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Scenario

When advocacy teams disagree on reform versus abolition approaches

Our nonprofit team is split on whether to focus our mass incarceration advocacy on reforming the existing system or pushing for complete abolition, and it's paralyzing our work. Half the team thinks incremental change saves lives now while the other half believes reform just legitimizes a fundamentally broken system, and every program decision becomes a philosophical battle.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group's strategic paralysis reveals deeper disagreements about whether gradual change enables or undermines transformative justice.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Mass incarceration — causes and critique?”

Peri

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