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​​​​1. Zero dollars for police department budget - Black Community Control of Police and Security. Security concerns held by the people are real,  there are mass shooters. cars and homes get broken into. Every community should be organized to secure the immediate safety of their community 

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This can occur without a prison system that only jails people for economic or property crimes and that exonerates the wealthy. Concretely, for example, in the 39th district there is high rate of arrest around burglary and auto theft. IF these things are happening (and arrest does not mean they happen) burglary can be prevented through simple cooperation of the people. Every block can have some body looking out etc and of something is happening jus intervene and disrupt and that would solve the problem.  We believe in the ability of the people to get along with each other and we understand the real problem to be exploitation and police state to arrest us for economic struggles we make. 

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By get along with each other we mean like when the Black Panther Party launched the campaign to put a street light at a intersection where Black youth was being hit by cars.  The masses united with the stop sign the Panthers installed. There was complete unity nobody ran the Panthers over etc. And our whole campaign rests on a deep faith in the masses that we are not the problem. the problem is the capitalist system which exploits us all and generates start up capital through the attack on the democratic rights of oppressed africans and indigenous people.  this system, through its ruling class political parties pay sellouts like Cheryl Parker to make excuses for it. 

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therefore by getting along with each other we do not mean liberal class peace; ie apologies for price gouging, overcharging of customers and other forms of capitalist exploitation.  a study has not been done, but if it was it would be revealed that many of the calls to the police came from business owners like Love Park Pizza (link here to article on love park).who call the police over 15 dollar cheesesteak orders.

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2. Reparations and restitution private business owners tax on all Philadelphia based corporations that currently pay private business tax to the city of Philadelphia. This tax must match, in terms of proportion of overall earnings of said entity, the cost that is currently imposed on the consumers, customers, septa passengers, prisoners, laundry mat customers, tenants and working class and African people in general, when you add up all of the fees, fines and taxes we pay out to the city of Philadelphia you are looking at at least 13 percent of our income.  therefore, the capitalist must, at minimum pay 13% of its net earnings to the city in the form of private business taxes as well as the reparations and restitutions tax.

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The theft of wealth and ability to build wealth on the part of the African community through the prison system is of great importance. How much money would be in the black community of it was not for prisons and bail policy that prolongs our captivity when jailed. 

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The usage of revenue generated through the reparations and restitutions tax would be facilitated by the Reparations and Restitution Tax Commission, the chair of which would be appointed by the mayor.  The policies of this commission would be informed by the same anti-colonialist and anti-capitalist principles of the WERC4MAYOR campaign.

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3. Abolish all workers wage taxes and real estate taxes.  as we have demonstrated, the 4.5 billion plus that we as the working people of Philadelphia pay in taxes could easily be replaced by the additional taxes we are calling on the city govt to impose on the million and billion dollar corporations. 

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4. 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

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5. Abolish all PPA fines and impoundment. Currently The city makes 73 million off ppa fines and impoundment.  

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The city of Philadelphia reparations and restitution tax commission to a. Provide legal service to challenge all ppa fines and open cases and b. To simply use part of the reparations tax to pay for everybody fines and have the whip released to them like that. 

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6. Abolish SEPTA passenger fares.  Free SEPTA for everybody. SEPTA made 362 million dollars last year off passenger fares. Similar to the PPA fines the fare system will be dismissed and everybody fare would be paid for by the city. The money will come from this program will be subsidized by the reparations and restitution tax.

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some say 362 million is too much for the city to cover but remember WE DONT KNOW WHO IS PAYING PRIVATE BUSINESS TAX TO THE CITY, HOW MUCH IN TAXES THEY PAY AND HOW MUCH THEY NET REVENUE IS. 

These are critical facts to know before we can say how much the city can generate through taxing these forces what they really should be paying , which should amount to an equal or greater amount than what the workers currently pay in taxes (at least 5 billion a year).  This is why the peoples audit which i will fight for on day one of my term, is CRITICAL!

