The Peace and Freedom Party was formed in 1967 in opposition to the Vietnam War and the emphasis on “law and order” by the Democratic and Republican parties. Their platform promotes socialism, feminism, organized labor, and equal rights. Their priorities include getting troops home, free healthcare, and doubling the minimum wage. The party supports abolishing the death penalty, changing the economy to peaceful, and ending homelessness. They propose taxing the wealthy, reducing the work week to 30 hours without reducing pay, and providing free college-level education.
The Peace and Freedom Party (P&F) is a California political party formed in 1967. This party was created in opposition to the Vietnam War. Her platform continues to promote socialism, feminism, organized labor and equal rights. Today, getting deployed troops home, free health care for all, and doubling the minimum wage are among the P&F’s top priorities.
P&F was formed out of dissatisfaction with the Democratic Party’s stance on the Vietnam War, even though Democrats were leading the opposition to the war at the time. In addition, the Peace and Freedom Party was concerned about the emphasis placed by both the Democratic and Republican parties on “law and order,” which P&F members saw as an excuse to keep blacks, farm workers, and women from to improve their lives. Political activist and beatnik poet John Haag (1930-2006), who ran for lieutenant governor of California in 1970 and comptroller of the state of California in 1986, was a founder of the Peace and Freedom Party.
The Peace and Freedom Party ran Eldrigde Cleaver (1935-1998) as president and Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd as vice president on its 1968 election ticket. In 1968, Cleaver was a convicted felon, he was the Panther’s information minister Black and not legally old enough to be president of the United States. Dowd (born 1919) is a radical activist, historian and economist.
Among the presidential candidates offered by the Peace and Freedom Party are activist and pediatrician Benjamin Spock (1903-1998) in 1972, feminist activist Sonia Johnson (b. 1936) in 1984, and activist and convicted murderer for Native American Leonard Peltier (b. 1944) in 2004. Vice presidential candidates included Benjamin Spock in 1976, Native American Matinecoc Nation activist Asiba Tupahache in 1992, and lawyer and politician Matthew Edward Gonzalez (b. 1965) in 2008. Candidates for governor of California include Chicana feminist and activist Elizabeth Martínez (b. 1925), Chicana activist Maria Elizabeth Muñoz in 1986, and again in 1990, and activist Janice Jordan (b. 1964) in 2006.
In addition to the Peace and Freedom Party’s top priorities, P&F supports abolishing the death penalty, changing the economy from war-oriented to peaceful, and ending homelessness. P&F would like the US government to abolish any governmental organization such as the CIA that interferes in other countries’ internal affairs, tax the wealthy to satisfy the needs of others, and reduce the work week to 30 hours without reducing pay. The Peace and Freedom Party proposes indexing wages to the cost of living, providing free college-level education, and restoring affirmative action.
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