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reproductive justice --

  • Legalize unrestricted abortion on demand.
  • Free birth control.
  • Accurate sex education in all schools.
  • Buffer zones around abortion clinics.
  • 24-hrs a day free childcare provision.
  • Generous family benefits for every child.
  • Living wages for stay-at-home moms.
  • 18-months paid leave for all parents - straight or queer.

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drugs reform --

  • Legalize cannabis and grow it on small-scale collectives.
  • Decriminalize all other illegal substances.
  • Free testing kits and sterile needles.
  • High-quality drug education for our kids.
  • Take drug production out the black market - regulate them.
  • Set up more stigma-free treatment clinics.
  • Amnesty for all non-violent drugs prisoners.
  • Clean, free heroin on prescription for all addicts.
  • Massively invest in rehab and detox.

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criminal justice --

  • Abolish the racist death penalty.
  • Harsher punishments for cops found guilty of misconduct.
  • Freedom for all political prisoners.
  • In terms of justice, focus on rehabilitation, not punishment.
  • Smash the prison industrial complex - end prison labor for private profits. Stop the mass incarceration of people of color.
  • Abolish prisons - set up education and training facilities, mental health clinics and rehabilitation units instead.
  • End racial profiling and arbitrary stop and search.
  • Stop jailing people for being illegal immigrants, sex workers, mentally ill, in possession of drugs - i.e. things that pose absolutely no threat to public safety.
  • Defend civil liberties. Repeal the Patriot Act.

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racial justice --

  • Support affirmative action.
  • Pay African American communities huge reparations as compensation for the hard, unpaid labor of their ancestors.
  • Honor all treaties with Native American nations.
  • Have an open door immigration policy.
  • No militarization of the US/Mexico border.
  • Citizenship for all undocumented workers.
  • End racist deportations. Full civil rights for immigrants.
  • Accept 200,000+ Syrian refugees.
  • Don't declare English the official language of America.
  • Multilingual public information and voting materials.

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international affairs --

  • Nuclear disarmament.
  • Demilitarize the economy. Cut military spending by 90%. Redirect that money in overseas aid, healthcare and jobs.
  • Abolish the US war machine. Curb the arms industry.
  • End the use of drones for war and spying.
  • Democratize the United Nations.
  • Leave all international free trade pacts like NAFTA.
  • Abolish the IMF. Debt relief for the global south.
  • Sanctions on Israel. Recognise the State of Palestine. Invest in massive humanitarian relief for Gaza.
  • Support the Syrian people's uprising against Assad and ISIS.
  • End wars for oil.
  • Independence for Tibet, Chechnya, Kashmir and West Papua.
  • Support Ukraine's right to defence against Russian aggression.

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economic justice --

  • A living wage of $15.00 an hour.
  • Create jobs by investing in green technology and infrastructure.
  • Introduce a Universal Basic Income.
  • Phase in a 4-day working week.
  • Set up a National Health Program, proving free medical treatment to everybody. Big private insurance firms shouldn't be profiting out of people's ill-health.
  • Cancel all student debt. Abolish college tuition fees.
  • Build more safe, not-for-profit housing. End homelessness. Affordable places to stay for all. Rent controls.
  • Sickness and maternity leave for all workers.
  • Raise taxes on rich people and giant corporations. Also close the tax loopholes - make the rich cough up!
  • Break up the big banks that trashed the economy.
  • Increase federal aid to poor cities and sates.
  • Support economic democracy and workers' cooperatives.
  • Close the wage gap between races, genders and ages.

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environmental justice --

  • Negotiate global treaties to halt climate change.
  • Ban fracking, uranium mining, off-shore drilling and nuclear power. Invest in clean and safe renewables.
  • Protect our national parks.
  • Introduce strict new green taxes for corporations.
  • Compulsory labelling of GMOs.
  • End environmental racism. Stop big businesses from dumping their toxic pollution in indigenous American reservations.
  • Support organic agriculture.
  • Ban the evil intensive farming industry - no gestation crates, caging of chickens, etc. Ban animal testing.
may 19 2016 ∞
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