☀️ Global community of grassroots advocates shining
a light on community care ☀️
WHAT IS COMMUNITY CARE COLLECTIVE?
A global collective of grassroots leaders, creators, paradigm breakers, artists, storytellers advocates, converging and uniting together centring community care. Creating various forms and mediums of storytelling and ending the taboo, shame and silence on interconnected societal issues. All oppressions intersect, we wish to shine a light on all of it whilst supporting one another for radical love and change. Continuing, carrying and highlighting the work that has been done before us and ensuring progress, equality and justice around the world.
WHY?
Community Care Collective has been built by the experiences of founding members having enough of the status quo. Harrassment, discrimination, tokenism, exclusion, ablism, the list of young people's experiences around the world goes on. Each of us experiencing the world from uniques parts of the world, finding common ground in wanting a better future. We, as young people and leaders, must work together to leave behind a world that is more sustainable, safer, and more just for those to come. There is no better time than now for us to stand together and fight for what we believe in. We are the past, present, and future.
WHO?
Community Care Collective is created by you and I. Everyone is welcome to be an active member, in helping to build and grow the collective as well as create own autonomous local community care collective in your area. There is endless opportunities and possibility to Who, What, Why and When is Community Care Collective. Welcome to help make and foster the collective however you wish to be
Community Care Collective is an anti-capitalist, anti-colonial collective.
We stand in solidarity with our Indigenous Communities around the world and acknowledge the lands we live and do our work on. Always was and always will be their land.
We pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging.
There is ongoing genocide, stolen generation, and assimilation occurring every day.
The work and values of our collective centre upon community care including mutual aid.
We promise to work with grassroots networks, communities, and organisations to progress on ending the cycles of violence and ongoing atrocities of colonisation around the world.
The following are Indigenous Flags around the world. We like to acknowledge and pay our respects to these communities, elders past, present and emerging and celebrate the beauty of each one of our cultures, languages and food.
Aboriginal Flag
Flag of Christmas Island
Flag of Cocos (Keeling) Islands
National Māori flag (New Zealand)
Flag of the patujú flower (Bolivia)
Flag of the Cherokee Nation (United States)
Flag of the Iroquois Confederacy
Musqueam flag
Flag of Nunatsiavut
Flag of the Greenland
Flag of the Hopi Nation (United States)
Métis Flag (Canada)
Flag of the Navajo Nation
Purépecha flag (Mexico)
Wiphala flag ( represent some native peoples of the Andes that include today's Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador northwestern Argentina and southern Colombia)