AKA

About

AKA is an autonomous social centre located at 75 Queen Street in Kingston, Ontario. Our primary goal is to create a node of shared resources to help sustain local alternative formations and initiatives. We are committed, in the long run, to building broader communities of resistance, solidarity, and mutual aid, by linking up with other groups with similar goals, and by supporting the creation of more autonomous spaces locally, nationally, and internationally.

AKA is devoted to stateless, voluntary, anti-hierarchical, anti-authoritarian, pro-community, pro-environment, pro-networking forms of social, political, cultural, and economic organization. We respect and nurture individual autonomy in the context of voluntary collective action, and are therefore against all authoritarian and oppressive relationships. An incomplete list of these would include: racism, ableism, heterosexism, patriarchy, capitalism, religious intolerance, colonialism, domination of nature, and the state form.

All activities at the centre will resonate with our principles, as interpreted by the Programming Collective. These may include: visual arts, music, social gatherings, political meetings, book launches, speakers, meeting space, movies, skill sharing, education, gardens, infoshop, media awareness and access. All activities will be financially accessible, i.e. either free, low-priced, or differentially priced for people with different means.

In its external relations, the centre will strive to maintain its independence from mainstream, state and corporate institutions. This means: to not become beholden to these in any way. It will also seek to maintain its autonomy with reference to other alternative groups and communities, which means: to make links where appropriate, without seeking or ceding control.