Campaign Literature


Party for Socialism and Liberation Campaign Committee
 
Brochure, opens to 8 1/2" x 11", Oct. 2012.

SEIZE THE BANKS! Jobs, Healthcare & Housing for All!

PSL Lindsay/Osorio Campaign
10-Point Program

1 Make a job a Constitutional right Tens of 
millions are jobless and under-employed because the 
capitalists control employment. A decent-paying job 
must be a legal, guaranteed right. The minimum wage should be raised to $20 per hour and a living income must be 
guaranteed for those who cannot work.

2 Make free health care, free education & 
affordable housing Constitutional rights 
These are essentials of life and should not be run for- profit. Create a completely free and public health-care 
system. Make education free—cancel all student debt. Stop 
all foreclosures and evictions—end all mortgage interest 
payments to the banks.

3 Shut down all U.S. military bases around 
the world—bring all the troops, planes & 
ships home U.S. foreign policy uses the pretext of 
national security to enforce the imperialist interests of 
the biggest banks and corporations. That's what is behind 
the endless wars and occupations. Use the $1 trillion military 
budget instead to provide for people's needs here and around 
the world. Stop U.S. aid to Israel. End the blockade of Cuba.

4 Stop racist police brutality and mass 
incarceration More than 3 million people are behind bars in the largest prison complex in the world. 
Mass incarceration of our youth is the real crime. End 
the mass incarceration of oppressed communities. Fully 
prosecute all acts of police brutality and violence.

5 Defend our unions Support the right of all 
workers to have a union. Fight back against the 
attacks on collective bargaining. Pass the Employee 
Free Choice Act and repeal the Taft-Hartley Act. In 
the spirit of Wisconsin, rebuild a fighting-and striking- 
labor movement.

6 Equality for women and free, safe, legal 
abortion on demand Stop the attack on women's reproductive rights and defend Roe v. Wade. Women 
must have the fundamental right to choose & to control 
their own bodies. Women still earn 22 percent less than men, 
and the gap is even more severe for Black and Latina women. 
Close the wage gap and end the gender division of labor.

7 Full rights for all immigrants Abolish all anti-immigrant laws. Stop the raids and deportations. 
The government's war on immigrants must end. The 
border wall must be dismantled.

8 Full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people Make same-sex marriage a federal right—keep the movement in the streets. Fight 
anti-LGBT discrimination and violence.

9 Save the planet—End capitalism We need a central economic plan to significantly cut greenhouse 
gases, clean up the environment and build a massive 
renewable energy network. The for-profit economic 
system creates incentives to pollute. No fracking, no Keystone 
pipeline!

10 Seize the banks—Jail Wall Street criminals The banks' vast wealth came from the people's labor and tax-dollar bailout. Capitalist baninking is a form of organized crime, rewarding greed and fraud with obscene bonuses. These billionaires looted and destroyed the economy. It is time to seize their assets and use those resources in the interests of the vast majority. Power must be taken out of the hands of the super-rich, and the Wall Street criminals must be held accountable.



Why Socialism
Socialism provides the core economic alternative to the 
capitalist system. Instead of 
corporate and bank profits being put on a pedestal, the rights of working and poor people are 
put first. Under socialism every 
person is guaranteed a right to 
a job, a right to free health care, 
free education, free child care 
and affordable housing. Instead 
of society's vast wealth being controlled and used for the capitalists, it is used for the 
benefit of the people.

Capitalism is a system that gives banks and corporations all 
the benefits while hard-working families lose their jobs and 
homes—a system that treats education as a commodity and 
allows the banks to suck $1 trillion from young people in the form of student loans.

Taken one at a time, each of the statistics below could be 
a shocking snapshot of our society. But if you put all these 
snapshots together, you see a whole story unfolding, a process of long-term decline for U.S. workers because of the 
capitalist system:

- 61 percent of Americans "always or usually" live paycheck to 
paycheck, up from 43 percent in 2007.

- The bottom 50 percent of income earners in the United States 
now collectively own less than 1 percent of the nation's wealth.

- More than 45 million people received food stamps in 2011, a 70 
percent increase from 2007, and the number will continue to grow.

- Approximately 21 percent of all children in the United States were 
living below the poverty line in 2010—the highest rate in 20 years.

- 2.3 million working-class people are incarcerated in prisons and 
jails—more than any other country in the world.

- Nearly $1 trillion of taxpayers' money is spent every year for 
overseas wars and U.S. military bases in the name of "defense"— 
another subsidy for Corporate America!



Meet Peta Lindsay
Peta Lindsay, 27, is the 2012 presi
dential candidate of the Party for 
Socialism and Liberation. She is a 
founding member of the PSL.

A graduate of Howard University, 
Lindsay currently lives in Los Ange
les where she remains an organizer. 
She is studying at the University of Southern California to become a public school teacher.

Since her days as a high school student, Lindsay has 
helped to lead countless demonstrations across the 
country against imperialist wars, racism, budget cuts, 
tuition hikes, police brutality, anti-LGBT bigotry, and in 
support of immigrant rights, women's rights and the 
Palestinian people's right to self-determination. She 
has been a tireless advocate for the rights of working 
people and for socialism.

Lindsay has also represented the U.S. anti-war move
ment at important conferences in Europe, Asia and 
Latin America.

Meet Yari Osorio
Yari Osorio, 26, is the 2012 vice- 
presidential candidate of the PSL. 
A graduate of John Jay CUNY, he 
lives in New York City. Born in Cali, Colombia, Osorio im
migrated to the United States at 
age three with his mother and 
older brother. He is now a U.S. citizen, but grew up undocumented. The harsh anti-immigrant policies in the United States propelled 
Osorio to become an ardent advocate for social and 
economic justice, and for equality.

Osorio has helped to lead dozens of anti-war and 
anti-racist demonstrations in New York City and 
Washington, D.C. In October 2011, Osorio was ar
rested on the Brooklyn Bridge along with 700 oth
ers as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement.