LIBERATION THROUGH VISION & ACTION 

We commit to envisioning and acting to realize liberatory futures of food and land sovereignty.

We choose to embrace the covenant of working together to advance liberation for all, rejecting scarcity, imperialism, colonization, and subjugation of peoples in all forms. 

Violence against the land is violence against beings; violence against beings is violence against the land. We replace colonial narratives of resource scrambles and division with relationships of solidarity, abundance, and ancestral connection. We are committed to radical equity, sovereignty, and agency. We collaborate with values-aligned, allied partners who commit to repairing the harm caused by extraction, enslavement, and land dispossession, advancing the redistribution of land-based wealth, leveraging technical assistance, advocating in ways that respect our communities’ collective self-determination. 

We participate in the healing of generations of trauma from dehumanization, genocide, displacement, enslavement, and land loss.

By acknowledging our traumas, we seek to mend and replenish what dominant histories and cultures have sought to break, subjugate, exhaust, or deplete.  We uplift the dignity of others and ourselves while taking care not to reproduce the oppressive behaviors that have harmed and traumatized each of us. 

We build between Black and Indigenous communities while celebrating our common ground and advancing a politic of solidarity, mutual support, and collaboration.

We commit to distributed power and governance structures.

We actively grow organizational structures that respect human capacity, recognize the need for rest and tending to community and family and provide a living wage.

We strive to decolonize food and land systems.

Through our work, we counter legacies and current structures fueled by the false narratives of colonialism, delusions of racial supremacy, myths of human exceptionalism, and systems predicated on domination and exploitation of Land and beings.