WE LEARN is a community promoting women’s literacy as a tool that fosters empowerment and equity for women. WE LEARN seeks to build a just society and healthy communities. Therefore, we focus on education, specifically the basic literacies women need to gain access to systems of power and to achieve personal and community empowerment. Women’s pursuit of multiple literacies gives visibility to our experiences as women, sustains our on-going desire to learn, encourages critical thinking, and provides the support and information necessary for reflection, understanding, and action to change our current situations. WE LEARN engages a diverse membership community of adult basic education and literacy learners and alumni, educators, researchers and professional women, community activists and anyone dedicated to moving our mission forward. Values Statement WE LEARN members hold these values inwardly reflective of our networking organization and outwardly active to the communities we reach. I. WE LEARN is Women-Centered / Women-Positive WE LEARN focuses on the issues, needs, concerns, viewpoints, strengths, and wisdom of women. II. WE LEARN Supports Social Change Investing in women's education is a necessary step to ending all women's oppression and creating equitable communities. III. WE LEARN Works towards Justice & Equity Social justice is about sharing power, creating equity (vs. equality), and moving with a collective, shared sense of responsibility. Social justice involves doing rather than being done to. We believe that all people can act to identify, understand, and address social injustice and inequality, challenging the dominant dialogue/norms. IV. WE LEARN Acts through Participatory Practices WE LEARN bases our mission, vision and values on the needs, perspectives and interests identified and decided upon by our membership.