TPP MANIFESTO
To The Trans People
It is our mission to satisfy the needs of the people through organizing ourselves and our adjacent communities- enriching them with mutual aid, material distribution, and cooperation-
We are founded on the principles of abolition feminism- and indigenous, native, black, and gender liberations. We believe in liberation for occupied Turtle Island, and liberation from the colonial gender/race power dynamics, and the structures and personnel that they produce.
We commit to a cooperative and empathetic future without exploitation.
We commit to protecting trans people by any means necessary.
We labor to protect trans people's housing, food, medication and bodies from violence. While we do this labor, we commit to educating our people.
By any means necessary
We wear red and black- to symbolize this commitment we have to our principles in action.
Red- for our community, and BLACK- for our liberation.
We will teach that economic and social disparity-colored by colonialism, patriarchy, white supremacy, militarism, misogyny, and carceral harm are the defining factors of the Trans struggle- and that the pathway for our liberation is in the intersectional liberation of Turtle Island- the so called United States- with indigenous, native, and black peoples acting wherever possible to be the center of those liberation strategies for liberation in that order- pale skinned accomplices and abolitionists are respected and honored as siblings.
We as an organization move in solidarity with indigenous liberation, black liberation, revolutionary communists, anarchists, feminists, environmentalists, abolitionists, and freedom fighters. We are among them all, as a horizontally charged power collective.
We understand that electoral politics are something that does not benefit trans, two spirit, non binary or gender non conforming people in a representative and safe way- while we participate in them to our best effort, we understand that we are not a pronounced voting block with the privilege of numbers. We understand that we cannot reason fairly with the systems that contain our lives, so beyond reason into requirements - we commit to protecting trans people by any means necessary.
We as a people commit to ourselves, eachother, and the collective effort for an equitable world for ALL PEOPLE! We do not believe most of us can survive the twenty-first century without these means. Together we are much stronger than we are as individuals. The capitalist superstructure that we are contained in encourages hyper-individualism, but when we allow this to be the norm we are isolated and weak. Alone, we can only rely on our own strengths and compete with our own weaknesses. Together, we can achieve anything, including surviving the political and physical hostilities waged on us in this current time. Our objective to keep Trans People PROTECTED can be achieved through solidarity, care, resistance, militance, and creativity. We live together, we love one another, and we protect each other over everything. We are learning to provide for each other in new and old ways, and while we do so- we vow to protect each other's lives, and the lives of our accomplices.
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1. We Want Freedom. We Want Power to Determine the Destiny of Our Trans Community.
We believe that Trans people will not be free until we are able to determine our destiny. We Want freedom for all people, starting with indigenous and black liberation.
2. We want a fair economic system or nothing at all- Our lives are not a game to be trifled with by the rich and powerful, we commit to seeing better days
3. We believe in a more equitable distribution of trans health care drugs and procedures for those who need them. We seek to disrupt the status quo of capitalist domination over our Trans Bodies, and to enable Trans People to have access to medicine and procedures regardless of wealth or permission.
4. We want autonomy and liberation- with our freedom of movement, freedom bodily autonomy, and freedom to provide our own housing and resources to our communities where we choose.
5. We wish to educate children properly, exposing the true nature of this American Society. We Want Education That Teaches Us Our True History And Our Role in the Present-Day Society. We believe in an education that will give to our people a knowledge of self and accountability .
6. We refuse military and police service. We do not comply to serve the United States of America- which is a capitalist colony, and a military occupation of sovereign Turtle Island that is weaponized against our intersectional liberation.
7. We believe that all capable Trans people should arm and educate themselves for self-defense and for the defense of our community. We can protect ourselves, together.
8. We Want Freedom For All Trans People Held in Federal, State, County and City Prisons and Jails. We believe that all Trans People should be released from the many jails and prisons because they have not received a fair and impartial trial, and because it is our prerogative as Trans People to be abolitionists towards the Prison Industrial Complex, which is a weapon against us and our intersectional liberation. We want an end to systematic violence towards trans people, police brutality towards trans people, and the total abuse we face as a people at the mercy of the standing powers. We wish the same for our intersectional communities and their liberation.
9. We make our own justice, as the American justice system is a tool of the oppressor.
10. We have a right to exist just as much as any other person, so we are determined that we will continue to exist- regardless of any legislation or violence waged against us by the state or by paramilitary forces. We declare that Trans People Will Survive The Twenty First Century, and we will do our very best to thrive while we are doing it.
