From Solidarity Wedges
to Bridges
Discernment Toolkit
In times of heightened division, uncertainty, and crisis, wedges can deepen tensions, test values alignment and hinder our individual and collective capacity to build power and act in solidarity together. They can also offer insight into the conditions shaping our collective work. Wedges can reveal where relationships need repair, power dynamics need attention, and infrastructure needs strengthening.
The Solidarity Wedges to Bridges Discernment Toolkit, grounded in BMP’s decade of work building transformative solidarity with frontline communities, offers a framework for understanding the wedges that emerge in our collective work. It invites us to examine the conditions, relationships, risks, and possibilities at play and discern what it may take to transform wedges into bridges.
This tool is designed to support organizations in:
Identify the solidarity wedge(s) and the conditions contributing to it
Understand what is sustaining the wedge and what it may reveal about the organization, coalition and/or movement
Discern what transformative solidarity might require in response
Identify opportunities to transform wedges into bridges
At BMP, we define a solidarity wedge as a tension, contradiction, conflict, and/or rupture that emerges within or across people, organizations, coalitions, and movements.
Transforming Solidarity Wedges to Bridges
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
3:00-4:00 pm EST
Join Building Movement Project for an introduction to our new Solidarity Wedges to Bridges Discernment Toolkit. Together, we’ll explore how the tool can help us understand the conditions beneath a wedge and discern what it might take to transform wedges into bridges.