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Ubuntu Freedom is establishing infrastructure to support projects and activities that embody our shared vision for freedom, as represented in our Principles of Freedom

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The Principles of Freedom

The Principles of Freedom were developed through a 13-month journey of collective visioning, with African and other Indigenous peoples gathering twice weekly to articulate a shared understanding of liberation. These principles invite you to imagine beyond current constraints, to envision possibilities that transcend the frameworks of white supremacy, capitalism, and colonialism. Rather than creating new ideas, we uncovered ancestral wisdom that speaks to a vision many already share—perhaps including you—providing language for truths your spirit has always known. Every Principle has a Descriptor, System Ideas, Past & Present Examples, and Examples of Progress. 

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Hover over each image below and click the title to learn about each Principle.

Food Is Freedom

The earth provides all nutritional needs of all life forms freely. Every community ensures all members…

Housing Is Sacred Space

Every dwelling is a sanctuary, each structure a testament to community care. We honor the right of each person…

Every Individual's Health is Community Wealth

Wellness flows through our connections. Each person’s vitality strengthens the whole, as we nurture…

We are the Environment is Us

Our breath is wind, our blood, rivers, our bones are stones. We acknowledge animal species as nations…

Collective Wisdom Guides Our Power

The profound development of each person reveals creations, innovations and solutions that make…

Our Gifts are Our Currency

Every breath we take is an exchange where we receive from and contribute to life. Our creativity, smiles…

Our Differences Make Us Beautiful, Brilliant and Powerful

Multiple ways of being and existing enhance our collective strength. Each person’s unique perspective, abilities, and needs…

A Strong Community is Safe

We nurture environments of trust and understanding where conflicts transform into deeper bonds….

The Core of Community is Connection

Our relationships weave the fabric of freedom. When we nurture every member’s access to their gifts and…

Our Resource Ecosystem Nurtures Life

All exchanges honor the cycle of reciprocity. We measure prosperity by the thriving of people and planet…

Water is Life's Flow

Sacred, expansive and alive, water connects all. It is a communor, a purifier, a conductor, a hydrator…

Spirit Guides Our Freedom

Ancestral wisdom flows through our ceremonies, traditions, and intuitive knowing.  We honor the sacred…

Find Your Lane

Each principle represents an interconnected lane of transformation work, helping you find alignment with others on similar paths while understanding your connection to the broader movement. They serve as both aspiration and practical guidance, allowing us to measure our efforts and hold ourselves accountable as we build new systems. Whether you’re drawn to food sovereignty, community health, or spiritual practice, these principles offer a framework that connects personal transformation with collective liberation, creating cohesion across diverse approaches to freedom-building.

The Branches of Ubuntu Freedom

Interconnected Initiatives

Ubuntu Freedom operates through independent, interconnected initiatives that work together to create transformative change at different scales.

These initiatives work together in a regenerative cycle.

The Church of the Revolution

The Church of the Revolution creates physical gathering spaces in urban communities, providing infrastructure for local organizing while drawing on familiar cultural frameworks. These centers serve as:

•Congregation spaces for community gathering and learning
•Political education and deprogramming centers
•Healing and wellness hubs
•Strategic coordination
points for local organizing
•Cultural preservation and celebration spaces
•Resource centers for community needs

By adapting a recognizable institutional structure and infusing it with liberatory practices, these spaces make radical organizing accessible to broader communities. They provide entry points for those new to movement work while supporting deeper engagement over time.

UFree Digital Community

UFree is a mobile-first digital ecosystem that connects and supports freedom-building activities across communities. More than just another social network, UFree provides practical tools for organizing, resource sharing, and collective action. The platform includes:

•Campaign organizing tools for coordinating community actions
•Resource sharing systems for mutual aid and skill exchange
•Geo-mapping features to connect local initiatives
•Educational content aligned with freedom principles
•Community forums for strategy and support

The platform serves as the connective tissue between different Ubuntu Freedom initiatives, allowing communities to share knowledge, coordinate actions, and build solidarity across distances.

Seed & Harvest Immersions

Seed & Harvest creates immersive experiences where people can live the world we’re building while developing skills to manifest it. Through work-learn-reflect retreats, participants:

•Gain practical skills in sustainable building and farming
•Study and embody the Principles of Freedom
•Build relationships across communities
•Develop leadership capacities
•Connect with ancestral wisdom and practices
•Contribute to developing liberation infrastructure

The program works toward establishing permanent Liberation Centers that demonstrate sustainable, autonomous living while serving as hubs for movement building and skills sharing.

