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When community leadership becomes concentrated power

Our community garden has been dealing with the same three people who dominate every meeting and make all the decisions while the rest of us just go along with it and it's starting to feel like a dictatorship disguised as collaboration.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Even in spaces built on shared values, power can concentrate in ways that undermine the very community they're meant to serve.

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