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When your organizing victory doesn't serve the people you intended

The community garden we fought for two years to create is being used mostly by white families even though this is a majority Latino neighborhood.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Successful community projects can be co-opted in ways that reproduce the very inequities they were meant to address.

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“Where Are You with Community organizing?”

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