Disabled Rights

Posted on March 12, 2020 by mekorganic

We need to support the full enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities Act to enable all people with disabilities to achieve independence and function at the highest possible level.

Government should work to ensure that children with disabilities are provided with the same educational opportunities as those without disabilities.

The physically and mentally challenged are people who are differently abled from the majority, but who are nevertheless able to live independently. Physically and mentally challenged people have the right to live independently in their communities.

The mentally ill are people with serious mental problems who often need social support networks. The mentally ill also have the right to live independently, circumscribed only by the limitations of their illness.

These people are their own best advocates in securing their rights and for living in the social and economic mainstream.

Current Medicaid policy forces many challenged people to live in costly state-funded institutions. Excluding these people from society alienates them; excluding them from the work force denies them the chance to use their potentials.

The diminishing funds available to provide care for the growing number of the mentally ill often result in their homelessness, vagrancy and dependence on short-term crisis facilities. Lack of funding also increases the necessity of placing them in long-term, locked facilities.

We should urge the government to:

  1. Increase rehabilitation funding so that persons with disabilities can pursue education and training to reach their highest potential. The differently abled should participate fully in the allocation decisions of state rehabilitation departments’ funds.
  2. Aggressively implement the Americans with Disabilities Act.
  3. Ratifiy the United Nations Convention on Rights for Persons with Disabilities as well as the Optional Protocol.
  4. Fund in-home support services to allow the differently abled to hire personal care attendants while remaining at home.
  5. Allocate adequate funding to support community-based programs that provide out-patient medical services, case management services and counseling programs. We should provide a residential setting within the community for those who do not need institutional care but who are unable to live independently.
  6. Make it easier for the chronically mentally ill to apply for and receive Supplemental Security Income.
  7. Mainstream the differently abled. Increase teacher training in regard to the needs of differently abled students.
  8. Discourage stereotyping of the mentally and physically challenged by the entertainment industry and the media.
  9. Fund programs to increase public sensitivity to the needs of the mentally ill and differently abled.

Sources: Green Party

Bernie Sanders On Disability Rights

Beauty Beyond Bones (eating disorder blog)

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The Green Party Issues Index

Green Party Platform on the Issues

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Specific Issues Index

from Creating Better World

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Demilitarization and Exploration of Space

Posted on March 12, 2020 by mekorganic

We should recognize the need for the inspiration and education that the peaceful exploration of Space provides. We need for space-based systems to monitor environmental conditions on Earth; the many advances in space technology that benefit all people on Earth. The inspiration provided to children by Space exploration can prompt them to pursue math, science, and other important courses of study.

The peaceful exploration of Space has been usurped by the militarization of Space. The last four U.S.—backed military conflicts have used space-based technology to disrupt the computer and communication systems of sovereign states.

The funds required for continuing peaceful Space exploration have been used, instead, for the design, implementation and deployment of wasteful and dangerous Space hardware, such as the Strategic Defense Initiative.

We should support the end of Space militarization and opposes any form of space-based military aggression.

We should embrace peaceful Space exploration as a means for all people on this planet to work together. The benefits of inspired education are well worth the investment in peaceful Space exploration.

We should support only the peaceful and sustainable exploration of Space and the signing of the International Treaty for the Demilitarization of Space.

We should consider a reduction of human-staffed space flight due to the high cost and risk for human life and the availability of automated technology that can perform necessary functions in space-based research.
Sources: Green Party

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The Green Party Issues Index

Green Party Platform on the Issues

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Specific Issues Index

from Creating Better World

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Death Penalty

Posted on March 12, 2020 by mekorganic

We should oppose the death penalty in the United States and worldwide.
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Source: Green Party

Howie Hawkins on Crime

The Green Party Issues Index

Green Party Platform on the Issues

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Specific Issues Index

from Creating Better World

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Covert Actions

Posted on March 12, 2020 by mekorganic

The U.S. must prohibit all covert actions used to influence, de-stabilize or usurp the governments of other nations, and likewise prohibit the assassination of, or assistance in any form for the assassination of, foreign government officials.

Source: Green Party

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Covert Operations

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The Green Party Issues Index

