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When communities ask allies to withdraw their help

The indigenous water protectors I've been supporting for two years just asked our ally group to step back and I don't understand what we did wrong.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Good intentions in solidarity work can still reproduce dynamics of harm or dependency.

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