
WHO WE ARE
COPAL MN .
Our greatest asset is the dedication and commitment of our board,staff, members, and interns, as well as our valued volunteers, partners, coalition members, and leaders of the Latino community.
With a clear mission and vision of a better future for all, we can mobilize people to bring about transformation and lead social, political, and economic change.
OUR
Purpose
We are COPAL MN, a member-based organization leading social impact initiatives to improve the quality of life for Latin American families. This is done by building collective power, transforming systems, and creating opportunities for a dignified life.
Strategic Roadmap 2023-2025
OUR MISSION
Our Reason for Being
We lead social impact initiatives to improve the quality of life for Latin American families.
WE HAVE A DREAM
The future We are creating
We envision a prosperous and inclusive Minnesota that is accessible and enjoyable for everyone.
Our Vision
By 2025 COPAL MN will be recognized as a leading force for social change and as a key partner in the fight for progress inspiring, organizing, and mobilizing efforts to build an inclusive Minnesota with opportunities for everyone.
Our Legacy
By 2025 Our Community will be prepared to lead and drive significant change by influencing public policy and advancing civil, political, and labor rights in their communities and beyond.
The future
We Are Creating
By 2025, we will be recognized as a leading force for social change and as a key partner in the fight for progress inspiring, organizing, and mobilizing efforts to build an inclusive Minnesota with opportunities for everyone.

THE PRIORITIES
That Guide Us
COPAL’s political platform is a statement of principles, goals, and issues supported by members of the Latino community including members of COPAL. Together, we are building community leadership, collective power and the possibility of a better future. For a dignified life now and for future generations, COPAL demands the right to healthcare for all, dignity for workers, environmental justice, immigration and public safety, and popular democracy.
THE VISION
For Our Community
By 2025, our members will be prepared to lead and drive significant change by influencing public policy and advancing civil, political, and labor rights in their communities and beyond.
AGENDA
2023
To shape the vision for an inclusive Minnesota, COPAL is advocating for a legislative agenda that advances Latino-related issues. These include healthcare for all, dignity for workers, environmental justice, popular democracy, and immigration and public safety, which includes restoring drivers’ licenses for all.
Jemez Principles
Building a just society requires the creativity of many, therefore, COPAL seeks to partner with organizations and individuals guided by the Jémez Principles for Democratic Organization:
If we hope to achieve just societies that include all people in decision-making and assure that all people have an equitable share of the wealth and the work of this world, then we must work to build that kind of inclusiveness into our own movement in order to develop alternative policies and institutions to the treaties policies under neo- liberalism.
This requires more than tokenism, it cannot be achieved without diversity at the planning table, in staffing, and in coordination. It may delay achievement of other important goals, it will require discussion, hard work, patience, and advance planning. It may involve conflict, but through this conflict, we can learn better ways of working together. It’s about building alternative institutions, movement building, and not compromising out in order to be accepted into the anti-globalization club.
To succeed, it is important to reach out into new constituencies, and to reach within all levels of leadership and membership base of the organizations that are already involved in our networks. We must be continually building and strengthening a base which provides our credibility, our strategies, mobilizations, leadership development, and the energy for the work we must do daily.
We must be sure that relevant voices of people directly affected are heard. Ways must be provided for spokespersons to represent and be responsible to the affected constituencies. It is important for organizations to clarify their roles, and who they represent, and to assure accountability within our structures.
Groups working on similar issues with compatible visions should consciously act in solidarity, mutuality and support each other’s work. In the long run, a more significant step is to incorporate the goals and values of other groups with your own work, in order to build strong relationships. For instance, in the long run, it is more important that labor unions and community economic development projects include the issue of environmental sustainability in their own strategies, rather than just lending support to the environmental organizations. So communications, strategies and resource sharing is critical, to help us see our connections and build on these.
We need to treat each other with justice and respect, both on an individual and an organizational level, in this country and across borders. Defining and developing “just relationships” will be a process that won’t happen overnight. It must include clarity about decision-making, sharing strategies, and resource distribution. There are clearly many skills necessary to succeed, and we need to determine the ways for those with different skills to coordinate and be accountable to one another.
As we change societies, we must change from operating on the mode of individualism to
community-centeredness. We must “walk our talk.” We must be the values that we say we’re struggling for and we must be justice, be peace, be community.
- # 1 Be inclusive
- # 2 Emphasis on organizing from the bottom up
- # 3 Let people speak for themselves
- # 4 Work together in solidarity and mutuality
- # 5 Build fair relationships between us
- # 6 Commitment to personal transformation
As we change societies, we must shift from operating in individualism mode to focusing on community. We must “walk our talk”. We must be the values that we say we are fighting for and we must be justice, peace and community.

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