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How to break into established organizing circles as a newcomer

I've been going to these housing justice meetings for six months and I still feel like an outsider because everyone else has known each other for years and speaks in acronyms I don't understand.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Long-standing activist communities can inadvertently create barriers that exclude the very people they seek to include.

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