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When communities face external threats with different approaches

My neighborhood started a community garden three years ago and it's become this beautiful space but now the city wants to develop the lot and half of us want to fight it while the other half think we should negotiate and I can see us splitting apart over strategy.

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A group that united around shared creation is discovering that protecting what they've built requires navigating different philosophies about resistance and compromise.

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