The Care Space Project

The Care Space Project creates a comprehensive network of healing resources for movement organizers, managed through a member-owned cooperative of revolutionary organizations. The project recognizes that sustainable liberation work requires dedicated infrastructure for rest, renewal, and care. Through a secure platform similar to Airbnb, the network provides:

•Spaces of Respite
•Healing services such as bodywork and mental health support
•Access to events like concerts and recreation activities

•Nature communing opportunities and community building

•Instruction for cultural competency and trauma-informed care

By embodying mutual aid and transformative justice principles while providing essential respite for those engaged in liberation work, the Care Space Project demonstrates how we can sustain our movements while living the values we’re fighting for.

The project recognizes that building a new world requires both practical skills and spiritual grounding – technical knowledge and ancestral wisdom. By weaving these elements together through its four main initiatives, Ubuntu Freedom creates multiple pathways for engagement while building toward comprehensive systemic change.

Each component strengthens the others:

Together, they provide infrastructure for manifesting the world envisioned in the Principles of Freedom – one based on interconnection, mutual care, and collective liberation.

The Storehouse Document Library

Welcome to The Storehouse: Ubuntu Freedom’s collaborative library of documents that help build liberation in our communities. Here we can all share practical tools for establishing governance structures, political education materials for deepening understanding, guides for developing self-sufficiency, frameworks for personal growth, and case studies of transformation in action. Click a category below to explore. 

This storehouse grows through our collective wisdom and experience. As you explore these resources and apply them in your work, we invite you to contribute your own documents, protocols, and learnings.

Your unique perspectives and practical innovations strengthen our shared capacity for creating freedom. Whether you’ve developed effective decision-making processes, created educational materials, documented successful projects, or crafted spiritual practices that sustain your community, please consider sharing them through our submission form. Together, we’re building not just a library but a living archive of liberation knowledge.

Let's Grow Together

The Storehouse Document Library

Welcome to The Storehouse: Ubuntu Freedom’s collaborative library of documents that help build liberation in our communities. Here we can all share practical tools for establishing governance structures, political education materials for deepening understanding, guides for developing self-sufficiency, frameworks for personal growth, and case studies of transformation in action. Click a category below to explore. 

The storehouse grows through our collective wisdom and experience

Your unique perspectives and practical innovations strengthen our shared capacity for creating freedom. As you explore these resources and apply them to your work, we invite you to contribute your own documents, protocols, and learnings.

Please consider using our submission form to share documents such as:

The Greenouse Project Incubation & Support

Supporting & Connecting Projects That Align With Our Principles

Greenhouse Projects are those supported by a member of the Ubuntu Freedom Stem and Branch Circles in support of their effort to embody the Principles. Those projects may be considered to become a Branch of Ubuntu Freedom if desired. Though every Branch is independent, it is guided and served through the coalition style interconnection.

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Food Is Freedom

Principle 1: Food is Freedom

The earth provides all nutritional needs of all life forms freely. Every community ensures all members have the knowledge and ability to receive their food while taking responsibility for providing the nutritional sustenance every member requires. Our connection to growing and sharing food nourishes both body and spirit.

System Ideas

Principle 1: System Ideas

  • Regenerative agriculture networks
  • Community seed libraries and exchanges
  • Food forests and urban gardens
  • Traditional food preservation methods
  • Regional food distribution cooperatives
  • Intergenerational knowledge transfer systems
  • Sacred farming practices
  • Communal kitchen spaces
  • Wild food stewardship

Past & Present Examples from Yesterday and Today

  • Indigenous Three Sisters planting (Americas)
  • Zapatista food sovereignty movement (Mexico)
  • Traditional Pacific Islander fishing practices
  • African market women networks
  • Cuban organopónicos
  • Andean terrace farming
  • Australian Aboriginal food systems
  • European community supported agriculture
  • Asian rice farming collectives

Examples of Progress

  • Communities determine and control their food systems
  • Children learn growing practices from early ages
  • Seasonal eating patterns restored
  • Food medicine knowledge widespread
  • Land stewardship practices revived
  • Seed saving normalized
  • Wild food gathering skills common
  • Food preservation practiced widely
  • Communal meals regular occurrence

Housing Is Sacred Space

housing is sacred space

Every dwelling is a sanctuary, each structure a testament to community care. We honor the right of each person to create and maintain their home. Our collective flow is strong because every member has shelter that honors the earth, nurtures their spirit, and grounds their purpose.

