Brochure.	Courtesy of UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies.

ELIZABETH MARTINEZ for GOVERNOR
 

Peace and Social Justice: The Struggle Is One

The face of Public Enemy Number 1 confronts us today, unmasked. It is the forces that threaten us with final, nuclear holocaust; it is the forces that impose a daily life of growing impoverishment, racist attack and denial of women's rights. These forces are one and the same. Dominated by the giant transnational corporations that actually govern our world, they trample humanity in their drive for superprofits. They assault our living conditions and, at the same time, endanger our very existence.

At their service stands Ronald Reagan, in a dangerous period of economic crisis and the decline of U.S. imperial power. His solution: a rampant militarism. To boost profits, he swells the so-called "defense" budget to the trillion-dollar level, while cutting people's needs to a skeletal 22%. As justification, his government seeks to convince us that there really is a "Soviet menace." That the U.S. must intervene in Central America today, and who knows where tomorrow.

At the state level, militarism combined with cutbacks in vital social programs have also hit hard.

Education, health care, housing, and Medi-Cal are only a few of the casualties. Yet many corporations are making millions in profits every year. There would not be a budget crisis and there would be enough jobs if we raised the business taxes of these corporate giants.

Corporate threats of runaways or high prices should not scare us off. The capital cost of reloca­tion is far greater than paying a fair share of taxes. And business knows there is a limit to how high they can raise prices and still have customers. Tax the corporations--put the burden where it belongs!

We also need to advance the struggle of women against superexploitation and sexist oppression. The economic crisis has brought a new, ever more vicious attack on women's basic rights in California and across the nation. The same is true of the rising attack on people of national and racial minorities. We must make the fight against racism a central point of unity for all working people.

In the long run, we must have a society run by and for working people, a socialist society in which the exploitation of the many by the few is ended. Only by building a truly new world can we guaran­tee peace and social justice. But there is no hope for tomorrow without struggle today; let us make our demands heard, loud and clear.


Say NO to Reagan's Militarism

We need:

• In California, a freeze on the production of nuclear weapons and a halt to Livermore Laboratory weapons research

• A major reduction in the defense budget, taxes for services and jobs, not arms and destruction

• A disarmament treaty to be negotiated now, leading to a ban on all nuclear weapons. Begin with ratification of the SALT II treaty

• No intervention in Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, European socialist countries. No support for repressive dictatorships

• No draft registration; no draft; no prosecution of those who refuse to register

 
Stop the Attack on Women

We need:

• Freedom of choice and full rights to abortion in California, including state Medi-Cal funds for abortion

• No California version of the "human life" amendment

• State recognition of comparable worth (setting salaries for women that enable them to receive equal pay for equal work)

• State protection of the right to choose one's sexual preference

• No so-called "Family Protection Act," a right-wing bill in the U.S. Congress that would increase the economic pressure on our families and codify the position of women as inferior beings

Unite Against Racism

We need:

• Free, quality education for all, integration of schools and the protection of busing where that is key to these goals

• Severe state and federal prosecution of illegal actions by right-wing paramilitary group

• Bilingual programs that neither discriminate against minority students nor keep them in foreign language ghettos; multilingual ballots

• Full civil and political rights and full public services or the undocumented

• An open border and full citizenship for the undocumented; an end to the brutal attacks on Haitian refugees

ELIZABETH MARTINEZ
 

• Of Mexican-American origin, an activist for 30 years, a mother

• Formerly a United Nations researcher on colonialism in Africa and an editor (Books and Arts) for The Nation magazine

• Full-time activist and administrator in the black civil rights movement with SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) in the 1960s and author of Letters From Mississippi

• Worked for 8 years in the Chicano movement, editor of El Grito del Norte and a founder of the Chicano Communications Center in New Mexico

• Participated in the anti-war and women's movements

• Wrote extensively and taught about socialist countries and Chicano struggles, author of 450 Years of Chicano History

• Currently a San Francisco member of the Democratic Workers Party; has done community organizing among Latinos. worked on the Tax the Corporations campaign, with peace groups, against intervention in Central America and on DWP publications

The Democratic Party as it exists today is no ''Voice of the People'' --­ it has no solutions, it cannot even talk back to Reagan.

People often say that you have to vote Democrat, that it's the lesser of two evils. Not true! There is a genuine party that stands for the people's needs, a party of opposition to Reagan and the Democratic Party, who are both acting as though what's good for the Bank of America is good for the people.
 
