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When your values conflict with your fears in community organizing

The homeless encampment behind our community center got cleared out last week and I know we should have done more to help but I also have small kids and felt scared sometimes.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Personal safety concerns can create moral complexity that challenges straightforward activist responses.

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