1. Care and solidarity are practical actions.

Care is a material practice of action, and so is the expression of solidarity. The conditions that alienate us and enable harm are completely changeable, so to care is to remove physical barriers to collective well-being. This can look like providing safe and inclusive housing, resourcing healthcare and education, sharing meals together. Our identity emerges through the relationships we build when supporting each other in crisis.

2. Hoarding will not ease suffering.

To be resourceful together is better than resource-hoarding alone. Our stability will not be guaranteed by how much wealth we can hoard as everything gets worse. All that we save for later only spoils in the waiting. Sharing what we have to support each other— space, skills, money, knowledge— creates more abundance and resilience than gatekeeping something that can ease suffering. We will have enough if we share.

3. Learning can come from anyone and any place.

Wisdom flows in all directions of space and time. We value intergenerational and interstitial knowledge, the stuff found in practical skills, political analysis, spiritual traditions, and nature-based knowledge shared between people of different generations, backgrounds, genders, and neurotypes. It is never too late to learn from the experiences of humankind across eras and geographies.

4. We cannot build new worlds without recovering Earth.

Stewardship is relationship, not ownership. We cannot progress without a deep and reciprocal relationship with a more-than-human world. We need regenerative relationships with ourselves and our planet. Earth also struggles to heal itself every day. We must recognise the land and all its interconnected living beings as our kinfolk, teachers, and collaborators for future projects.

5. We are responsible for changing our conditions.

Sovereignty comes from collective autonomy and self-determination. The way we make stuff creates our society’s ideas and beliefs, and those ideas and beliefs can change the way we make stuff. We cannot grow by only fighting the bad stuff. An equally great task is to dedicate time and attention to imagine and build the future we want to be in together. The way out of a system that will inevitably fail us is to help the new one arrive.

6. Imagination and play are portals to new timelines.

Our imagination and attention spans are sites of struggle. Joy, creativity, and rest are not separate from the work of making a better world out of a dying one. If history is a series of experiments, then a story is a tool to understanding. This is why we value art, play, and imagination exercises that build worlds and communities. The most effective means to overthrow prevailing ideologies is to do so collectively.

7. Confidence grows better with others.

Confidence is built through accompaniment. To us, power looks like walking alongside each other, sharing tools and resources, and creating the conditions for others to discover their agency and act upon it. For us, this has looked like hosting workshops, interim finance leadership, and living in a way that encourages other possibilities to be more real.

8. The future will hold what we put into it now.

A world that loves us back is one where we refuse to abandon each other. What we know about the future is that it needs many different types of skills and contributions because we will be rescuing each other for years to come. The future will be built not just by people in the front, but by people on the margins: the refugees, the bedridden, the Covid-vulnerable, those disabled by their surroundings, and people of all genders and sexualities. The future is unknowable and determined by how much energy we put into it now for a more loving world.

We developed this list for 2026-2028 out of what we learned from our work in 2023-2025.