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How to address unspoken divisions in community organizing

Our neighborhood group has been organizing around some local issues for two years and we used to feel really aligned but now there are these unspoken divisions forming based on who has kids in the schools versus who doesn't, and who's been here longer, and we can all feel it but no one wants to name it directly.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Different stakes and histories create invisible fault lines that threaten shared purpose if left unexamined.

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