Human Rights Party To Select Its Candidate

Rights Party To Select Its Candidate

The Ann Arbor Human Rights party will hold the second session of its platform convention beginning at 1 p.m. Saturday in the Anderson Room of the Michigan Union.

The party will nominate its candidates for City Council and elect the steering committee of the party. It will be an open convention and all those who attend are entitled to vote, according to a party spokesman.

At the first session of the convention last weekend, the party adopted platform planks. Among them were planks calling for:

—Repeal of all abortion laws;

—Control by the community of all programs that affect residents lives, including schools, factories, government housing, courts, and prisons;

—A city consumer protection agency, whose first priority will be to establish a non-profit grocery store;

—Strengthening of the Ann Arbor anti-scab law;

—Free child care facilities;

—Institution of a steeply graduated income tax and the abolishment of the property tax;

—Repeal of the laws establishing victimless crimes;

—An end to the tracking system in Ann Arbor schools;

—Strengthening the city Human Rights Department, including an investigation into University discriminatory practices.