance.

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