Policies

Housing

• In the short term, we need to pass rental assistance for the destabilization of our communities.

• The state should cap rent increases at 3% each year, similar to St Paul’s rent control ordinance. 

• The state needs to enact stronger protections for tenants and tenant unions in their right to pursue a rent strike. 

• The state needs to limit the amount of housing that individuals and organizations can buy, with exceptions for community organizations that ensure affordable housing. 

Jobs & The Economy

The future of commerce is in worker cooperatives that reject the profit motive, and use revenues to boost quality of life for worker-owners and expand business operations. The biggest struggle is accessing capital to start a business. 

• Appropriate funds for worker cooperatives and cooperative financers to provide grants and/or loans. 

• Support a robust technical assistance department to help startup worker co-ops and small businesses looking to convert to a worker-owned enterprise. This technical assistance should be provided to all cooperative models: agricultural, producer, worker owned, and consumer cooperatives. 

• Strengthen workers’ right to organize in the workplace. 

Healthcare

• A single payer healthcare system is the greatest investment you can make in folks with disabilities, the elderly, farmers, families, those who lose their jobs, the self-employed, worker cooperatives and small businesses. When the One Big Beautiful Bill wants us to cut healthcare and services for Minnesotans, we must stand together to ensure everyone receives the healthcare and services they need. 

Environmental Protections

• Enacting a moratorium on data center construction in Minnesota at least until a robust regulatory framework is enacted.

• Require energy companies to receive a Certificate of Need only if the energy produced is needed by residents in Minnesota & surrounding area, as opposed to the need of “producers”. 

• Require mining companies to prove that a similar mine has been in operation for at least 10 years without polluting, and has been closed for at least 10 years without polluting the environment, often called a Prove It First law.

• Prohibit Minnesota from issuing nonferrous mining permits to corporations that have violated certain international laws, including corruption, bribery & environmental destruction.

• The bare minimum is requiring nonferrous mining companies fully fund a financial assurance package upfront to ensure MN taxpayers are not left on the hook for potential multi-billion-dollar clean-up costs from a devastating environmental catastrophe. 

Indigenous Sovereignty

• Creating a legal identity for Manoomin, also known as Wild Rice, which helps protect the habitats it's grown in, and allows indigenous leaders to decide the future of Manoomin in Mni Sota.

• Land acknowledgements are not enough, we must return state lands back to indigenous communities, including returning Upper Red Lake and surrounding state forests to the Red Lake Nation. 

Education

• Guaranteeing all teachers in the state of Minnesota a minimum salary of $60,000 per year, or $80,000 per year when a teacher has a Master’s Degree and 10 years of experience.

• Support protections for educators to teach the real history of Minnesota, the US, and the world. 

• Support indexing funds for schools to keep pace with inflation. 

• Investments in teachers to pursue graduate education in the field of education.

• Provide funding for skills based and trades courses. 

• Teach and integrate cooperation and group-based instruction in the classroom to prepare students for the future of commerce. 

LGBTQIA+ Rights

• Amend Minnesota statute to allow trans individuals who have changed their name to have those cases sealed and unsearchable. 

• Prevent gender discrimination in homeless shelters based on trans identity.

Public Safety

• Amending Safe Harbor statute from “persons aged 24 years old and under” to “persons of any age” to protect individuals engaged in sex work. 

• Require law enforcement agencies to insure police officers in the event of negligent actions. This moves our accountability from holding individuals accountable to police departments holding officers accountable when they feel the pressure on their budgets when wrongful actions affect their premiums. 

• Limit the role of qualified immunity of law enforcement officers. 

• Enhance the POST Board’s authority to hold individual law enforcement officers accountable. 

• Prioritizing funding for community supports and services over increases to police budgets.

Reproductive Freedom

• Support for the single-payer healthcare system includes contraception, birth control, and abortion access. 

• Comprehensive sex education in the curriculum that includes contraception education. 

Pro-Palestine

• Prevent state pension systems from investing in companies facilitating Israeli settlements or military supplies to Israel. 

• Eliminate and prohibit contracts to companies that sell to Israeli settlements.