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When community organizing gets stuck in process instead of action

I started doing community organizing because I wanted to help but now I spend more time in meetings talking about meetings than actually doing anything.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Democratic decision-making can become an end in itself rather than a means toward tangible change.

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