Community Controlled Health Care

COVID-19 has made it clear than ever that the current healthcare infrastructure is racist, classist, ableist, and criminally inadequate. Frontline communities have a longstanding history of resisting this system by building community-controlled alternatives in it’s place. Alternatives where frontline BIPOC communities receive the quality care they need. Alternatives were disabled, chronically ill, and immuno-compromised folks are not disposable but whose lives are centered and held sacred.

HOUSING AS A HUMAN RIGHT

In many of our communities, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the preexisting crises of eviction, displacement, and gentrification created by the for-profit housing system. In the past few years, communities across the country have used direct action to remove land and housing from the speculative market and build long-term community control.

How do we resist speculative market forces and build a world where housing is truly a human right?

JUST TRANSITION & CLIMATE JUSTICE

Frontline communities and workers are impacted first and worst by the interlinked crises of climate change and the extractive economy. A dig, burn, and dump economy base on extracting natural and human resources faster than we can regenerate will eventually end — either through collapse or through our intentional re-organization. Transition is inevitable. Justice is not.

How can we resist false climate solutions and ensure a just transition that restores our communities and the web of life?

Regenerative Finance

Financial systems in our current economy are based on extracting value from land and people to concentrate wealth in the hands of the few — fueling global economic, political, and ecological crises. Transforming finance is crucial to transforming our economy. In recent years, divestment movements have encouraged communities to move public resources out of Wall Street banks, fossil fuel companies, war and prison profiteers, and other extractive industries.

Once we divest from extractive institutions, where do we move our money? How can we use finance to restore wealth to the communities it’s been extracted from and grow our collective resources?

INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY & LAND BACK

The U.S. was built on stolen land by stolen lives and labor. Returning land and sovereignty to Indigenous peoples is a requisite to building economies rooted in a just relationship with each other and the earth.

We acknowledge that struggles for collective determination and sovereignty over Indigenous lands are as diverse as the hundreds of Indigenous nations across Turtle Island.  Within this context, how do we resist extraction and desecration of sacred sites while permanently returning land and sovereignty to Indigenous peoples?