California is the world’s 4th largest economy.
Let’s fight to bring California’s wealth back to all people so everyone can thrive.
I’m Butch Ware, an educator dedicated to serving the people.
For over 20 years, I’ve studied how power works & how people have challenged it.
I teach history to show that the systems we live under were built by people. This means we can pivot, redesign & build something better for everyone.
The same Californian spirit fueling bold ideas & reinvention can also drive how we deliver justice.
I’m not backed by billionaires. I’m guided by the past, accountable to you & focused on what actually works.
From CrisiS to Care:
Our Platform
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Our entire campaign is built on a human rights foundation, every demand and every policy we put forth is to reinforce and protect the inalienable rights of all people.
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Fund Social Housing across CA
Fund Community Land Trusts
Decriminalize Homelessness
Housing First; ban forced institutionalization or treatment as a condition of housing
Statewide rent control with no exemptions; Repeal Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act
Cap speculative ownership of all high-density housing
Ban speculative purchase of single-family homes
Close loopholes that allow developers’ to avoid affordable housing construction mandates
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Implement CalCare, a universal single payer healthcare system for EVERY CA resident, regardless of income, gender, age, immigration status, with NO insurance premiums, copays, deductibles, coinsurance. CalCare’s 7 principles are:
Universal coverage
A single public program
Fully comprehensive benefits
Freedom to choose your care provider
Free at the point of service
A just transition
Patient care based on patient need
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Purchase and cancel all student debt to public and private schools
Reinstate tuition-free state and community colleges
Equitable funding for CA’s public schools regardless of zip code
Free lifelong vocational training and continuing education
Ensure affordable housing for full-time students
Work with the state legislature to increase pay for all CA educators
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Direct the State Treasurer and other state agencies to divest all CA public institutions
Freeze any non-divested state spending by Executive Order
Veto any spending legislation that is not divested
Appoint state agency board members who prioritize divestment
Urge the state legislature to repeal anti-BDS laws
Prevent enforcement of anti-BDS law by Executive Order
Reinvest divested funds to support the immediate needs of Californians
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Demilitarize police forces
Eliminate private prisons and detention centers
Ensure fair and transparent judicial process, fund public defenders
Ban mandatory minimum sentences and end cash bail
Support restorative justice, rehabilitation, reintegration, and reparations for victims of police violence
Train and build alternative emergency responder workforces
Enforce existing gun laws
Empower the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) that investigates police misconduct
Support the release and exoneration of political prisoners
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Close CA’s ICE facilities including private ICE detention centers
Block state & municipal police cooperation with ICE and end the “arrest-to-deportation pipeline”
Bar ICE operatives from state legal facilities
Expand California Food Assistance Program (CFAP) to income-eligible residents, regardless of immigration status
Expand the state’s Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund to undocumented workers
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Implement public works programs to drive full employment at living wages
Raise CA minimum wage to $25/hr and index future increases to living wages and inflation
Support measures to increase unionization of CA workforce
Support expanding worker-owned cooperatives
Establish a California Public Bank
Implement wealth and vacancy taxes
Incentivize a Green economy in CA
Implement steep progressive state income tax and reduce regressive taxation
Support amending Prop 13 and enacting “Split Roll” to close commercial property tax loophole
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Ensure people of color, women, LGBTQIA+, people with disabilities, and all other historically marginalized communities are able to live, work and thrive equitably in CA.
Promote collective liberation through restorative justice for all people of color harmed by white supremacist racialized policies
Protect the rights and safety of all CA residents, regardless of citizenship
Promote Universal Design in all state facilities, processes and institutions
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Support the implementation and funding of Reparation for CA’s Black American Freedmen
Establish a CA tribal land stewardship agency to consolidate existing state programs
Support Federal recognition of all CA tribal nations and bands
Expand Indigenous Nation Landback programs
Fund Tribal land co-management agreements
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Enact a Statewide Publicly-Owned Energy Grid
Ban all new oil/gas drilling & fracking in CA, and cap all inactive wells
Create a statewide renewable, electric public transit system
Establish an indigenous-led land stewardship and wildfire prevention program
Reclaim and protect water rights as a public resource
Protect California’s unique biodiversity and CA coastal lands
Decommission existing nuclear facilities and prohibit construction of new facilities
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100% CA publicly funded elections
Proportional Representation in CA
Ranked Choice Voting
Ban Corporate lobbying
principles
At the core of our campaign
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We bring the people's agenda to the Governor's desk. California Democratic Party’s super majority trifecta has blocked life-saving and essential legislation on healthcare, housing, economy, education, climate and more.
WE END THE ROADBLOCKS.
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We Californians should own our government, not the billionaires. Decades of crooked politics have turned our state into a money and land grab for multinational corporations and their bought politicians.
WE STOP THEIR GRIFT.
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We reject the divisive use of identities and ideologies that have been weaponized to isolate us from each other by current systems’ institutions.
WE FIGHT IN SOLIDARITY AND COMMUNITY.
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We build movements to empower communities with electoral power, putting the Green Party, as a political apparatus, in the hands of working people to use in our fight FOR the working class.
WE WIN TOGETHER.
Every dollar helps move California from crisis to care.
Invest in a future where housing, healthcare & education are rights.