“Have you had enough?” asks Rocky Anderson.
“Would you support the formation of a new party that will commit to:Economic Justice:
- Implement major domestic green jobs and infrastructure programs
- Re-establish and make viable workers’ right to organize
- Create a fair, democratic, and transparent financial sector that serves the needs of start-ups, small business and consumers
- End incentives for U.S. companies to send jobs overseas
- Enact a financial transaction tax that will curb reckless speculation and provide revenue for job creation, job training and education
- End the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy
- Compassionate and rational immigration reform
- End to subsidies for oil and gas companies
- Free education through four years of college or equivalent as a right
- Protect public investments by opposing and reversing the privatization of public assets
Environmental Justice:
- Enforce employee and environmental safeguards in trade agreements
- Ban the Canada-to-Mexico tar sands pipeline and mountain top removal
- Enhance air and water quality protections by strengthening the EPA
- Take aggressive action and leadership on the climate crisis and the environment
Social and Civic Justice:
- Affordable universal health care through Improved Medicare for All
- An end to the wars; reduce the military budget and redirect money to domestic economy
- Marriage equality
- End race and gender discrimination
- Treat substance abuse within a public health framework rather than as a criminal matter
- Repeal the PATRIOT Act
- Abolish corporate personhood and implement campaign finance reform to end the corrupting influence of money in politics
- Prosecute the illegal conduct that led to the economic melt-down
(via wespeakfortheearth)
