Our Aims & Means

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Our Aims

To sow imagination and grow resistance in the rural South — We work to cultivate beloved community rooted in solidarity, creativity, and shared struggle, especially among those most impacted by poverty, addiction, isolation, and environmental harm in Walker County, AL.

To practice hope through shared struggle — We commit to resisting systems of oppression, exploitation, and alienation by learning together, working together, and taking collective action rooted in solidarity and mutual aid. We understand hope not as wishful thinking, but as something grown through collective labor, trust, and persistence in the face of hardship.
To make it “easier for people to be good." — Inspired by the witness of the Catholic Worker tradition, we seek to remove the barriers that prevent people from feeding, sheltering, and caring for themselves and one another, free of judgment, stigma, or hierarchy.
To cultivate communal resilience — We focus on building relationships, skills, and practices, especially around food, land, and mutual care, that help our community endure and imagine and build a different future together.
To practice hope through shared struggle — We understand hope not as wishful thinking, but as something grown through collective labor, trust, and persistence.

Our Means

The Works of Mercy as Mutual Aid — We meet immediate needs while building collective capacity through shared food, goods, and resources—through projects like community fridges, pantries, and free stores—shaped with those most affected rather than delivered from a distance.
Solidarity, NOT Charity — We practice economic solidarity through direct financial assistance, debt relief, and accompaniment, inspired by the call to Jubilee. We reject hierarchical charity models and instead walk alongside neighbors to understand and remove the barriers that keep people in poverty. Jubilee House is sustained by neighbors, volunteers, and supporters who share power, labor, and responsibility in growing a more just and livable world together.
Hospitality for All — We create welcoming spaces where people are received as neighbors and co-workers, not clients or problems to be managed, and where everyone is invited to participate in shaping our common life.
Harm Reduction and Hope — We practice harm reduction as love in action, meeting people where they are and affirming survival as sacred. Through community-based access to naloxone, test strips, education, and presence, we resist stigma, criminalization, and interrupt flows of violence.
Resilient Food Systems — We tend gardens and farms as places of learning, shared labor, and resilience, where neighbors grow food together, care for the land, and cultivate skills and relationships that sustain communal life.
Prophetic Witness — We grow resistance through acts of imagination, refusal, and peaceful disruption, confronting systems that normalize suffering, abandonment, and dispossession.
Rootedness in Place — We remain planted in Parrish and Walker County, grounding our work in the land, watersheds, histories, and relationships of this bioregion. We understand that the health of our community and the health of the land are inseparable, and we seek not only to resist systems that exploit people and ecosystems, but to replace them with local, regenerative practices of food growing, mutual care, and shared stewardship. By tending soil, sharing harvests, and learning from this place, we cultivate forms of life that are accountable to our neighbors, our land, and future generations.