If you live in the Oregon area please take a few moments to take this survey.
If you live in the Portland area please consider attending the meeting today at 3:30.
Survey questions, you can vote on these at the link above.
1. End corporate personhood
2. Limit campaign spending
3. Eliminate the lobbying system
4. Reinstate the Glass Steagall
5. Break up the biggest banks so that they are small enough to fail
6. Enact a financial transactions tax to reduce speculation
7. Investigate and prosecute Wall Street speculatiors who committed fraud causing the current financial crisis
8. Eliminate the right of former government regulators to work for corporations or industries they previously regulated
9. Increase taxes on companies that are outsourcing jobs
10. Institute tariffs on products of factories that have been outsourced
11. Provide tax incentives for corporations that hire locally
12. Limit the number of contract positions a corporation can fill
13. Repeal NAFTA
14. End support for the IMF
15. Increase the marginal tax rate on the top 1%
16. Repeal Bush tax cuts for the wealthy
17. Increase the federal minimum wage to living wages
18. Establish minimum paid leave laws, paid vacation and minimum raises
19. Increase corporate tax rates
20. End the war in Afghanistan
21. End America’s role as world police; bring our troops home
22. Reduce military spending, but increase funding for veterans aid programs including support for families of veterans
23. Increased transparency in military spending
24. Abolish the use of torture
25. End the use of private military and mercenary groups such as Blackwater
26. Guarantee equal pay for the same job and equal opportunity for advancement regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation, or religious preference.
27. Increase the inheritance tax following a marginal tax model
28. Institute public works projects such as those used to pull us out of the Great Depression in order to create jobs; focus on creating jobs in the green energy field
29. Overturn the Patriot Act
30. Nationalize health care
31. Universal health coverage
32. Guaranteed Social Security benefits for everybody
33. A true, well-established and achievable path to citizenship
34. Recognize and adhere to treaties between the Federal Government and Native American tribes
35. Institute public works projects such as those used to pull us out of the Great Depression in order to create jobs
36. Increase corporate accountability; corporations must pay for cleanup when they cause environmental disasters such as oil spills.
37. Nationalize the banks that received bailout money, nationalize all banks that require bailout money in the future
38. End the Federal Reserve System
39. Increase funding for education, police, firefighters, hospitals
40. Universal education for all
41. Forgive interest payments on student loans
42. Guarantee interest free student loans to anyone wishing to obtain higher education
43. Nationalize natural resources
44. Nationalize energy and other utilities
45. End ability of corporations to market/ advertise specifically to children
46. Eliminate right of large agricultural corporations to patent life and monopolize seed
47. Passing of legislation requiring increased transparency in labeling for food
48. Passing of legislation requiring increased transparency in labeling for medicine
49. Require producers to meet certain environmental standards to protect soil and prevent pollution in order to receive agricultural subsidies
50. Shift oil subsidies to green energy subsidies
51. Nationalize the prison system
52. Shift the focus of America’s war on drugs to prevention and treatment
53. Abolish mandatory minimum sentences for user-level drug convictions
54. End government regulation of marriage; government instead issues civil unions to all couples regardless of sexual orientation. Marriage left to the private and religious spheres.
55. Legalization and taxation of marijuana