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Organizing is hard.

If it wasn't, we might live under socialism already.

An example from my own work.

Right now, I am helping to organize canvassing

for a slate of left-wing Rhode Island state legislative candidates.

I wish it was simple.

It would be entirely magical if everyone involved in my organization just signed up for shifts

after we posted them on the slack.

That is not the case.

In fact, I wish that even a fraction of the 10,000 odd people

who showed up at Providence's largest Black Lives Matter protest were meaningfully involved in organizing.

Yet that is just not how it works. You have to ask people and remind people that is the work.

And the work is harder than that still.

It is the painstaking labor of building human relationships one by one.

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