Black Lives Matter Releases Policy Agenda: Call for COLLECTIVE OWNERSHIP (i.e. COMMUNISM) and SEGREGATION (i.e. BLACK NATIONALISM)

From NBC News:

In the plan, titled "A Vision for Black Lives: Policy Demands for Black Power, Freedom and Justice,” dozens of established activist and advocacy groups joined forces to offer six core demands and 40 policy priorities.  

“Our grievances and solutions extend beyond the police killing of our people; state violence includes failing schools that criminalize our children, dwindling earning opportunities, wars on our trans and queer family that deny them of their humanity, and so much more,” 

“That’s why we united, with a renewed energy and purpose, to put forth a shared vision of the world we want to live in.” 

The six platform demands are: 

1. End the war on black people. 

2. Reparations for past and continuing harms. 

3. Divestment from the institutions that criminalize, cage and harm black people; and investment in the education, health and safety of black people. 

4. Economic justice for all and a reconstruction of the economy to ensure our communities have collective ownership, not merely access. 

5. Community control of the laws, institutions and policies that most impact us. 

6. Independent black political power and black self-determination in all areas of society.

“We seek radical transformation, not reactionary reform,” Michaela Brown, communications director of Baltimore Bloc, said in a statement. “As the 2016 election continues, this platform provides us with a way to intervene with an agenda that resists state and corporate power, an opportunity to implement policies that truly value the safety and humanity of black lives, and an overall means to hold elected leaders accountable.”