DSA ELECTION HQ

Our People's Platform

New Orleans DSA resolved to develop a united, electoral front that advances a high-level vision for the future of New Orleans and supports candidates who can fulfill that vision. Our candidates promise to pursue, without compromise, specific policies and laws that reflect the following values:

• Dismantling white supremacy & racism

• Opposition to fascism, neoliberalism, privatization, and austerity

• Abolition of the criminal punishment system

• Climate justice and sustainability

• Abortion rights and access for all

• LGBTQ+ liberation

• Free, quality public schools for all

• Support of unionized labor & all unorganized workers

• Support of immigrants, undocumented people, and oppressed and colonized nations

• Affordable quality housing and utilities

• A living wage for all workers

• Healthcare for all

• Safe routes for all mobility and robust and reliable mass transit 

• No tax breaks for billion dollar companies