Longhouse Coalition Platform
- Impeach Bush/Cheney & lesser officials for treason, the one charge the president can not grant a pardon for.
- Pull out of Iraq/Afghanistan and allow UN Forces to do the job of peace keeping, rebuilding.
- Rescind the Unconstitutional Patriot Act.
- Call for sharp reductions in Defense spending with the savings going to essential social/environmental programs.
- Support the Kyoto Treaty as a necessary first step to control green-house emissions, with rapid development of solar/wind power in every home.
- Support the right to choose for every woman in the world, and as a step toward sustainable populations, make funds available for education and non-abortion birth control, including 'morning-after' pills.
- A single payer national health insurance program is badly needed now.
- Immediate arsenic reductions in our drinking water now, and review and strict limits on all environmental toxins.
- Due to the racial bias, failure to deter crime, widespread errors, and humanitarian objections, we oppose the death penalty.
- We demand a livable wage, strong unions, repeal of the Taft-Hartley restrictions, and increase of minimum wage so people have the honest means to support themselves.
- We oppose trade pacts, agreements, and institutions including NAFTA, FTAA, CAFTA, and WTO as written only for the global corporations without protection of the small business or local populations.
- We call for democratic reform to strengthen participation and minority representation, including proportional representation, instant run-off voting, monitoring of elections and public financing of elections.
- We stand for citizen controlled open debate between all legal candidates for President as well as all public offices. Not just between Republicans and Democrats, but all legal candidates.
- We oppose deregulation of telecommunications companies, and support
increased non-profit use of airways and public access to telecommunications. - We are opposed to bank deregulation. We call for creation of community investment banks to give low income people low cost loans and first time small business a chance to borrow at low rates.
- We are for legalizing all natural substances in their unrefined, un-distilled, natural form. They have a better safety record than do alcohol or cigarettes. We are spending billions losing the war on drugs and jailing a lot of people who otherwise would be good hard working citizens. Control it and tax it like you do alcohol and create new business and tax sources. All criminal 'strikes' related with such natural substances will be expunged from criminal records.
- To help restore the balance with the Native Nations, we are for giving back to the tribes 30% (equal to 2 Pennsylvanias) of the National Forests with the creation of a Ecology Council of the major ecology groups to help them develop a sustainable income and land use program. If Mixed Bloods with 1/8 Native American heritage are accepted as tribal members, the amount returned is to be increased to 45% (3 Pennsylvanias). Likewise, reparations should be made to descendants of slaves, details to be worked out.
- Create a Dept. of Peace with Congressional oversight, and full access to the daily briefings from the various intelligence agencies including the DOD (Department of Defense) agencies.
- Doing away with the Presidential Emergency Powers. No more writing laws by the Executive Branch.
- Shift the USDA priorities to all help for farming has to go to those who make less then one million dollars a year.
- Put in place a recall mechanism for all Federal Office Holders.
- We support the New Covenant Peace Plan for Israel/Palestine, which perfectly conforms to requirements of Hebrew Tribal Law, Jewish Law from the Torah & Prophets, Muslim Law from the Qur'an & hadiths, and New Testament Law, too. It leaves what's today called 'Israel', the West Bank, and Gaza, as One federal state, composed of two tribal districts, Judah (Israel), & Ephraim (Palestinians--West Bank & Gaza). Jerusalem is shared as national capital. Right-of-return issues are addressed, too.
- Full investigation of 9-11-2001
- I will seek to control nuclear weapons by restoring the nuclear NonProliferation Treaty, pressuring Israel, India and Pakistan to join it, and start the process of disarmament of nuclear nations mandated by Article VI.
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