Principles

To share, disburse, and distribute our services, resources, knowledge and skills to our clients, 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 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;
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/Latino community as a priority in all of our work, without falling into nationalism; 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 Civil Rights participants who support our efforts;
To struggle against incidents 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 it's 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;
To support the rights of self-determination of Native Americans, as well as our brothers and sisters in developing countries around the world. To promote the development of foreign policy by our government which puts into practice principles of 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.