Educate and mobilize our community to participate in interconnected struggles for collective liberation, bringing awareness to the ways we are complicit in systems of harm and enacting possibilities for transforming those systems through creative collaboration.

Cultivate community through celebration of Palestinian culture, grounding our action in the beauty and history of the land on which we gather and organize.

Uplift Palestinian voices—we believe Palestinians have the power to liberate themselves, we are responsible for supporting them.

End Apartheid—as members of the Apartheid-Free network, we pledge to oppose the systematic domination of one group of people over another through concrete action, education, open discussion, and continuous learning. Opposing apartheid means exposing and standing against racism, colonialism, exploitation, and dispossession in all its forms, wherever it emerges.

We affirm and support Al-Thawabet, the framework developed by and for Palestinians to maintain the vision of liberation. The five principles of Al-Thawabet assert:

1. Refugees have the right to return;

2. The dispossessed are entitled to restitution and compensation;

3. Palestinians have the right to resist occupation;

4. Palestinians are entitled to full self-determination from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea;

5. Reject all forms of colonialism and normalization of the occupation.

Read more here: Palestinian Diaspora Movement, “What Is Al-Thawabet?”

Follow Centering Al-Thawabet for education and inspiration

We affirm and support the Land Back movement, which calls for the return of indigenous land to indigenous people. We act in solidarity with those struggling to resist current colonial land theft, whether in Gaza or Yintah or Sogorea Te, as well as with those reclaiming land, language, and tradition and healing the generational wounds of colonial violence.

Support Tsawout Land Back and Stqeeye Learning Society

Read Land Back: A Yellowhead Institute Redpaper

We commit to dismantling Zionism and all other forms of oppression. Bigoted ideologies such as Zionism, white supremacy, ableism, transphobia, etc. rely on the normalization of abusive and dehumanizing hierarchies, and they mutually reinforce one another through systems that reward compliance and punish difference. We seek to unlearn domination and cultivate radical care in ourselves, our relationships, and our community institutions. To (un)learn more:

DecolonizePalestine debunks the myth, “Zionism is not colonization, just Jewish self-determination”

Unpacking Zionism podcast, “Clarifying our Principles: Zionism and Anti-Zionism” 

L. Allday & S. Al-Saleh, “Zionism as a Fascist Ideology and Movement”