Youth Liberation of Ann Arbor - Manifesto

Manifesto

The group's manifesto was reprinted in The Children's Rights Movement: Overcoming the Oppression of Young People, edited by Beatrice and Ronald Gross (Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1977), pp. 329–33.

YOUTH LIBERATION PROGRAM LIST OF WANTS -- "We must liberate ourselves from the death trip of corporate America."

1. We want the power to determine our own destiny.

2. We want the immediate end of adult chauvinism.

3. We want full civil and human rights.

4. We want the right to form our education according to our needs.

5. We want the freedom to form into communal families.

6. We want the end of male chauvinism and sexism.

7. We want the opportunity to create an authentic culture with institutions of our own making.

8. We want sexual self-determination. We believe all people must have the unhindered right to be heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or transsexual.

9. We want the end of class antagonism among young people.

10. We want the end of racism and colonialism in the United States and the world.

11. We want freedom for all unjustly imprisoned people.

12. We want the right to be economically independent of adults.

13. We want the right to live in harmony with nature.

14. We want to rehumanize existence.

15. We want to develop communication and solidarity with the young people of the world in our common struggle for freedom and peace.