We are an open, democratic movement space that meets regularly where all antifascist and truly progressive forces can coordinate and strategize a way to fight back, a way to build a better world. We will collectively decide how to coordinate with anyone willing to help defend immigrants or LGBTQ people from attack, to find ways to help bolster solidarity efforts with Palestine, to organize with workers and tenants, or to coordinate with mutual aid and emergency preparation.

Mission Statement

Donald Trump has just won the presidency on a fascist platform of hate and division, intent on targeting the ‘vermin’ who are ‘poisoning the blood of the country.’ This obviously puts many people at imminent risk and calls for a bold and persistent response. The physical autonomy of women and trans comrades are under attack. Immigrants facing mass deportation need our support and meaningful solidarity. We need regularly-scheduled radically-democratic meetings in which to organize, coordinate, and mobilize in active defense of our friends, neighbors and loved ones – and to fight to create the type of communities and world we want through our own collective actions.

The Democratic Party that helped to facilitate this rising fascism in many ways is not going to address or solve the problems we face. They have also shown themselves unable to recognize the most basic human rights of Palestinians, let alone stop the ongoing genocide. The police continue to terrorize Black and brown communities, and instead of getting defunded have gotten more money. The working class has suffered from price increases and rising rents while the sins of the wealthy are blamed on immigrants. As we sit on stolen native lands, we know the USA, founded on slavery and genocide, has always had a thick thread of fascism. Clearly, MAGA intends to drag us back into something that more closely resembles that past.

Our plan is to create an open, democratic movement space that meets regularly where all antifascist and truly progressive forces can coordinate and strategize a way to fight back, a way to build a better world. We will collectively decide how to coordinate with anyone willing to help defend immigrants or LGBTQ people from attack, to find ways to help bolster solidarity efforts with Palestine, to organize with workers and tenants, or to coordinate with mutual aid and emergency preparation.

Our strength is our solidarity and the mutual aid we are able to extend to each other. Our purpose is to:

1) Defend peoples and communities under attack.

2) Struggle to expand the power of workers, tenants, students, etc.

3) Build lasting popular power that helps foster a truly free society.

Points of Unity

I.  What is the General Assembly?

We meet bi-weekly, using directly-democratic decision-making to pursue our collective goals. We are in favor of organizing that 1) welcomes mass participation 2) is transparent in its methods and goals, and 3) is accountable to each other.

We believe that this general assembly is both 1) the best way to figure out how to combat fascism and 2) a way of building the type of communities we want – “a new world in the shell of the old.”

We need to develop the relationships, counter-institutions, and ongoing organizing that can confront the challenges and crises we face.

II.  How is a General Assembly going to do this?

By getting together and figuring it out ourselves:

• We collectively decide on the organizing projects we pursue – formally approving efforts and actions in a way that draws on the skills and capacity of anyone who agrees with these points and wants to contribute.

• Leadership is developed through our common political activity not declared by self-appointed individuals. The ‘leadership’ is our collective work.

• The general assembly is a means to facilitate a shared direction for our work together and harness and sustain our power to fight back.

III.  What we want:

• People to have control of the places they live, work and learn.

• Self-determination for all oppressed groups.

• A social order not founded on hurting people. We support efforts to further the empowerment of people facing multiple oppressions, and those exploited and attacked by the existing social order.

• To expand the power of workers, tenants, students etc.

• To help each other in any way we can in our shared struggle against fascism.

IV.  What we do not want:

• We are against capitalist imperialism – the global system of (neo)colonialism, racial capitalism and the exploitation of workers for private accumulation.

• The drive towards fascism and the nexus of oppressive systems like white supremacy, patriarchy, transphobia, homophobia, ableism and all other forms of oppression that hold us down and apart from each other.

• Reliance on or deference to non-profits that rely on grants from rich people, governments, and foundations founded by rich people, and other organizations that work with rather than against the current system.

• We oppose forces that seek to undermine our collective ability to fight for a better world whether through manipulative demagoguery, physical repression, or political cooptation.

The creation of working groups will be proposed and approved at General Assembly meetings.

Community Agreements

By being present in this meeting space, you are agreeing to the following…

• One speaker at a time.
• No violence or verbal threats.
• No cops, fascists, racists, or bigots.
• Take space, make space. Be aware of how much your voice is present in the conversation. Give other people a chance to speak if you’ve already spoken.
• Be constructive, rather than destructive.
• Be curious, open, and respectful as you engage with other community members. We seek first to understand and assume good intent while also acknowledging impact – if something we say or do causes harm we commit to working through it. We must also be willing to deliver and receive feedback honestly and compassionately.

In addition to the Community Agreements, we would appreciate if you observe these general rules of conduct:

• Put your phone on “vibrate” or “airplane mode” during the GA meeting, and try not to answer calls or texts during the GA meeting. If you need to take a call, please leave the floor first. It is not rude. 
• Do not film, audio record, or take pictures during the GA meeting.
• DO talk to each other, ask questions, raise concerns, submit proposals and democratically engage with your peers! If you are not comfortable speaking out loud at the GA, talk to a Facilitation Team member.