System Ideas
  • Community land trusts
  • Natural building collectives
  • Multi-generational housing design
  • Renewable energy integration
  • Shared resource spaces
  • Traditional architecture revival
  • Healing environment principles
  • Water catchment systems
  • Sacred geometry in design
  • Maroon communities (Caribbean, Americas)
  • Pueblo living spaces (Southwest US)
  • African compound housing
  • Vietnamese village structures
  • Nordic eco-villages
  • Mongolian ger communities
  • Kerala collective housing
  • Pacific Island traditional homes
  • Brazilian quilombos
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  • All housing integrates with nature
  • Building skills widely shared
  • Sacred spaces in every home
  • Communal areas thrive
  • Natural materials prioritized
  • Energy systems self-sustaining
  • Intergenerational living normalized
  • Traditional designs adapted
  • Living spaces honor culture

Every Individual's Health Is Community Wealth

Every Individual's Health is Community Wealth

Wellness flows through our connections. Each person’s vitality strengthens the whole, as we nurture emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual wellbeing. Joy is our birthright. Through caring for each individual, we enhance our collective power.

System Ideas
  • Healing circles
  • Plant medicine gardens
  • Movement practice spaces
  • Community rest areas
  • Sound healing centers
  • Energy work collectives
  • Nutrition wisdom sharing
  • Birth knowledge circles
  • Elder care networks
  • Traditional Chinese medicine
  • African healing traditions
  • Indigenous midwifery
  • Ayurvedic practices
  • Native American medicine wheels
  • Caribbean bush medicine
  • Pacific Islander healing arts
  • Aboriginal dreamtime healing
  • Andean energy medicine
  • Health knowledge widespread
  • Healing practices integrated
  • Movement practices daily
  • Community care normalized
  • Plant medicine abundant
  • Birth wisdom preserved
  • Elder wisdom honored
  • Energy practices common
  • Rest prioritized

We Are The Environment Is Us

We Are The Environment Is Us

Our breath is wind, our blood, rivers, our bones are stones. We acknowledge animal species as nations with full rights to their habitats. In caring for Earth, we care for ourselves. As receivers we move within the bounty of gratitude. Through harmony with nature, we unlock infinite abundance.

System Ideas
  • Forest stewardship councils
  • Water protection circles
  • Animal nation treaties
  • Ecosystem restoration teams
  • Natural cycle education
  • Climate harmony practices
  • Sacred site preservation
  • Waste regeneration systems
  • Biodiversity enhancement
  • Amazonian forest management
  • Maasai grassland practices
  • Pacific Islander marine stewardship
  • Native American buffalo relations
  • Aboriginal fire management
  • Andean mountain cultivation
  • Traditional African conservation
  • Asian river guardian systems
  • Arctic ice protection methods
  • Environmental rhythms guide life
  • Animal nations respected
  • Water sources protected
  • Sacred sites honored
  • Zero waste achieved
  • Natural building universal
  • Climate balance restored
  • Ecosystem health monitored
  • Biodiversity flourishing

Collective Wisdom Guides Our Power

Collective Wisdom Guides Our Power

The profound development of each person reveals creations, innovations and solutions that make our world a wonder. We honor all ways of knowing ancestral, experiential, intuitive, observed. The flow of knowledge through our collective consciousness strengthens our collective light.

System Ideas
  • Wisdom sharing circles
  • Experiential learning groups
  • Intergenerational mentoring
  • Dream interpretation gatherings
  • Knowledge preservation methods
  • Intuitive arts development
  • Cross-cultural learning exchanges
  • Sacred technology integration
  • Collective consciousness practices
  • African griot traditions
  • Indigenous story circles
  • Asian meditation lineages
  • Celtic knowledge keeping
  • Polynesian navigation schools
  • Aztec calmecac education
  • Aboriginal songline teaching
  • Andean wisdom transmission
  • Caribbean oral traditions
  • All ways of knowing honored
  • Wisdom freely shared
  • Intuitive abilities developed
  • Ancestral knowledge preserved
  • Cross-cultural learning normal
  • Teaching/learning roles fluid
  • Dreams guide decisions
  • Technology serves wisdom
  • Knowledge strengthens community

Our Gifts Are Our Currency

Our Gifts Are Our Currency

Every breath we take is an exchange where we receive from and contribute to life. Our creativity, smiles, listening, building, intellect and ingenuity are born with us as seeds to be watered by community. By honoring flow and sharing our gifts, we create endless abundance.

