Our 12 Point Pledge | FUN Progressives

DEMOCRACY FOR ALL

Run campaigns free of corporate and PAC money with particular attention to conflicts of interest.
Take no money from military contractors, fossil fuel and private prison industries.
Advocate for Public Financing of elections and overturning Citizens United.
Advocate for democracy for all through support of fair and transparent election policy including hand-marked paper ballots, support increased voter access without suppression, support fairly drawn election districts and encouraging access to elected officials for all voters.
Protect our first amendment rights and freedom of the press.

HEALTHCARE IS A HUMAN RIGHT

EDUCATION IS A HUMAN RIGHT

HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT

Increase Public Housing development.
Repeal Costa-Hawkins.
Locally support rent stabilization and the protection of tenant’s rights.
Rent should not exceed 30% of annual incomes of families making under $60,000.
Advocate for safe spaces and temporary shelter for the unhoused including access to food, personal hygiene, and other assistance as needed/wanted.

LIVING WAGE IS A HUMAN RIGHT

JUSTICE IS A HUMAN RIGHT

DIGINITY IS A HUMAN RIGHT

Nobody should be discriminated against for who they are.
Oppose LGBTQIA discrimination, religious discrimination, and ethnic discrimination in any form.
Expand Social Security benefits.
Invest in Senior Centers for citizens in loneliness and need.

PRIVACY IS A HUMAN RIGHT

Protect all women’s right of choice.
Reverse the state’s power of surveillance.
Bolster Internet Privacy laws that prevent the sale of personal information to third parties.
Legalize the local cannabis delivery market.

HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT IS A HUMAN RIGHT

Endorse, support and advocate for emergency national mobilization for Climate Crisis.
100% Solar/Renewable based economy.
Ban hydraulic fracturing (fracking.)
Restrict single-use plastics and end the wasteful use of all plastics.
Reject any privatization of water sources.
Clean water is a human right.
Divest public funds from fossil fuel industries.
Invest in a 100% renewable green public infrastructure.
Expand Mass Transit for all communities.
Retrofit community buildings with solar power systems.
Provide more charging spaces for vehicles.
Protect public common spaces and parks.
Develop new local Recycle Programs.
Require humane treatment of all living creatures.

ECONOMIC JUSTICE

Sponsor, advocate for, and endorse non-regressive tax policy.
Support, advocate for, and endorse the Earned Income Tax Credit expansion as outlined in the Grow American Incomes Now Act (GAIN)*
Sponsor, advocate for, and endorse policy that redistributes wealth to the working class to close the income and wealth gap through progressive taxation

INTERNET FOR ALL

Adopt Ro Khanna’s Six Principles for and Internet Bill of Rights**:
Right to universal web access
Right to net neutrality
Right to be free from warrantless metadata collection
Right to disclose amount, nature, and dates of secret government data requests
Right to be fully informed of scope of data use
Right to be informed when there is change of control over data.
Recognize that the internet is the new economic landscape and invest in broadband infrastructure into rural and low income communities.
Sponsor Municipal Internet programs to democratize internet usage and increase economic development.
Support regulation of broadband internet as a utility.

PEACE IS A HUMAN RIGHT

Oppose all interventionist regime change projects.
End our military adventurism in the Middle East.
Divest public funds from the military industrial complex.
Require financial audit of the military.
Support self-determination for Puerto Rico, District of Columbia, Guam, & the US Virgin Islands in regard to a path to statehood, independence or continuation of current status.