ONE DC - Organizing Neighborhood Equity
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Mission Statement
At ONE DC, our mission is to exercise political strength to create and preserve racial and economic equity in Shaw and the District. We seek to create a community in DC that is equitable for all.
About This Cause
The People’s Platform is a movement of low-income and working class DC residents of color and people who share our values and vision. We seek to organize, educate, fight for and win truly affordable housing, sustaining work, and wellness for all in DC. The state of income & housing security and wellness for DC residents is bad and only getting worse. Where the city has successfully encouraged wealthier and whiter residents to move into the city, it has destroyed welfare and social programs, attacked workers’ rights and supported a severe reduction in spending on programs for the most vulnerable. The beneficiaries of this policy are the wealthy. We envision a DC that is equitable and just place to live for all of its residents. We demand that the District of Columbia become accountable to the needs of its residents, not developers and corporations, and not just the 1%. We will accomplish our goals by centering the leadership of working class black women; being funded by our base; prioritizing political education and leadership development in our work; always seeking to build a deeper analysis and assessing our work; building alternative institutions; learning from past movement's successes and limitations; championing non-reformist reforms; and always seeking to be a part of a broader movement that is multi-national, multi-ethnic, multi-gender, and multi-class. The People’s Platform principles are: 1. Housing for every person. Housing is a human right, not an opportunity to exploit and profit. 2. Decent, dignified, and sustainable work or occupation for everyone who wants it. 3. A right to health for humans and the earth. 4. Government transparency, accountability, and participatory democracy. 5. Equitable development that values people over property. Development without displacement that cedes power over land use to democratic community control. 6. Equitable and equal access to a free, decent, holistic, non-imperialistic education that creates critical, political thinkers and leaders. 7. Full access for returning citizens to housing, jobs, education, as well as decriminalization, demilitarization, and prison abolition. 8. Access to safe and affordable transportation so that we can travel between our homes, jobs, schools, and recreational spaces. 9. A process of restorative justice for residents who have faced physical, emotional, or psychological violence at the hands of the District government and its agencies. 10. The right of return and reclamation for those who have been forced out of the District by developers and gentrification. We demand self-determination, which depends on our ability to control the land.