System Ideas
  • Gift economies
  • Skill exchange networks
  • Transitional time banking systems
  • Resource sharing circles
  • Abundance distribution
  • Creative arts exchanges
  • Knowledge trade networks
  • Service sharing systems
  • Contribution tracking
  • Pacific Islander gift economies
  • African market systems
  • Indigenous trading networks
  • Asian bartering traditions
  • Mediterranean exchange circles
  • Arctic sharing practices
  • Andean ayni reciprocity
  • Caribbean mutual aid
  • Aboriginal trade routes
  • Gifts freely circulated
  • Skills widely shared
  • Resources distributed fairly
  • Abundance normalized
  • Contributions recognized
  • Exchange systems organic
  • Creative sharing flourishes
  • Service valued equally
  • Hoarding obsolete

Our Differences make us brilliant, beautiful, and powerful

Our Differences make us brilliant, beautiful, and powerful

Multiple ways of being and existing enhance our collective strength. Each person’s unique perspectives, abilities, and needs deepen our understanding, empathy, and humanity. Through celebrating and centering our distinctions and vulnerabilities, we weave a resilient fabric of community.

System Ideas
  • Cultural celebration circles
  • Diversity wisdom councils
  • Cross-ability collaboration
  • Multi-language preservation
  • Unique gifts development
  • Varied learning approaches
  • Different ways of knowing
  • Mixed-age wisdom sharing
  • Neurodiversity appreciation
  • Polynesian cultural preservation
  • African diversity traditions
  • Indigenous nation protocols
  • Asian multicultural systems
  • European Roma practices
  • Caribbean creole cultures
  • Andean community models
  • Arctic peoples’ cooperation
  • Mediterranean pluralism
  • Differences celebrated
  • Multiple ways valued
  • All abilities contribute
  • Languages flourishing
  • Unique gifts developed
  • Learning styles honored
  • Knowledge forms respected
  • Ages work together
  • All spaces are accessible

A Strong community is safe

a strong community is safe

We nurture environments of trust and understanding, where conflicts transform into deeper bonds. Our peace flows from inward and relational safety. All members learn arts of defense, protection, and transformation, ensuring our freedom by staying ready and willing. We maintain and secure our communal harmony and spaces where all can flourish.

System Ideas
  • Protection training circles
  • Conflict transformation councils
  • Community defense networks
  • Peace maintenance systems
  • Sacred warrior traditions
  • Harmony restoration practices
  • Emergency response teams
  • Boundary protection methods
  • Unity building practices
  • Zulu impi traditions
  • Indigenous peace keeping
  • Asian martial arts
  • Maroon defense systems
  • Maasai warrior training
  • Celtic warrior codes
  • Amazon guardian practices
  • Pacific Islander navigation
  • Arctic survival skills
  • Protection skills universal
  • Peace actively maintained
  • Defense abilities strong
  • Conflicts transform growth
  • Communities self-protect
  • Boundaries respected
  • Response systems ready
  • Unity preserved
  • Balance maintained

the core of community is connection

the core of community is connection

Our relationships weave the fabric of freedom. When we nurture every member’s access to their gifts and develop in each all needed skills, we are empowered to exchange support and harbor collective care and power. Self-reliance fused with interdependence deepens our bonds and strengthens our shared liberation.

System Ideas
  • Extended family networks
  • Community gathering spaces
  • Intergenerational living
  • Collective decision making
  • Shared child nurturing
  • Elder wisdom circles
  • Group problem solving
  • Communal celebrations
  • Regular unity practices
  • African village systems
  • Indigenous council models
  • Pacific Islander networks
  • Asian communal living
  • Caribbean yard cultures
  • Andean ayllu communities
  • Aboriginal kinship systems
  • Arctic survival networks
  • Mediterranean plazas
  • Community bonds strong
  • Decisions collaborative
  • Children collectively raised
  • Elders deeply integrated
  • Gatherings frequent
  • Problem-solving unified
  • Celebrations regular
  • Resources shared freely
  • Unity maintained naturally

Our resource ecosystem nurtures life

Our resource ecosystem nurtures life

All exchanges honor the cycle of reciprocity. We measure prosperity by the thriving of people and planet. Through collaboration with nature we receive resources and engage them with wisdom, perpetuating abundance for all beings.

