Long ago, as World War II was ending and the United States government began developing a thoroughly reactionary foreign policy in relation to the Soviet Union, the emerging new socialist China and those peoples struggling to free themselves from colonialism and imperialism, far-sighted thinkers and politicians like the progressive Henry Wallace and his liberal friend Democratic Senator Claude Pepper formulated an alternative agenda with the thinking that if the United States government would focus on creating a better life for our own people it would not have the will, nor the capacity, to wage wars and meddle and intervene in the affairs of other countries... thus, the United States would become a voice for peace and mutual cooperation with the rest of the world.
This was good advice back then and such thinking is what we need in this country now more than ever before.
It is with this in mind that I have joined with others in bringing forward this very minimal and basic set of four urgently required demands intended to help working class families through this capitalist economic collapse exacerbated by this coronavirus pandemic:
Members of the Socialist Connection Action Network (Socialist C.A.N.) propose an emergency action agenda for all people’s unity around these very minimal and basic demands; we seek to work with all individuals and organizations to attain these goals:
1. A Basic Income Guarantee of $2000.00 a month for every adult over 18 and $200.00 for each child in the family.
2. A $650.00 increase for everyone receiving Social Security.
3. Cancel ALL student debt.
4. Increase the Federal Minimum Wage to $16.00.
The money can come from a hefty tax on the rich and a Peace Dividend.
We intend to launch a campaign involving petitioning and letter writing to get this movement underway and to put pressure on Congress and the President to enact this as legislation.
We need your help.
Please copy, post and distribute.
Contact:
Alan Maki
512-517-2708
red_finn@live.com
For twelve years Democrats and Republicans have been using the financial resources and levers of government to assist and bailout Wall Street from this mess we as working people have had no voice in, nor part in creating.
Now it’s time to bailout working class families.
We are not asking for a handout; we create the wealth.
