US history is constant struggle for more democracy
The Cobb '04 campaign believes in equality and justice for all people. The history of the United States is in large part a history of the constant struggle to make this imperfect democracy more democratic, more inclusive, more just.
It has been about the struggle for the right to vote for workers and farmers, for an end to slavery and "40 acres and a mule," for women's suffrage, for the right to form labor unions,
for civil and human rights for African Americans and other people of color, for treaty rights for Native Peoples, for the rights of people with disabilities, and for equal rights for lesbian and gay people, including marriage equality.
a national discussion leading to actions to repair the damage done to people of African descent as a result of 250 years of chattel slavery,
100 years of Jim Crow segregation and close to 400 years of institutionalized racism.
We support Rep. John Conyers' bill to establish a federal commission to address this question
Support Native Peoples to protect their treaty rights
We stand for support of Native Peoples as they strive to protect their treaty rights. We support a similar national discussion and action to address the horrific historic record of the U.S. government's treatment of the First Nations of North America.
We stand for federal legislation in support of marriage equality for lesbians and gay men and opposition to Bush's discriminatory proposal for a Constitutional amendment outlawing it;
