We are a movement of dreamers, awakened by the alarms of war. Motivated by love and the desire for a better and more just world, we strive to create a movement that focuses our rage toward war and brutality through direct, non-violent, yet militant engagement with its perpetrators. This is why we wear the orange overalls. Our strategy is one of militant non-violence, and includes art making, music and other vibrant, creative and liberatory expressions of resistance and celebration.

In the past, many who have engaged and benefited by these tactics have been those who also benefit from a system of white male privilege. We would like to move beyond these contradictions, thus implore all those directly affected by war and violence to come together with us, on the streets: people of color, women, queer people, poor people, transgender people and those who identify outside of the gender binary, people of various abilities, economic backgrounds, educations and experiences. We strive to be the multitudes.

We acknowledge that for many people putting one's body on the line is not a whimsical choice, but an act of everyday survival. For others it is a decision of gravity and consequence due to the particular oppressions of the US injustice system. We acknowledge the privilege inherent in our choice to employ these tactics, and we seek to work in solidarity with those who cannot do so, and those who face abuse and arrest every day based solely on their identities.

Too often direct confrontation with the state has failed, or divided those with shared beliefs because we have allowed systems of domination to play out in the streets. We struggle together to challenge these manifestations when they appear and to hold each other accountable. We seek action that is transformative--for ourselves and the anti-war movement as a whole. We are committed to a process of organizing and action that realizes our belief in total liberation for all, based on imagination, mutual aid, horizontalism, and creativity as an act of revolution.

We are dedicated to growing a sustainable movement that will halt the US war machine at home and abroad, but will one that will also continue beyond any one action or event. We envision this tactic, its principles, and the entire ya basta ethos, as part of an ongoing strategy of engagement and escalation aimed at dismantling the machinery of global violence and plunder.

We seek direct engagement and confrontation, but not the use of physical violence to confront the forces of "order" and "security." For the moment, we wish to send a clear and unequivocal message to the state and its propaganda wing (the corporate media) by rejecting the use of shields or weapons of any kind, including our fists. We ask that those who wish to aggressively resist the police sit this one out. Your time will come.

We commit to these principles and will hold ourselves and each other accountable as we organize and mobilize in the streets!

WE ARE AN ARMY OF DREAMERS!

ALL OUT! YA BASTA!