RootFolksWritersPoetsArtists - Purpose Statement - edited Feb. 20, 2025
RFWPA: Is an opt-in association of anti-fascist, anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist writers, poets, artists[1] designed to challenge capitalist economic assumptions and social formations, as a platform for hueman[2] engagement and development. As a community of writers and poets and artists, we intend to use our words and actions to project individual and collective visions of life as it is as it can be;[3] and to develop the language of a culture alternative to the now dominant one degrading hueman relations to the cash nexus.
RFWPA will emphasize the voice of incarcerated felons, parolees, their families, providing them a platform to circulate their work.
RFWPA Purpose Statement:
1). We act[4] to abolish capitalism as the principal means of economic relationship defining society.
2). We act to challenge and erase white supremacy and racism as the principal language of social political engagement in the public square.[5]
3). We act to uphold a woman’s right to abortion; and every hueman’s right to their sexual identity.
4). We act to defend the planet against the effects of climate change and global warming.
5). We act to restore every huemans’ right to toxic-free water and unpolluted air.
6). We act to support every huemans’ right to nutrition.
7). We act to support every huemans’ right to housing.
8). We act to support every huemans’ right to health Care.
9). We act to support every huemans’ right to education.
10). We act to support every huemans’ right to Equality.[6]
11). We act to support every huemans’ right to work and retirement from work with Dignity.
12). We act to stop U.S. police crimes and abolish racist U.S. law enforcement agencies.
13). We act to abolish mass incarceration, private prisons, and the death penalty.
14). We act to end U.S. imperialism and U.S. support of racist and apartheid governments.
15). We act to find a democratic praxis that works for all huemans’ based on their culture collective communal consensus.[7]
Footnotes:
[1] ‘Be moderate,’ the trimmers cry, / Who dread the tyrants’ thunder. / ‘You ask too much people fly / From you aghast in wonder.’ / ‘Tis passing strange, for I declare / Such statements give me mirth, / For our demands most moderate are, / We only want the earth. James Connolly, Songs of Freedom, We Only Want The Earth
[2] Hue is defined as a color or shade. All huemans are endowed with color. The racialization of color is political has no place in hueman classification. As used in its white supremacist American context, human is hierarchical, in its usage at the nation’s founding, included people of Afrikan descent only as property. Hueman flips both context content, writing People of Afrikan Descent into the hueman family, removing the historical property reference. Kétu Oladuwa
[3] Art is not a mirror held up to society but a hammer with which to shape it. Bertolt Brecht
[4] The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it. Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
[5] . . . where tradespeople philosophers, poets politicians rubbed shoulders where, too, the public complained demonstrated, at times, were met, dispersed, even slaughtered by forces of the regimes they tried to take to task. http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20141203-blood-on-the-streets
[6] From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. Karl Marx, 1875 Critique of the Gotha Program
[7] RootFolkz Poetz Press, Collective Purpose Statement of Why We Write.
RFWPABYLAWS
Membership: RFWPA is an opt-inpolitical-association of anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist writers, poets, and artists designed to challenge capitalist economic assumptions and social formations, as a platform for human engagement and development. Any person found belonging to the police, correction guards, white supremacist or any other repressive organization is prohibited from RFWPA membership.
Objective: As a community of writers and poets and artists, we intend to use our words and actions to project individual and collective visions of life as it is and as it can be; and to develop the language of an alternative culture for the future abolition of capitalism and its imperialist objectives.
Copyright: The creator of the work published on the website of RFWPA maintains the copyright e.g. blog writers hold their own copyright. Work is published with their permission. The ideas expressed are those of the writers and do not necessarily reflect the ideas or beliefs of those operating the site.
Funding: RFWPA is a 100% self-funded nonprofit political-association. Fundraising, when necessary, is solely to develop and maintain the website of RFWPA and is strictly voluntary. No member, officer or administrator, of RFWPA will receive payment or remuneration for service.
Structure: The organizational structure of RFWPA is based on democratic praxis that seeks to work for all humans’ based on their culture collective communal consensus.
RootFolks - HISTORY
The word RootFolks: Is the creation of the poet and orator Omowalé-Kétu Oladuwa in 2015 as a way to track his 382 days motorcycle “Freedom Ride” across the U.S. stopping in each of the 48 contiguous states. To understand the poet oko word construction, RootFolks, consider its two parts, as defined by Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary: root “the part of an organ or physical structure by which it is attached to the body” and folks “of or relating to the common people or to the study of the common people”. RootFolks is a synthesis and consists of two independent bodies or entities: RootFolkz Poetz Press “a platform of identity counts cultural collective” and the RootFolksWritersPoetsArtists “a political-association of anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist writers, poets, and artists”
RFWPA WELCOME
Here: We let all subscribers know that we are an opt-in political-association of anti-imperialists, anti-capitalist writers & poets & artists. We strongly feel all voices need to be heard and felt. The more you associate, contribute, collaborate the more you help put the vision together. That’s why our call is: Fight For Your World. Take a dive for a world where change must happen, and RFWPA is here to facilitate change through association and collaboration that allows for an equitable and sustainable world, only possible, by first working out the vision.
Website: rfwpa[dot]com
Email: RFWPA.connect[at]protonmail[dot]com or rfwpa2024[at]gmail.com
