'''May First/People Link Leadership Committee:'''

'''Official Statement on the Intentionality of the Leadership of Global Majority, Women and People of the Mexican Countryside in Our Organization'''

MF/PL, as a progressive membership organization, responds to the activities and developments within our movements for change and seeks, as part of those movements, to respond to those activities and developments and reflect in our membership and leadership those movements' demographics and culture. 

At this point in the United States, the major movements for change are predominantly led by people of color: the Global Majority.

The fierce attack on women's rights, coupled with the persistent and deep-seated sexism within the technology culture, and the fundamental importance of feminism and the women's movements to all movements for social change makes urgent the same reflection of women and women's movements in our membership, leadership and activities.

The all-too-frequent neglect of the political and historical importance and success of movements in Mexican agricultural regions makes urgent that connections be made with those movements and that they be reflected in our membership and leadership.

The role of technology in all these movements is particularly important. Because it represents the most eloquent expression of democratic spirit and human collaboration, it is vital to the success of our movements and the survival of the human race. At the same time, we must be conscious that particular effort has been made to lure people and movements of color into the use of corporate-owned social media and other proprietary tools and that the Internet's Left has done little to prevent that and that, in many of these movements, Internet activism isn't a priority.

These are challenges we must take on.

Finally, we believe it is essential to bring together political progressive technologists of all backgrounds, particularly people of color, to begin to coordinate a strategy for response to these repressive measures and to advance the protection of the Internet's neutrality and free software development.

For these reasons, we will conduct our work and guide our organization's work with this intentionality. Specifically:

1 -- We will vigorously circulate this statement to everyone with whom we have a relationship and rigorously apply it to all our work.

2 -- All major representation of May First/People Link to the U.S. and world movements must include at least one person of color and one woman. Exceptions to this rule should be approved by the LC itself.

3 -- The coordinators of each workgroup should include at least one person of color or woman.

We ask all who work with us to support us by challenging our activities when they don't reflect these principles.