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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>= Platform Topics =<br />
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Need to integrate these from the [https://masspirates.org/wiki/index.php?title=March_10th,_2019_Boston_Regional_Meeting Boston meeting]<br />
* Housing first <br />
** everyone has a place to live, providing stability and improving state of mind<br />
** not solely focusing on people who are homeless, but recognizing the increasing cost of housing<br />
* Education reform (but not the neoliberal kind)<br />
** Fix the infrastructure of our schools<br />
** Use technology (only where needed?)<br />
** Centering on student empowerment and help for students to succeed at what they are good at and support them where they have challenges<br />
* Criminal justice<br />
** reducing policing and incarceration<br />
** Increasing harm reduction policies. <br />
** Less punishment, more restorative justice<br />
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== Quality Health care for all including dental and mental health care (expanded medicare for all) ==<br />
* Implement community based mental health and wellness programs for those who need it<br />
* We are already paying for everyone<br />
* Merge VA into Medicare for All<br />
* Cuts administrative costs and profits of the private system<br />
* Retrain administrative workers if needed<br />
* Negotiate drug and other medical prices<br />
* Impose consistent prices<br />
* Using compulsive licensing of patents for drugs<br />
* Ending evergreen patents<br />
* Having better funding for drug research that shifts reward system to target health problems not profits<br />
* Better research into the effectiveness of drugs<br />
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== Education ==<br />
* Putting Students First<br />
* Innovation in funding that reduces per student disparities in funding. Raising the bottom <br />
* Encouraging critical thinking<br />
* Maximizing the tools available to teachers<br />
* Empowering teachers<br />
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== Criminal Justice ==<br />
* Decriminalizing victimless crimes<br />
* Focus on restoration, rehabilitation & education not punishment<br />
* End Civil asset forfeiture<br />
* Fair principles and wages for prison labor<br />
* No disenfranchisement of prisoners. No taxation without representation<br />
* Adequately fund pubic defenders<br />
* Community policing & end arrest/citation quotas<br />
* No private prisons<br />
* Train police in conflict resolution, make them peace officers not police officers<br />
* Make police files public automatically<br />
* No privacy for police while on the job<br />
* End cops being above the law<br />
* Do not break the law to enforce the law<br />
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== No eminent domain for private profit ==<br />
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== Workers Rights ==<br />
* Pro-union, card check not vote<br />
* OSHA on every work site including government. Keep safe for all involved.<br />
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== Public Transportation ==<br />
* Fund MBTA and other public bus systems so they can expand quality, reliability and service<br />
* Maintain roads so they are safe<br />
* End tolls & surveillance on the Pike, Tobin bridge and Boston tunnels<br />
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== Government Funding and Taxation ==<br />
* Use systems thinking and true accounting<br />
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== Housing & Homelessness ==<br />
* We have an affordability problem<br />
* More cost effective to provide housing for people who are homeless<br />
* Incentivize keeping housing owned by people in the community, not for use as a speculative investment<br />
** Transaction tax paid by non-occupants?<br />
* Improve renters rights: better recourse<br />
** Fund outreach to renters and owners about their rights and obligations<br />
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== Drugs ==<br />
* End the drug war: Decriminalize ala Portugal. Focus on addiction as a public health issue.<br />
* Fund Needle exchange programs and programs to help people to deal with addiction<br />
* Treat addiction as a disease not a crime<br />
* Continue to support the legalization of cannabis and its use for those it helps<br />
* End drug testing for government programs<br />
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== National Security ==<br />
* End TSA: No more security theater<br />
* End the wars<br />
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== Data Privacy: Protecting the privacy of the individual, not the state. ==<br />
* Discard information once you are done processing it.<br />
* What of GDPR should be here? Not right to be forgotten.<br />
* Stop gathering of license plate/surveillance data or expire after X weeks. Do not share with private entities.<br />
* Retain public data locally.<br />
* Body/police surveillance camera data must be available by the accused at a minimum<br />
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== Economy ==<br />
* People first; end corporate subsidies<br />
* Measure the people’s economy, not the stockmarket<br />
* Honest accounting that measures the true benefits and costs of the commonwealth<br />
** Use these metrics to make better judgements about government policy<br />
* Government policy should promote competition not monopoly<br />
