Julian Indivisible declares, in solidarity with the global community, environmental activists, and Youth Climate Movement, that Climate Change is scientifically proven, that human activity is the cause and that it must be addressed with alacrity.   We urge all candidates in upcoming local, state and federal elections to pursue the following urgent and wide-sweeping policies to counteract the Trump Administration’s violence against and neglect of our environment. There is no time to lose.  

We call for:

Global Environmental Rights

Each global citizen has the right to:

• Easily accessible potable, safe water

• Clean, safe air

• Healthy, available food sources

• Equitable distribution of resources

• Family planning and birth control 

• Relocation from areas uninhabitable due to Climate Change

• Access to training for green, sustainable jobs that provide a livable wage

• Expect assistance from FEMA, other disaster agencies and first responders regardless of political pressure

Environmental Political Action

• Rejoin and improve the Paris Accord

• Help write, support, and implement any global action combating Climate Change

• Create an international think tank to support Climate Change science, develop innovative solutions and devise new ways to slow Climate Change

• Create an international agency for enforcement of Climate Change initiatives and to insist on global transparency for Climate Change regulations

• Support, legislate and implement any elements of the Green New Deal not addressed or stated in this document

• Increase FEMA and first responder funding

• Demand 100% clean energy by 2030

• Divest from all fossil fuels

• Enforce laws against corporate pollution, implement sanctions against corporate polluters

• Re-establish and improve EPA standards for clean air, water, and chemical pollution

• Implement a carbon tax

• Subsidize and extend tax benefits for clean alternative fuels

• Develop, fund, and initiate an overhaul of the hodgepodge system of energy grids to insure they are state-of-the-art, safe, protected from cybercrime, and provide for a connected digital national system of renewable energy sharing across the grid utilizing advanced storage devices

• Ban all drilling and fracking particularly on public lands and oceans

• Eliminate coal subsidies

• Assist other countries to achieve international environmental standards

• Provide incentives for states to build on the Paris Accord or any other international initiatives to fight against Climate Change

Species Rights

• Advocate for Earth’s flora and fauna in order to preserve their survival in their own habitat

• Reinstate, improve and enforce the Endangered Species Act

• Develop an international plan to educate stakeholders, protect, preserve, and sustain critical habitat, including rain forests

• Create an international fire response agency

• Support sustainable mineral extraction and use of resources that also protects habitat

• Demand that any infrastructure bills include funding for migratory bridges over major state and federal highways

• Promote an international ban on hunting of endangered species and predators

• Promote responsible reintroduction of predators to their own habitat

• Develop a fund to reimburse farmers and ranchers for loss of animal stock due to predators

• Criminalize animal cruelty and neglect including ownership of wild animals for personal or commercial use

• Increase funding to fight poaching on U.S. and international public lands

• Ban the sale of ivory and rhinoceros horn

Individual Environmental Response

• Focus individuals on reduction of waste and the need to reduce individual carbon footprints

• Educate individuals about what can and cannot be recycled, focus on reduction of waste and efficient recycling in homes and business

• Promote sustainable agriculture

• Encourage sustainable consumption and diet

• Ban single use plastics

• Provide tax incentives for sustainable and green construction techniques

• Develop federal initiatives for solar homes

Julian Indivisible stands with migrants both documented and undocumented.  We urge all candidates in upcoming local, state and federal elections to pursue the following improvements and changes to the current inhumane immigration policies of the Trump Administration.  We call for:

HUMAN RIGHTS & DIGNIFIED TREATMENT

• No Parent/Child Separation

• No For-Profit detention centers

• High Standards for housing, access to decent food, water and personal hygiene

• No Overcrowding

• Easy Access to sponsors and support agencies

• Respectful Treatment for all immigrants

PATHWAY TO CITIUZENSHIP

• DACA Protection

• Simplify, Streamline and Clarify asylum/citizenship Guidelines

• No Detention for asylum seekers

• Amnesty and Pathway to Citizenship for those who have expired visas

• No Quotas or Bans

LEGAL & ADMINISTRATIVE PROTOCOLS & REGULATIONS

• Abolish ICE as it is

• Strong Oversight/housecleaning at Border Patrol

• Better Training of Border Patrol

• Do Not Build the border wall

• Repeal Section 1325

• Create Easy Procedures to acquire work visas

• Increase Court Staffing to expedite asylum claims, visas and pathway to citizenship

• Streamline All Immigration Procedures and add staffing

ETHICAL FOREIGN POLICY

• Use Diplomacy, NGO’s and Incentives to improve the conditions in home countries.

• Sanction Countries for Human Rights Abuses and Corruption that does not allow their citizens opportunity and safety.