POLICY AND CHANGE

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We call for policies and practices that honor caregiving as essential labor, value the wisdom of elders, and affirm the rights and wellbeing of children, youth, and caregivers alike. This bucket focuses on the collective right to healing—through mental health access, spiritual care, and dignified intergenerational caregiving systems. We affirm that trauma is political, and care and healing must be community-held.

Healing justice principle: Healing is structural. It must be embedded in how we care for ourselves, each other,  the people doing frontline work,  and future generations.

We build liberatory schools and youth-centered systems that affirm identity, provide safety, and foster leadership—not control. Young people deserve not only access to education—but learning environments that affirm their dignity, reflect their identities, and nurture their full potential. Youth and education justice calls for the transformation of systems that have historically harmed Black, Brown, disabled, and queer youth..

Healing justice principle: Intergenerational healing requires ending cycles of harm. When we envision youth as catalysts for change, education becomes a site of healing, not punishment

We believe that housing, health, and the environment are interconnected rights—not commodities. Housing and ecological justice center the truth that our ability to heal is shaped by where we live, breathe, and belong. We organize for reparative development that returns land, protects tenants, and roots healing in place. Housing and ecological grief, climate trauma, and environmental harm are addressed through culture and community care.

Healing justice principle: Displacement is trauma. Land, safety, and shelter are essential to collective healing and long-term liberation.

We believe that art is not just a form of expression—it’s a form of power. Art, storytelling, and ancestral memory are tools for truth-telling, resistance, and repair. Through cultural organizing, we harness creative tools like poetry, music, performance, and storytelling to build collective voice, reclaim ancestral memory, and drive systemic change

Healing justice principle: Culture is not a sidebar to strategy—it is the strategy. Our healing is linked to communal memory, expression, and land.

We envision a world where safety is collective, not punitive. Abolition and community justice focus on ending systems of harm—like mass incarceration, over-policing, and surveillance—and replacing them with life-affirming responses rooted in care, accountability, and restoration.

Healing justice principle: Abolition is healing. We can’t heal inside systems that harm us. We build new systems rooted in relationship and care.