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Bernie broke my heart, but Dr. Jill Stein heals the wound.

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*A Green New Deal which will --create millions of jobs by transitioning to 100% clean renewable energy by 2030, and investing in public transit, sustainable agriculture, and conservation."

*Creation of living-wage jobs and advancing worker's rights to form unions and achieve workplace democracy;

*Create a guarantee of economic human rights, including access to housing, food, water and utilities;

*Establish and implement single-payer public health insurance, aka Medicare for All;

*Abolish student debt and end student debt servitude. "Guarantee tuition-free, world class public education from pre-school through university. End high stakes testing and public school privatization."

* Create a 'Just Economy by establishing a mandatory $15/hour federal minimum wage. Break up 'too-big-to-fail' banks and democratize the Federal Reserve. Make Wall Street, big corporations, and the rich pay their fair share of taxes. Create democratically run public banks and utilities.

* Replace corporate trade agreements with fair trade agreements.

*Lead the way on a global agreement to halt catastrophic climate change. End destructive energy extraction: fracking, tar sands, offshore drilling, oil trains, mountaintop removal and uranium mines. Protect our public lands, water supplies, biological diversity, parks and pollinators. Label GMO's, and put a moratorium on GMO's and pesticides until they are proven safe.

*Protect the rights of future generations.

*End police brutality, mass incarceration and institutional racism within our justice system. Expand women's rights, protect LGBTQIA+ people from discrimination

*Enforce the Bill of Rights by protecting the right to free speech and protest, to be secure from unwarranted search and seizure, as well as other Constitutional rights.

*Terminate unconstitutional surveillance and unwarranted spying, close Guantanamo, and repeal indefinite detention without charge or trial. Repeal the National Defense Authorization Act, which grants any president the power to indefinitely imprison or assassinate American citizens without due process.

*End persecution of government, corporate and media whistleblowers.

*Issue an Executive Order prohibiting Federal agencies from conspiring with local police to infringe upon rights of assembly and protest.

*Repeal the Patriot Act.

*Abolish corporate personhood. (Source : http://www.jill2016.com/plan )

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Jeanine Molloff is an online journalist who has published with Buzzflash, OpEdNews, Huffington Post, UK Progressive, Eurasia Review, Truthout and others. She produces the Sunday show on Progressive News Network, in addition to the Environmental (more...)
 

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