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When communities reach up
Clayton Collins
Welcome to midweek.聽
So much of world news focuses on the top-down imposition of will. Two stories in today鈥檚 Daily show how earnest community-builders, in very different settings, are applying aggregated power to make change.聽
In El Salvador, a nation traumatized by violence, community leaders work to build trust by revitalizing a pair of 蹿煤迟产辞濒 pitches in what once were no-go zones. In a wealthy Boston neighborhood, local associations add permanent housing, with social services, that supports people not normally welcome in tony ZIP codes.聽
Different deep-seated 鈥渞ealities,鈥� confronted in different ways. Both acts of agency, and of transcendence.
