Creosote Collective

We are a group passionately dedicated to building a meaningful connection between our communities and the ecology in Phoenix Arizona https://creosote-collective.square.site/

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Stapley Community Garden

Come join us in building a new community garden in Mesa, AZ! Everyone is welcome whether you want to help plant, dig, build or just meet members of the community!

We will be building the garden on November 25th at 931 S Stapley Dr, Mesa, AZ(The Word Church) and get started at 10 AM. Breakfast will be provided for all who attend!

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Mission Statement of the Creosote Collective

The aim of the Creosote Collective is twofold. The first is to remove the state and other forms of social domination that accompany it from both our lives, the lives of our communities, and the ecology that surrounds us. The second is to create space for the formation of non-hierarchical political and social structures that empower our fellow humans not only to develop a variety of free modes of existence but also to promote a new relationship with the ecological world around us and discover our place within it as stewards.

Our tactics, guided by ideals rooted in anarchism, social ecology, decolonization, Black liberation, anti-racism, queer liberation, feminism, and the ongoing struggles of the oppressed are fundamentally anti-authoritarian, always seeking to collaborate and organize within the movements of the oppressed. Both to advance our common struggle and to establish a network of libertory structures that foster new bonds of solidarity, autonomy and freedom in our communities and beyond, rather than rebuilding new chains of command and obedience.

These structures come in the form of neighborhood councils, mutual aid groups, free schools, community gardens, worker cooperatives, and a variety of other modes that not only seek to challenge existing power structures but also to cultivate an ecosystem that takes care of one another in the present. While many of these formations are limited under our current system of domination, we see within them outlines of a free society and a urgently needed contrast to a world of ever-growing authoritarianism and estrangement. It is upon these foundations that we envision the development of a free society.