Healthcare

  • create accessible and affordable health care, with universal coverage as the ultimate goal
  • preserve and support rural healthcare resources
  • stop insurance companies dictating care
  • recruit providers and resources, pay hospitals for services
  • support senior care and aging in place
  • ensure the best conditions for nurses (like safe ratios) to support high quality patient care
  • address issues within mental health, substance use, and homelessness with evidence based and compassionate approaches that prevent, treat, support, and destigmatize care that people need in order to be well and recover

Affordability

  • support affordable housing development
  • universal child care
  • heating and food resources
  • support all working people with stronger wages and benefits
  • people shouldn’t have to work two jobs and/or overtime just to get by
  • unions don’t protect all workers and our policies should
  • address out of control property taxes
  • tax billionaires out of existence and support programs for the people

Education

  • fund schools without raising property taxes
  • pay teachers fairly and give needed resources
  • support local higher education so people can continue with local and affordable education and career development in our communities
  • provide high quality education for all students
  • Wabanaki studies

Human Rights

  • treat people with dignity and respect
  • value immigrants and other diverse populations
  • end the targeting of vulnerable groups
  • embrace diversity and show compassion for other humans
  • land back and tribal sovereignty

Climate

  • preserve natural resources
  • protect the environment for future generations
  • limit data center