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Green New Deal: Create millions of jobs by transitioning to 100 percent clean renewable energy and investing in public transit, sustainable agriculture and conservation.

Racial justice now: End police brutality and mass incarceration. Create a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to understand and eliminate the legacy of slavery that permeates our society. Create community policing by establishing police review boards and independently investigating all cases of death in police custody.

Freedom and equality: Expand women's rights, protect LGBTQIA+ people from discrimination, defend indigenous rights and lands and create a welcoming path to citizenship for immigrants. Protect the free internet, legalize marijuana/hemp and treat substance abuse as a public health problem, not a criminal problem.

Meaningful work as a right: Create living-wage jobs for every American who needs work, replacing unemployment offices with employment offices. Advance workers' rights to form unions, achieve workplace democracy and keep a fair share of the wealth they create.

End poverty: Guarantee economic human rights, including access to food, water, housing and utilities, with effective anti-poverty programs to ensure every American a life of dignity.

Healthcare as a right: "Medicare For All" as a single-payer public health program to provide everyone with quality healthcare.

Education as a right: Abolish student debt to free a generation of Americans from debt servitude. Guarantee tuition-free, world-class public education from pre-school through university. End high stakes testing and public school privatization.

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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)
 

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