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In the previous chapter we discussed how organizers figure out what to fight for by “cutting an issue.” This chapter is about the next step: how to fight for the issues you cut.
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Ken Galdston cited in Kristin Layng Szakos and Joe Szakos, We Make Change: Community Organizers Talk about What They Do—And Why (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2007), 159.
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Schutz, A., Sandy, M.G. (2011). Tactics and Strategy. In: Collective Action for Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230118539_15
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