Purpose of the Anarchist Network of “Vancouver Island” (ANVI):

We are a regional, horizontal, organizing and communications network on so-called “Vancouver Island,” striving to link those committed to anti-colonial, anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist, and other anti-oppressive struggles.

We recognize that the international anarchist movement has a diversity of perspectives and priorities. On “Vancouver Island” we seek to strengthen resistance by nurturing solidarity and mutual aid among all participants and friends of the Network.

With recognition and respect for existing community work, organizations, networks, and federations engaged in these struggles, we have created an Island network, not to replace, dominate, or control any existing work, but to weave this work together, not as an end in itself but as a process and a means to pursue the following collective aims:

1. To strengthen our mutual aid across the Island and our bioregion; to forge the relationships, make the connections, and share the resources we need to sustain this mutual aid.

2. To open up lines of communication and coordination among different groups active along the Salish Sea and to facilitate the production of propaganda and educational programs.

3. To link up our resistance to and confrontation with the local points in global systems of oppression and destruction, and ultimately, to lend support to local struggles whenever and wherever needed.

4. To help each other develop working, sustainable models of autonomy, solidarity, and popular power, and to plant the seeds of the new world in the shell of the old.

5. To build relationships with communities and practice solidarity by actively recognizing the leadership and organized resistance of communities directly affected.

6. To support the struggles of Indigenous and working-class people and the solidarity of labour, advance awareness of class and colonial relations, and support the intersecting struggles of all oppressed peoples.

7. To defend our Mother Earth, her land, water, and skies, and all its oppressed inhabitants from those who would exploit and destroy it, for profit and empire, to the detriment of all who now live here.

We thank the Northeast Anarchist Network (NEAN), whose outline we have borrowed a lot from.