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Corporate
Crime |
 | Reform the corporate-owned mass-media culture, and
encourage civic activism to promote the possibilities of our
democracy |
| Enact and enforce tough corporate crime legislation |
| Increase corporate taxes and pollution taxes |
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Nonviolence
& Global Responsibility |
| The U.S. should pay its debt to the United Nations,
support an international court for genocide, increase
international aid, support the cooperative threat reduction
programs with Russia to prevent the spread of nuclear
weapons to unfriendly nations, and meticulously observe the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
| Greatly decrease defense spending; eliminate funding for
the National Missile Defense Program |
| Create a Civilian Conservation Corps, and increase funding
for defense plant conversion |
| The U.S. should resolve future disputes with Iraq only
through diplomatic means, continue to play a prominent
leadership role in the peace process between Israel and the
Palestine Authority, and initiate full diplomatic relations
with Cuba, China, and Taiwan |
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Campaign
Finance Reform & Grassroots Democracy |
| Support public taxpayer funding for Congressional
candidates who comply with campaign spending limits, and
provide free or low-cost television advertising to
candidates who agree to voluntary campaign spending limits |
| Prohibit Political Action Committee (PAC) contributions to
candidates for federal office |
| Ban unregulated soft money funding and contributions from
non-U.S. citizens to national parties or party committees |
| Require full disclosure of funding sources of issue
advocacy commercials which appear within 60 days of an
election |
| Make campaign spending limits mandatory for all federal
candidates, and require Congressional candidates to raise
over half of their campaign money from their home state |
| Introduce federally funded, 'citizen-access' T.V. channel,
for sustained citizen discussion of issues |
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Crime
Prevention & Social Justice |
| Oppose death penalty |
| Promote gun safety |
| Increase funding for community policing programs |
| Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational
and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when
released |
| Support programs to provide prison inmates with drug and
alcohol addiction treatment, and implement penalties other
than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders |
| Require that crimes based on gender, sexual orientation,
and disability be prosecuted as federal hate crimes |
| Support programs that provide job training and placement
services for at-risk youth |
| Review the failed 'war on drugs' policies, expand
federally sponsored drug education and drug treatment
programs, and find innovative punishment options, such as
community service |
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Education
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| Increase funding for additional teachers and school
capital improvements |
| Support affirmative action in public college admissions |
| Increase funding of programs such as Pell grants and
Stafford loans to help students pay for college, and support
federal tax incentives to help families save for college |
| Support equal opportunity to a quality education, and
state funding for day care and continuing education |
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Community-Based
Economics |
| Increase the federal minimum wage |
| Increase federal & state spending on job training,
child-care programs, maternal support, food distribution,
and housing assistance programs. |
| Provide tax credits for companies that move job-creating
industries into areas with high unemployment, and encourage
employers to offer flex-time scheduling, comp-time, and
unpaid leave for family emergencies. |
| Increase funding for national job-training programs that
re-train displaced workers or teach skills needed in today's
job market, and establish empowerment zones in areas with
large numbers of unemployed people |
| The federal government should consider race and sex, in
addition to merit and qualifications in government
contracting decisions |
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Ecological
Wisdom |
| Strengthen the regulation and enforcement of the Clean
Water Act and Clean Air Act |
| Revise the 1872 mining law to increase the fees charged to
mining companies using federal lands |
| Encourage further development and use of alternative fuels
to reduce pollution |
| Strengthen emission controls on all gasoline or
diesel-powered engines, including cars, trucks, and sport
utility vehicles |
| Strengthen logging restrictions on federal lands |
| Establish Groundwater Protection agencies |
| Review genetic engineering in agriculture |
| Oppose 'monoculture' |
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Universal
Health Care |
| Implement a universal health care program to guarantee
coverage to all Americans regardless of income |
| Support health care strategies focused on prevention,
including health education, and natural medicines and
remedies |
| Decriminalize the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes. |
| Support a Patient's Bill of Rights to define and enforce
the rights of insured patients, including greater access to
specialists and emergency rooms, wider choice of health care
providers, and appeal mechanisms when claims are denied; to
all the right to sue when claims are denied; to provide the
right of appeal when services are denied |
| Increase funding for AIDS programs, and allow states and
local communities to use federal funds for needle-exchange
programs to combat the spread of HIV |
| Support legislation to provide prescription drug coverage
under Medicare |
| Protect reproductive rights and provide funding for family
planning programs as a means to decrease the number of
abortions. |
| Increase spending on Womens' Health |
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Global
Justice & Responsible Trade |
| Prohibit U.S. states from passing laws that deny human
services (medical care, education) to illegal immigrants or
their children |
| Promote non-discrimination and family reunification in
immigration policy |
| Consider nation's human rights record in trade relations |
| Support 3rd World debt forgiveness |
| Oppose the North American Free Trade Agreement, General
Agreement on Tarrifs and Trade, membership in the World
Trade Organization, and China's entrance into the World
Trade Organization. |
| Oppose the embargo against Cuba |
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