Our Story
U HAV POWR came to fruition from one single motivation - being absolutely fed up with witnessing people and the planet suffering senselessly under the brutal force of settler colonialism. U Hav Powr is on a mission to investigate three questions.
How are vulnerable people and the planet simultaneously exploited for profit?
How can we resist and combat unjustified violence?
What is our collective call to action?
These questions have become a pursuit of understanding the society we live in more critically. These injustices that once felt personal turn out to be part of a global pattern of inexcusable violence. However, it’s been proven time and time again that, collective organization WORKS!
We use intersectional Islamic feminist based solutions to directly address the oppressors.
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For both believers and non believers, Islamic based solutions have played a pivotal role in guiding resistance movements for centuries against oppressors. Fundamental teachings in Islam like giving Zakat (charity) align directly with our mission to abolish the suffering of people caused by human greed. There are far too many Islamic based solutions to Western struggle (Jihad), and as we grow, our discussions are geared towards developing on these solutions.
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The concept that various attributes of a person’s identity such as race, class, gender, and dis/ability shape unique experiences of discrimination and violence. Intersectionality identifies that there is not a single identity that a person attributes to. For example, U HAV POWR are made up of workers. However, apart from being workers, we are daughters, sons, brothers, sisters, students, friends, neighbors, and etc. Recognizing the ways different identities clash is pivotal to the ways we strategically combat colonial institutions.
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An ideology and practice centered on conquering, and domination over another sovereign state, nation, or entity through brute force by any means necessary.
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A global economic system built and sustained through consumerism, exploitation, and an imbalanced distribution of power. This system operates and depends on stolen resources, destruction of Indigenous communities, and destruction of the planet.