In a time of so much division and inequality, Auntie Na's House is striving to put the ‘unity’ back into ‘community.’ We are organizing with people from diverse backgrounds to build a center for day-to-day survival in the community. By offering food, water, clothing, medicine, shelter, and educational programs, we work to support families and be a bridge over troubled water for all those who stand in need. Auntie Na’s House is just the seed for a more fruitful harvest to come. We plan to expand our programs into Auntie Na’s Village, a network of collectively-owned homes, land, and community programs that are providing long-term support for families in our community. We dream of a unified Detroit with intergenerational grassroots community centers throughout the many communities of our city. We dream that these centers will know one another and treat one another like neighbors, supporting one another and amplifying our collective voices to address the powers that be. We dream that the seeds we plant today will allow to us to harvest unity in the generations to come.
We are organizing locally in order to resist systems of oppression that have been ongoing for generations. The historical and modern-day structures of colonization, slavery, and capitalism continue to hold our communities down. The global financial collapse and the dictatorial authority the Federal, State and City government has led to the economic and political disempowerment of the people. The intertwining ecological issues related to energy, food, water, and climate are having a devastating impact on the less fortunate all over the globe. We are addressing these connected economic, ecological, and social crises by struggling for self-determination and building an interdependent and sustainable village. While we fighting for a more just and equitable world, we are providing for our people’s basic needs to assure the long-term survival of this community.
In our Village we defend the right to life. We claim the rights to clean air, pure water, safe shelter, renewable energy, good food, healing medicine, education, communal land, and freedom. We understand these to be
living rights – the rights that give you the right to life.
Auntie Na’s House is surviving and thriving on the Westside of Detroit. Just as the plants in the garden are helping to feed the body and the spirit of our people, we are planting the seeds of unity and community to nourish the roots of a stronger generation.
We are organizing locally in order to resist systems of oppression that have been ongoing for generations. The historical and modern-day structures of colonization, slavery, and capitalism continue to hold our communities down. The global financial collapse and the dictatorial authority the Federal, State and City government has led to the economic and political disempowerment of the people. The intertwining ecological issues related to energy, food, water, and climate are having a devastating impact on the less fortunate all over the globe. We are addressing these connected economic, ecological, and social crises by struggling for self-determination and building an interdependent and sustainable village. While we fighting for a more just and equitable world, we are providing for our people’s basic needs to assure the long-term survival of this community.
In our Village we defend the right to life. We claim the rights to clean air, pure water, safe shelter, renewable energy, good food, healing medicine, education, communal land, and freedom. We understand these to be
living rights – the rights that give you the right to life.
Auntie Na’s House is surviving and thriving on the Westside of Detroit. Just as the plants in the garden are helping to feed the body and the spirit of our people, we are planting the seeds of unity and community to nourish the roots of a stronger generation.
