Political risks are more than strategic vision; they are acts of faith. “In biology, one learns about a certain species of caterpillar that can only cross the threshold of metamorphosis by seeing its future butterfly,” writes Mike Davis. A movement “does not evolve by incremental steps but requires non-linear leaps … [through the work of] non-utilitarian actors, whose ultimate motivations and values arise from structures of feeling that others would deem spiritual.”40 A tenants union is a spiritual, not a professional, enterprise—even a church. We don’t mean this because we share a religion, but because our unions help us develop and sustain a relationship to something greater than ourselves, something we don’t yet know is possible, something we commit to whether or not we see the fruits of our work.