In early 2021 (after the election of Joe Biden) Indivisible North Boulder engaged in several sessions to discuss our path forward. Three policy priorities emerged from those discussions:
- The need to address the climate crisis and environmental challenges
- The need to fix democracy
- The need to address institutional racism and economic inequality
The discussion also had a broader aspect. During brainstorming sessions, we developed a list of 20 policy objectives that reflect our more general orientations. It was based upon a discussion of this list that the three policy objectives noted above were selected.
The complete list suggested that our members want to:
- Address the climate crisis and other environmental issues such as air and water protection, public land policy and endangered and threatened species
- Reform policing to ensure that police killings of people of color (and any other unjust killings) stop
- End institutional racism, sexism and other forms of prejudice & discrimination
- Establish a fair and compassionate immigration system
- Protect our democratic institutions by fostering free and fair elections, making the executive branch and congress more accountable and by reinforcing an impartial judiciary
- Encourage science-based decision making
- Support American workers
- Enhance our infrastructure, including rural broadband
- Ameliorate the effects of the pandemic
- Foster a “we” rather than a “me” orientation
- Learn how to talk to those with whom we disagree
- Address divisions between the highly educated and those with less education
- Address divisions between urban and rural sections of the nation
- Reduce extreme power and wealth disparities between various communities
- Provide health care as a right rather than as a privilege
- Make quality education accessible to all who want it
- Foster truth vs. fantasy in social and political discourse
- Reduce the impact of destructive manifestations of social media
- Re-establish international partnerships when they serve our national interests (Paris Climate Accord, Iran Nuclear Agreement, World Health Organization)
- Ensure that America advocates for international peace and justice by emphasizing diplomacy and negotiation in international relations