ABOUT US
Our Theory of Change
New America Project is a progressive registered student organization building knowledge and power around Co-liberatory Socialism through an intersectional coalition at Central Michigan University. NAP was established in 2019 by CMU Senior, Emily Jones, along with a group of 6 other student organizers. NAP created a space on campus for leftist students to express their frustrations with our political system, as well as establish actionable changes through community organizing efforts. New America Project believes that our society is confronted by large scale structures of oppression, including racism, cishetero-sexism {cissexism}, and capitalism. We believe that the key systems of oppression that operate in our lives are all inextricably linked. They have been shaped by each other over time and cannot be broken up and defeated in isolation. At the same time we want to go beyond opposing the current organization of society to think critically about what we want for our communities. We believe that the world we are trying to build will take the form of some kind of socialist society: where value is not defined by an individual's profitability, where reparations are made for the centuries of oppression that have come before, where no private individual controls the lives of others through jobs or wealth, where we are able to labor to meet our needs and democratically control our future. Liberation for any one of us is tied to the liberation of the others. That means that as an org we try to work and build relationships in ways that begin to deconstruct our current society, taking time to do the hard work of understanding and caring for eachother.
