"An Economic Bill of Rights" seems fine until you ask "How will these benefits be paid for?" The absence of any answer is deafening.

"Grassroots Democracy" is the old "splinter party system".

I especially liked "Fair Elections" section that says: "Eliminate Mandatory Primaries: Allow parties the right to nominate by membership convention instead of state-run primaries." In other words, turn over our right to choose candidates to the party professional hacks.

"Ecological Conversion" made the most sense of all of their planks. I think that their ideas here should be given a serious lookover.

"Sustainable Agriculture", "Fair Farm Price Supports" sounds good until you try to define "fair".

"Economic Democracy" has a super laugh here: "Workplace Democracy: Establish the right of workers at every enterprise over 10 employees to elect supervisors and managers and to determine how to organize work." Incredible!

"Worker Control of Worker Assets-Pension Funds and ESOP Shares" This makes sense. Workers should have control of their retirement funds, not the greaseball executives who loot the funds.

"Democratic Conversion of Big Business: Mandatory break-up and conversion to democratic worker, consumer, and/or public ownership on a human scale of the largest 500 US industrial and commercial corporations that account for about 10% of employees, 50% of profits, 70% of sales, and 90% of manufacturing assets." This is pure socialist crap.

"End the "War on Drugs:" Decriminalize possession of drugs. Regulate and tax drug distribution. Release nonviolent drug war prisoners. Treat drug abuse as a health problem, not a criminal problem. Drug abuse treatment on demand." This makes sense.

"International Solidarity" contains these screamers:
"Peace Conversion: Cut US military spending unilaterally by 75% in two years to establish a non-interventionist, non-offensive, strictly defensive military posture and save nearly $250 billion a year.
Peace Dividend: Dedicate the $250 billion a year Peace Dividend to the Global Green Deal, Ecological Conversion, the Economic Bill of Rights, and providing full income and benefits for all workers and soldiers displaced by demilitarization until they find new jobs at comparable income and benefits.
Unilateral Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Disarmament: These weapons of mass destruction have no place in a non-offensive military. The US should set the example and demand that other nations match our lead before the proliferation of weapons to countries around the world leads to mass destruction.
Democratize the United Nations: Cooperative security cannot work as long as the United Nations remains a US puppet. Support reforms to democratize the United Nations, such as more proportionality and power in the General Assembly, an elected Security Council, and the elimination of the Great Power Veto on the Security Council.
A Pro-Democracy Foreign Policy: We call for a fundamental shift in US foreign policy, from supporting repressive regimes in the interests global corporations to supporting the pro-democracy labor, social, and environmental movements of the people.
Support International, Multilateral Peacekeeping to Stop Aggression and Genocide
No Unilateral US Intervention in the Internal Affairs of Other Countries
Close All Overseas US Military Bases
Disband NATO and All Aggressive Military Alliances
Ban US Arms Exports
Abolish the CIA, NSA, US Army School of the Americas, and All US Agencies of Covert Warfare
End the Economic Blockades of Cuba, Iraq, and Yugoslavia
Cut Off US Military Aid to Counter-Insurgency Wars in Colombia and Mexico
Freedom for Lori Berenson and All Political Prisoners
Require a National Referendum to Declare War"

David F Mayer