People's Organization for Progress

The People’s Organization for Progress has been formed for the following purposes:

To educate the people about relevant social, economic and political issues.

To continuously organize and mobilize the grassroots community so that it can effectively solve its problems and fight for its needs.

To improve the social and economic conditions in our community.

To work for the total elimination of racism and sexism.

To further develop and increase the political power of working and poor people.

To strive for a more just and equitable distribution of wealth in our society.

To serve as an advocate of human and civil rights.

To support the struggles of people at home and abroad against oppression and exploitation.

To promote world peace.

To build unity with other organizations and individuals whose goals are similar to our own

We, the members of the People’s Organization for Progress, have founded this association of the society in which we live. It is our desire to build a more just social order. Our primary goal is nothing less than the complete elimination of poverty; all forms of social, racial and economic exploitation; oppression; degradation; human misery; suffering and injustice.

We shall unify and organize working, poor and progressive people and strive to foster cooperation, self-reliance, and a militant fighting spirit among them. We shall build our organization so that it may become a viable political vehicle for the oppressed and a significant force for progressive politics. We shall work to unite the greater progressive community, increase its ranks and build a broad mass movement at the local level which will be an integral part of the national worldwide struggle for social and economic justice.

Our concern is not only for society as a whole, but for the individual as well. We seek not only social transformation, but the transformation of the individual through involvement in the struggle for human liberation. We believe that in order for the struggle to transform society to succeed it must be carried out and supported by people imbued with revolutionary values. We want to make the individual socially aware and concerned, more responsible and compassionate, committed and active in the struggle for social change.

We support and involve ourselves in advocacy, self-help, and reform efforts to improve the conditions of the people; however, we believe that the major social, economic and political problems confronting working and poor people cannot be solved unless there is a radical redistribution of power and wealth in our society and a restructuring of our socioeconomic system that will result in the empowerment of the masses over all institutions that affect their lives We vow to uphold the legacy of struggle which we have inherited and not to rest until justice, equality, dignity and peace are a reality for all.