We oppose the, racism and anti-gay prejudice that underlies the lack of government attention to the AIDS epidemic, and call for increased funding for AIDS research and treatment. Hate groups that promote and engage in the violent suppression of others, such as the Ku Klux Klan and the Nazis, should be legally banned. We stand for fall equality and self-determination. The U.S. was built on a foundation of African American slavery, genocide of the American Indians, native Hawaiians and native Alaskan peoples, conquest of Mexico's lands and Asian contract labor. Building a just society means redressing this history and system of oppression and an affirmative commitment to full equality for all.
Equality is the only basis for multi-racial unity and a pluralistic society.
The right of self-determination means that communities of color should be able to decide for themselves how their schools, land, culture and economy should be developed. It also means that peoples of color in areas of historical concentration, development and oppression, such as the Chicano people in the Southwest and African Americans in the South, have the right to land and self-government. We call upon the U.S. government to uphold the treaty rights and sovereignty of American Indian nations and the native Hawaiian people. Economic Democracy and Workers Rights Economic justice is a basic condition for political democracy and social progress. Those who labor in the fields, factories, offices, and service industries create the collective wealth and deserve society's highest respect.