Community values and agreements
These concepts were pulled from various organizing leaders including:
ejnet.org, Sins Invalid, Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing, St. Paul Principles
Mosquito Fleet Collective values
Conflict: We value engaging in conflict and understanding conflict as a natural part of group process and collaborative work. We value approaching conflict with curiosity and practicing compassionate accountability.
Communication: We value direct and open communication and transparency. We value creating a supportive culture of feedback.
Healthy boundaries: We value maintaining healthy boundaries between organizing work and personal life
Anti-racism: We value the rejection of white supremacist cultural values such as perfectionism, one right way, etc. We value actively changing policies, behaviors, and beliefs that perpetuate racist ideas and actions.
Supportive environment: We value building a supportive environment by sharing responsibilities, assuming good intentions, making clear asks for support, and exercising patience, trust, and good faith
Clarity: We value clarity about roles, deadlines and objectives, expectations, responsibilities, and decision-making.
Oppeness: We value willingness to try new things and potentially be met with struggles. We value openness to tackle difficult situations with everyone else in mind. We value being open to offer and accept feedback.
Collective learning and knowledge: We value skillbuilding and skillsharing together and developing process through practice and participation. We know that no one person knows everything, but together we know a lot.
Accessibility: We value accessibility in many forms (physical, verbal, digital, etc). We know that each person has different circumstances and therefore requires unique access to resources and opportunities.
Collaboration: We value collaboration on collective intentions and goals as well as projects and programs.
Mosquito Fleet is committed to these working agreements:
Consent based decision making - whether true consensus, integrated decision making or another method is used, we commit to making decisions using informed consent of those impacted by them.
Speak your truth, and speak for yourself (not others)
Listen to understand
Balance mutual care (self and collective)
Self-transformation - we must change from operating in the mode of individualism to community-centeredness.
Be conscious of points of privilege and oppression that live within us, and the power dynamics between us
Regenerative conflict - conflict is inevitable and through conflict we can learn better ways of working together
Respect for a diversity of tactics - different groups and individuals organize in different ways. We recognize that the State has a monopoly on violence and how its defined, and we will treat others tactics with tolerance and respect.
What’s said here stays here, what’s learned here leaves here
We will never assist the State or law enforcement of any kind and strongly oppose any repression of dissent including surveillance, infiltrations, disruption and violence
Last Updated: Dec 2024