We've been organizing mutual aid in our neighborhood for three years and now the city wants to formalize our work with grants and oversight and half of us think it's a sellout and half think it's necessary growth. I keep going back and forth but we have to decide together and I don't know how to bridge this divide.
More people experience this than they realize.
The group must navigate the tension between maintaining autonomy and gaining resources, while honoring different philosophies about power and change.
“Where Are You with Indigenous restorative traditions?”
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