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SIGN THE PETITION

PETITION FOR WALI RAHMAN'S CANDIDACY FOR MAYOR OF PHILADELPHIA.

I am signing this petition to have wali rahman's name placed on the ballot for the 2028 philadelphia mayoral general election, recognizing that he stands on the principles of Black Community Control of the Police and reparations to the Black community: $877 million for economic development for the poor and working people, not police containment!

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OUR STRATEGY TO WIN THE ELECTION IS TO GET EVERYONE WHO SIGNS THIS PETITION TO COMMIT TO GETTING 14 OTHER PEOEPLE TO SIGN. CAN YOU MAKE THAT COMMITMENT?

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Uhuru! We salute you for visiting the official wali 'werc' rahman 4 mayor website. 

 

 

 

Our current platform is the following:

 

1. BLACK COMMUNITY CONTROLLED POLICE COMMISSION, NO PAYCHECK FOR THE POLICE: the immediate withdrawal of the colonial and capitalist mercenary police from our oppressed and exploited communities.  the right of the black community and all communities being "policed" to mobilize for our own security without the involvement of the Colonial court and prison system. Concretely this means a volunteer only security staff that comes from the community in which they function. 

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2. Reparations to the African community through economic development for workers, tenants, students, prisoners and customers.  This means at minimum redirecting the $877 million police budget towards the following programs:

 

A. FREE SEPTA FOR EVERYONE 

 

B. FREE LAUNDRY MATS IN EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD 

 

C. NOT FOR PROFIT GROCERY STORES ACCESSIBLE TO EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD

 

D. NOT FOR PROFIT GAS STATIONS ACCESSIBLE TO EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD and a community controlled city owned gas refinery.

 

E. 15TH AND CALLOWHILL WILL BE TRANSFORMED INTO THE headquarters for the PEOPLES SHOPPING MALL/GROCERY STORE 

 

F. Quality housing for the entire black community, in response to the exploitation experienced at the hands of capitalists who turn neighborhoods into parking lots for they parasitic grocery stores. Transform existing public housing into quality housing. 12th and Cumberland should be transformed into quality skyrises for the residents of that community. 

 

3. ABOLISH PPA IMPOUNDMENTS

 

4. ABOLISH FORECLOSURE OF RESIDENTIAL HOUSES AND PROPERTIES OWNED BY WORKERS.

 

5. FREE 24/7 CHILDCARE FOR AGES 0-18

 

6. FULL EMPLOYMENT FOR PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL (11th and 12th grade) IN THE NOT FOR PROFIT INSTITUTIONS BUILT THROUGH THE PEOPLE BUDGET (including community farms and gardens, construction projects, grocery stores, gas stations, etc)

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7. Living wage for all workers and the right for all workers to organize the workers council at all job sites; ensuring their right to achieve a collective bargaining agreement (CONTRACT) with their employers. This contract would address pay, days off and other so called benefits.  This contract would include a mandatory peoples audit of all employers through which a financial report of the yearly and pay period net and gross earnings by the employing company will be disclosed to the workers in the weekly/bi-weekly paystub

 

8. BAN ALL FEDERAL IMMIGRATION POLICE (ICE) ACTIVITY WITHIN CITY LIMITS 

 

9.  REPARATIONS TAX MUST BE PAID BY THE MILLIONAIRE CORPORATIONS, AS COMPENSATION FOR THE STOLEN WEALTH THEY HAVE EXPROPRIATED FROM THE WORKING PEOPLE OF THE WORLD VIA PROFITS GENERATED THROUGH MONOPOLIZING OF INDUSTRIES AND PRICE GOUGING ON THE PEOPLE.

 

SUNOCO, ShopRite, save a lot and fresh grocers each made a 2024 net profit of $25 Million dollars, only because the people do not have the capital necessary to open a not for profit or wholesale version of the stores we are forced to shop at.

 

ALL MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR CORPORATIONS THAT FUNCTION IN THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA MUST PAY A REPARATIONS AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE TAX to go towards funding the programs we have laid out in this platform.  

 

10. Right to freedom of speech, assembly and protest in support of the struggle for the democratic rights of African, Mexican, Palestinian and all oppressed peoples.  

 

As a city and municipal government We will exercise the RIGHT to participate in the struggle for total economic and political Liberation and Unification of our people Nation wide under All African Socialist government - mali, Burkina faso, niger, Cuba

 

FREE PALESTINE! ISRAEL MUST GO!:

Cut all ties with the illegitimate settler colonial Israeli state which currently occupied Palestine and deprives it's indigenous inhabitants of any rights. 

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HANDS OFF CUBA, IRAN, VENEZUELA AND ALL DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENTS WHICH SEEK political and ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE!

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HERE IS FOOTAGE FROM RAHMAN'S 2010 CAMPAIGN FOR MAYOR AS AN INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE:

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