Melquiades Gagarin 🌹 🇵🇭 🇵🇷Konto zweryfikowane

More often than not they're migrants or members of the LGBTQIA community forced into the shadows and always left out of the policy making process; becoming victims of exploitation and of a rescue mentality when what they need is empowerment and a seat at the table.

By "human dignity above corporate greed" I mean transforming our immigration system so that our nation of refuge acts like one, instead of incarcerating children, ripping families apart, and ...

...weaponizing federal agencies to stock camps maintained and being profited by, private prison corporations. The same corporations that contract with states across the country continuing to lock away black and brown bodies under the guise...

...of public-private partnerships to address prison overcrowding, when in reality they are just a dutiful cog in the machine of a broken system that fuels the mass incarceration crisis.

Such partnerships only create profit motive to let the problem remain, rather than force investment in addressing income inequality, education, healthcare, and the myriad intersections of policy that lie at the root of the problem.

By "the needs of the many before the benefit of the powerful and the wealthy" means I support true Medicare for All so that no one has to die because they couldn't afford their medication...

...or the right form of treatment so that a private insurance company's stockholders can see a profit this year. It means that I support a new vision of public housing that comes with a housing guarantee for the homeless...

...because in 2019 no human being deserves to die on the streets of the richest country in the world. It means I support a living wage and universal basic income because our dignity is not derived solely from our ability to toil away for 40 hours a week...