Platform

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Our Platform

Human Rights

    • Universal Healthcare for All

      • Healthcare as a human right

        • Medicare for All

        • CalCare for All

      • Expand Medicare Services

        • Dental

        • Vision

        • Mental Healthcare

      • Protect and Expand Social Security

    • Guarantee Housing for All

      • Support Rent Control

      • Public Housing

      • End Homelessness

      • Housing as a human right

    • Free Public Education for All

      • Pre K-12

      • Community College & University

      • Trade Schools

    • Dismantle Structural Racism

    • Public Ownership of Utilities

      • Internet, Power, Water

    • Expand Disability Rights

      • Support individuals with barriers to employment

    • Protect & Expand Immigrant and Refugee Rights

    • Increase Access to Childcare

    • Further LGBTQIA+ and reproductive rights and justice

Education

    • Fully Fund Education

      • Ensure educational excellence

      • Maintain Excellence of CA Universities

    • Cancel Student Debt

    • Integrate Arts Education in Curriculum

    • Workforce Development in Science and Technology

    • Increase funding for Research and Development

    • Resist Privatization of K-12 Schools

    • Fully fund special education programs in public schools across CA

    • Maintaining and expanding the funding of the Department of Education

Economics

    • Living Wage for All

    • Protect Labor Rights

    • Implement Public Banking Option

    • New Technology Leadership and Innovation

Environment

    • Decarbonized Economy by 2030

    • 100% Carbon Free Electricity by 2030

    • Ban Single Use Plastics

    • Expand Animal Welfare

      • Plant-Based Treaty

      • Expand funding for humane society

      • Restrict animal experimentation

      • Humane treatment of animals in animal husbandry

Democracy

    • Party Accountability & Democracy

      • Eliminate appointed positions on the CDP Central Committee and Executive Board.

      • Support more transparency in the party and responsiveness to the grassroots.

      • Reject political contributions to Democrats and the party from AIPAC, military contractors, fossil fuel interests, police unions, private prison industry, and corporate PACs.

      • Advance legislation and ballot measures that end the undue influence of big money in California elections.

      • Vote for pro-Palestine progressives for CDP chair and other offices.

    • Campaign Finance Reform

    • Protect & Expand Voter Rights

      • Ranked Choice Voting

      • Allow felons to vote*

      • Expand access to ADEM elections

Public Safety

    • Reduce All Forms of Gun Violence: Gun Suicide, Community Violence, Domestic Violence, Kids & Guns, Police Shootings, Mass Shootings, Guns & Democracy

      • Ban assault weapons

      • Stand up to the gun lobby’s radical and profit driven agenda

    • Address the Root Causes of Gun Violence

    • End Mass Incarceration

      • Criminal Justice Reform

      • Humane conditions

      • Stop penalizing minor violations

      • Dismantle Racist system

      • End Death Penalty

      • Change the incarceration system to be focused on rehabilitation rather than punitive 

    • Reimagine Public Safety; Invest in Care, Reduce Police Budgets

      • Appropriate response

      • Invest in Mental healthcare

      • Invest in Substance Abuse Treatment

      • Invest in Violence Prevention programs

      • Increased Training

      • Decrease militarization of police

      • Prohibit campaign contributions from police unions

Military

    • Defund the Military Industrial Complex

    • Ceasefire for Palestine

    • Arms Embargo on Israel

    • Recognition of Palestinian Sovereignty


Party Endorsements

We know that in order for all the causes we are fighting for to be made reality, we will need to address the Elephant in the Room - weakening the hold that powerful corporations and special interests have within the California Democratic Party.  

Without doing so, we will forever be having protests and meetings and lobby visits for cause after cause, all the while our families and communities continue to suffer and be neglected.  We must take hold of the power structure of the Party and be clear-eyed about the conflicts of interests that exist within the Party which weakens the Party’s resolve to endorse and expend party resources for only candidates committed to serving Main Street, not Wall Street.  

100% of our slate members are proud signers of the affirmation statement of the Progressive Caucus of the California Democratic Party for delegates candidates, which reads as follows:

As a member of the California Democratic Party (CDP) State Central Committee, I affirm the following:

1. I endorse the CDP Platform as the official statement of the California Democratic Party’s values and policy positions, while acknowledging that amendments are necessary to fully support the values of an authentic progressive movement.

2. I will not vote, in my capacity as delegate to the CDP, to endorse any candidate for public office, nor vote for any candidate for CDP Officer who solicits or accepts during the last two election cycles, contributions to their campaigns or to organizations they administer, from the fossil fuel industry, corporate real estate development, law enforcement, the healthcare, insurance, and pharmaceutical industries, for-profit incarceration, charter schools or any organization or corporation directly benefiting these industries. (This prohibition does not apply to individual employees of said organizations or industry, but does apply to its executives.)

3. I will not vote, in my capacity as delegate to the CDP, to endorse any candidate for public office, nor vote for any candidate for CDP Officer, that does not support fundamental human rights of all refugees, including the right to leave and return as described in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and affirmed by CDP Resolution 20.03.27.

4. I will not vote, in my capacity as delegate to the CDP, to endorse any candidate for public office, nor vote for any candidate for CDP Officer that supports legislation restricting our Constitutional freedom to advocate for the boycott, divestment, and/or sanction of countries that engage in routine human rights violations.

5. I support a reduction in CDP delegates appointed by Party leaders and elected officials, alongside divestment of power from the CDP Chair, in order to increase rank and file representation and democracy within the CDP.

By placing my signature below, I affirm that, as Delegate to the California Democratic Party, I support the issues listed above, will advocate and vote to advance them in our political discourse, will vote to endorse candidates for office that support these issues, and will commit to withholding my vote for those elected officials that act in opposition to them.