A. La Raza will no longer tolerate that its people be used as instruments of repression against Third World people (armed forces and police). End the draft and exempt all Raza youth from military service.
B. Full equality of the Spanish language: This includes all federal, state, municipal, and private agencies which must provide and carry out all functions within our community in English and Spanish.
C. La Raza Unida Party feels it is of the utmost importance to struggle for the concept of Community Control. By this we mean Community Control over all institutions of the community-schools, hospitals, libraries, welfare agencies, police, etc., that affect La Raza.
1. The community must control all money, government or private, "with no strings attached" that will be allocated for La Raza and its community.
2. La Raza Unida Party calls for the establishment of councils of La Raza to administer all institutions within our community. All councils will be democratically elected by the community.
D. La Raza Unida Party calls upon the community to break with the two-party system (Democratic-Republican) which has been one of the key instruments in the oppression of La Raza.
E. The constitutional right of farmworkers to organize their union and formulate their own demands must be respected.
F. La Raza Unida Party supports the struggles of all Third World peoples in the U. S.
G. La Raza Unida Party supports all attempts by the American working class to organize and struggle independently for their well-being.
H. All Raza people 18 years of age or older must have the constitutional right to vote be they felons, immigrants, or nationals.
I. La Raza Unida Party demands that the pollution of our environment halt La Raza Unida Party takes the position that the pollution of our environment is a crime against our people.
That the elimination of this pollution be completely financed by the corporations that produce it. That there be community control boards on a national level to ensure that these corporations eliminate the damage that they have created to our environment. La Raza Unida Party recognizes that the ecology of our environment has been used as an issue to obscure the fundamental political and economic problems of this society on all levels, local and national. To La Raza Unida Party ecology is just one aspect of the manifold problems that we face.
FOREIGN POLICY
La Raza Unida Party supports the right of self-determination of all nations. We are opposed to the intervention of the United States into the internal affairs of any nation. We demand an end to United States support to every oppressive regime from Mexico to Vietnam.
A. We demand the release of all political prisoners in Latin America, especially our brothers in Mexico.
B. Free Puerto Rico.
C. Immediate withdrawal from Southeast Asia.
D. Support of the Palestinian Liberation Struggle.
E. Free all colonies and territories of the United States.