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The Basic Issue:
The People vs. The Giant Corporations
The basic issue is whether Congress will begin to support average people or continue to look after the interests of the super-rich and the giant corporations.
I will be an independent voice in Congress who challenges the bipartisan consensus for pro-corporate economic and imperial foreign policies and who fights for the interests of average people, starting with the four top priorities outlined below.
Howie Hawkins, Green Populist candidate for Congress, 25th District, New York
Stop the Wars in Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan:
ALL Troops Home Now
The US has no right to occupy Iraq and Afghanistan for oil, gas, and military bases.
Immediately cease US combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and threats of an attack on Iran. Bring home ALL US military forces and corporate mercenaries on a six-month timetable from Iraq, Afghanistan, and the other states of the region.
Stop the covert war in Iran and the threats of economic blockade and air strikes. Iran poses no threat to America unless US aggression forces Iran into a wider Middle East regional war.
Medicare For All: Single-Payer National Health Insurance
Howie Hawkins supports HR 676, The United States National Health Insurance Act, (Expanded and Improved Medicare For All), a bill in Congress with 70 sponsors. Democrat Dan Maffei and Republican Dale Sweetland do not.
HR 676 provides for publicly financed and privately delivered health care for all, with free choice of doctors and hospitals by patients and comprehensive coverage of all medical services, at less cost to working people and society than our existing "pay or die system of private insurance.
Economic Justice and Sustainability
It's time for Congress to finally act upon FDR's 1944 appeal for an Economic Bill of Rights that will guarantee economic security for all Americans. It should include the right to a job at a living wage or a guaranteed income above poverty, Social Security, secure pensions for all workers, free full-coverage health care, free public education from Head Start through college, and affordable housing, transportation, and energy.
It's time for Economic Populism: fair trade, progressive taxation, unions, cooperatives, prosecution of corporate crime, real regulation and transparency of financial markets, democratizing the Federal Reserve, taxes on speculation and pollution, and social investment in public services and infrastructure.
It's time to for a new industrial policy that redirects public investment from the permanent war economy and from financial speculation by the super-rich and the giant banks to rebuilding the real economy of manufacturing, agriculture, and services, starting with Building a Sustainable Green Infrastructure, including renewable energy, mass transit, freight and passenger railroads, and green buildings, for jobs and economic recovery, energy security, and climate protection.
Restore Constitutional Government
Reassert Congressional war powers and oversight responsibilities. Restore habeas corpus. End phone and email spying on law-abiding citizens, secret detentions, arrests without charges, secret "evidence, no access to lawyers, military tribunals for civilians, and renditions for torture at "black sites. Prosecute President Bush and other administration officials responsible for war crimes, torture, illegal domestic spying, obstruction of justice, and other crimes against the Constitution and laws of the United States. Our democracy is at stake: failure to prosecute will give future presidents license to commit further lies, crimes, and seizures of unconstitutional powers.
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