System Ideas
  • Regenerative cycles
  • Energy sharing networks
  • Waste-to-resource systems
  • Sacred technology use
  • Natural material flows
  • Ecosystem collaboration
  • Resource distribution
  • Sustainable harvesting
  • Earth-honoring & listening practices
  • Indigenous resource management
  • Traditional forest gardens
  • Ancient water systems
  • Natural building methods
  • Traditional energy practices
  • Sacred harvest protocols
  • Ancient recycling systems
  • Traditional conservation
  • Ecological agriculture
  • Resources flow freely
  • Energy self-sustaining
  • Zero waste achieved
  • Technology earth-aligned
  • Materials regenerative
  • Distribution balanced
  • Harvesting sustainable
  • Conservation natural
  • Earth health primary

Water Is Life's Flow

Water Is life's Flow

Sacred, expansive and alive, water connects all. It is a communor, a purifier, a conductor, a hydrator, an irrigator. We honor and protect the rivers, oceans, rains and springs that sustain us, guide us, move us, rock us, hold us, an cleanse us. Through caring for water’s ways, we maintain life’s circulation.

System Ideas
  • Sacred water councils
  • Rain catchment networks
  • Spring protection circles
  • River guardian systems
  • Ocean care practices
  • Water ceremony spaces
  • Aquifer preservation
  • Water sharing systems
  • Wetland stewardship
  • Indigenous water rights
  • Traditional river keepers
  • Ancient irrigation systems
  • Sacred water ceremonies
  • Traditional well sharing
  • Ocean navigation wisdom
  • Rain harvesting methods
  • Spring protection rites
  • Water healing practices
  • Water sources pure
  • Rain cycles balanced
  • Rivers flow free
  • Oceans thriving
  • Springs protected
  • Water shared fairly
  • Ceremonies maintained
  • Knowledge preserved
  • Communities water-secure

Spirit Guides Our Freedom

Spirit Guides Our Freedom

Ancestral wisdom flows through our ceremonies, traditions, and intuitive knowing. We honor the sacred in all paths, reclaiming and sharing our indigenous and ancestral ways of connecting with spirit. Through spiritual practice, we embark with certainty, remember our wholeness, and live magically.

System Ideas
  • Sacred ceremony circles
  • Ancestral wisdom councils
  • Spiritual practice spaces
  • Energy work gatherings
  • Dream interpretation groups
  • Traditional healing centers
  • Ritual knowledge sharing
  • Sacred site stewardship
  • Spirit connection practices
  • African spiritual traditions
  • Indigenous ceremonies
  • Asian energy practices
  • Caribbean spiritual systems
  • Aboriginal dreamtime
  • Andean cosmic connection
  • Arctic spirit traditions
  • Ancient mystery schools
  • Sacred geometry use
  • Spirit connection strong
  • Ceremonies preserved
  • Healing arts practiced
  • Sacred sites protected
  • Dreams guide decisions
  • Energy work common
  • Rituals maintained
  • Wisdom transmitted
  • Liberation manifested

Operational Framework

Essential documents for establishing and maintaining healthy organizational structures

Practical Skills

Hands-on guides for building self-sufficiency and community resilience

Spiritual & Personal Development

Resources for nurturing the inner dimensions of liberation work

Political Education

Foundational texts that build shared understanding of systems of oppression and liberation

Case Studies

Real-world examples that inspire and provide practical insights

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Get Involved

Each Branch of Ubuntu Freedom presents opportunities to get involved. 

  • Attend a Church of the Revolution Service.
  • Connect your organization that is aligned with the Principles of Freedom to the Church of the Revolution.
  • Support the development of the digital community by becoming a member (share your socials in Additional Information).
  • Spread the world about the UFree cigital community throughout your IRL and digital community.
  • Propose a project for a Seed & Harvest Immersion Retreat, where Freedom Builders can make a contribution and build with each other.
  • Sign up to provide respite space, care services, or joy/health event access when the Care Space Project is launched.
  • Offer skills, such as fundraising and graphic design.

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