By merging wellness and revolution I strive to create space for the African Diaspora to build intentional, informed, and strategically organized futures for the continuous healing, safety, and revolution for colonized people globally. In the words of Peoples Program in Oakland: “Free the People! Free the Land!”

I understand the systems of capitalism and imperialism are root causes behind communities seeking healing at high disproportionate rates and that this reality is exasperated due to several reasons, including but not limited to:

• Extreme commodification of material needs and wellness practices which limits our collective access and right to thrive. we must shift material conditions.
• Holistic depletion of energy necessary to meet material needs as we are trapped in capitalist cycles.
• Individualistic prioritization of self-care over communal care.

One. I believe the people actually have the power to shift the current material conditions, outside of electoral politics or making demands of an empire that has no allegiance to us. I believe our allegiance should be to each other.

Two. I believe in Peoples Programs, especially those centering communal energetic healing modalities, as a tactic to bring the people into intentional revolutionary organizing. It is through meeting the material and energetic needs of the people that we can build trust, relationship, and open their capacity for them to be interested in and have the energy to engage in revolution with us.

Three. I believe revolution is possible when we prioritize decommodified communal wellness, therefore allowing for energetic replenishing, focus, alignment, connection with ancestors, the embodiment of personal & collective power, and accessible support to move through capitalist and imperialist trauma.

Four. I believe consistent and accessible communal wellness, a product of ongoing revolution, will not be sustainable until capitalism itself is dismantled and the implementation of alternative systems begins and is ongoing.

Five. I believe wellness must simultaneously exist with intentional organizing to shift material conditions by meeting collective material and holistic needs (food, housing, water, education, energetic needs, etc). This will help cease the capitalist cyclical harm that brings us to seek healing at disproportionate rates, as healing practices and sessions alone cannot fix this.

Six. I believe our organizing should involve political education, theoretical evidence, and ideological informed strategy.

Seven. I believe we should ask ourselves everyday “How do we move towards decommodifying our organizing & shift towards organizing encompassing the notion of taking care of each other from our neighborhood homes and not 9-5 offices?”