REVOLUTION ECOLOGY: A Peaks of Colour Manifesto

We’re so excited to launch our first of hopefully many political pamphlets, offerings from our walkshops that capture the magic we make when in community together.

The seeds of this manifesto were first planted during our Manifesto Building walkshop, last July. The walkshop, led by the phenomenal Dal Kular as part of Migration Matters Festival, saw a glorious group of self-identifying women and gender diverse POC come together to create personal and collective manifestos.

What you see before you is a moulding of that work, a co-curated manifesto that proudly demands racial, gendered and land justice. Ecology is defined as the relationships between people and their environments. It comes from the Greek word for home. Here, we offer you our Revolutionary Ecology: our Home for Revolution.

A huge thank you to everyone who took part in our workshop, to Dal Kular for holding space for such beauty to be born, to Migration Matters Festival for believing in our work, Simone Wray for your beautiful designs and Smart Banda for your technical know how!

We hope to one day have physical copies of our political pamphlets to share with you all, but in the meantime you can find a digital copy of our full manifesto on here.

• Revolution Ecology: A Peaks of Colour Manifesto

  ⁕ NATURE THERAPY + COMMUNITY CARE

  We believe that the land is a site of deep rooted and ongoing inequality and injustice. Both the land and racialised communities carry the trauma, grief and pain of colonial legacies. 

  We believe that land injustice, racial injustice and gendered injustice are intrinsically intersected, and that the healing of both land and racialised communities are intertwined, reciprocal and mutually dependent. The freedom of one, demands the freedom of the other. 

  Like the mycelium networks below, we believe our communities can be built on an ethos of mutuality, interdependency and care.

  We believe that the moment we choose love we begin to move against domination, against oppression and towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others. That action is the testimony of love as the practice of freedom. Through developing and practising an ecology of love we will plant the seeds in which transformative change can grow. 

  ⁕ HEALING JUSTICE, HOPE + IMAGINATION 

  We believe that liberation: a joyful life of mutual abundance, free from oppression and harm, is a reality that we, as racialised communities, can curate for ourselves in this lifetime. 

  We believe “the master's tools will never dismantle the master’s house” and that healing and justice can be accessed only when reimagined through a decolonial lens. Through a decolonial and abolitionist praxis, radical futures where racialised and gendered violence is truly eradicated can be cultivated. 

  We believe that so much of the work of oppression is policing the imagination and by reigniting awe and wonder in nature, we can build ecosystems in resistance to white supremacy, colonialism, patriarchy and capitalism. 

  We believe that the only way to curate radically safe futures is by harnessing tools of radical imagination, collective experimentation and expansive hope. We embrace the uncertainty of forging our own paths and taking routes less travelled, and in doing so we will create sustenance, joy, and regeneration, as acts of resistance. 

  ⁕ REST IS RESISTANCE + RADICAL SELF CARE

  We believe that healing isn’t linear, and like nature, it will have peaks and troughs. It may change course, it will ebb and flow. As racialised communities we carry the exhausted traumas of our ancestors and through reconnecting with nature, we actively resist a culture of collective burn out and intergenerational pain.

  We believe that our natural landscapes are fertile with joy, healing, and rest, and that systems of oppression systemically alienate our communities from these revolutionary forms of care.

  We believe that caring for [our]selves is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare. Whilst our journey to liberation may follow an arduous path, we believe that investing in our collective and individual rest sustains both ourselves, our landscapes and our movement. 

  As we follow in the footsteps of the comrades who came before us, we believe that anybody who cares about making change in this world has to know how to take care of himself, herself, themselves  - being the keepers of our own healing embodies a transformative power.