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===== Challenging All Three Faces of Power =====
When setting strategic goals and theories of change, we can challenge systems, structures and key decisions simultaneously. In the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the organizers created tangible change for their community by engaging in direct action (a boycott) to desegregate the buses. They shifted structures by building capacity in the black community in Montgomery, developing leaders, and creating new organizations to fight segregation more broadly. And they dragged systemic racism into view by creating a conflict in the other two faces of power, which allowed them to raise awareness of how systemic racism was unacceptably rooted in their community.

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