Movement success depends on durable community organizations outlasting individual fights

Evidence

We attribute the success of grassroots environmental justice struggles, ultimately, to strong community organizations and regional networks. As we explain at the end of this chapter, and as the next chapter illustrates, the grassroots organizations created in the midst of struggles for environmental justice are crucial in creating an ongoing role for community participation in all decisions that fundamentally affect the participants’ lives. When local groups are able to link their victories in the environmental realm to broader political and economic struggles, the potential exists to redefine existing power relations, to unsettle cultural assumptions about race and class, and to create new political possibilities for historically marginalized communities in local decision-making processes. — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 496

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Hierarchical organization correlates with protest movement success — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 847; Organizations pursue survival through resistance, self-affirmation, and adaptation — Robert B. McCalla, NATO’s persistence after the cold war, 71; Organizations outlast their original purpose and remain usable as social capital — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 129 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Hierarchical organization correlates with protest movement success #corroborates (0.80) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 847
• Organizations outlast their original purpose and remain usable as social capital #corroborates (0.80) — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 129
• Organizations pursue survival through resistance, self-affirmation, and adaptation #expands (0.75) — Robert B. McCalla, NATO’s persistence after the cold war, 71
• Social movements’ organizational bases shift far more than their repertoires #corroborates (0.70)