Reconstruction Party Manifesto: on Civil Rights


Repeal the Patriot Act and end Islamophobia

Reconstruction Party Manifesto point #1:
Freedom includes the rights to education, health care, housing, living wages, and freedom from racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, gentrification, and police terror.

Therefore, we need comprehensive federal investment in low-income families and communities, with an emphasis on people of color.

We need repeal of the Patriot Acts, the Secret Evidence Act, the Military Commissions Act, and other legislation that rolls back bedrock civil liberties.

Source: Manifesto for a Reconstruction Party Jan 26, 2008

Reparations for former slaves, as promised & never delivered

Reconstruction Party Manifesto point #3. We Want Reparations Now!
We believe that the U.S. government never kept its promise to former slaves of the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules. Forty acres and two mules were pr
Source: Manifesto for a Reconstruction Party Jan 26, 2008

  • The above quotations are from Draft Manifesto for a Reconstruction Party
    Drafted by Reconstruction Party activists, including Rep. Cynthia McKinney, in New Orleans, Jan. 26, 2008.
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