There are two major movement cycles that I want to uplift here, Occupy and Black Lives Matter/Movement for Black Lives, as recent nonlinear organizing processes that started off to speak to class and race intersections in the US, respectively. Both grew from common longing, from a relinquishing of control, and from a celebration of leaderfull transformation. Both have been challenged by the limits of our human capacity to cooperate, sustain, and grow in conflict; by the weight of large-scale expectations on something long awaited but new; by the learning pains of organizing for depth in the
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