In Charleston, SC

Everyday People
Are Fasting for Justice

Until reparations are properly paid out to Black and Indigenous survivors and descendants of white supremacist state-funded and state-protected violence and the land is given back to its original human stewards, you will:

• Stop the elimination and criminalization of DEI initiatives
• Reinstitute all rescinded/cancelled funding and lost jobs
• Reinstate all programs working toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion in the federal government

You will un-dismantle the Department of Education, including its funding and programming, reinstating all lost jobs and grants.

You will stop your attacks on institutions of higher education and libraries, reinstating all funding and ensuring their independence from government overreach.

You will cancel student loan debt.

Systemic racism and systemic poverty are intertwined.

We will not accept federal policy that favors the wealthy and big corporations and punishes working class people and the poor. We will not accept tax cuts for the ultra-rich that will punish middle and working class people and families with higher taxes and fewer critical services.

Therefore, you will:

• Restore and expand funding to Medicaid, SNAP, Head Start, and federal housing programs (Section 8)
• Raise the minimum wage to $15/hour

You will:

• Halt all detainments, deportations, and VISA revocations
• Find those you have disappeared and bring them home
• Provide a path to citizenship for all who are here
• End the Alien Registration Act as it is unjust and built on lies
• Abolish ICE

You will:

• Rescind all laws and policies that compromise trans safety and identity
• Remove government from healthcare decisions
• Commit to a universal policy that healthcare is between a person and that person's healthcare provider for all people, regardless of gender

You will:

• Stop aiding and abetting in any way any assault on Palestinian lives, culture, and land rights
• Immediately allow humanitarian aid into Gaza and the West Bank
• Include Palestinian voices in a peace process and a justice process so that those harmed can decide how they move forward in the land and with their neighbors

Disabled people deserve safe and uncomplicated access to public life, healthcare, work, and leisure.

You will:

• Leave the Americans with Disabilities Act in place and reinstate all rescinded guidelines, plus funding and jobs to ensure compliance
• Rescind the memo terminating federal remote work arrangements
• Guarantee Medicare's coverage of Telehealth
• Terminate any efforts to develop a registry of autistic people or disabled people
• Reinstate and fund again all SSA services, including jobs and grants
• Guarantee protections for SSDI and SSI, as well as increased funding to process applications
• Increase payments to disabled people so that SSDI and SSI payments are in line with/reflect cost of living
• Pass Medicare for All or another universal healthcare package

You will:

• Decriminalize and provide federally guaranteed legal protection to anyone seeking abortion, contraception, and/or miscarriage care
• Provide funding and access to free:
  • Prenatal services
  • Delivery care
  • Postnatal care
  • Miscarriage care
  • Contraception
  • Safe abortion
• Fund, pass laws, and provide policy guidelines for employers around granting workers a guaranteed minimum of 6-months of parental leave after the birth or adoption of a child
• Fund and provide guaranteed access to low-cost and high-quality childcare

You will:

• Rescind the April 28, 2025 Executive Order "STRENGTHENING AND UNLEASHING AMERICA'S LAW ENFORCEMENT TO PURSUE CRIMINALS AND PROTECT INNOCENT CITIZENS"
• End all prison expansions and stop seeking any new prisons or incarceration/internment camps of any kind for any reason
• End cash bail and let go free anyone who is legally innocent
• End enslavement through incarceration and support civil recourse for wage recovery from all incarcerated people who have been forced to work for no or low pay
• End the use of solitary confinement
• Dramatically reduce funding for policing and incarceration
• Dramatically increase funding for anti-poverty measures like:
  • UBI
  • Free and affordable housing
  • Job training
  • Education
  • Head Start
• Put all BWC footage in the hands of the people
• End Qualified Immunity
• Get all the cops out of our schools and provide the resources and staff our youth need instead
• Decarcerate anyone who is not an active threat, regardless of prison sentence length

You will commit to and provide a path and funding for:

• Ending the burning of all fossil fuels in the U.S. by 2030
• Diplomatic relations with a goal to end nuclear armament in all countries throughout the globe by 2035
• Re-imagining our energy use in everything from:
  • Building design
  • Healthcare
  • Agriculture
  • Transportation

You will re-envision a process for policy setting/law creation that asks first:

"What will this do to us and the land and its other inhabitants in 10 years? In 25 years? In 100 years? In 1000 years?"

We will no longer be governed by the tyranny of the dollar, the stock market, and the billionaire.