Understanding the Collective Assignment
The world we are working toward—a world free from the systems of Imperialism, White Supremacy, Capitalism, and Patriarchy (IWSCP)—is one grounded in Collective Liberation. In that future, the urgent need for stopgap institutions like charities, nonprofits, and unions dissolves because the structures that caused the harm in the first place have been dismantled.
That is the vision. But no single organization, no matter how powerful or well-resourced, can bring it to life alone. This is—and must be—a group project.
This becomes even more evident in today’s reality: where limited budgets, fractured attention, and an increasingly polarized political climate constrain our capacity to act. In this context, it is not just strategic but essential that we approach this work collectively.
We must learn to hold both:
Our immediate organizational mandates, and
The broader, long-term goal of transforming systems and building a future where our organizations are no longer necessary.
That means reimagining how we show up—for ourselves, for each other, and for the world we’re trying to co-create. Collaboration, trust, and shared infrastructure are not just nice-to-haves—they’re survival strategies in a time of overlapping crises and radical possibility.