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BRIAN  JONES, LT. GOVERNOR 

 running   with   Howie   Hawkins.

Our power doesn't come from wealth, 
but from organizing.

Brian   jones

Brian Jones is an educator, actor, and socialist in NYC. 

As a teacher, Jones has been teaching elementary grades in public schools for nine years. Jones is also a long-time member of the International Socialist Organization. 
Jones has fought against privatization of NYC's public schools. He stands against charter school co-locations, budget cuts, and school closings. Jones is a founding member of the social justice caucus in the United Federation of Teachers: the Movement of Rank and File Educators, and was its candidate for the U.F.T. Secretary in 2013.

As an educator and activist, Jones has become a leading voice in discussions about public education. He was first recognized on a televised debate with charter school CEO Geoffrey Canada and former Washington DC schools chancellor Michelle Rhee at NBC’s first Education Nation summit. As an actor, Brian co-narrated the film, The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman in 2011, which has been screened in all of the United States as well as other countries around the world. He has appeared as a commentator on Democracy Now! and MSNBC and has written articles for many different publications and websites, including SocialistWorker.org, The Huffington Post, and The New York Times.


Brian Jones is running as a Green Party candidate. 

Platform

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The Green Deal

• Decent Jobs for All
  
• Living Wages for All
  
• Living Incomes for All
  
• Health Care for All
  
• Quality Education for All
  
• Affordable Housing for All
  
• Public Transit for All
  
• 100% Clean Energy by 2030
  
• Ban Fracking
  
• No New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure
  
• No Nukes
  
• Tax the Rich
  

Economic Democracy

• Creating a State Bank
• Support Development of Unionized Worker
• Democratize the Utilities and Fossil-Fuel Industries
  
• High-Speed Internet Service
• Free Public Wi-Fi Networks

Sustainable Agriculture and Food Justice

• Support Family Farms
• Protect Farmland
• Expand&Improve Markets for Farm Products
• Re-Legalize Industrial Hemp
• Increase Access to Healthy Food
• Restrict GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) in Food
• Transition to Organic Agriculture (No more genetic modifications in food)
• Enable Fair Labor Practices for Farmers
• End Hunger

Environmental Protection

• Provide state technical assistance and financing for the collection and marketing of recyclables

• A Zero Waste Solid Waste Policy
  

• End Solid Waste Incineration
  

• Citizen Enforcement of Environmental Laws
  

• No Desalinization Plants on the Hudson River
  
• Restore Funding and Staffing for the Department of Environmental Conservation
  
• Secure funding stream to fund sustainable solid waste programs for long term, new jobs, and reducing greenhouse gas emission
• Protect wetlands
• Ban All Terrain Vehicles from State Parks
• Protection from Toxic Chemicals

Civil Rights and Racial Justice

• There is too much segregation in New York

• A cabinet level Civil Rights Department within the executive branch of state government should be established
  

Criminal Justice Reform

• Re-legalize. regulate, and tax marijuana
• End "War on Drugs"
• Free prisoners of the "War on Drugs"
• Raise age of adult criminal responsibility to 18

Workers Rights

• Support Worker's right to form union
• Support Worker's right to bargain collectively
• Keep the Triborough Amendment
• Enact a Pay Equity law
• Paid family leave insurance: minimum of twelve weeks paid family leave for each newborn/adopted child, and for taking care of ill family members
• High quality child care and elder care for all who need it
• Adequate income to bring families and individuals out of poverty
• Establish a NYS system of Guaranteed Retirement Accounts
• Labor Law Protections for Farmworkers
• Labor Law Protections for Prisoners
• Support Scaffold Safety Law, which holds employers accountable when workers are injured or killed.
• Enact state legislation to establish work-inspectors to enforce workplace health and safety.

Immigrants Rights

• New York DREAM Act to help undocumented students to graduate high school and pursue a college education.
• Allow undocumented immigrants to acquire Driver's Licenses.

Women's Rights

• Pay Equity: Equal Pay for Equal Work
• Strengthen the Law Against Sexual Harassment
• Ending Familial Status Discrimination in Employment
• Strengthen the Laws against Human Trafficking 
• Ending Pregnancy Discrimination
• Protections of women's health and right to abort
• End poverty by increasing jobs, wages, affordable insurance/child care. 

LGBT Rights (Transgender Rights)

• Outlaw sexual orientation conversion efforts
• Restore state funding for homeless youth shelters
• Restore funding for the AIDS Institute

Fair Elections

• Replace two-party system of corporate rule with multi-party democracy. 
• End single-member -district, winner-take-all system
• Enact the Clean Money bill for full public campaign financing
• Make it the responsibility of state government to register all qualified voters

End Corruption

• Reconvene the Moreland Commission
• Establish an Independent State Ethics Commission
• Full Time Legislature
• End Gerrymandered Districts
• Campaign Finance Reform

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