To those who wish to enter TPP spaces-
COMMUNITY AGREEMENTS
We agree to keep our communication centered in care. This community is where we love, we direct our aggression towards our oppressors.
We will respect that this is a Trans led space, and that in our community- trans, two spirit, nb - indigenous, black, people of color, women, and disabled people- will all be respected and heard.
We will do what we can. This is a voluntary organization, your level of involvement is up to you. Take breaks if you need to.
We will not work to disrupt the activities Or principles of the Trans Protection Party.
INTERSECTIONALITY
An intersection is where multiple pathways meet. Trans people are the most intersectional people on planet Earth. We come from every nation, speak every tongue, have skins of every color, worship every goddess or god, and come from wealth and poverty alike. We believe in nothing, and we believe in everything. We are everywhere- and our concern is everything. We are men, women and everything else or in between. Our intersectionality is observably the most inclusive intersectionality possible on the planet right now- and we should be wise to use it like a super power. Within our own pack here, we have members of every color. Some of them are muslim, some of them are atheists, some of them are witches- there are no limitations to who can be a party member. (I don’t recommend enlisting law enforcement) We even have white cis men, some of them help run our defense program! Every person who wants the revolution, and can stand to let trans people be the center of our party and our revolutionary labor, can be a TPP member.
This time next year we hope to have more of an expanded presence around the globe, and not just for our own benefit- but for the revolution’s benefit. Our intersectionality is a superpower- because we can work to sew the revolutionary causes around us together, especially the causes of indigenous liberation, black liberation, abolition, communism, environmentalism and feminism. I have had the great fortune of being informed by abolitionist writers like Angela Davis- who laid out so much of the groundwork for our revolutionary concepts. All these causes are aimed at the same future, and none are possible in totality without the others. This is where we step in as a party and expose these obvious similarities around us and galvanise them to steel us against a seemingly impossible opposition. We are ironically, capable of being a movement, like a virus in the body of the patriarchal old world. We intersect everywhere that there are human beings- and with these revolutionary methods that we are learning together- we will make power for ourselves and our intersectional liberation.
We will always have each other to keep community with and to be safe around- but the goal should be to build the world in our communities to look more like the future we are attempting to win as we go along We can use our intersectional power to act as chameleons in the groups around us- to pull them together. To build a total community from separated struggles and marginalized groups, and make them well by our constant example and occasional guidance. We work to establish mutual aid networks, culturally enforced restorative justice habits, material aid distributions, free public programs, agriculture, rewilding and guerilla gardening, community housing, medical care, defense training programs, and a community worth caring about- all despite the capitalist superstructure that prohibits and cripples us. We do this bravely, and consistently.
We are engaged in a people’s war, and one thing we need more than anything is the people’s esteem. We no longer require toleration to live our lives, we require esteem to live out the revolution. We can hardly consider pushing the envelope of aggression if we are not simultaneously pushing the envelope of love and justice. We can hardly consider attacking the infrastructure or personnel of the old world, without building up the world of the future as we go along. I hope that the Trans Protection Party will become a beacon of direction towards the global stage- so I want to encourage you to act on principles towards your local stage. The microcosms of our own political education become our words and actions, to become our network and assets, to become our battle plans, to become our revolution, to become the future that all people desperately need and deserve- especially the most disenfranchised.
The battle plan-
The revolution will not be televised. The revolution will not be funded by the government. The revolution will not be won in one strategic blow. The revolution is outlawed, discouraged and dismissed. We are the constant victims of counter-intelligence and propaganda, so expect that the revolution will be the target of misinformation and misdirection. The game is to put pressure on the oppressors when the opportunity is viable, and never when it isn’t. The game is to be a real revolutionary without becoming incarcerated or dead. While I love a martyr, they aren’t here to be adaptable with us as we go along- and we should consider that a very sad thing. We must protect each other from incarceration or death, and consider it our highest responsibility as we pursue our future. We have our own justice system, we have our own culture that enforces itself- so we no longer require the police in our lives. We practice restorative justice so that we no longer require the old world’s courtrooms. In these ways, we can protect each other from exposure to forces of systematic violence that we currently live under. The central task of any party member should always be this- protect each other.
We can work out the revolution as we go along- because the systems we are competing against make a moving target of themselves. They are ruthless reactionaries in gilded castles. They are colossal… but remember what Lenin said- The colossus of imperialism has proven to be a colossus with feet of clay. -
And also what Black Elk said, -“The world, you see, is happier after the terror of the storm.”
Our community power to protect ourselves is RED
Our ability to win liberation is BLACK