We do our work on the stolen land of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, Clackamas, Stl’pulmsh (also known as Cowlitz) and many other tribes who made their homes along the Columbia River. This land is also home to the eleventh largest urban native population, still thriving despite daily attempts at state sanctioned genocide.

We live in a nation of wealth created by the subjugation of African people brought to Turtle Island through chattel slavery or the Maa’fa (which is Swahili for the great disaster). These peoples included Chamba, Wolof, Abron, Fulani, Mande, Fon, Bakongo, Igbo, Yoruba, Mbundu, and many other tribes from western and central Africa.

We uplift the original Indigenous peoples of this land and forced contributions of generations of Africans to build the wealth of this country. We ground our fight knowing that there is no Black liberation without Indigenous Sovereignty and there is no Indigenous Sovereignty without Black liberation. We fight for land back and reparations and refute settler-colonialism, xenophobia, anti-Black racism, and imperialism. This includes challenging the validity of imperially imposed borders and immigration laws, driving wars meant primarily to secure future generations of continued colonization.

Those who are not indigenous to this land and were not brought here as slaves are guests charged with working to end the genocide of Black & Native communities across Turtle Island.