Peace and Freedom Party

Members and friends of the Peace and Freedom Party are encouraged to participate in local rallies protesting the reactionary, anti-democratic military coup in Honduras. As most heads of state and foreign ministers (with the notable exception of Secretary of State Hilary Clinton) have stated, the only acceptable next step is the return of President Zelaya to power, to finish the term to which he was lawfully elected.

The Peace and Freedom Party believes that access to quality medical and dental care is a basic human right. We stand for a democratically-controlled, publicly-funded health care system. We support health practices that emphasize education, prevention and nutrition. We demand:

• Free, high-quality health care for everyone.
• Eliminate for-profit health care.
• Free immunization programs.
• No private patents on drugs developed through publicly-funded research.
• Price controls on drugs and medical technology.
• Safe pre-natal care, including women's choice of birth alternatives.
• More medical facilities to provide services and education in low-income neighborhoods and rural areas.
• More substance abuse treatment and needle-exchange programs.
• More research into diseases and disorders caused by man-made substances.
• More community health care facilities.
• Support non-standard proven methods.
• Special attention to preventing epidemics of communicable diseases, such as AIDS.

by Lowell B Denny

The forked tongue of Pres. Barack Obama is becoming a legend in these short 6 months. So the former teacher I am, I will give Obama a Progress Report:

Mideast Occupation: F
Health care: F
LGBT rights: F
The Economy: F

The constituencies of these interests represented solid, high-turnout supporters among Democrats and progressives, yet Obama seems wholly disinclined to even humor them. Instead, he earns high marks from the homophobes, free-marketeers (Obama was affiliated with the University of Chicago after all, the Vatican of Milton Freidman), military-industrialists, and health-care company shareholders, who want to earn profits on death.

Labor and working people are under a brutal attack. Millions of laid-off workers in California and the rest of the United States are not only losing their jobs but their homes, their healthcare and a decent life for themselves and their families. The recent defeat of the anti-labor propositions in California is being used as an excuse by both the Governor and the Democratic party to escalate the attacks on public workers, education and public services. Our unions relied on the Democrats to save working people and instead they got a bad deal on the ballot.

The Peace and Freedom Party, which is the only working class party on the ballot in California, believes that we will not defend our interests by demobilizing the working class and giving hundreds of millions of dollars to capitalist politicians like Feinstein and Pelosi. Our party is the largest socialist electoral party in the United States. We support a program in California of single-payer healthcare, elimination of Proposition 13 property tax limitations on corporate and other non-residential property, elimination of the requirement of a 2/3 supermajority to pass a budget and taxes, and for a capital tax on the billionaires and millionaires in California.