The lack of safe affordable housing is a national crisis and such housing should be available to all on a non-discriminatory basis. Government should restrict concentration of control in the broadcast, cable and satellite media. The priorities of agriculture policy are food security for all and fair wages and decent housing and working conditions for farm workers. Documented and undocumented immigrants should have access to basic public benefits, such as health care and food stamps.
All persons have an inalienable right to a quality education.
Discrimination based on sex, race, ethnicity, religion and age constitutes a grave injustice and affirmative action is an appropriate remedy to overcome its continuing effects. The death penalty should be abolished. Environmental protection of land, water and air is a moral obligation. The nation should ratify the treaty to ban anti-personnel land mines and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and curb its scandalous role in the global arms trade. Debt relief should be granted to poor nations.