Progressive Rising’s
Platform For Equity (Tentative Platform – Under Construction)
Universal Healthcare
- Work to pass single payer Medicare For ALL, and make healthcare a human right.
- End Pharma Price Gouging: Allow Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices.
- Ensure people of marginalized communities have equal access to healthcare.
- Allow Americans to purchase cheaper drugs from Canada and other nations.
- Cancel ALL medical debt.
Climate Justice
- Adopt a Green New Deal (Bernie Sanders plan) for the nation, work for a global GND.
- We declare a current state of climate emergency.
- End Use of Fossil Fuels by 2030.
- Transform our economic system to 100% renewable energy.
- End the use of non-sustainable energy sources.
- Make fossil fuel corporations and executives accountable for causing climate change.
- Ban Fracking.
- Build a modern smart grid.
- Electrify homes and businesses.
Criminal Justice
- Fully legalize recreational marijuana.
- Expunge all cannabis convictions.
- End Private Prisons.
- End Mass Incarceration.
- End Cash bail.
- Ban the Box.
- End Prison Slavery, pay working prisoners the federal minimum wage.
Living Wage
- Minimum Wage of $20, $15 is acceptable for a transition.
- End Right to Work, Repeal Taft-Hartley.
- Federal Guaranteed Jobs.
Affordable Housing
- Make housing access a right. Includes access to Food, Water, Transportation, Energy, Public Utilities – ie Water, Electricity, Phone, Internet, Sewer, Gas, Garbage.
- Repeal The Faircloth Amendment.
- Provide federal money to local gov’ts to build publicly owned social housing.
Education
- Work to pass College For ALL.
- Cancel Student Debt
Retirement
- Increase Social Security
End White Supremacy
- Treat White Supremacy as Terrorism, because that’s what it is.
Political Reform
- End Citizens United
- Get corporate money out of politics, institute public campaign financing
- Adopt Universal Automatic Voter Registration
- Make election day a National Holiday.
- Abolish the Electoral College
Rural America Reform
- Provide Farmers with a Farmers’ Bill of Rights
- End Corporate Farms
Foreign Policy
- Prioritize Diplomacy Over War
- Support BDS Movement
- Cut ALL Aid to Israel until they respect Palestinian life.
- Restore War Powers to Congress where they belong