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The Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing were adopted at a 1996 meeting hosted by the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice. The principles call for inclusion of all people in decision making, emphasizing bottom-up organizing that builds a strong base of support, and ensuring that those most directly affected can speak for themselves. The principles also stress working in solidarity with other groups toward shared goals, building just relationships, and committing to personal and societal transformation.

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The Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing were adopted at a 1996 meeting hosted by the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice. The principles call for inclusion of all people in decision making, emphasizing bottom-up organizing that builds a strong base of support, and ensuring that those most directly affected can speak for themselves. The principles also stress working in solidarity with other groups toward shared goals, building just relationships, and committing to personal and societal transformation.

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Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing

Meeting hosted by Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice (SNEEJ), Jemez, New Mexico, Dec. 1996

Activists meet on Globalization

On December 6-8, 1996, forty people of color and #3 Let People Speak for Themselves
European-American representatives met in Jemez, We must be sure that relevant voices of people
New Mexico, for the “Working Group Meeting directly affected are heard. Ways must be provided
on Globalization and Trade.” The Jemez meeting for spokespersons to represent and be responsible to
was hosted by the Southwest Network for the affected constituencies. It is important for
Environmental and Economic Justice with the organizations to clarify their roles, and who they
intention of hammering out common represent, and to assure accountability within our
understandings between participants from structures.
different cultures, politics and organizations. The
following “Jemez Principles” for democratic #4 Work Together In Solidarity and Mutuality
organizing were adopted by the participants. Groups working on similar issues with compatible
visions should consciously act in solidarity, mutuality
#1 Be Inclusive and support each other’s work. In the long run, a
If we hope to achieve just societies that include all more significant step is to incorporate the goals and
people in decision-making and assure that all values of other groups with your own work, in order
people have an equitable share of the wealth and to build strong relationships. For instance, in the long
the work of this world, then we must work to run, it is more important that labor unions and
build that kind of inclusiveness into our own community economic development projects include
movement in order to develop alternative policies the issue of environmental sustainability in their own
and institutions to the treaties policies under neo- strategies, rather than just lending support to the
liberalism. environmental organizations. So communications,
This requires more than tokenism, it cannot be strategies and resource sharing is critical, to help us
achieved without diversity at the planning table, in see our connections and build on these.
staffing, and in coordination. It may delay
achievement of other important goals, it will #5 Build Just Relationships Among Ourselves
require discussion, hard work, patience, and We need to treat each other with justice and respect,
advance planning. It may involve conflict, but both on an individual and an organizational level, in
through this conflict, we can learn better ways of this country and across borders. Defining and
working together. It’s about building alternative developing “just relationships” will be a process that
institutions, movement building, and not won’t happen overnight. It must include clarity about
compromising out in order to be accepted into the decision-making, sharing strategies, and resource
anti-globalization club. distribution. There are clearly many skills necessary to
succeed, and we need to determine the ways for those
#2 Emphasis on Bottom-Up Organizing with different skills to coordinate and be accountable
To succeed, it is important to reach out into new to one another.
constituencies, and to reach within all levels of
leadership and membership base of the #6 Commitment to Self-Transformation
organizations that are already involved in our As we change societies, we must change from
networks. We must be continually building and operating on the mode of individualism to
strengthening a base which provides our community-centeredness. We must “walk our talk.”
credibility, our strategies, mobilizations, leadership We must be the values that we say we’re struggling
development, and the energy for the work we for and we must be justice, be peace, be community.
must do daily.

This and other environmental justice documents can be downloaded from: www.ejnet.org/ej/

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