Securing the critical resource of communal land ownership held in trust empowers our food and land insecure communities to generate sovereignty through:

Regenerative Land Stewardship

Democratized animal husbandry and organic farming and forestry culture development

Nature-based Survival Skills

Using food as medicine, rainwater harvesting, herbal healing, and sustainable hunting practices

Permaculture Construction

Constructing earthen sheltering and off-grid solar, wind, and water power systems' development

Grassroots Organizing

Labor and resistance history, community healing training, and decolonized communal accountability

Passion-based Mastery

Residential creative development using natural materials and spiritual exploration, among many others

Intersecting regenerative land-based cultural practices and urban organizing tactics restores foundational relationships with a more profound decolonizing impact than traditional survival programs or isolated local organizing.

Collectively owning and stewarding land through this holistic, intercultural framework integrates original knowledge, human harmony, and ecosystems-based approaches, honoring our collective indigenous ancestry while appropriately integrating relevant modern scientific insight.

Demands

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all people are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among the people, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

WE WANT LAND, BREAD, HOUSING, EDUCATION, FREEDOM OF SPEECH, JUSTICE, AND CONTROL OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY ON OUR PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.

WE WANT FREEDOM: THE POWER TO DETERMINE THE DESTINY OF OUR WORKING AND OPPRESSED COMMUNITIES.

WE WANT FULL EMPLOYMENT FOR OUR PEOPLE: AN END TO CAPITALIST EMPLOYMENT BY WAY OF WORKER SELF DIRECTION

WE WANT INCLUDED EDUCATION FOR OUR PEOPLE: STIMULATING CRITICAL THINKING BY EXPOSING OUR SHARED HISTORY & TRUE ROLE IN PRESENT-DAY SOCIETY

WE WANT COMPLETELY INCLUDED HEALTHCARE FOR ALL: HOUSING FIT FOR THE SHELTER OF HUMAN BEINGS AND COMMUNITY CONTROL OF FOOD.

WE WANT COMMUNITY DETERMINATIONS OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE: AN IMMEDIATE END TO POLICE BRUTALITY AND MURDER OF WORKING CLASS PEOPLE

WE WANT AN IMMEDIATE END TO ALL WARS OF AGGRESSION.

WE WANT JUSTICE AND RECOVERY FOR ALL WORKING AND OPPRESSED PEOPLE INCARCERATED INSIDE THE UNITED STATES AND IN MILITARY PRISONS AND JAILS.

WE WANT TRIALS BY A JURY OF PEERS FOR ALL PERSONS CHARGED UNDER SELECTIVELY ENFORCED LAWS OF THIS JUDICIAL SYSTEM.

WE WANT A COMMUNITY LEAD RENEWABLE TRANSITION OF ENERGY, INFRASTRUCTURE, AND TRANSPORTATION.

Organizing

Original Medicine is organized with working class communities chronically impacted by systemic structural and cultural oppression contextualized by housing insecure, economically insecure, queer, and neuroauthentic experiences.

Individuals and entities hoarding land and extracting resources from communal BIPOC land and labor for profit create barriers by means of institutional complexes. This includes exploitative conglomerates like local Housing Authorities, Monsanto, and the U.S. government. They manufacture supply chain scarcity, enforce discriminatory zoning and taxation, criminalize indigenized wellness, and violently oppress grassroots liberation organizing.

Original Medicine contributes to systemic change by nourishing our holistic wellness; repairing cultural relationships to land and the collective self that continue to be violently severed by colonization, economic oppression, and political criminalization. Through land-based trans-local planning, we are expanding wider efforts of systemic change through strategic cooperative partnerships with the growing number of indigenous, minority, cooperative, and permaculture land-based networks nationwide. These collective healing educational experiences and the implementation of organizing tactics allow us to engage, exchange, and develop both historic and innovative healing techniques and cultural practices. Sovereignty in intercultural regenerative practices restores equitable relationships with all life while expanding our skill-share ecosystem, restoring original knowledge, and increasing the cultural nourishment of international pillars of BIPOC security.