Issue Position: Platform

Issue Position

Support Measure 97 without reservation

Oppose Measure 95 (Universities shouldn't invest in Wall Street stock market -- Privatizes public investments)

Support Campaign Finance Reform, both, 26-184 in Multnomah County AND implementation of past Measure 47

Support Creating a Post-Carbon Economy

* De-construct the fossil fuel infrastructure of asphalt streets in neighborhoods to re-connect communities… turn streets into farms, community gardens, parks, food forests, arboretums, etc.

* Farms Not Streets, Food Not Lawns

* look into www.xfuels.com technologies to use carbon-based waste for fuel (retrieve plastics from Pacific Garbage Patch and landfills. Grow algae for fuel.

* Shift all logging, mining and fossil fuel subsidies over to industrial hemp production on a massive scale as a carbon sink and fiber alternative

* Call for a moratorium on clear cutting (Tax the Timber Industrial Complex)

* Form an Arbor Corps patterned off of the Civil Conservation Corps

* Form PUDs at the Neighborhoods Association level to form 100s of local microgovernments and return utilities back to the commonwealth. (change PUD definitiion to include; internet, petroleum, cell phones, cable tv, freight, grocery stores, factory farms, satellite) State banks would fund them.

* Emissions Caps (no pollution trading)

* Pollution Tax

* Increase Gas Tax

Support creating a Worker First Economy

* Freeze assets of company CEO's in bankruptcies and allow workers to reorganize and reopen company as a Worker Co-op.

* Oppose Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), other "free trade" agreements and Fast Track Authority for President

* Make Oregon a "Card Check" state [basically, A State Level Employee Free Choice Act]

* Four Day Work Week/ three day weekend to reduce carbon and to encourage involvement in civics, community, family, quality of life

* 10:1 Wage Ratio like Swiss 12:1 (to hearken in a true living wage above the minimum wage)

* Maximum Wage (excess profits should go into worker pensions, before being taxed)

* Minimum Wage to at least $15/hour

Support Building a True Democracy

* Create Corporate Charter Citizen Review Committee (hear citizen testimony against re-chartering corps… fashion it like a parole board hearing for corporations)

* Impose Sunset Dates, Term Limits and death penalty for Corporations

* Create a separation between corporations and the state at the state level

* Support Move to Amend, an organization advocating for a 28th Amendment: Corporations are not people/Money is not free speech

* Abolish Corporate "Personhood" at the state level

* Call for Investigation of 9/11 -- to empirically follow the money, scientifically-based findings -- who benefited and who got hurt?

Support Creating A Peace Economy

* Divest from the Military Industrial Complex (Ban military recruitment in Oregon)

* Advocate for a state level Department of Peace

* Turn the Military, Humanitary (with a "Prime Directive")

* Civilian-Based Defense (Gene Sharp, Einstein Institute)

* Kellogg-Briand Pact (Outlawry of War)

* Peace Tax Dividend (divert federal war taxes to human needs)

* Expand Peace Corps

* Build A Peaceagon (perhaps, on the 45th Parallel in Salem) w/ gardens in between inside sections (to rival the Pentagon)

Other

* Advocate for a state-level Single-Payer Healthcare System(Fund it w/State Bank)

* Open state bank to marijuana businesses and industrial hemp full banking needs

* Advocate for a Bullet Ban Bill (doesn't conflict w/2nd Amendment -- treat bullets as UXOs… ban sale, manufacture and possession… highly regulated and heavily taxed -- the way 1937 marijuana prohibition was; keep all ammo at state bank/ armory)

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