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(continued from page 3) • End all home foreclosures. Establish and expand rent-control to combat the mass-displacement of poor and oppressed communities through gentrification. • Massive government funding to repair, modernize, and build homes – starting where need is greatest. 5) End the racist, slave labor for profit prison-in dustrial complex! • End the racist school-to-prison pipeline. Build schools, not jails. • Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Oscar Lopez Rivera, and all political prisoners. • Abolish the racist and classist death penalty. Rapidly empty the prisons while immediately organizing quality, humane rehabilitation facilities to rebuild ruined lives. • Prosecute and jail killer cops • De-criminalize all drugs. Take the profit out of drug trafficking. End the racist “war on drugs.” Massive in vestment in restorative justice, mental health, and drug treatment services. • End “zero tolerance” school policies. Cops out of the schools! • Abolish racist “moneyball” extortion schemes in cluding defendant-funded court proceedings, mandatory court surcharges, fines and fees. • Abolish all racist exclusionary election laws. • For Black and Latino-organized control of Black and Latino communities. Police out of Black and Latino neighborhoods! • Reparations for African-American, Puerto-Rican, and Mexican-American communities in compensation for wealth stolen over centuries. 6) Immediate amnesty, legalization and equal rights for all immigrants. End the racist, Islamopho bic “War on Terror!” • End all deportations now! Repeal all anti-immigrant legislation. Close down ICE. • Demilitarize and open the borders. • No to the surveillance, persecution, demonization and government-orchestrated frame-up trials in Muslim communities in the U.S. and worldwide. 7) Abolish all racist, sexist, and homophobic dis criminatory laws and practices!
4 SOCIALIST ACTION 2016 CAMPAIGN to remedy past discrimination and prevent future discrimination. • To assure economic independence for women, government-financed, free 24-hour child-care centers and maternity leave with full pay. Guarantee the right of every mother to raise a healthy child. • End violence against women and the LG BTQI community. • Repeal the Hyde Amendment. Free un restricted abortion on demand. Reproduc tive justice now. End coercive contraception projects targeting low income women and women in prison. End the criminalization of pregnant women. • Free Purvi Patel. • Ban workplace and housing discrimina tion and adoption restrictions based on sexu al orientation or gender identity • Outlaw discrimination by businesses or employees based on sexual preference or gender identi ty Repeal all local, state and federal discriminatory laws against LGBTQI people. • Quality safe housing for youth and workers facing discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. 8) Defend civil liberties! Abolish the “national se curity” state! • End all government surveillance. Abolish the Na tional Security Administration and all other secret and repressive government spy agencies. Stop the persecu tion of all whistle blowers like Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden! • Repeal the Patriot Act and all other anti-democratic legislation. End all restrictions on the right to organize, assemble, and protest. 9) For a democratically-planned socialist economy in which the banks, basic industries and all natural resources are the collective property of working peo ple–the 99%–and democratically operated for hu man betterment not the individual profits of the 1%. • Tax the rich and their corporations, not working peo ple! End corporate bailouts! [Note:$32 trillion in corpo rate bailouts was granted to corporate America in the If you would like to learn more about the Socialist Action campaign, to meet the candidates, or to help get out the word, go to: • www.socialistaction.org • https://www.facebook.com/VoteSA2016 • [email protected] Socialist Action National Office: P.O. Box 10328, Oakland, CA 94610 years immediately following the 2008 economic crash.] • Close all tax loopholes for the rich. Nationalize all illegally “offshored” corporate profits. • For a steeply graduated progressive income tax! • 100% tax on all incomes over $300,000. Zero percent tax on all incomes under $50,000. • Low interest, long-term government loans to protect small farmers gouged by banks and food trusts. • End all military and military-related spending: Use the money saved towards a massive public works pro gram and to fulfill the demands above. 10) For working-class political action independent of and against the twin parties of capitalism • For a united, democratic and fighting labor move ment that champions the economic, social and political interests of all working people. Organize the unorga nized 90 percent! Repeal Taft Hartley and all other anti-union legislation. • For a Labor Party based on a revitalized, democratic, and expanded labor movement allied with the oppressed and exploited. • Open the corporate books for union inspection! • For a workers government and a fully democratic so ciety of, by and for working people and the oppressed! Abolish capitalism! For socialism! n