Liberation Projects
Intercommunal Platform
March 2008

 

About Liberation Projects

The idea of change is popular today. Despite its popularity, however, true change cannot be achieved simply by electing new leaders or altering a war strategy. We the people will still find ourselves weakened, oppressed and held back by the american social order.

We intend to get free.

We call ourselves ‘projects’ because each of us struggles towards freedom in our own, distinct way; in essence each of us is a ‘project.’ Despite our individual endeavors and challenges, we acknowledge our strength in numbers and that our freedom as individuals is bound up in the freedom of those around us. We work in phases—‘projects’—to move ourselves closer to the ultimate goal of total liberation from this corroded system. The work we perform makes our community stronger and more capable of reaching out to and uniting with likeminded people, communities and organizations. As our projects expand and their scope widens, we will construct a national movement towards liberation.

Our approach is Revolutionary Intercommunalism as defined by the Black Panther Party starting in 1970. This philosophy asserts that one source--the empire of america--deprives us, the people, of freedom. Because this imperial menace determines the conditions under which we daily function, we have grown to accept its role in our life and even come to depend on it. We are its servants, victims and its purveyors. Intercommunalism teaches that the overwhelming economic and military power of the united states has diminished the importance and relevance of national borders. This means that our work towards liberation is fundamentally linked to similar struggles happening all over the world—everywhere from Mexico to Iraq to Tibet. To obtain our independence, we intend to create a social order based on the premise that the world’s people are entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Our work begins outside our doors.