Green Party Platform on the Issues

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Specific Issues Index

from Creating Better World

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Corruption Reform

Posted on March 12, 2020 by mekorganic
  1. Develop publicly-owned, open source voting equipment and deploy it across the nation to ensure high national standards, performance, transparency and accountability; use verifiable paper ballots; and institute mandatory automatic random precinct recounts to ensure a high level of accuracy in election results.
  2. Establish guarantees that every citizen’s vote counts, and that all U.S. voting systems—including electronic ones—are verifiable, transparent and accurate.
  3. Establish a National Elections Commission with the mandate to establish minimum national election standards and uniformity, partner with state and local election officials to ensure pre-election and post-election accountability for their election plans, require nonpartisan election boards, and depoliticize and professionalize election administration across the United States.
  4. Establish independent and transparent non-partisan redistricting processes to stop partisan gerrymandering and protect minority rights and representation.
    Strengthen “sunshine laws” to provide citizens with all necessary information and access to their political system.
  5. Ensure that all important federal, state and local government documents are on the Internet, especially texts of bills, searchable databases of voting records, draft committee and conference reports, and court decisions.
  6. Reinvigorate the independent investigative agencies, such as the General Accounting Office and the inspectors general.
  7. Enact tough new federal anti-bribery and gratuity laws to stop corporations and the wealthy from purchasing government action, and vigorously enforce of anti-corruption laws by the Justice Department.
  8. Expand revolving-door lobbying “cooling off” periods for members of Congress and their top staff to at least two years.
  9. Allow any member of Congress to require a floor vote on any congressional earmark, to stop wasteful spending.
  10. Increase the number of polling places, and increase the pay for poll workers.
  11. In addition to allowing members of Congress to send mail to their constituents for free, letters from citizens to their members of Congress shall also be free.
  12. Prohibit members of Congress, Governors, state legislators and their staffs from accepting for their own personal benefit any gifts of any amount from lobbyists or the general public.
  13. Require outside counsel to investigate ethics complaints against members of Congress, and toughen punishments within the congressional ethics processes for corruption, abuse of power and other wrongdoing.
  14. Replace the Federal Election Commission with a vigorous watchdog empowered to enforce federal campaign finance laws.
  15. Support the ability of cities to establish civilian police review boards to increase understanding between community members and police officers, provide a public forum to air concerns on policy matters and to ensure public oversight and accountability of their local police department.

Sources: Green Party

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Corruption Reform

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The Green Party Issues Index

Green Party Platform on the Issues

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Specific Issues Index

from Creating Better World

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Corporate Accountability and Democracy

Posted on March 11, 2020 by mekorganic

” Corporate Accountability and Democracy ” is taken from Bernie Sanders Presidential campaign website. I support 100% with what he says! (Please visit his site for more details)
In America today, corporate greed and corruption is destroying the social and economic fabric of our society, where a small group of ultra-wealthy CEOs are making the decisions that increasingly determine our economic, environmental and political future.
For too long, these greedy corporate CEOs have rigged the tax code, killed market competition, and crushed the lives and power of workers and communities across America.
Year after year we’ve seen wages slashed and thousands of workers laid off, all while the richest corporate CEOs pay themselves huge bonuses.
They got away with it through a broken campaign finance system, where a few large campaign donations can get you the ear of any politician.
Now Donald Trump, the most corrupt president in history, has brought this corporate corruption straight into the Oval Office.
Let’s end to the corporate greed ruining our country once and for all.

  1. Fundamentally shift the wealth of the economy back into the hands of the workers who create it.
  2. Give workers an ownership stake in the companies they work for.
  3. Break up corrupt corporate mergers and monopolies, including reviewing all mergers that have taken place during the Trump administration and institute new merger guidelines.
  4. Finally make corporations pay their fair share of taxes by reversing Trump’s corporate tax breaks and closing corporate tax loopholes to raise up to $3 trillion over 10-years.

Sources: Bernie Sanders

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Corporate Reform

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The Green Party Issues Index

Green Party Platform on the Issues

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Specific Issues Index

from Creating Better World

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Consumer Protection

Posted on March 11, 2020 by mekorganic

We should support strong consumer protections against fraud, dangerous products, usury, corporate greed and rip-offs.

We should understand that prevention and justice are at the heart of consumer protection. Millions of lives will be saved or lost depending on the strength of our consumer protection laws.

We must stop corporations and others from defrauding consumers or endangering them with defective products or negligence.

We must stand with consumers, who have been injured or defrauded by corporations and others, and support their efforts to redress the wrongs done to them.

We should stand with whistleblowers, who are often the public’s best protection against corporate crime, fraud and waste.

We recommend the following actions:

  1. Strengthen product safety standards and enforcement for a variety of products, including food, motor vehicles, pharmaceuticals and airplanes.
  2. Restore state health, safety, and consumer protection laws by striking federal preemptions that weaken state law.
  3. Preserve and expand product labeling requirements to ensure that consumers are informed about the origin, ingredients and ecological life cycle of all products, including animal testing and the product’s organic, recycled and genetically-engineered content. Include information about the nutritional value and the vegetarian or vegan status of food products.
  4. Prohibit corporations from concealing information about public health, labor conditions or environmental safety via protective orders or confidential settlements.
  5. Expand class action rights against manufacturers of unsafe products and practices, and strengthen the civil justice system and supply the resources necessary to bring to justice to those corporations that injure innocent consumers.
  6. Protect whistle blowers against demotion, job loss, and other forms of retaliation.
  7. Oppose “tort reform” that undermines consumers’ ability to seek redress, and “medical malpractice reform” that relieves negligent doctors of responsibility for injuring or killing their patients.
  8. Grant consumers the right to limit collection and secondary use of personal information by any commercial entity.
  9. Prohibit lenders and credit card companies from charging more than 12% annual interest, indexed for inflation, along with broad protections against unwarranted fees and other abusive terms.
  10. Prohibit the widespread practice of price gouging against women and the poor.
  11. Repeal the misnamed Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 in order to restore Chapter 7 bankruptcy as a viable final safety net for consumers caught by health crises, unaffordable mortgages, credit card debts and student loans.
  12. Ban the use of mandatory arbitration clauses in consumer contracts, which companies use to shunt consumers into anti-consumer and unfair dispute resolution processes.
  13. Establish new independent government consumer advocacy agencies to protect the interests of consumers, and restore the U.S. Office of Consumer Affairs.
  14. Support policies to encourage citizens, taxpayers, ratepayers and consumers to form Citizens Utility Boards to advocate for the public interest.

