Academic publishers that are 'Diamond Open Access (OA)' are free for both authors and readers (and are often but not always Not-For-Profit, with stakeholders like university libraries covering their business costs). Our infrastructure supports this, but has been built as 'hybrid Diamond OA' at the authors' choice to address modern slavery in neoliberal academia. No other publisher has had the fortitude to bring this radical model to life because it requires centering researchers' labour, knowledge, and choices over publishers' profits to correct an endemic problem that academia continues to run on – and we do not accept that mere acknowledgment of this problem is enough. As with other commercial publishers our profits also come through the work of researchers, but unlike them they'll then go back to them. THIS is grassroots publishing – by the oppressed, for the oppressed. Having hailed from a generation of researchers prior to the introduction of neoliberalism to higher education we could envision a different way and believed it was possible to change.