OUR FRAMEWORK
Radical Imagination
With possibilities as abundant as the dreams of our ancestors and our hopes for our children.
The senselessness of our now is giving way to a collective sí, the conviction that there is a better way — that abundance, health, justice, love and belonging are the world we can grow in this world by our own hands.
The extractive economy demands our separation, striving to digest us and all our wonder — our complicated and humble interdependence with the natural world, our common ecstasy, joy, and pride as working people.
WE ARE THE NARRATIVE ANIMAL
with the unique power to imagine and manifest new choices, to write new stories together. We practice radical imagination when we reclaim our childhood capacity to disentangle our imaginations from the status quo.
OUR ANTIDOTE
RADICAL IMAGINATION
is our antidote. It is our creative connection and playing a game whose rules we wrote ourselves. It is the ability to shape what is politically realistic and moving beyond the limiting vision of capitalism and power-over.
THE THREE PRINCIPLES
01
Radical imagination is a thing we do together
We co-create the rules of play, lifting each other up to see over the fences and beyond the stories racial capitalism has in store. Who on the frontlines has the expertise and leadership we need?
02
Radical imagination is rooted in place
From our neighborhood to our watershed, where we are is the essential starting place for play and imagination. Re-engaging with land re-grounds us in its finite abundance and fragile bounty.
03
Radical imagination is time travel
Time turns in spirals, bringing constant opportunities to reach in both directions around the twist. We recall the future from our past, reaching at once for ancestor’s wisdom and new futures.
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ALL POWER TO OUR RADICAL IMAGINATION
Join us! Together, we will cultivate visions for just futures, build a movement culture of joy and play, root our work in the land on which we depend, and grow in love and accountability to our ancestors and descendants.
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We call on our movements to take action in manifesting our radical imagination. In the months ahead, we’ll be sharing and discussing opportunities to expand and manifest our radical imaginations together!
We’ll start with three simple ideas:
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