1. We believe culture is an essential form of care — like healthcare, food, housing, and education — and as such should be a decommodified universal good. Like these other forms of care, the commodity form corrupts the inherent interconnection between care and culture. All people should have the right to experience and create their own culture. No one should ever be denied the right to experience or create their own culture because of their background, identity, or because they don’t have enough money.
2. We believe it is possible and necessary to build new institutions that are fully funded and community controlled, for supporting the time and space for cultural development and participation by all. Developing new possibilities for sites of cultural production as fully funded municipal goods — rather than as philanthropically funded luxury commodities or market funded spectacles — is the best way to ensure art, music, and culture thrive for the good of all people. We can organize these cooperatives now as we fight for funding.
3. We believe art and culture thrives as a form of care in free and open societies, and as such we are in opposition to the production of culture that perpetuates capitalism, patriarchy, white supremacy, colonialism, or any other system / ideology of non-consensual domination.
4. We believe that organizing for egalitarian power and resource sharing is essential to building a world centered around care, community, and abundance.
5. We believe in rank-in-file led organizations (unions, cooperatives, etc.) that are committed to clear structures for accessible and functional internal democracies.
6. We believe in organizations with structures that support a sustainable and productive division of labor, clear decision making, and effective organizing for building egalitarian, working class power.
7. We believe in developing culture as a part of creating joy in our movement work, as a revolutionary act in the face of despair.
