Vision & Purpose

Vision & Purpose

We recognize that a cycle of violence keeps our youth, families, and community oppressed and disenfranchised.  Our Vision is to confront and end state, street, and interpersonal violence affecting the Southeast Asian American community in Rhode Island.

Our purpose is to mobilize Southeast Asian youth into community organizing campaigns which, foster the process of healing and dialogue, build support and love for those who are isolated and marginalized, and build power in the Southeast Asian community.

Values

PrYSM operates under its four cornerstone values of Love, Family, Ghetto-Roots, and Movement.

Love: We believe that activism, social service, and change needs to be directly linked to compassion and love.

Family: We all expect to love and support each other.  It means we have to work out conflicts and arguments under the context that we are all brothers and sisters.

Ghetto-Roots:  We place extra value in organizing on the streets, in homes, and in the heart of the community.  It also means affirming solidarity with the most oppressed and most in need.

Movement: We believe that institutional change needs to be in the hands of the people.  We believe that peoples’ dreams and hopes need to be part of this change.  We believe that if we make connections between people, families, gangs, organizations, communities, and cities, we can create a movement.