Mission Statement
All living things as individuals have an effect on one another and our planet in everything that we do. Every interaction with our material and social world sets off a cascade of tipping dominos, like the interactions that came before and led up to it.
In our mission to bring about a more equitable and just world, we must understand the context of our current individual struggles through the lens of our collective international history of struggles against systems of greed and individualism. The context of our birth is not something we had a choice in. Had fate decided it, we would have been born in the shoes of someone like Emmett Till in 1950's Mississippi, Anne Frank in 1940's Germany, or Hind Rajab in present day Palestine. Through learning the history of our collective struggles, the importance of global solidarity in the struggle for a more equitable world becomes evidently clear.
“I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
- Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Letter from a Birmingham Jail - April 1963)
Areas of Focus
Education - Eras of history are not isolated events. In learning about our history, we learn about our present. With the help of historians of the past and present, we can expedite our understanding of the past to best shape our future.
In wanting to improve the current state of the world, we must identify the issues that are affecting our communities. Once the issues are identified, we can address what aspect of the issues needs to be mended with urgency before we mend the root cause of the issues.
Safety - In the present, not unlike our past, there are people that unjustly face persecution by not only individuals, but by the government. We are composed of and are here for our BIPOC and LGBTQI+ community members. We support our community members struggling with unwanted pregnancies and we support their choice to get an abortion. We support our community members struggling with addiction and we support our community members with prior convictions, because given the right support, resources, and opportunities we know people have the power to overcome life's obstacles. Juxtaposed to the for-profit judicial system that creates a vicious cycle of incarceration, we believe in transformative justice.
Community - We want to provide our community members with a safe place to learn together, grow together, and improve the conditions of their respective and collective communities. In doing so, we hope to connect with other organizations that share similar goals and values. In building a network of like minded people and organizations, we will have the support and power to replace the systems of greed, corruption, and individualism. Many hands make light work.