Medicare for All
- End the fear of financial ruin from medical debt and the absurd pricing of healthcare in the US
- Embolden the working class bargaining with corporations and empower small business owners
- Save families/individuals thousands of dollars by eliminating premiums, copays, deductibles, and out-of-pocket expenses
- Lower the costs of prescriptions and improve bargaining power over pharmaceutical companies
The Climate Crisis
- Passing Legislation to Implement the Best of the Green New Deal
- Move the United States towards 100% renewable energy
- Regulate industries that contribute to the crisis and hold them accountable
Money in Politics
- Propose an Amendment to the US Constitution that stops unlimited spending in US elections
- Permanently define that money is not speech, bringing an end to corruption of public officials
Education Reform
- Mitigate the devastating effects of student loan debt by eliminating it
- Student loan debt is one of the worst drains on the US economy and needs to be fixed
- The American public bailed out Wall Street in 2009; it's time they help the American People out of this crisis
Worker Co-ops
- Write and introduce legislation that empowers and protects the rights of workers
- Give credence to highly effective workplace strategies
- Encourage and motivate workers around the nation to have a full stake in their workplace
- Mitigate wealth inequality by encouraging mutual cooperation, rather than hierarchical domination
Defend Individuals' Rights
- Uphold the legal precedent from the Supreme Court; choice is between a woman and her doctor
- Ensure that safe access to medical procedures to terminate unwanted pregnancies is always available
- Financial support for organizations who assist everyone, men and women, on a wide array of medical issues
- The right to practice one's own beliefs does not mean the right to tell others how they should practice theirs
$20 Minimum Wage
- Increase the federal minimum wage to at least $20 per hour
- Attach the minimum wage to inflation of the US Dollar
- Set a mandatory salary for all teachers at $60,000/year minimum
Criminal Justice Reform
- End for-profit prisons in America
- Provide a path to reform and rehabilitation, rather than recidivism
- Audit and investigate all current private prisons for illegal practices and excessive prisoner abuse
- Hold accountable and punish officials who have profited off of the excessive or unnecessary sentencing of Americans
Support for Unions
- Reinvigorate the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 and protect the right for workers to unionize
- Encourage workers and provide them a public platform to voice their desires and concerns to unionize
- Call out corrupt Union leadership and hold them accountable
- Make information about how to unionize available to all employees, everywhere
Support LGBTQIA+ Rights
- Crack down on business that practice discrimination against those in LGBTQIA+ community
- Ensure federal, state, and local equal rights for everyone, regardless of sexual orientation or identity
- Speak out against and fight social injustices and violence upon individuals and communities
Legalize Marijuana
- Help pass legislation that ends the prohibition and criminalization of Marijuana, nationwide
- Follow the precedent set by multiple states, including: Washington, Colorado, Michigan, Illinois, Vermont, California, Nevada, Alaska, Oregon, Maine and Massachusetts
- Commute all non-violent prison sentences of those in prison for marijuana-related charges
- Pass legislation that does not allow major corporations to monopolize the new and growing industry
Bring Our Troops Home
- Return the power to declare war back to the House of Representatives
- Hold military leadership accountable, to identify a path to ending all conflicts abroad
- Ensure a lifetime of medical and mental healthcare for our troops, whether through Medicare for All or by increasing funding for our VA