Why it’s IMPORTANT
Democrats and Republicans bicker more than they bring change. If they would only listen to the folks who elected them they would know exactly what to do. Instead they squabble over ways to keep things exactly the same.
While our politicians dismantle democracy by blocking and choosing each others voters, they think they are above reproach. Non-Partisan voters out-number both parties combined by two to one. We don’t need gridlock. We need a third party. Workers Party Now is working to become that third option.
THE WORKERS PARTY IS BUILT FROM THE GROUND UP AND FROM THE COMMUNITY OUT. WE DON’T HAVE A CENTRAL OFFICE IN DC CALLING ALL THE SHOTS. WE LISTEN, and then we act. It’s that simple.
-Ben Lewis; Workers party voter
VALUES
When is the last time your former party stood by YOUR values? They yell them at the campaign podium and abandon them on the floor of congress. Can you even tell me what the democrat or republicans party stands for? I can’t. It seems like year after year our politicians are arguing over things that don’t matter to the average worker one bit.
DECENTRALIZE POWER
We’ve known for a long time that power corrupts and that absolute power corrupts absolutely. Despite that, our government keeps concentrating power into federal committees, international conglomerates, and absentee investors. This takes agency away from the folks who live, and work hard everyday in our local communities. When we see power, we ask ourselves how we can reduce entrenched power while distributing it into as many localized movements and organizations as possible.
Abolish carceral slavery
We spent a LOT of money sending people to prison where folks are mistreated, abused, and forced to work without pay. We spent a fraction of that money trying to reform folks who have fallen through the massive cracks in our current system of “work until you’re dead.” Even worse, we don’t get anything back from all the money we spend on cops and prisons. We need to invest in localized, restorative systems that mitigate and address harm instead of sweeping it into a cold dark prison cell. We spend more on police than it would cost to support and work with the people we are incarcerating to help them find a fulfilling and fruitful place in our communities.
housing for all
For the past decade the cost of a home has gone up and up as more and more wealthy people snatch houses up as investments and international conglomerates. At the same time more and more new luxury condos sit empty waiting for a wealthy professional to relocated to the area.
Unfortunately rising home values are immediately passed on as higher costs for renters with no recourse to fight back other than withholding rent while risking a life on the streets.
We must end non-resident land hoarding. If you don’t live or work somewhere, you shouldn’t get to decide how the people who do use that land. Land is a local community resource that should be respected, preserved, and shared. Having out of town, out of state, and out of continent control over land is just dumb and has to end.
ABOLISH DEBT SLAVERY
Even enough to get by on can become not enough to survive with enough debt and high interest loans. Unfortunately the system of american corporate bureaucracy was built on a slavery class and has evolved to now preys on those who are the worst off. Finance as an industry takes advantage on poor and working folks to benefit the corporations and banks that hold that debt. Poverty and debt are used to hold good people hostage for decades and without letting them get out of predatory loans. By limiting interest rates to 10% annually, abolishing credit reporting, and limiting debt terms to 7 years we can shift to a fairer and more equitable financial system that doesn’t always funnel money to the folks who need it the least.
Redundancy is Strength
After 50 years of outsourcing and off shoring, the United States has become a shell of financed desires that can’t do anything for itself. We are a country full of talented, passionate people who want to build dreams together, yet every round of investment goes to a tech subsidiary while leaving the people doing the actual work behind. That has to stop.
We have to stop pointing our government grants at large corporations that are too big to fail and start giving that money to as many local organizations as possible. Having 500 folks fighting a problem with $50,000 a piece will always net better results than one or two giant corporations splitting the same $25 million dollars, and more of that money will land in the communities where it is needed the most. This will get America back to its roots of making and collective self sufficiency.
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