14 Points: A Summary

THE PEOPLE'S AGENDA:
14 POINTS

1. All Children Need High Quality, Well Funded, Diverse Schools. NC must meet its Constitution's requirement of adequate and diverse schools by fully funding Leandro with transparent accountability and creating special leadership teams in its failing schools. (Video clip and detailed text)
2. Livable Wages and Support for Low Income People. NC ought to provide livable wages, make sure no person goes hungry and that everyone in need has affordable, accessible childcare. (Video clip and detailed text)
3. Health Care for All. NC ought to provide its people with health insurance and prescription drugs, while funding public health programs to treat social diseases that plague Black and poor communities including HIV/AIDS, diseases caused by environmental pollution and warming, drugs, domestic violence, mental illness, diabetes, and obesity. (Video clip and detailed text)
4. Redress Two Ugly Chapters in N. C.'s Racist History: The overthrow of the bi-racial 1898 Wilmington Government and the sterilization of poor, mainly Black, women from 1947-1977. NC must implement its 1898 Wilmington Riot Commission recommendations and pay damages to the poor women it forcibly sterilized. (detailed text)
5. Same Day Registration and Public Financing of Elections. (Video clip and detailed text)
6. Lift Every HBCU. NC must financially support our Historically Black Colleges and Universities to develop equitable infrastructure and programs with doctoral-level leadership for today's challenges. (Video clip and detailed text)
7. Document and Redress 200 years of State Discrimination in Hiring and Contracting.
   NC must commission historical documentation of its contracting practices with racial minorities to justify constitutional redress. (Video clip and detailed text)
8. Provide Affordable Housing and Stop Consumer Abuse. NC must provide an Affordable Housing Trust Fund for low-income renters, vouchers for wounded veterans who can not find accessible housing, meaningful tax breaks for seniors forced out of their homes, and protection against predatory lending and foreclosures. (Video clip and detailed text)
9. Abolish Racially Biased Death Penalty and Mandatory Sentencing Laws; Reform our Prisons. (Video clip and detailed text)
10. Put Young People to Work to Save the Environment and Fight for Environmental Justice.
    NC must establish an Environmental Job Corps for young people who did not graduate from high school to re-engage them in public service. NC must fight all forms of environmental injustice. (Video clip and detailed text)
11. Collective Bargaining for Public Employees and Support Smithfield Workers Right to Unionize. NC must support the right of Smithfield workers in Tar Heel to form a union and work in a safe environment, and support collective bargaining for public employees. (Video Clip and detailed text)
12. Protect the Rights of Immigrants from Latin America and other Nations. NC must provide immigrants with health care, education, workers rights and protection from discrimination. (Video clip and detailed text)
13. Organize, Strengthen and Provide Funding For Our Civil Rights Enforcement Agencies and Statutes Now. (Video clip and detailed text)
14. Bring Our Troops Home from Iraq Now. NC cannot address injustice at home while we wage an unjust war abroad. (Video clip and detailed text)

Comments

[Vinie Burrows]

Dear friends,
While doing research on a paper I am going to deliver at the Federal University in Bahia, Salvador, Brazil on 8 November, I came across your website. My soul was elevated and inspired by your 14 plank platform. I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiments which must be materialized in this racist dominated North America and most particularly the United States of America. The question of Black Brown unity, solidarity is critical for the realization of your agenda. My paper while dealing with the historical antecedents of such unity will also propose support of initiatives such as yours.
At this juncture, the future of the planet rests on people coming together to save the earth and all living things. It is 5 minutes to midnight. Come together brothers and sisters, hermanas y hermanos. Identify evil, resist oppression, join together to plan for a better life for all.