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7. Not for profit (anti capitalist) grocery store chain throughout the city to provide the same goods we currently are for forced to buy from greedy capitalists.  For example, the shoprite on fox and Roberts makes 110,000 dollars a month net profit on selling onions, chickens, cheese, potatoes, rice, apples, bananas, bread, eggs and milk alone! Under our anti capitalist grocery stores that retail profit would go back into the peoples pocket, as the store would simply sell the food at wholesale price and cover the overhead of running the store with the reparations tax. 

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8. Full employment for 11th and 12th grades in trade or industry of their choice as part of a program for vocational training and apprenticeship program for economic self determination for African workers in Philadelphia and worldwide. 

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Our flagship program will be our agricultural program in which we transform many of the 42,000 empty lots in the city into gardens that will produce produce sold in the anti capitalist grocery stores.

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This program will be subsidized by the reparations and restitution tax.

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9. Free laundry mats and detergent - any given large laundry mat in Philadelphia makes around 250,000 profit annually. That's how much money the people in your neighborhood collectively put in that establishments bank account. Again that money can go back into the people pocket. 

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This program will be subsidized by the reparations and restitution tax.

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10. Defend and develop industry of African culture - Nurture  Independent black owned businesses, . With the money the people save in all these ways there will be much greater pool of resources to support and develop independent socialist economic institutions and businesses.  There is plenty of real estate owned by the the city of Philadelphia that came be transformed into peoples institutions for such economic development. For example the police department is building a major facility on 22 and diamond as we speak. This structures use should be centered around the material interests of the people.  Meaning a shopping mall for independent businesses, training facilities, banquet halls, etc. The same goes for the major police building on broad and callowhill. 

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Equally importantly is the question of nurturing culture for the African community who made Philadelphia the magnet for tourism and gentrification that it is but who undergo a subtle experience of extermination. 

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What happened to super Saturday on 22?

What happened to the vendors on 52?

What happened to the Greek fest or whatever it was called on Susquehanna?

What is happening with the uptown? Why is everything at the lioucoura center which is owned by temple which has and currently plays a major role in the ethnic cleansing I am referring to. 

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11. 110,000 affordable homes for the poor and working class African community.  Neo colonial mayor Parker revealed that the city has 1 billion available to build 55,000 new homes. therefore on that same premise 2 billion will get us 110,000 new affordable homes and the money will come from the reparations and restitution tax as well as the public safety (police, prison, courts, jails and fire dept) budget

12. End capitalist and imperialist domination of world oil supply. Not for profit gas refinery and stations city wide. sunoco made 25 million dollars last year net profit. And they are very small gas company. They have a refinery in Philadelphia that they use to flip oil they don't pay for but rather take from land in Africa that they pay a lease for. 

The city of Philadelphia has the capital needed to purchase oil from anywhere on the planet from iran to Nigeria to Venezuela and refine it at our own refinery and therefore enabling us to charge much less for it. 

13. Political and economic self determination for all peoples worldwide:

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A. End sanctions on Iran, Lebanon, cuba - we demand the right to import goods from and export goods to these territories. We understand that the imperialist war against Iran was defeated through a treaty between Iran and the u.s. that requires an immediate lifting of all sanctions against Iran. 

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B. Immediate Release Nicolas maduro, restoration of his power as president of Venezuela. Return of all oil and other resources to the Venezuelan democratic state under the leadership of Nicolas maduro. 

C. Immediate end to all immigration police repression against the indigenous people of North America and Mexico. Political and economic power to the indigenous peoples and the power to control the destiny of their occupied land. no ice activity or presence within Philadelphia borders

D. Immediate withdrawal of Israel from occupied Palestine and city wide boycott on Israeli industry. we thought about saying boycott all Israeli corporations but the question would be how would stand on North American corporations from whom we rely on many products. Some try to frame us as liberals and this is why I am saying this. We are involved in a real struggle that requires the implementation of tactics and strategies. Our long term objective is to build community and national capacity for self determination worldwide. The power of peoples organized around the WERC4MAYOR platform to own and control the means to produce the same products we are discussing right now.

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