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Our Mission

Harambec works for and with Black women and Black non-binary people, affirming that their will to live, heal, and build is a fundamental political act. The organization is dedicated to creating spaces of care, political education, memory, and solidarity, in active opposition to oppressive and dehumanizing systems.

We believe that caring for one another is a form of radical resistance, and that building autonomous, joyful, and powerful communities requires normalizing solidarity, intergenerational transmission, and political confrontation.

Vision

Harambec envisions a world where Black women and Black non-binary people can live, make decisions, pass on knowledge, create, and organize outside of imposed survival logics. A world where our lives are no longer compromised, but instead nourished by mutual aid, political solidarity, and collective care.

We work to create the conditions for a dignified life, radically opposed to erasure, dispossession, and exploitation. This vision is rooted in a diversity of political strategies: cultivating autonomy, strengthening our solidarities, and multiplying spaces for organizing, memory, and mutual support.

Values

Care and Interdependence
Political Education
Living Memory & Transmission
Autonomy & Community Agency

Care & Interdependence

Harambec’s mission is grounded in the deep conviction that caring for one another is a radical form of resistance to systemic oppression. For Harambec, cultivating a counter-culture of care is a vital political strategy — one that challenges dehumanization, resists the erasure of experienced violence, and preserves our humanity in the face of daily brutality.

Within this framework, Harambec normalizes and uplifts acts of solidarity, mutual aid, and protection as core components of our collective response to capitalist violence. The organization is committed to creating spaces where Black women and Black non-binary people can care for one another, while building territories of freedom to inhabit, share, and protect.

Political Education

Political education is a pillar of Harambec’s mission. The organization is dedicated to creating spaces where Black women and Black non-binary people can collectively confront difficult truths, deconstruct dominant narratives, and strengthen their ability to imagine alternative worlds.

This process aims to build powerful communities within and through difference, capable of resisting, transmitting, and grounding themselves amid the chaos of the current world.

Living Memory & Transmission

Harambec is also committed to active memory work: honoring, preserving, and learning from past generations, their struggles, and their worldviews. The organization believes that the liberation of Black women and Black non-binary people is inseparable from the living transmission of knowledge, stories, and experiences.

Autonomy & Community Agency

As Black women and Black non-binary people, we unconditionally claim our right to define our own methods of resistance and to lead our liberation movements as autonomous political subjects. Our struggle is rooted in the belief that only a self-determined approach can lead to our emancipation.

Harambec is committed to building unwavering autonomy — both individual and collective — as the cornerstone of our resistance. This pursuit of autonomy is the foundation on which we build our capacity to make sovereign decisions and act with unshakable freedom against oppressive structures.