If people don’t vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it’s not going to change anything if you don’t vote.
— Dolores Huerta

1. To ensure our children and grandchildren — and we — have clean air to breathe & an environment in which they can enjoy all the land’s bounties.

2. To respect our ancestors and keep our American family of mankind. Where did your family originate? Because we remember that unless you’re Native American, your family began as immigrants or a slaves. Protecting immigrants is like protecting your own family.

3. To protect the right of men and women to love who they want, where they want.

4. To protect the right of women to control their own bodies.

5. To keep first and foremost the words of the Declaration of Independence: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

6. To keep our country safe from foreign controls of our elections.

7. To keep our countries ideals, as written in the Declaration of Independence: “When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

8. To ensure that innocent children are not locked in cages.

9. To protect children from being shot in schools.

10. To uphold the constitution and the freedom of all people: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.