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Our Liberated Future

A collective vision to fund care, not killing

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A collective vision to fund care, not killing.

Americans are facing rising gas, grocery, rent, and healthcare costs. But instead of funding care for our communities, our U.S. government is pouring billions of our tax dollars into weapons, war, and ICE.

We have more than enough resources to care for all people.⁠ Our tax dollars should fund what our communities really need: affordable housing, quality healthcare, climate justice, and food for families. A better future is possible, and it’s already within reach.⁠ Read our collective vision on where we want our tax dollars to go.

Invest in:

    1. End homelessness by providing housing for all, regardless of location, income, and ability to work.

    2. Fund affordable homes built on environmental sustainability. Provide home maintenance grants for low-income homeowners to ensure healthy, safe, and sustainable homes.

    3. Fund federal downpayment assistance programs for first generation homebuyers to close the racial wealth gap. Provide reparations to individuals historically denied housing opportunities in the U.S., and provide quality housing for immigrants and refugees.

    4. Enforce and expand legal protections for renters and single-family home owners against the threat of exploitative landlords, displacement and gentrification by corporate developers and speculators, and real estate market takeovers by Wall Street.

    1. Provide universal, free healthcare for all, including reproductive healthcare, mental healthcare, elder care, disability services, and culturally competent services.

    2. Invest in public health through expansions in Medicaid, Medicare, local comprehensive health centers, harm reduction for substance use, and sustained support to prevent and treat COVID-19 and Long COVID.

    3. Fund health and mental health services for queer, trans, and gender-nonconforming people, including education for medical professionals.

    1. Fund public schools equitably instead of on the basis of property taxes. Provide high-quality, inclusive, anti-bias, culturally and linguistically sustaining public education for all children, including Black history and ethnic studies curricula and LGBTQIA+ student protections.

    2. Provide paid parental leave and free comprehensive, quality childcare for all. Invest in the early education workforce and ensure that educators earn a dignified wage.

    3. Provide comprehensive health and reproductive education including free health services.

    4. Fund school counselors, after-school programs, arts education, restorative justice, youth employment programs, and free healthy meals for all children in schools.

    5. Cancel student debt and provide free college.

    1. Respect Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination. Establish free prior and informed consent for Indigenous and tribal communities regarding any action affecting their land and rights.

    2. Invest in a just transition away from fossil fuels and toward clean energy like solar power. Support workers currently trapped in the war and fossil fuel economy with training opportunities to enter a green economy.

    3. Fund infrastructure for public transit, climate resilience, and disaster response and recovery, with universal access and community governance of programs.

    4. Invest in good union jobs, workforce development programs, cooperatively owned businesses, community-controlled food hubs from local farms, and reparations for survivors of state violence.

DIVEST FROM:

    1. End the dangerous and costly U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.

    2. Cut the U.S. military budget by 50%, in order to close 800+ U.S. military bases around the world and eliminate weapons sales to violators of human rights. Return all troops, and reduce the use and stockpiling of nuclear weapons.

    3. Divest from the Global War on Terror, and from war economies that rely on the destruction and extraction of resources, land, and labor.

    4. Completely withdraw U.S. forces from Africa and close AFRICOM, the United States Africa Command for military operations.

    5. End all forms of complicity in Israel’s ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people, including blocking weapons and military funding to Israel.

    1. Defund the police. Divest funds from massive police department budgets and state surveillance.

    2. Immediately stop constructing and shut down all cop cities.

    3. Divest from the school-to-prison pipeline that disproportionately punishes Black, brown, and Indigenous students. End zero-tolerance policies, remove cops from schools, and end suspensions and expulsions in early childhood settings.

    4. End the prison industrial complex and carceral state expansion, in order to build stronger communities rooted in community safety. (Prison costs taxpayers $80 billion a year.)

    5. Root out ableist carceral systems. Abolish psychiatric incarceration and the deadly policing of neurodivergence and disability by law enforcement, social services, and mental healthcare.

    1. Defund and dismantle immigration systems like ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and CBP (Customs and Border Protection). Shut down all immigration detention centers.

    2. Stop funding deadly border militarization and immigration enforcement operations. End weapons and surveillance technology deployment, and divest from physical or virtual border barriers.

    3. Stop anti-asylum policies that prevent refugees from accessing safety, and stop funding the wars that displace them in the first place.

    1. Divest from the fossil fuel economy, including weapons of war and oil and gas drilling in the outer continental shelf.

    2. End tax cuts and government handouts for corporations and the ultrarich, including corporate landlords and Wall Street developers.

    3. Expand worker rights and hold corporations accountable for union busting, labor violations, poverty wages, and human rights abuses.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action (USCPR Action) thanks the following organizations for contributing to the development of these demands across our movements: 18 Million Rising, 350.org, Center for Popular Democracy, Detention Watch Network, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Jewish Voice for Peace and JVP-DC Metro, MADRE, Movement for Black Lives, Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity (MASGD), Muslims for Just Futures, Palestinian Youth Movement, Project ANAR, Rising Majority, Shut Down DC, Showing Up for Racial Justice, TakeAction Minnesota, The Feminist Front, and Trans formative Schools.


ENDORSING ORGANIZATIONS

The following national and local organizations have signed on to this collective vision.

About Face: Veterans Against The War

Adalah Justice Project

Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE)

American Friends Service Committee

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)

Catalyst Project

Center for Economic Democracy (CED)

Christians for a Free Palestine

Feminist Generation

Fight for the Future

Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA)

Global Campaign on Military Spending - GCOMS

Grassroots Global Justice Alliance

INSAF Project

International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network

The Internationalist Law Center

MADRE

Movement for Black Lives

Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity (MASGD)

Muslims for Just Futures

Nonviolence International

Pax Christi USA

Popular Democracy

Rising Majority

Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)

Taxpayers Against Genocide

Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East

US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action (USCPR Action)

Visualizing Palestine

Al Hadaf KC

American Civic and Humanitarian Coalition

Aurora Mutual Aid

Jamaica Plain for Palestine

Palestine Activism Collective

Palestinian American Community Center

Queers for Palestine LA

Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Bay Area Chapter

Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Northern New Mexico Chapter

Staten Island 4 Palestine

Trans formative Schools

Wenatchee for Palestine

ENDORSE THE VISION