Gender Identity | Sexual Orientation
The GRP supports equal rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and gender non-conforming persons in all areas of life provided to all other citizens, including but not limited to marriage, healthcare, and parentage.
Racial Discrimination | Immigrants | Indigenous Peoples
The GRP supports efforts to overcome the manifestations of racial and ethnic discrimination.
- Driver’s licenses for all residents
- Massachusetts will be a sanctuary state for immigrants
- Establish a commission to study reparations for indigenous peoples and descendants of enslaved people
- Ensure Indigenous Representation on the Massachusetts Historical Commission Board and Recognition of Ceremonial Landscapes and Other Cultural Landscapes
- Ensure that schoolchildren in Massachusetts learn about history, culture, and current issues of Indigenous, Enslaved and Immigrant populations
- Ensure Native objects held in governmental or non-profit collections are not sold for profit
Criminal Justice
An effective criminal justice system is humane, rehabilitative, and preventive.
- Support mediation for resolving minor criminal matters
- Support restorative justice, as opposed to the current dehumanizing prison system
- Greatly restrict the circumstances by which minors can be tried as adults and imprisoned in adult facilities.
- End cash bail
- Hire sufficient number of judges to guarantee the right to a speedy trial
- Protect the right to due process including for non-citizens
- Legalize, decriminalize, and medicalize drugs in order to eliminate the illegal drug trade
- All prisoners are entitled to voting rights and access
- Oppose the death penalty
- Establish public citizen police review boards with enforcement authority in all communities
- Establish alternatives to police as first responders
- No new prisons
- End solitary confinement
Reproductive Rights
We believe in the right to bodily autonomy.
- We endorse the right to use contraception and to have an abortion. It will be illegal to deny the provision of these services or insurance coverage for them
- Require and Publicly fund sex education in all public schools
- Publicly fund public health programs and family planning services
Workers’ Rights
We support democracy in the workplace. A fair economy requires that all workers receive the value of their labor.
- The minimum wage will be a living wage, adjusted to keep pace with inflation
- Eliminate sub-minimum wages
- In industries regulated by the state, executive salaries shall be held to a reasonable ratio with the pay of their workforce
- Equal pay for equal work
- Support the right of all workers to freely and fairly form democratic unions and strike
- Increase penalties for union busting
- Encourage and support worker-owned businesses
- Extend National Labor Relations Act rights to all workers
Privacy | Consumer Rights
Privacy is essential for a free society.
- Support the strongest protections of personal and data privacy
- No use of surveillance technology, or collecting and sharing data from any system for commercial or government use without explicit permission, including but not limited to Artificial Intelligence
- Support Right to Repair
Free Speech | Right to Protest
Free speech is essential for a free society.
- Support the right to protest
- Support free speech
- Support the right to free expression and assembly
- Support the fundamental separation of church and state