Dearest community,
We wanted to take a moment to reflect on the past year and celebrate all we have done together. It has now officially been one year of Weaving Our Worlds. Thank you to everyone who has been part of building WOW in our first year!
We are all volunteers and receive no grant, state or corporate funding. We have done so much together — from our events, study in struggle, and mobilizing, to fundraisers, distros, and bringing together a network of comrades. An important victory we also want to highlight is the collective mobilizing that stopped the deportation of our comrade Marcia!
Through our combined work across different spaces, we have explored many themes highlighting the importance of internationalism. These have included: Palestine, capitalist trade agreements, Kashmir, the Caribbean, Sudan, Congo, Philippines, mutual aid, anti-repression, Indigenous Land Back, global war on drugs, migration, techno-colonialism, the politics of recognition, NATO, sub-imperialisms, fascism, and more. We are excited to explore many more in the new year!
LEARN!
Events: We hosted 16 community education events in 2025! We organize these to build long-term awareness & solidarity for internationalist struggles.
These have also been spaces to strengthen community connections and are mutual aid in practice, through providing free food, childcare, bus tickets, and the redistribution of resources. We regularly collect and redistribute items, such as clothes, blankets and sleeping bags, for unhoused neighbours thanks to the generosity of this community. We try to make our events as accessible as possible by hosting them in wheelchair accessible venues, making events mask mandatory, and providing ASL-English interpretation, while keeping every event free!
Study in Struggle: Every month we also come together as a network for Study in Struggle conversations to learn about and discuss internationalist struggles. Freedom struggles that have laid fertile ground are not just soundbites; they demand study in struggle. Our reading list and summaries from these conversations are all available on our website!
AGITATE!
Actions: We held many actions to put into practice our learnings and bring people to the streets! From holding the Vancouver Public Library accountable for their anti-Palestinian racism, collaborating with local Palestinian organizers for actions, and supporting Sudan solidarity events, to bringing together a unified anti-imperialist movement Strike Back bloc for the national Draw the Line protests, showing up to support migrants in Surrey Detention Centre, mobilizing against anti-migrant Bill C2 and C12 by occupying CBSA offices, and combating reckless consumerism by joining the global Congo-led boycott of Apple — radical direct action and people power are the drivers of movements.
Resources: We have written and released over a dozen resources in solidarity with a multitude of movements. These include solidarity statements, toolkits, and flyers, such as Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders, Marking Palestinian Prisoners Day, Ending the Global War on Drugs, Beyond Slogans: Free Sudan, Apple Profits From Genocide, and Stop Anti-Migrant Bills. All our resources can be found here!
LIBERATE!
Victories! An important victory we want to highlight is the collective mobilizing to stop the deportation of our comrade Marcia led by Weaving Our Worlds and Migrant Students United. Thousands of letters were sent in to demand in support of Marcia, a survivor of domestic violence in Chile with a deep commitment to social justice. Together, we won a temporary stay for Marcia and her deportation was cancelled! This was a huge victory for her, her beloved communities, and all migrants fighting violent deportation machinery and border controls.
Redistribution of wealth: Since January 2025, through thousands of small donations collected at our events and online, together we have redistributed $73,020.96 to frontline struggles & mutual aid efforts locally and globally. This is direct participation and collectivity in action!
Here is our breakdown:
Sudan: $15,987.67
Gaza: $17,998.69
Migrant Comrades: $22,110.85
DULF: $10,072
Indigenous Defenders: $2,580
Congo: $371.26
Tenant Safety: $3030.49
Local Mutual Aid Projects: $870
WOW Network: We now have over 100 folks in the WOW network! Together we have engaged in monthly study in struggle, built deeper relationships, helped organize events and graphic design, as well as built community together centering cross movement learning and solidarity. We have also hosted three network hang-outs that involved creative resistance, assembling winter response kits for unhoused neighbours, and shared lots of food together!
The WOW Network spaces have allowed us to work towards the liberatory futures we seek, with a shoutout to our younger comrades running around and amazing us with their artistic skills — kids are comrades too!
Weaving Our Worlds is a grassroots anti-authoritarian, internationalist collective formed in December 2024 in Vancouver, unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ lands. With the consolidation of fascist and right-wing politics locally & globally, we want to connect with and inspire the greatest number of people to learn, agitate, and act for total liberation.
We are guided by values of community-building, collaboration across movement groups, interdependence, and an anti-oppression ethic. In the face of capitalist-colonial commodification and isolation, we choose to learn and lean into communication, relationality, care, imagination, abundance, humility, and grace. We envision collective liberation where everyone has a dignified life and the ability to provide it for their kin, where we are all free of oppression, exploitation and misery, and where we live in right relationship to one another and the earth. Read more About Us here.
We look forward to more together in the new year!