Human Rights Party (United States)

The Human Rights Party was a socialist political party in Michigan. It existed from the year 1970 to the mid-1970s around Ann Arbor.

 Platform 

 Communication 

 More people can be in government through the use of cable television
 Media is to be funded blindly by the government

 Foreign Policy 

 United States' wars are for the rich and companies
 The United States should stop fighting the Vietnam War
 Focus on community planning and growth

 Education 

 Schools are used to oppress groups, through sexism, racism, and class
 Schools are used to spread propaganda of an free society
 Students deserve privacy, dignity, due process, and other decisions
 Schools should be controlled by students, parents, and teachers
 Schools should be funded by a income tax. The tax should be the same throughout Michigan. If a person gets more money, more of the tax they pay

 Childcare 

 The government and employers should pay for childcare
 Parents, staff, and children should run the childcare

 The young 

 Age should not be a factor of the rights a person has

 The legal system 

 All crimes which doesn't affect another person should be repealed
 Jails contain more poor, black, and young people
 Social inequality is the cause of crime
 People convicted with non-violent crimes should be released without bail
 The police should be controlled by the community
 Prisons should be replaced by rehabilitation 
 All laws on having drugs should be repealed
 Ann Arbor should have more relaxed laws then the state
 Ann Arbor should fund treatment for addicts. Education of drugs should be in schools

 Economics 

 Wealth goes to a few people. The tax system doesn't stop this, but might help it
 Labor unions must be protected
 Workers must be given good working conditions

 Taxation 

 There must be progressive taxation

 Sexism 

 Sexual preference and activity should not be regulated if not interfering with another person
 Human rights should be given to people of all sexual orientations and genders
 Laws against prostitution and sexual orientation must be repealed
 Marital status should not determine rights.
 Immediate divorce should happen if both individual consent to it
 Discrimination against single people in tax laws, housing, jobs and credit must end.
 Laws about pornography should be repealed
 Birth control should be accessible 
 Anti-abortion laws should be repealed. Abortions should be free

 Racism 

 Minority groups should have control over their future
 The city should have more funding and power to find discrimination
 Courses of minority culture should be offered in schools
 Community control of the police to end police racism

 Model cities 
 Community control is more important then the model cities program

 References 

Category:Political parties in the United States