Human Rights Party (United States)

The Human Rights Party was a socialist political party in Michigan. It existed from the year 1970 to the mid-1970s around Ann Arbor.

Platform

Communication

• More people can be in government through the use of cable television
• Media is to be funded blindly by the government

Foreign Policy

• United States' wars are for the rich and companies
• The United States should stop fighting the Vietnam War
• Focus on community planning and growth

Education

• Schools are used to oppress groups, through sexism, racism, and class
• Schools are used to spread propaganda of an free society
• Students deserve privacy, dignity, due process, and other decisions
• Schools should be controlled by students, parents, and teachers
• Schools should be funded by a income tax. The tax should be the same throughout Michigan. If a person gets more money, more of the tax they pay

Childcare

• The government and employers should pay for childcare
• Parents, staff, and children should run the childcare

The young

• Age should not be a factor of the rights a person has

The legal system

• All crimes which doesn't affect another person should be repealed
• Jails contain more poor, black, and young people
• Social inequality is the cause of crime
• People convicted with non-violent crimes should be released without bail
• The police should be controlled by the community
• Prisons should be replaced by rehabilitation
• All laws on having drugs should be repealed
• Ann Arbor should have more relaxed laws then the state
• Ann Arbor should fund treatment for addicts. Education of drugs should be in schools

Economics

• Wealth goes to a few people. The tax system doesn't stop this, but might help it
• Labor unions must be protected
• Workers must be given good working conditions

Taxation

• There must be progressive taxation

Sexism

• Sexual preference and activity should not be regulated if not interfering with another person
• Human rights should be given to people of all sexual orientations and genders
• Laws against prostitution and sexual orientation must be repealed
• Marital status should not determine rights.
• Immediate divorce should happen if both individual consent to it
• Discrimination against single people in tax laws, housing, jobs and credit must end.
• Laws about pornography should be repealed
• Birth control should be accessible
• Anti-abortion laws should be repealed. Abortions should be free

Racism

• Minority groups should have control over their future
• The city should have more funding and power to find discrimination
• Courses of minority culture should be offered in schools
• Community control of the police to end police racism

Model cities

• Community control is more important then the model cities program