Universal Declaration of Rights of Mother Earth (April 22, 2010)
Editor’s note: The product of the 2010 World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother earth, held in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and attended by progressive activists and indigenous leaders from around the world, among others, this expressive document asserts that the Earth itself is a living being has inherent rights. Universal Declaration of Rights of Mother […]
Declaration of Workers’ and Farmers’ Rights and Purposes – 1933
Editor’s Note: With our July 4, 1776 Declaration as its model, the Declaration of Workers’ and Farmers’ Rights and Purposes was the fruit of the inaugural convention of the National Unemployed Leagues, organized in Columbus, Ohio, by Dutch-born clergyman and political activist A.J. Muste, who spearheaded the Conference on Progressive Labor Action, and sparked as […]
Declaration of Interdependence by the Socialist Labor Party (1895)
Editor’s Note: Crafted by Daniel De Leon, a leading socialist of the era and founder of the Socialist Labor Party of America, it is clear from this declaration that genuinely revolutionary change was sought. To De Leon, the recognition of interdependence was paramount — “throughout the civilized world the wage workers are asserting their interdependence—the […]
The Working Men’s Declaration of Independence (1829)
Editor’s Note: This declaration was authored in December 1829 by George Henry Evans, a ‘Jacksonian Democratic’ who condemned slavery and who railed against land monopolies, since he believed this practice prevented the realization of a democracy that represented equally all the people, rather than just the landed elite. Evans founded the first labor-centered newspaper, The Working […]
The Ninety-Nine Percent Declaration (2011)
Editor’s Note: This declaration appears to have been released around the beginning of November 2011. It looks to be modeled in part by both our Constitution and Declaration of July 4, 1776, and called for a July 4, 2012 ‘National General Assembly’ in Philadelphia. , A Wikipedia page describes the genesis of the nonprofit 99 Percent Declaration. On this site, someone […]
Tea Party Nation Declaration of Independence (2010)
Editor’s Note: In February 2010, about a year after enter the political scene in a big way, Tea Party activists began disseminating a ‘Declaration of Independence.’ Evocative at last in some respects of our July 4, 1776 document, the declaration aims to be a means for clarifying their principles and purpose, for establishing their independence from the […]
