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MILLION
WORKER MARCH LIST OF DEMANDS
ON BEHALF OF WORKING PEOPLE IN AMERICA WE SEEK TO SECURE:
• Universal single-care health care from cradle to
grave that ends the stranglehold of greedy insurance companies
and secures health care as a right of all people in America.
• A national living wage that lifts people permanently
out of poverty.
• Protection and enhancement of Social Security immune
to privatization.
• Guaranteed pensions that sustain a decent life for
all working people.
• The cancellation of all corporate "free"
trade agreements, including NAFTA, MAI and FTAA.
• An end to privatization, contracting out, deregulation
and the pitting of workers against each other across national
boundaries in a mad race to the bottom.
• Workers' right to organize and repeal of Taft Hartley
and all anti-labor legislation.
• Money for school construction in a crash program
to restore our decaying and abandoned schools with state of
the art school facilities in every community.
• Funding for a vast army of teachers to end to functional
illiteracy in America and unleash the talent and potential
of our abandoned children and adults.
• Launching of a national training program in skills
and capacities that will enlist our people in rebuilding our
country and putting an end to both the criminalization of
poverty and the prison-industrial complex.
• Rebuilding of our decaying inner cities with clean,
modern and afford-able housing
and elimination of homelessness in America with guaranteed
housing and jobs for all.
• Progressive taxation that increases taxation on corporations
and the rich while providing relief for the working class
and poor.
• An end to the poisoning of the atmosphere, soil,
water and food supply with a national emergency program to
restore the environment, end global warming and preserve our
endangered ecosystem.
• Creation of efficient, modern and free mass transit
in every city and town.
• Repeal of the Patriot Act, Anti-Terrorism Act and
all such repressive legislation.
• Slashing of the military budget and recovery of the
trillions of dollars stolen from our labor to enrich the corporations
that profit from war.
• Opening of the books on the "black" budgets
of the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies in the service
of corporations and banks and the pursuit of imperial war
on the poor everywhere.
• An end to the U.S. war in Iraq and the U.S. occupation;
bring the troops home now.
• Extension of democracy to our economic structure
so that all decisions affecting the lives of our citizens
are made by working people who produce all value through their
labor.
• Aggressive enforcement of all civil rights and a
national education campaign and mobilization against race,
sex, sexual orientation and other forms of discrimination
in the work place and in our communities.
• A democratic media that allows labor and all voices
to be heard and a stop to media monopolization and union busting
of media workers.
ONLY OUR OWN INDEPENDENT MOBILIZATION OF WORKING PEOPLE ACROSS
THE U.S. CAN OPEN THE WAY TO ADDRESSING OUR NEEDS AND OUR
AGENDA.
JOIN US, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, IN A HISTORIC MOVEMENT TO
RESTORE OUR DEMOCRACY, SECURE POWER FOR THE OVERWELMING MAJORITY
OF WORKING PEOPLE AND RESHAPE THE U.S..
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