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Housing Justice: build and support popular neighborhood assemblies, [1] tenants unions, [2] housing cooperatives, eco-housing, community land trusts, and anti- gentrification coalitions; [3] and hold landlords accountable. [4] [5]
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Ecosocialism: protect people and nature from fossil fuels, [6] toxic waste, [7] and ongoing climate catastrophe. [8] Work to ensure clean air, water, and land for everyone. Prepare and repair the world with community resilience, [9] [10] permaculture, and democratic, municipal control of energy grids and utilities. [11] [12]
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Anti-Racism and Indigenous Rights: working locally and globally [13]
to dismantle systems of oppression and ensure that all people have what
they need to thrive. Encouraging and supporting anti-racist and
anti-fascist organizing, [14] and work to end the colonial oppression of indigenous people and protect the rights of First Nations. [15]
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Freedom of Movement and International Solidarity: abolish ICE [16]
and ensure freedom of movement for all people. Develop international
relations policy based on peace and economic solidarity, dismantle the
war machine, and support global freedom struggles. [17]
- Restorative and Transformative Justice: with the goal of abolishing police and prisons, efforts to make police accountable to communities, [18] support incarcerated people, [19] [20] and build community justice systems [21] to transform bad situations and unjust conditions into nurturing and just ones. [22] [23]
- Grassroots Base-building and Mutual Aid: creating organizing spaces that are safe, [24] welcoming, [25] and inclusive, [26] [27] creating innovative campaigns [28] focused on the needs of communities [29] where they live, [30] and giving our resources [31] to allow communities to thrive in their own way.
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A Commitment to Socialist Feminism: supporting reproductive justice, [32] incorporating socialist feminism into the organization through education [33] and action. [34]
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Democratize Finance: decommissioning predatory
financial institutions and creating alternatives like participatory
budgeting, credit unions and public banks. [35] [36]
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Democratize Elections: referenda, [37] alternative voting systems, ballot access, publicly funded elections, [38] abolish gerrymandering, ending state-level preemptions against local laws.
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Workers’ Self Directed Enterprise: Cooperative,
worker-owned and -run businesses and nonprofits. Community projects such
as buyer coops, platform coops, and multi-stakeholder coops.
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Health Justice: working with the understanding that
health is fundamental to freedom and intersects with every issue we
experience as humans, local campaigns to retain [39] and expand community healthcare services.
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Labor Organizing: creating workers’ councils, [40] organizing new industries, [41] and providing solidarity to striking workers [42]
- Local Wins, Local Accountability: electoral work [43] that focuses on electing DSA members in local races [44] like school boards, soil and water conservation districts, county commissions, and city councils, [45] [46] [47] [48] [49] [50] [51] winning protections and material benefits [52] for people where they live, [53] and gaining policy concessions [54] from local politicians. [55] Create local forms of direct democracy including community councils and participatory budgeting.
Our house is on fire. Join the resistance: Do no harm/take no shit. My idiosyncratic and confluent bricolage of progressive politics, the collaborative commons, next generation cognitive neuroscience, American pragmatism, de/reconstruction, dynamic systems, embodied realism, postmetaphysics, psychodynamics, aesthetics. It ain't much but it's not nothing.
Sunday, September 23, 2018
Libertarian Socialist Caucus platform
Can be found here. See it for the details. Some highlights:
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