Social Work & Disconnection
Coalitions Are How Values Become Outcomes
Stop settling for the comfort of affirmation. True advocacy isn't a popularity contest; it’s the gritty, integrity-based discipline of building coalitions with the "other" to turn shared values into systemic outcomes.
Don Schweitzer
Mar 258 min read
Certainty Under Pressure:
How Moral Closure Undermines Justice Work "If a movement is to have an impact, it must belong to those who join it—not those who lead it." — Simon Sinek Today, advocacy is often marked by urgency, moral clarity, and a sense that the stakes could not be higher. In many cases, urgency is warranted: The harm is active and real, while delaying has consequences. At the same time, something else has been quietly taking hold in justice work: a growing reliance on certainty where pos
Don Schweitzer
Mar 129 min read
Martin Luther King Jr. Knew How Justice Movements Win. We’re Forgetting That Lesson.
MLK taught disciplined, strategic nonviolence: a roadmap for integrity-based advocates to choose persuasion, timing, and outcomes over moral certainty and spectacle.
Don Schweitzer
Jan 298 min read
Beyond the March: Rethinking Peaceful Protest for a Divided Age
The streets fill with chants. The air hums with conviction. Signs wave, slogans rise, and cameras capture the spectacle. For a moment, it feels like something powerful is happening. But by the next morning, the streets are empty again. News cycles move on. Nothing has changed . Once, a march could shake the conscience of a nation. Today, it too often feels like a ritual – predictable, performative, and quickly forgotten. Martin Luther King Jr. once remarked that a march in th
Don Schweitzer
Dec 29, 20257 min read