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== Right of Repair/You own what you purchased ==<br />
* Software/media you paid for and download cannot be revoked<br />
* Cannot deny someone legal process using software. <br />
* Lock you out of your house/reposes your car w/o legal decision<br />
* Should not be a felony to modify or examine the software/hardware you purchased<br />
* Companies should not be able to take back stuff you already paid for<br />
* Copyrighted works should eventually become part of the public commons (No Mickey Mouse Law)<br />
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== FOIA ==<br />
* All data paid for by the public should be on-line and machine readable/searchable (with personal privacy exceptions)<br />
** That includes all branches of government<br />
** No scanned documents without OCR<br />
* Reduce the time for agencies to respond to requests to 10 days<br />
* Consolidate oversight and enforcement of FOIA into one separate agency<br />
** Under gov appointed by gov/elected by the people? (look at OCPF?)<br />
** Change from legal process to automatic fines for when out of compliance of the law<br />
** Use fines pay for bringing agencies into compliance technologically<br />
*** This saves tax payers money, simplifies the process<br />
** Agency would have regulatory power and can set guidelines/rules (technologies/vendors that have worked)<br />
** Agency can review rules/tech of other agencies and call them out accountable for non-compliance<br />
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== Immigration ==<br />
* Make Massachusetts be a sanctuary state<br />
* Abolish ICE<br />
* Establish a path to citizenship for all immigrants<br />
* No taxation without representation; limited voting rights<br />
* Should be a judicial process for deportation with true due process<br />
* Honor agreements regarding asylum seekers and treat them with dignity and due process<br />
* Streamline process to move from one student to worker visa status<br />
* Immunity (amnesty?) for immigrants reporting crime<br />
https://masspirates.org/wiki/March_10th,_2019_Boston_Regional_Meeting<br />
https://masspirates.org/wiki/September_29th,_2018_Party_Conference<br />
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= Platform Order =<br />
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== What would we implement in our first 100 days of achieving power? ==<br />
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* Citizen surveys of police and school systems and municipal government (13 and older)<br />
* End solitary confinement<br />
* Fair pay for fair work (even prisoners)<br />
* Open government additions<br />
** Removing exemptions of the open meeting law for all three branches of government<br />
** Actual enforcement of open meeting law and FOIA<br />
** All data paid for by the public should be on-line and machine readable/searchable (with personal privacy exceptions) That includes all branches of government<br />
** No scanned documents without OCR<br />
** All bills have to be voted on in committee<br />
** All votes have to list who the individual votes<br />
** Reduce the power of house speaker/senate president<br />
** Remove legislative loopholes (no votes in out of session periods). Spell out limits on emergency sessions.<br />
** Require bills only include content relevant to the original purpose of the bill<br />
** Expand whistleblower protections (suggested after the meeting)<br />
* Full decriminalization of private consensual activities and implement effective harm reduction strategies.<br />
* Change the law to use IRV/RCV<br />
* Fully fund the MBTA and all public transit systems<br />
* Pass net neutrality bill<br />
* Have a mock budget with taxes and spending<br />
** Include money for energy conservation fund<br />
** Solar credit?<br />
* Close the fusion centers<br />
* Stop any support for ICE and other related agencies. Prohibit county sheriffs from helping ICE<br />
* Try to increase competition in oligopolies esp. media<br />
* Promote training for creating cooperative operations and tomorrow’s leaders (e for all?)<br />
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== What would we implement in our first year of achieving power? ==<br />
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* Restorative justice approach for minors <br />
* Implementing changes based on survey results<br />
* Within the first year exonerate and wipe records of all private consensual crimes<br />
* Basic right education<br />
* Fund the development of public transit in Mass.<br />
* Development of high speed broadband in Mass.<br />
* License requirement<br />
** law students have to teach kids their rights<br />
** psychology students to help homeless<br />
* Education<br />
** Expand financial decision making/responsibilities education<br />
** Teaching labor rights and struggles<br />
** Bring back home economics and food preparation <br />
* Require state (MEMA) and municipalities do a climate change/storm risk assessment<br />
** Must include food security, housing, transportation<br />
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== What would we implement longer term? ==<br />
* Decentralize federal/state government to county/regions and municipalities<br />
** Reconstitute county governments to make them elected and able to solve regional problems<br />
* Removal of laws that no longer apply especially if they are harmful to individual rights<br />
* Expand the ballot initiative and direct democracy. Institute a people’s veto</div>Jokeefe