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To share, disburse, and distribute our services, resources, knowledge and skills
to our participants, community, visitors and broader
human family with all due dignity for their individuality
needs and condition. To do so creatively with warmth,
cultural sensitivity, fairness, enthusiasm, compassion,
honesty and optimism in all areas of work.
To struggle to eliminate institutionalized racial, sexual, age and economic forms of discrimination which hamper the human potential in our society.
To support the majority of people in this country;
i.e., all workers — including, but not limited to farm workers, factory workers, service workers and office workers in
their struggle for collective bargaining rights, safety, benefits and just wages and salaries.
To promote the recapture of the culture, language and respect for the Chicano! Mexicano! Latino community as a priority in all of
our work, without falling into ethnocentrism; to strengthen
and help the struggle to recapture the cultures of our
sister communities.
To promote strong and positive working relationships with other minority communities in
all areas of work, service, political and social activities.
To provide a collective, healthy, safe and friendly workplace for members of our community
and all participants in our sphere of influence.
To struggle against all forms of racism, sexism, individualism, ageism, and violence
in our work and our community center
To struggle for the creation of programs and services which a society must provide for the
development of our community and its people.
To struggle for a clean, safe, and nuclear waste-free environment for our people and future
generations. To work for a rational use of natural
resources in the interests of the preservation of Mother
Earth and the peaceful development of humankind.
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To support the rights of self-determination
of Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans,
and Latinos, as well as our brothers and sisters in developing countries around the world. To promote the develop-
ment of foreign policy by our government which puts into
practice principles of sovereignty, justice, democracy, self-
determination, international respect, and above all, peace
with dignity.
To strengthen the family as an elementary formation of society which contributes to the development of society as a whole. To help each other and our
community fulfill roles as parents, spouses, sisters, brothers
and children, based on the absolute equality of men and
women. To respect and recognize the rights of children as
full and privileged members of our society. To strengthen
the extended family relations. To develop programs which
fulfill our obligation as family members of the larger society
to bring up the future generations with clear vision that
leads us to recover our fighting spirit. To struggle to
ensure that family life is nourished and respected. To protect the rights of women and children to live their lives free
from any form of abuse: physical, psychological, sexual.
To struggle for a dignified human existence for all people in our society; for health care, housing,
and full employment in equal educational opportunity,
democratic processes in political and social affairs and an
equitable economic system which eliminates the great
differences in income which are the cause of poverty and
deprivation.
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