We envision the center to be a hub for grassroots organizations, movements, and a home to community members.
We aim to support, uplift and nurture Arab and local organizers who believe through collective action a better world is possible. Our services include and are not limited to: rental/free spaces, a community café, community kitchen, screening room, cultivating local art and SWANA culture, host & conduct educational programming, host & conduct accessible healing spaces.
Our Vision.
Café.
Coffee is a significant beverage in SWANA cultures, it symbolizes gathering and hospitality. We envision our café to create a warm, welcoming, and casual meet up space where the community can unite over similar struggles, feelings, and causes.
Organizing.
We want to redefine what grassroots activism and organizing means in Dearborn: work that empowers and centers the struggles of the most vulnerable within our community. We want to offer tools and physical space for local organizations to grow, educate, thrive, and directly connect with the community.
Intersectional Feminism Work.
We want to help build a future where everyone, including women, femmes, and non-binary people, are able to thrive in our community without fearing the consequences of misogyny and sexual violence. Using a decolonial framework, we want to conduct and host educational sessions, conferences, training around sexual violence, mutual aid, and healing spaces. We want to start a foundation that future generations can build on to eventually eradicate the patriarchy in our community.