We Believe:

•  All humans have rights, regardless of immigration status, including: access to safe food, air, water, and shelter, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, economic opportunity, personal safety, health care, education, employment, legal aid, and equitable due process;
• All levels of government must enact policies that strengthen our country by affirming the value of all individuals, and by eliminating the systemic conditions that perpetuate inequality, oppression, and inequitable access to opportunities;
• The Diversity of society should be honored. Efforts to reflect that diversity in our Party are of utmost importance, and special attention must be paid to the rights of currently and historically marginalized communities, including individuals with disabilities, immigrants, peoples of color, indigenous people, the very poor, religious minorities, and atheists. Those who face discrimination should be afforded the legal means and economic opportunities to overcome such injustices;
• Reparations must be studied as an avenue to address the systemic racism that persists throughout our institutions today;
• As Democrats, we are, and will remain, at the forefront of the struggle to extend and ensure social, political, economic, legal, and cultural rights to all persons;
• The Civil Rights Division of the US Department of Justice must enforce civil rights laws and receive appropriate funding for civil rights investigations, as required by the legal mandate of that agency; 
• All levels of government should fully enforce the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act;
• Black lives matter;
• The Law Must be applied and enforced in a transparent and equitable manner;
• The Disproportionate surveillance of and enforcement against people of color has led to unnecessary death, loss of respect and public trust, and damage to the community;
• Those Who Benefit from unearned privilege must actively listen to marginalized communities and step back to provide space for members of such communities to be heard by society at large;
• Freeandopen voting is a civil right and expresses the will and consent of the people;
• A Commitment to Free Speech carries an obligation to speak out in defense of the values of democracy and inclusivity against the evil forces of racism and other hate speech;
• The right to peacefully protest and demonstrate are constitutionally protected rights;
• Privacy is a fundamental right; our private lives and personal information must be protected from intrusion by government, corporations, and others;
• Eachperson has the right to sovereignty over their own body;
• People have a right to make reproductive decisions, including contraception, abortion, and sterilization, without restriction or interference from government, corporations, or religious entities, and they must have safe, legal, protected, affordable and accessible universal health care that allows them freedom of choice;
• Techniques with the practical effect of restricting a person’s right to reproductive freedom should be reversed and prohibited. These techniques include:
  • Defunding Planned Parenthood;
  • Requiring complete hospital surgical facilities for abortion;
  • The legal doctrine of “fetal personhood”;
  • HydeAmendment restrictions on federal funding of abortions;
  • Allowing a church-owned hospital, religiously affiliated employer, or insurance plan use religious freedom as the basis for denying access to an abortion or other reproductive care;
•  Involuntary sterilization of all human beings, including persons with disabilities, should be banned;
• Disabled people have the right to fully access all facets of society and to live with dignity and independence;
• Laws,such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Students with Disabilities Act, and the Rehabilitation Act, should be monitored and enforced. Disability integration laws should be enacted at the state, as well as the federal, level.
• Access To gender-affirming health care, services, and surgery must be preserved;
• Marriage, as a legal union of consenting adults, with all rights and obligations that entails, must continue to be recognized by the government without regard to the sexual orientation or gender-identity of the spouses;
• Data Should be collected about anti-trans violence and the factors that drive it;
• Government policies should protect a person’s access to public restrooms that correspond with their gender identity.
• LGBTQIA+people must be treated equitably including, but not limited to,, their parental rights. Federal protections should be enacted to ensure this. Everyone should be referred to by their preferred pronouns;
•  “Conversion therapy,” a pseudoscientific practice intended to change sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or gender expression, should be banned;
• The Right of an individual to practice their religion does not extend to the denial of the constitutional rights of others;
• In The separation of church and state, and that no entity has the right to impose its religious doctrine on others;
• Organized prayer has no place in taxpayer-funded institutions, and government funds should never be used for religious purposes;
• Equal Work deserves equal pay;
• TheEqual Rights Amendment has been ratified and should be certified by Congress;
• All levels of government should enact legislation and policies that will end human trafficking for the sex trade, labor trade, and all other forms of involuntary servitude, while protecting the rights of sex workers;
• Child and slave labor must end worldwide;
• Instrong legislation, treatment programs and education designed to reduce harassment, intimidation, domestic or sexual violence, gun violence, and bullying;
• It is our responsibility to protect the rights and welfare of all people within our borders;
• It is dehumanizing to use the term “illegal” in reference to any human being.
• Demand For immediate presentation of documents regarding one’s status in the United States should never be required;
• For-profit prisons or detention centers used by Immigration, Customs and Enforcements (ICE) for the detention of immigrants should be shut down;
• Asylumseekers should be allowed to remain in the US while awaiting the processing of their cases;
•  U.S.affiliated and at-risk Afghans should be welcomed into the United States and be able to attain permanent legal status;
• Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigrants, as well as non-citizen farmworkers, should be encouraged to participate in local party politics (committees, e-boards, etc.), as a means of having a voice in developing policies that affect them;
• The Federal Government should ratify agreements from UN conventions that support human rights, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities;
• Federal monetary policy tools should be used to help local municipalities invest in housing, schools and infrastructure.
• The High number of missing and murdered Indigenous women and people is a human health and welfare crisis that requires immediate and aggressive action to eliminate further harm to Native families and communities;
• In Support for injured workers. Firefighters are exposed to carcinogenic substances in numerous facets of their work, with published and emerging science showing links between firefighting and many cancers. Since cancer can be difficult to pinpoint in origin, all Firefighter cancers will be presumed workplace illness rebuttable by evidentiary standards