PART 3 - "What We Want". This part of the Political Program of UdB is divided in 5 points, and helps to explain our medium and long term organizational goals. Below is a text version of the section and the menu to the right provides a downloadable 13 minute audio version as well as a video version. PART 3 has 5 pages corresponding to the five points of "What We Want" as UdB:
Page 1 - I. Self-Determination, Liberation, and a Unified Nuestra América.
Page 2 - II. Participatory Democracy and Socialism.
Page 3 - III. The Absolute and Unequivocal Liberation of Women.
Page 4 - IV. Environmental Emancipation.
Page 5 - V. A Revolutionary Party for Raza Liberation.
I. Self-Determination, Liberation, and a Unified Nuestra América.
We are determined to decolonize our people. The means to this end is the advancement of self-determination, which can best be defined as collectively determining our history; economically controlling our destiny; controlling our social development by self-determining our culture, education and language; independently developing the content and direction of our political orientation; and controlling the political institutions that make the laws that govern us.
We recognize the indigenous peoples of Nuestra América as social actors and subjects of history. We demand the self-determination of indigenous identities, cultures, spiritualities, customs, and languages on par with all national entities and interests. More precisely, these rights include the following: Self-affirmation as the right to proclaim existence, and be recognized as such; Self-definition as the right to determine who is a part of the group and define territorial limits; Self-organization as the right to develop and enforce laws parallel to the broader laws of the nation state; and Self-government as the right to define and administer political affairs parallel to the broader procedures of the nation state.
We seek to advance the liberation and reunification of México under a revolutionary government, immediately accountable to the people. Furthermore, this government must be committed to the liberation and unification of Nuestra América, and in permanent solidarity with all oppressed people throughout the world. We struggle to never again have our resources usurped by United States imperialism, and seek to integrate into regional, continental, and international trade agreements that benefit the masses of La Raza.
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