Peace and freedom party!
- Founded in California in 1967
- Committed to socialism, democracy, feminism, and racial equality
- Believe in equal treatment among everyone as far as housing and quality of things as well
- They want a world of freedom and peace where everyone lives in perfect harmony... (so basically hippies)
- Want to double minimum wage and make that the cost of living
- Equal pay for equal work, and work of comparable worth
- A 30 hour work week with longer vacations
- Guaranteed pay for those who cannot work
- End homelessness and have housing for all
- Global disarmament (get rid of nuclear bombs and high powered weapons)
- End the war and withdraw troops
- Defend and extend liberties given by the bill of rights
- End Discrimination
- Abolish death penalty
- Free education through college
- Honor treaties with the Native Americans
- Full rights to immigrants, no human is illegal
- Promote Conservation
Leaders/Presidential Candidates:
- Benjamin Spock, Margaret Wright, Maureen Smith, Sonya Johnson, Ron Daniels, Marsha Feinland, Leonard Peltier, and Ralph Nader.
Popularity:
- Not very popular in America, their presidential candidates only receive about 0.67% of the votes on average.
- It's not very popular because their are two main parties in the U.S and that's all that ever get elected, if you aren't one of those parties then you don't really have a chance, especially since it's a smaller third party.