Sources: Green Party

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Consumer Protection

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The Green Party Issues Index

Green Party Platform on the Issues

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Specific Issues Index

from Creating Better World

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Conservation

Posted on March 11, 2020 by mekorganic

Encourage conservation and a significant decrease in our energy consumption, institute national energy efficiency standards.
With five percent of the world’s population, U.S residents consume twenty-six percent of the world’s energy. U.S. consumption of electricity is almost nine times greater than the average for the rest of the world. These are not sustainable levels.

  1. The U.S. must retrofit its building stock for energy efficiency. Most U.S. residents live in homes that require heat during the winter, and most are inadequately insulated. Buildings in the South require air conditioning during the summer. Fuel shortages, power outages, and energy price hikes could bring not just discomfort, but a massive increase in mortality from cold and heat. Millions of buildings can and must be super-insulated and, as much as possible, provided with alternative heat sources (passive solar, geothermal, or district heating).
  2. Energy efficiency standards similar to those in California must be adopted nationally. The energy efficiency standards adopted there in the late 1970s have resulted in overall electricity-use remaining flat over the past three decades while the population has steadily increased. During the same time period electricity use in the rest of the U.S. has climbed along with population growth.
  3. There are many different ways to increase energy efficiency and the best path for one region of the country might differ from that of another. We will need concerted effort to increase efficiency in every sector of our economy. Technologies exist that, if widely implemented, can result in huge energy savings.
  4. Cogeneration and use of waste heat to generate electricity should be encouraged.
    A carbon tax, which the Green Party supports, would serve as an important market incentive to increase efficiency.

Sources:
Green Party

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Conservation

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The Green Party Issues Index

Green Party Platform on the Issues

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Specific Issues Index

from Creating Better World

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Community Service

Posted on March 11, 2020 by mekorganic

We must create new opportunities for citizens to serve their communities through non-military community service. Alternative community service to the military should be encouraged.

We should advocate the formation of a Civilian Conservation Corps, with national leadership and state and local affiliates, to spearhead efforts to work on the tasks of environmental education, restoration of damaged habitats, reforestation, and cleaning up polluted waterways. Providing land and resource management skills will challenge young people while encouraging social responsibility.

Sources:
Green Party

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Community

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The Green Party Issues Index

Green Party Platform on the Issues

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Specific Issues Index

from Creating Better World

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Community

Posted on March 11, 2020 by mekorganic

Community involvement is very important because it is personal, value-oriented, and small enough for each member to have an impact. Community involvement is a foundation for public policy.
Social diversity is the wellspring of community life where old and young, rich and poor, and people of all races and beliefs can interact individually and learn to care for each other, and to understand and cooperate.
We should emphasize a return to local, face-to-face relationships that humans can understand and care about.
We must think globally and act locally.
One’s community needs to recognize a diversity of issues. Local control recognizes a variety of approaches to solving problems, ones that tend to be bottom-up not top-down. We should not place in too much faith in paternalistic big government. Instead, face-to-face interactions are essential to productive and meaningful lives for all citizens.
Our vision should include:

  1. Building communities that nurture families, generate good jobs and housing, and provide public services.
  2. Creating cities and towns that educate children, encourage recreation, and preserve natural and cultural resources.
  3. Building local governments that protect people from environmental hazards and crime; and motivating citizens to participate in making decisions.

To that end We should call for increased public transportation, convenient playgrounds and parks for all sections of cities and small towns, encourage diverse neighborhoods and support for a rich milieu of art, culture, and properly funded programs such as the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities.
However, our vision should also include:

  1. A global community of communities that recognize our immense diversity, respect our personal worth, and share a global perspective.
  2. An approach to politics that acknowledges our endangered planet and habitat.
  3. Politics that respond to global crises with a new way of seeing our shared international security.
  4. A new era of international cooperation and communication that nurtures cultural diversity, recognizes the interconnectedness between communities, and promotes opportunities for cultural exchange and assistance.

Sources: Green Party

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Community

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The Green Party Issues Index

Green Party Platform on the Issues

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Specific Issues Index

from Creating Better World

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