(After the brilliant Black Panther Party Platform—)

1. We want freedom, and we want the power to determine the destiny of our Artistic Community.

We believe that the Artistic Community is stifled and suppressed by mitigating economic and social influences.

2. We want funding for our Art.

We believe our creative pursuits should be financially endowed in ways that do not contribute to nor are endorsed by the nation/state, the church or any ideological institution. All moneys will be accepted without discretion, and will be used exclusively for the purposes of our cause. If this cannot be achieved then we believe we should seize the means of artistic production from the businessmen, so as to engage the community and make Art more productive.

3. We want to end the systematic repression of Gnostic experience in the Artistic Community.

We believe that the nation/state has devalued the creative process by assigning monetary value to the products of these activities. The goal of the creative process is the Gnostic experience, which is molested by concerns of procuring capital to capture the Artistic expression and recouping these costs. In the spirit of compromise we do not propose the dismantling of the nation/state in favor of Art-ocracy. Instead we demand restitution for all creative works, historical artifacts and objects assigned spiritual significance lost or destroyed in war. We will accept this in the form of currency on behalf of our communities.

4. We want sufficient facilities for the use of the Artistic Community.

We believe that the competition between publicly funded arts and entertainment and the current capital enterprise model should be of no concern. Publicly funded venues for the execution, presentation and preservation of Art would enrich the local culture, bait adjacent commercial centers, and stoke the flames of democracy with peaceful congregation of the masses.

5. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent society.

We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowledge of self. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world, then he has little chance to relate to anything else.

6. We want all artists to be exempt from military service.

We believe that artists don’t make good soldiers, and so should the nation/state believe.

7. We want a complete end to all acts of brutality and violence for any purpose other than Art.

We believe that any act of brutality should only occur between two or more consenting adults for the purposes of self-expression and mutual fulfillment. We believe this can also be a community building activity that will engage lower economic classes and the Arts-weary.

8. We want adequate art supplies for our prisons, jails, mental institutions and public schools.

We believe that time spent in any of the above establishments is time better spent learning to express oneself creatively.

9. We want all Art in exhibition to be judged by a jury of its peers.

We believe that acts of adjudication should be carried out in a creative manner, and should be expressively cathartic for the adjudicator. The same goes for critics.

10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, love and peace. We want refugee status for all tortured artists.

We believe that there is a way to forge a society where acquiring the aforementioned is not in conflict with the interests of Artistic self expression. It is this conflict which leads to mental breakdowns and sociological failures in our communities.

We don’t expect these truths to be self evident to everyone. We don’t believe that all Art is created equally, but that it is endowed by its Creators with certain inalienable rights, as the products of a spiritual process, as sacred artifacts brought back from expeditions attempting to reconcile reality.