Core Values

1. All human beings deserve respect, comparable opportunities in all spheres of life, and access to meeting the full range of their human needs and human rights.
2. Human needs are identifiable and we must find the conditions that meet the needs.
3. All human beings deserve to live free of all forms of oppression and discrimination.
4. All human beings deserve social conditions that favor individual, group and social development towards building a base for balanced, meaningful and fulfilling lives.
5. All human beings deserve to live in a healthy natural environment.
6. All human beings deserve to live in peace and without fear.
7. All human beings should be judged by their human character, not by their skin color, national or ethnic origin, gender, sexuality, political persuasion, possessions of material wealth, power, or control.
8. Basic human needs cannot be fulfilled in societies where environmental degradation, patriarchy, discrimination, authoritarianism, or exploitation predominate.
9. People around the world deserve an equal amount of influence in decision-making about their own society and an equal amount of power within international organizations and global networks.
10. Our security depends upon the security of peoples around the world, who must have the right to self-determination to meet their needs.
11. All human beings should be empowered to understand that human beings are not only products of social conditions, but that they also create and change social conditions.
12. In the struggle between values and power, we choose values over power.
13. We act and take action patterned on the type of society we would like to create. We need to be the change we want to see.
14. We want to be a positive force for change.