This happens all the time. Left wing groups often share the same goals so they band together.

Red Alert Politics reports.

New race protest strategy: Build coalition with anti-oil, anti-Israel groups

Campus divestment movements, which seek to change how universities invest endowments and other financial resources, have started to unite, even when their goals differ.

Coalitions have formed among groups pushing for fossil fuel divestment, prison industry divestment, and divestment from Israel, according to the AP.

Wesleyan University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Tufts University have all seen broad coalitions.

The uniting forces have gone beyond campus divestment. Single-issue groups have combined to push activism related to racism, sexual assault, and workers’ rights as well at Columbia University and Barnard College.

“Already, students from several universities are trying to establish a national umbrella group that would unite students across schools and causes. National environmental groups have offered online training to students on the perks of solidarity,” the AP reported.

It’s a smart move by groups trying to gain influence. The more organizations that agitate, which means more students, faculty, and staff united under a banner of reform, the likelier it is that they can move university policy. The university president can ignore two or three groups with a dozen students at most easily. To do the same to a coalition that shares resources and goals, with the backing of dozens of students, isn’t so simple.

An unseen danger, however, is that instability and recruitment could be difficult. A coalition tends to have multiple leaders with multiple goals. Power struggles, different favored tactics, and general tension could cause an end to the coalition. A broad-based movement on multiple issues could alienate potential supporters as well. A coalition could alienate a student open to environmental conservation, but doesn’t favor prison reform or union support.