Our Mission
In a time of so much division and inequality, Auntie Na's Village 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 Village is 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 global 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 system and the dictatorial authority the Federal, State and City government has led to the economic and political disempowerment of our people. The intertwining ecological issues related to energy, food, water, and climate are having a devastating impact on marginalized communities 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 our living rights. 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 allow us to live a good life.
