In most social-change situations there is a struggle between those who want the change and those who don’t. On the one hand, there are people who are active supporters of the change – not just people who believe in the change but people who are taking actions to make it a reality. On the other hand, there are people who are active opposers, people who actively take actions to prevent the change.
In activist work, we often are focussed on those two groups – yet most people are somewhere between. Societies (towns, provinces, etc.) include a range of groups that can be put on a spectrum from closest to the point of view of your group, to farthest away. This spectrum of allies illustrates this point. The goal of the spectrum of allies is to identify different people – or specific groups of people – in each category, then design actions and tactics to move them one wedge to the left.
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