The Peace and Freedom Party, which is on the ballot in California, is a voice of opposition. By voting for its candidates, we can express our protest and our demands. We can send a message to the Democratic Party: don't count on our vote the way you usually do. You have to pay attention to social issues. You have to take strong stands for the people against Reagan's policies of militarism and austerity cutbacks.

By winning enough votes, Peace and Freedom Party candidates can show the Democratic Party that the people want peace and social justice—that our needs must not be ignored.

A vote for Elizabeth Martínez and the other Peace and Freedom candidates is far more effective than silent disgust. It's an unmistakable message and a real alternative. Let's bring out a vote in California this year that neither Reagan nor the Democratic Party can ignore!

VOTE
PEACE AND FREEDOM


Endorsers (partial listing): Ernie Abshire (Sacramento)*, Rae Allen (Actress and Director), Nydia Ames (Long Beach)*, Jody Ansell (Dan Siegel Campaign Coordinator, San Diego)*, Linda Arkin (Member, Executive Board, SEIU Local 400), Associated Students/People's College of Law - Los Angeles, Jerri Barba (Los Angeles), Lincoln Bergman (Poet), Frank Boeheim (Orange)*, Blase Bonpane (Senior Research Fellow, Council on Hemispheric Affairs), Bruce Bremer (Long Beach)*, Antonia Castaneda (Historian and teacher), Prof. Shirley Cereseto (Cal. State Long Beach), Lee H. Chauser (Long Beach)*, Prof. Noam Chomsky (MIT), Sharon Cotrell (Long Beach), Marlene Dixon (General Secretary, Democratic Workers Party), Robert J. Donovan (San Diego)*, Dorothy Doyle (Teacher), Prof. William Doyle ( Los Angeles Southwest College), Scott Dufault (San Francisco)*, Debra A. Eames (Women's Party for Survival - San Jose), Richard Fine, M.D. (Chief, Adult Medical Center/Clinics-SFGH), James Forman (Chairman, Unemployed and Poverty Action Council), Joanne Grant (Author and filmmaker), Paul Haak (Los Angeles)*, Steven Harris (Los Angeles), Tom Heaton (Long Beach), Charlie Hilfenhaus (Orange County)*, George Hodgson (Los Angeles), Marguerite Hodgson (Los Angeles), Jeff Horton (Los Angeles), Prof. John Horton (UCLA)*, Kayren Hudiburgh (San Francisco)*, Jane Hunter (Alameda)*, Susanne Jonas (Editor, Contemporary Marxism), Marvena Kennedy (Los Angeles)*, Jake Kirihara (Farmer), Jack Klinger (Chair, Santa Clara)*, Hans Koning (Author), William Kunstler (Attorney), Rhonda Levine (Chairperson, Committee to Defend NASSCO Workers), Dave Linn (San Francisco), Celia Luna (East L.A. Alliance for Survival), Jessica Mitford (Author), Julia Mount (Los Angeles)*, Edi Nelson (San Diego), John Nichols (Author), Kay Pachtner (Consumer Advocate), Elino Perez (San Francisco), Tony Platt (Editor, Crime and Social Justice)*, Maxine Quirk (Orange County)*, Victor Rabinowitz (Attorney), Dan Siegel (Candidate, Attorney General)*, Hudassah Snider (Los Angeles)*, Hollis C. Stewart (Long Beach Anti-Klan Coalition)*, Paul Takagi (Professor, U.C Berkeley), Elsa Knight Thompson (Writer and editor), Robert Truehaft (Attorney), Larry Trujillo (Professor, U.C. Berkeley), Ed Tschabrun (Alameda)*, Stephen Upson (San Diego), Prof. Elizabeth Vance (Coordinator, Women's Program, Santa Monica College), Teresita Vestal (Los Angeles)*, Dave Wald (Candidate, U.S. Senate)*, Howard Zinn (Professor, Boston Univ.)

Campaign Committee: Michael Barba (LA.)*, Gayle Justice (Chair, San Francisco)*, Clyde Kuhn (Davis)*, Lewis McCammon (Los Angeles)*, Toni Novak (Sonoma)*, Maureen Smith (Santa Cruz)*, Nancy Strohl (North State Chair)*, Olga Talamante (Editor of La Vaz Popular)*

*Peace and Freedom Party
NOTE: Affiliations are listed for identification purposes only.

Contributions up to $100 qualify for 50% federal tax credit

If you want to help build the campaign, call [415] 821-3569 or [213] 949-2637
Elizabeth Sutherland Martínez for Governor Committee
3229 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

[union bug]