Our Platform
The shared foundation we organize around — and what we are fighting for.
We recognize that attacks on immigrants are an integral part of broader attacks on democratic rights, civil liberties, labor organizing, and political dissent. When governments can target one section of society without consequence, those powers inevitably expand to threaten everyone. The fight for immigrant rights is inseparable from the fight to defend the rights of all people.
No person should be forced to live in fear of being taken from their community. We reject mass deportation policies and all forms of state violence directed at immigrant communities. We fight for full rights, dignity, and permanent legal status for all immigrants.
Freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion, due process, freedom of the press, and the right to organize are fundamental democratic rights. We oppose efforts to criminalize those engaged in community defense and advocacy.
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We reject all systems that divide working people against one another. We recognize that racism has historically been used to justify exclusion, exploitation, incarceration, deportation, and political repression.
We the workers create the wealth of society, and we deserve dignity and respect. We fight against exploitation, wage theft, unsafe workplaces, union-busting, and economic inequality.
Migration does not occur in a vacuum. War, economic exploitation, political intervention, environmental destruction, sanctions, and unequal global development have displaced millions of people. We believe that all people have the right to live with dignity in their homeland and the right to migrate when circumstances force them to leave.
Working people throughout the world should have the power to determine their own political, economic, and social systems free from foreign domination, occupation, sanctions, and coercion. Democracy and self-determination must apply internationally as well as domestically.
We reject an economic and political system that concentrates wealth and power in the hands of a small minority while millions face insecurity, displacement, repression, and poverty. We believe another future is possible: one rooted in democracy, equality, human dignity, and the fulfillment of human needs.
Recent attacks on immigrant communities, organizers, rapid response networks, journalists, students, and community organizations, including organizations here in Ventura County, are intended to create fear and discourage collective action. We reject fear as a political strategy. The answer to repression is greater unity, deeper organization, and stronger solidarity.
In affirmation of these points of unity, La Defensa Del Pubelo Coalition demands the following:
These principles and demands are a living document — shaped by the people who show up. Return to the main page to register, connect, or learn more.
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