Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement -- Principles: Community Labor United

CLU devoted its first three months to developing the following Principles of Unity:

We are community leaders, labor leaders, and cultural workers committed to ending the exploitation of oppressed peoples everywhere.
We believe that all people have the right and responsibility to determine their destiny.
Our organizations and unions are committed to building a society where the realities of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation are not barriers to human progress.
We are committed to building a society where the bottom line interests of corporations and the rich are not balanced on the backs of workers and the poor.
We are committed to building local, regional, national, and world economies that are democratic, just, ecological, and do not exploit labor, culture, and natural resources.
We are committed to building an organization of organizations and individuals, focused on educating, organizing, and mobilizing the masses within our organizations and communities from the bottom up.
We believe in the prospect of multiracial and trans-generational efforts to develop our communities.