Tell Congress to Support New Social Contract Prioritizing Human Needs Over Profit

From the Juggernaut Project (https://juggernautproject.com/):

Our economy, democracy, and climate have been warped by a concentration of wealth in the hands of a small minority. This concentration allows the powerful to drive policies that benefit themselves while leaving the rest of the U.S. out in the cold. That is not how it is supposed to be. Not here.

Our nation’s social contract is broken – and it’s time for a new one. One that flips the script on this abusive economy and shares power and resources among us all.

Sign the petition from Partners for Dignity & Rights at https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-we-need-a-new-social-contract to tell Congress that we need a New Social Contract that prioritizes human needs over profit.

Partners for Dignity & Rights has joined together policy reforms into a new social contract, and we need you to join us in making it happen. A new social contract must include ways to bring equity and equality to the people, economy, government, and environment. It must include:

• A consensus that basic needs like healthcare, childcare, basic income, and equitably funded education should never be out of reach for any of us and should be funded through income and risk solidarity.
• A new tax system to discourage speculation and environmental degradation, and to redistribute resources from those who have too much to those who have nothing at all.
• Creation of community land trusts to enshrine permanently affordable housing and local green cooperatives.
• The establishment of a federal jobs guarantee and a new system that gives workers greater power to determine the conditions under which they labor.
• Redirecting the flow of money away from speculation and towards investing equitably in our neighborhoods, towns, and cities through public banking, postal banking, and community-controlled investment funds.
• Refocusing our criminal justice system on restorative, not punitive, justice.
• Protecting voting rights for all
• Deepening local democracy via participatory budgeting, parent and youth participation in school and district level decision-making, and community control of local resources.

The New Social Contract must focus on people, not corporations, and be driven by human rights values. It must center on universal solutions for everyone which puts those facing the greatest need and injustice at the center of those solutions. And it must build democratic power at and beyond the ballot box, including in our schools, budgets, workplaces, and neighborhoods.

These are big goals, but they are not out of reach. Especially if all of us raise our voices and tell our lawmakers that the current system is not working. Join Partners for Dignity & Rights in demanding a better world for all of us. Sign the petition today.

Thanks for taking action.