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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. |