Importantly, social movement narratives are also always stories of both friends and foes; the collective lead character, the acting we, is defined by its boundaries in relation to enemies of the past and the present, and the allies which can assist in bringing about a better world. The moment of constructing a collective, integrated ‘‘we,’’ with well-defined interests and strategies, implies discursive closure, a fixation of meaning; it is the ideological dimension of a social movement narrative