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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