250 Years

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A National Cultural Counter Commemoration

America is not a finished story.
It never was.

BEFORE 1776

Long before 1776, there were stolen lands, stolen labor, and stolen lives — and there was resistance.

AFTER 1776

After 1776, there were chains and reservations, exclusions and uprisings, migrations and strikes, freedom songs and care networks. There were people building a country that refused to recognize them.

NOW

The United States is preparing to mark 250 years. What will be celebrated is unity, progress, and greatness. What will be erased — again — are the people whose survival, resistance, and labor made this country possible.

We reject

commemorations that require amnesia.

patriotism that depends on forgetting.

We honor

Enslaved people who built the economy and resisted captivity

Indigenous nations who continue to defend land, water, and sovereignty

Immigrants who labor without recognition and live under threat

Workers who organized under violence and repression

Women, queer and trans people, disabled people, and poor people who made care a practice when the state refused

This is not nostalgia.
This is counter-memory.

We believe culture is not decoration — it is infrastructure. Songs, poems, images, and gatherings are how people remember themselves, how movements are sustained, and how power is contested.

This is not a centralized campaign. It does not ask permission. It does not crown a single voice.

Instead, it lives everywhere: in streets and schools, in kitchens and churches, in basements, parks, sidewalks, and phones.

If you are telling the truth where you live — you are part of this.

250 Years — We Were Always Here

Because history didn’t start with them.
And it doesn’t end with lies.