I personally feel whenever a community successfully mobilizes itself in any kind of way, the best use of energy is to help make everyone aware of the power they just flexed & their potential to do much more. Focusing on how it didn’t change everything overnight is disempowering.

You’ve got individuals with absolutely everything coming at them who just participated in a collective action that brought about the outcome they wanted. They deserve uplift & encouragement & credit & focus & continued support as much as organizers.

As much as folk criticize individualism & the focus on celebrating individuals, there’s still a strong tendency to do exact same thing in equal & opposite way by focusing negatively on individuals instead of uplifting the positive of what a community just did w/ collective action