- End Taxation Without Representation: Secure full voting rights in Congress and establish a path to Senate representation.
- 1916 Treaty Accountability: Demand congressional hearings on the 1916 Treaty of the Danish West Indies, exposing its enduring breaches, including Article 6, which unlawfully conveyed authority to Congress over the civil and political rights of Virgin Islanders.
- Self-Determination Process: Secure a binding and internationally recognized process allowing Virgin Islanders to choose statehood, free association, or independence.
- Organic Act of 1954: Challenge Congress’s unilateral imposition of the Revised Organic Act—drafted and enacted without the input, consultation, or consent of Virgin Islanders.
- Insular Cases: Confront the racist and colonial-era Insular Cases that continue to deny equal constitutional rights to the people of the Virgin Islands.
Policy Statement:
The core of our struggle is the fight for political and civil rights, and our status as an unincorporated territory is the root of most of our challenges. We are subjected to federal laws, taxed indirectly through duties and tariffs, and our young people serve in the U.S. armed forces, yet we are denied a vote in the very body that governs us. This is a clear case of taxation without representation, a principle at the heart of the American Revolution. Our campaign will demand a formal, binding, and internationally supervised self-determination process, allowing the people of the Virgin Islands to choose their political future from three clear options: statehood, independence, or free association.
We will not be bound by Congress’s unilateral decisions. We will directly confront the racist Insular Cases, a series of Supreme Court rulings from the early 20th century that established our unequal status by deeming us “foreign in a domestic sense.” We will also challenge the legitimacy of the 1954 Revised Organic Act, which was imposed without our consent, and demand accountability for the breaches of the 1916 Treaty of the Danish West Indies. It’s time for the United States to honor its promise of democracy and self-governance.