Race does not biologically exist, yet it plays a powerful role in shaping our everyday experiences. Racist ideas, practices, and policies have contributed to unequal systems of power that continue to adversely affect the health of historically and currently marginalized communities.

Anti-racism is the practice of ending racism by working to identify and change racist policies, behaviors, and beliefs in order to achieve healthy and positive outcomes for everyone.

Everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, language, immigration status, income level, gender, sexual orientation, or disability, deserves a safe, stable, affordable, and culturally appropriate place to call home. Housing is foundational to health, happiness, and access to resources.

Communities should have the right to define their food systems and access nutritious, healthy, culturally appropriate food produced through sustainable and life-affirming methods.

Public safety strategies should be community-led, and current systems that result in systems that disproportionately harm and target low-income and communities of color must be transformed. These include policing, the courts, and the prison industrial complex.

Everyone should be able to access culturally appropriate services and care in their preferred language. Language access ensures that everyone, regardless of their proficiency in English, can communicate clearly, gain equal access to information, services, and opportunities, make informed decisions, and participate fully in our community.

Many families from all over the world, whether they leave voluntarily or are forced from their homes, are seeking a better life elsewhere. Everyone deserves to be safe, treated with respect and compassion, meaningfully contribute to the community, and live fulfilling lives.

Every child should be valued, feel safe, have a sense of belonging, and be free to develop to their full potential regardless of race, ethnicity, language, gender identity, disability, immigration status, or socioeconomic status. Student voice must be centered in decision-making spaces, and all students must be given the appropriate resources they need to succeed.

All communities should have access to safe, reliable, and equitable transportation to connect them to the resources they need to flourish.

Disabled folks have the right to self-determination, access, and fully participate in society. Disability Justice builds upon the disability rights movement, established to secure disabled people with more opportunities by centering the needs of disabled people of color, disabled women, disabled immigrants, and disabled people who identify as LGBTQIA2S+.

Child care that is affordable and reliable should be accessible to all caregivers.

Although everyone is experiencing the effects of the worsening climate crisis, the communities least responsible for its causes bear the most consequences: low-income, people of color, women, Indigenous, older adults, disabled folks, and children. Resource allocation should prioritize communities most affected, and all related policies must center and strengthen their voices.

No one should face threats to their safety due to identifying as LGBTQIA2S+. And no one should face discrimination, harassment, humiliation, or denial of care when interacting with the healthcare system or any other system.

Universal healthcare means everyone should have access to timely and comprehensive health services and safe and effective medicines without having to worry about the cost.