Goals Adopted at the 2017 World Conference
YOUNG PEOPLE AND YOUNG ADULTS
That members of the RC Community be committed to creating a world in which the thinking of young people is respected and at the center of decisions that affect their lives and the world. That getting the theory and practice of RC into the hands of more young people and young adults be a significant part of building the RC Community.
That young people and young adults challenge the internalized oppression that separates them from adults and each other and that limits them from taking initiative, leading, and building the RC Community. That adults, including young adults, discharge on and recognize the powerful role they can play as allies in young people’s liberation.
That we in the RC Community commit ourselves to growing and supporting young leadership across the RC Community, and that adults work to eliminate the distresses that prevent them from connecting to younger people and backing young leadership. That all Co-Counselors work to heal from their own experiences of young people’s and young adults’ oppressions and stand against these oppressions in the present.
ENDING CLASSISM
That the members of the RC Community, in order to move toward a rational society free of exploitation, commit ourselves to do the following:
Build connections with and learn from members of economic classes that are underrepresented in our Communities yet who represent the majority of the world’s people—the sector of the working class engaged in the direct production of goods and services, and poor people.
Get the theory and practice of RC into their hands and encourage, support, and follow their leadership.
Face, discharge on, and challenge any distress that causes us to believe that some lives are more important than others, to seek economic advantage over one another, or to be preoccupied with irrationally seeking comfort and security.
Discharge toward a full understanding of the class society and its inherently destructive nature and communicate this understanding to others in our own way.
CARE OF THE ENVIRONMENT
That members of the RC Community become knowledgeable of the clear evidence of the continually growing damage to the environment and all life forms, especially the climate change resulting from the ever-rising temperatures caused by human activity.
That we face and discharge any distress that interferes with our finding sustainable solutions, including the ending of the oppressive and exploitive nature of our societies. That we decide, discharge, and act against any distress that inhibits us from determining immediate steps, as large and radical as necessary, to end this damage, and from organizing and agitating for their adoption by governments and industries.
That we do this work together with everyone, especially oppressed communities, which are currently experiencing the most damage from climate change.
BACKING INDIGENOUS EXISTENCE AND LEADERSHIP
That non-Indigenous members of the RC Community work to heal from the effects of all past and current genocidal policies that humans have enforced on Indigenous peoples. That we stand against and work to end these policies of genocide in the present. That we discharge any distresses that interfere with our ability to learn from, support, and follow the leadership of Indigenous peoples, whose lands we all occupy and use resources from.
(Present Time 189, October 2017)