Civil Rights/Equal Opportunity/Racial Disparity Issues
- Support, preserve and protect equal opportunity programs
- Eliminate
racial profiling
- Reassert congress' desire and ability to protect Americans' Civil
Rights
- Enhance protection and prevention against hate crimes
- Eliminate potential discrimination in "Faith Based" initiatives
- Maintain barriers between partisan politics and houses of worship
- Promote civic participation and rehabilitation by reinstating
voting rights for felony offenders who are no longer incarcerated
- Public safety ex-offender self-sufficiency
- Eliminate prison rape
- Eliminate sentencing disparity in crack cocaine cases
- Abolish mandatory minimum prison sentences
- Law enforcement trust and integrity
- Protect unaccompanied immigrant children
- Enactment of safe, sane and sensible gun safety laws
- Eliminate predatory lending
- Reparations for African Americans
- Racial disparity in death sentencing
- Ensure voting rights for all eligible Americans
- Congressional voting rights/statehood for the District of Columbia
- Ensure equal opportunity at the U.S. Supreme Court
- Ensure fair and impartial judges are nominated and confirmed
to the federal judiciary
- Award the congressional gold medal to Dr. Dorothy Height
Labor Issues
- Increasing the minimum wage to a fair, livable wage
- Employment non-discrimination act
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Health and Housing Issues
- Universal, decent and affordable housing
- Establish a national housing trust fund
- Enact a comprehensive program to combat homelessness
- Patients' Bill of Rights
- Allow fortified soy milk to be offered as an alternative at public
school lunches
- Protecting Social Security
- Universal health care access
- AIDS prevention and treatment
- Comprehensive treatment for sufferers of sickle cell disease
- Protect and promote the rights of all Americans to high quality
health care
Education Issues
- Reduce financial disparities between schools
- Protect and increase
funding and head start programs
- Increase support for families
with pre-school and school-aged children
- Full funding for federal
education programs
- Public school construction bonds
- Protect children from over-medication
- Oppose discriminatory "High-Stakes" educational testing
of public school students
- Protect federal
funding for after-school programs
- Repeal law disallowing students
convicted of minor drug offenses from receiving financial aid
- Ensure a high quality education for every American child
International Issues
- Global
AIDS/HIV prevention and treatment
- Eliminate U.S. trade and travel
embargos on Cuba
- Increase African and Caribbean trade and development
assistance
- Release international loans on Haiti
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