Our Vision
We choose to ring in a bright new era of global safety and restoration.
We have everything we need to be safe.
Trillions of dollars are available for healthcare, education, housing, a Green New Deal. People all over the world are ready to work together to make sure everyone can thrive in safety and dignity.
But instead, political and corporate elites create endless wars for personal power and profit.
Their wars look like dropping bombs on countries like Iraq, but also looks like police killings in Black communities and detention centers on the Mexico border. Their wars look like arms deals to Saudi Arabia, drone strikes on Somalia, and sprawling military bases occupying indigenous communities worldwide. Their wars look like military coups that force migration from Honduras, and nuclear testing that devastates the natural environment in Puerto Rico. Their wars haunt our families and bring violence into our homes and neighborhoods. Their wars are destroying our climate and life on earth.
They depend on us to make profit, so they use fear to keep us divided.
They tell us that war is necessary to keep us safe. They tell us that Black communities are criminal and dangerous, therefore police need military-grade weaponry to combat them; Protesters are disturbing the peace so they must be beaten and jailed; Terrorists threaten freedom and democracy, therefore the surveilence and harrasment of Muslim communities is justified; Immigrants are drug dealers and thieves, therefore border security protects jobs and keeps peace. The very communities dying under militarism are the same ones we are told we should be afraid of. This leaves us living in fear of one another, and of the most marginalized among us.
But the tides are turning. We choose to be the generation that dissents.
We are the most globally interconnected generation in history, and we value life everywhere. We will not be divided. We know that real safety comes from caring for each other and our environment. We are the many. We are young, we are energized, and we are visionaries. We are Muslim, immigrant, Black, indigenous, undocumented, ex-military, trans and queer. We are a generation of hope, of healers and creatives.
We are reclaiming the resources that belong to us.
We are taking back our resources from elites, and their violent wars, prisons, police, weapons, and walls. We demand that our institutions and elected officials join us on the right side of history, and defund militarism and endless wars.
We are reinvesting in life and safety everywhere.
Trillions of reclaimed dollars will go to transition to a sustainable global economy, and to make sure everyone has a good job, home, healthcare, and education.
We are repairing relationships with the earth and people all over the world.
