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OUR POLICY GOALS

KEY ACTIONS:

We use the initiative process to enact policies we wish to put into law or change.

EQUAL PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY

The destruction of the Black Family has been an objective since our introduction into the United States. From separation during slavery, government action through social services, and removing fathers from the home throughcriminalization, black children have been victimized. Our goal is to insure the stability of black children, by mandating the equal parental responsibility initiative.

Protect the black family
End mass incarceration

NO VICTIM,
NO CRiME

The No Victim, No Crime Initiative is a proposed California ballot measure aimed at decriminalizing all victimless crimes within the state. The core principle of the initiative is simple: if there is no direct, identifiable victim, there should be no criminal penalty.

This measure seeks to reduce overcriminalization, ease the burden on the justice system, and affirm individual liberty and bodily autonomy, while redirecting public resources toward actual public safety needs.

Under this initiative, acts that do not result in harm to another person or their property—and where no complainant exists—will no longer be treated as criminal offenses under California state law.

Imminent domain reparations

Eminent Domain Reparations

This initiative will require the government to properly repair the dignity of victims of Eminent Domain by making a formal apology, and compensating victims, or the victims direct descendants .

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The DESI Initiative

The DESI Initiative is a proposed ballot measure to designate African Americans—specifically those who are direct descendants of formerly enslaved people in the United States—as a protected class with a distinct legal status within the State of California.

African Americans occupy a unique position in the American legal and historical framework. Unlike any other group, their citizenship required federal intervention through both the Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln and the ratification of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. These measures were not simply acts of law, but acts of recognition—defining and legitimizing the status of a people who had been systematically excluded from the rights and protections of American life.

DESI seeks to formally recognize this distinct lineage and its ongoing social, economic, and political impacts. Through this classification, the initiative aims to authorize targeted state programs, protections, and reparative policies that address the historical harms and continued disadvantages uniquely experienced by this community.

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