Kansas Mutual Aid Collective
Kansas Mutual Aid is a community organization dedicated to the education, betterment, and liberation of society.
1. We advocate the right of all people and peoples to community and self-determination.
All people must be free to follow their own customs, cultures, and community, and to provide for the needs of those communities without the needless interference of governmental authority.
It is the right of all people to determine the course of their own lives and to—when necessary, defend that right by any means they deem justified.
2. We advocate the right of all people to receive proper shelter, nutrition, and education.
All people have the right to a place to live, food to eat, and to receive accurate and in-depth education. If an individual cannot provide for these needs, then it is the duty of society to provide them. Conversely, if society deprives any individual of these basic human rights, then that individual has the right to fulfill their needs by any means necessary.
3. We advocate worker’s empowerment.
Too many people spend their lives toiling away in dead end jobs that make other people rich, while they, themselves, barely scrape together enough money to survive.
Working people have the right to organize for better working conditions, better pay and eventual control of the workplace so that all people may receive the fruits of their labor instead of working for the profit of others.
4. We advocate a society free of discrimination in all its forms.
Regardless of class, race, gender, sexual preference, sexual identity, religion, disability, nationality, or species that all living beings are entitled to a life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
5. We advocate restorative justice.
Police and prisons function to maintain a society based on class and racial inequalities. Prison populations are constantly growing and the prison industry grows rich on cheap labor while creating a class of people who—having spent much of their lives behind bars, are forced to learn crime as a way of life.
It is time to create a community-based system that relies on rehabilitation and reconciliation between victims, offenders, and the larger community instead of a government imposed system of mass incarceration and criminalization.
6. We advocate the creation of a free and borderless society.
National borders unnecessarily segregate societies into antagonistic regions while governments regularly manipulate the lives of everyday citizens for the benefit of a country’s rich and powerful.
Only by creating a society without borders or governments can we hope to build the sort of community, freedom, and justice that will allow all people to prosper and thrive.
7. We advocate the demilitarization and decolonization of society.
The United States has its vast military force spread around the globe, while, here at home, our streets are flooded with the armies of the police.
We must create a society free of the mechanisms of war where indigenous people again have control over their ancestral lands and all people have the luxury of passing their days in peace.
8. We advocate environmental protection.
The world is our home. Once it ceases to be habitable, we cease to exist.
It is our duty to conserve, protect, and restore all remaining natural habitats while finding and using more environmentally sustainable methods of manufacturing, energy production, and waste disposal.
All power through all people.