History, Mission, Vision & Values

 

MISSION

Voces Unidas RGV aims to inspire deep connection to communities and the land through an applied narrative and cultural strategy.

  • rooted in art and healing practice

  • to nourish deep relationships

  • promote civic engagement

  • cultivate the ecosystem for mutual aid and other community-led creative interventions in the RGV

VISION

Voces Unidas RGV envisions a more peaceful, liberated future with communities that are more intimately integrated, where the natural & built environment are more harmoniously and sustainably interconnected, and where people practice living in service of care for each other, the land, and all creatures.

Values

  • (C) Interdependence: We need all the parts of our ecosystem and all parts of the ecosystem reflect the whole.   There is no separateness between us from our neighbors, the bees around us.  All things are connected and all things are interdependent.  Everyone is needed , everything is part of the ecosystem.

  • (N) Interconnectedness: we are entangled with the problems of the world we want to address. We are not separate entities from the challenges we face.  We contribute to our collective liberation by detangling how our own lives may be interwoven with the harms we want to reduce. WATER.

  • (S) Liberation / freedom of movement/ freedom to reach full potential. WIND.

  • (W) Responsibility and right relationship; Compassionate inquiry , Transformative justice , Love / healing. FIRE.

(E) Agency : ability to create or liberate from suffering .