SAFETY NET:

  • forgive medical & student loan debt
  • free college for those who can't afford it
  • rein in ludicrous college prices
  • free housing for homeless people without exception
  • institute government-run free or subsidized childcare
  • strengthen and protect unions (WPB - Worker Protection Bureau)
  • change school hours to match work hours
  • expand food stamps

HEALTHCARE:

  • prioritize preventative healthcare
  • protect those with preexisting conditions
  • make therapy and rehab easily accessible
  • establish safe injection sites
  • ban operations on intersex children

JUSTICE:

  • end the death penalty
  • end the war on drugs
  • legalize marijuana
  • release all nonviolent drug offenders and clear their records
  • decriminalize sex work
  • decriminalize drug use and sale
  • eliminate private prisons
  • make prison rehabilitative, not punitive
  • strengthen & enforce antitrust laws, with a focus on social media
  • create an easy path to asylum & citizenship
  • make crossing the border a civil, not criminal, offense
  • defund police
  • yes means yes consent
  • demilitarize the police
  • cut the military to a reasonable size
  • emphasize and invest in diplomacy over military solutions
  • institute income- or wealth-based fines, like for speeding tickets
  • end cash bail
  • end mandatory minimum sentencing
  • abolish ICE and DHS
  • pay prisoners minimum wage and make it illegal to force inmates to work
  • make it illegal to charge inmates or their families for phone and video calls, and facilitate in-person visits
  • make sanitary products free for inmates
  • end SESTA/FOSTA
  • make it a class c misdemeanor to send an unsolicited dick pic
  • institute anti-swatting registries at every police department
  • raise the bar for forensic science accepted in courts
  • process all untested rape kits
  • eliminate three-strike laws
  • ban the charging of juveniles as adults
  • ban building new detention centers
  • set hard limits on the number of cases a public defense attorney can have at any given time
  • end AEDPA

FINANCES:

  • reinstate Glass Steagall
  • enforce consequences for corrupt bank execs who tank the economy
  • eliminate the middle man in taxes
  • institute a federal minimum wage at a level where 1 adult can afford a 1-bedroom
  • tax the shit out of billionaires
  • make childcare expenses completely tax-deductible
  • mandate paid maternal and paternal leave
  • mandate paid sick & safe leave
  • eliminate tax incentives for marriage and joint filing
  • make it mandatory when laying off workers to pay out earned PTO

CONSUMER PROTECTION:

  • regulate or ban advertisements to children
  • ban advertising prescription drugs to consumers

ANTI-CORRUPTION:

  • close the revolving door between Wall St and Washington by banning politicians from lobbying
  • force all federal office candidates to submit tax returns online
  • eject the rapist and the harasser from the Supreme Court for perjury
  • require all lobbyists to register
  • force drug companies to report their costs and justify their prices to public agencies

GUN CONTROL:

  • prohibit high-capacity ammunition magazines
  • institute universal background checks
  • ban the sale and distribution of assault weapons
  • remove weapons from abusers
  • eliminate the 2nd amendment

HUMAN RIGHTS:

  • pass the ERA
  • institute single payer universal healthcare
  • institute Universal Basic Income
  • give reparations to black Americans and native Americans
  • safe, legal abortion on demand and without restriction
  • give constitutional protection to women and LGBTQ people
  • make birth control OTC, better-researched and better-funded
  • investigate and solve the black maternal health crisis
  • pour money into stopping/reversing climate change
  • accept more refugees
  • reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act
  • end the Hyde Amendment
  • enshrine Roe v. Wade in the constitution
  • expand DACA
  • give reparations to victims of family separation
  • rebuild and repair Puerto Rico
  • protect tribal land by respecting treaty rights and sovereignty
  • fund native communities and return some stolen land
  • address violence against native women
  • make it illegal to pay disabled people less than abled people
  • allow "x" as a sex marker on driver's licenses

VOTING:

  • eliminate the electoral college
  • make election day a federal holiday
  • mandate mail-in voting and early voting in every state
  • standardize the ballot
  • institute automatic voter registration
  • lower the voting age to 16
  • end gerrymandering by instituting nonpartisan district drawing
  • overturn Citizens United
  • grant full voting rights to U.S. territories
  • abolish super PACs
  • abolish restrictive voter ID laws
  • re-enfranchise the right to vote to everyone in prison and everyone formerly incarcerated

EDUCATION:

  • mandate home ec (taxes, media literacy, cooking, investments, voting, basic self-care)
  • pay college athletes
  • improve trade/vocational schools
  • reinvest in public education
  • regulate charter schools more closely
  • protect the arts in schools
  • pay public school teachers what they're worth

INFRASTRUCTURE:

  • repair and replace pipes for clean, lead-free water, especially in neighborhoods of color like Flint

INTERNATIONAL POLICY:

  • rejoin the Iran nuclear deal
  • rejoin the Paris climate accord
  • eliminate incentives for corporations to ship jobs overseas
  • require all trade agreements to include binding language on labor, environmental, and human rights standards
  • sign a no-nuclear-weapons agreement

GENERAL:

  • implement a carbon tax
  • improve and broaden disability protections
  • regulate professional dog training programs
  • ban the box ("have you ever been convicted" on a job form)
  • end the war on drugs
  • invest in good journalism
  • grant D.C. and Puerto Rico statehood
  • ban child beauty pageants
  • make cities more pedestrian- and bike-friendly
jul 23 2019 ∞
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