1. Protect all people from harassment and violence, including personal, domestic, emotional, mental, financial, and
sexual, through education, law enforcement, and the courts. Survivors of these crimes deserve all the support they
need; and
2. Protect the Establishment Clause, which is the separation of church and state, in all local, state, and federal
government institutions, including the military and public schools; and
3. Improve conditions and defend human rights for the incarcerated and provide adequate support for successful
reintegration into society, including housing, food, health care, employment, and financial support; and
4. Embrace racial and socioeconomic equity and counter discrimination in hiring practices and ongoing
employment; and
5. Defend the use of affirmative action within academic admissions; and
6. Enact incentives to reserve units in new housing developments for lower-income households; and
7. Protect current homeowners and renters from being displaced due to higher property taxes that occur as a result of
increased property values often associated with gentrification; and
8. Work to end police violence, mass incarceration, and other racist features of the criminal legal apparatus, all of
which have severely harmed Black, Indigenous, and people of color individuals; and
9. Propose legislation that appropriately defines racism in the workplace, including definitions of discriminatory
behaviors and adverse treatment; and
10. Work to end income and wealth inequality; and
11. Push for legislation that places incarcerated people in the facilities that match their gender identity to address
abuses upon transgender, non-binary, and intersex incarcerated individuals; and
12. Work to end human trafficking by uplifting policies and laws such as the Victims of Trafficking and Violence
Prevention Act (TVPA); and
13. Address the intersection of racism within our police departments, courts, and media that allow the systemic issues
of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR) to be ignored. Demand equitable
sentencing and allocation of adequate resources to remedy this global issue; and
14. Remediate policies that allow inhumane and inequitable treatment of Black, Indigenous, or people of color
individuals seeking legal refuge in the U.S. only to be put in cages with aluminum blankets or whipped; and
15. Ensure the abolition of the death penalty in recognition that the death penalty is an absolute violation of human
and civil rights; and
16. Actively work to deconstruct institutional and structural racism and acknowledge the role of patriarchy,
colonization, and white supremacy in the current lived experiences of our fellow New Mexicans; and
17. Actively work to eliminate voter suppression laws and practices; and
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