BlackOUT Collective is a radical full service direct action organization. We build organizations’ capacity to execute creative and effective direct actions in service of their organizing and advocacy work. We do this through providing personalized direct action trainings and on the ground action support. We see ourselves as a “Liberation Lab”- a container for experimentation, deep space visioning and learning.
BlackOUT Collective believes that:
- Black people are taking action for their own liberation and justice.
- Direct action creates instant accountability and the ability to quickly amass power.
- Direct action is exercising your human rights and can facilitate personal learning and transformation.
- Standing up to those that oppress you is healing and liberating.
- We must constantly bring in, train and support the develop of new leaders.
- If we can change the conditions for Black people, this will shift and change the conditions for other communities.
- Direct action has a long legacy in Black communities. Our approach is to decolonize direct action and re-center on our powerful ancestral knowledge and courage of African women, men and children that have been fighting back for generations. Africans jumped from Slave ships to resist the brutality of chattel slavery, shipyard workers who shut down the transport of weapons to supply warships, the legacies of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the youth uprisings in Soweto as part of the anti-apartheid movement are some examples of the long legacy of civil disobedience, disruption and direct action within Black communities across the African/Black Diaspora.
