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Resolutions

Support Our Top 2024 Resolutions!

Vote “Yes” on these 2024 DFL resolutions prioritized by the DFL Rural Caucus membership at the state convention! The number and title are as they appear in the Platform Report submitted to delegates for adoption. 

10.  Regional Food Systems

  • Supports the development of regional food systems that provide nourishing foods, investments in small business development, food processing infrastructure such as smallscale meat processing, and marketing of goods and specialty crops that have environmental and economic benefits. [22 OUs, 6 CDs]

11.  Regenerative Agricultural Support

  • Supports direct financial support to farmers, research, technical assistance and education to rapidly implement a regenerative food and farming system that fosters successful small and midsized farms and rural and urban communities. This includes establishing perennial crops, rotational grazing and small scale livestock systems, cover crops, and no-till farming. [ 21 OUs, 7 CDs]

12.  CO2 Pipeline Ban

  • Opposes CO2 pipeline construction and operation in rural Minnesota. [ 11 OUs, 7 CDs]

18.  Rural Housing Shortage

  • Encourages the passage of legislation that addresses the shortage of available housing, affordable, and traditional in rural Minnesota. [29 OUs, 8 CDs]

28.  Reduce or Eliminate Use of Unsafe Neonicotinoid Pesticides

  • Supports policies to reduce or eliminate the use of unsafe pesticides (e.g., glyphosate, neonicotinoids, chlorpyrifos) in agriculture and recreational land or lawns; require businesses selling plants disclose if their plants have been treated with neonicotinoids; and urge the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Minnesota Department of Agriculture to prohibit neonicotinoid use. [ 25 OUs, 8 CDs]

30.  Oppose Efforts to Weaken or Circumvent Environmental Laws

  • Opposes any effort to weaken or circumvent or evade state or federal environmental laws or protections involving administrative procedures and permitting regarding environmental regulation and support protections. [ 20 OUs, 8 CDs]

42.  Safe Water Quality

  • Supports policies that ensure access to clean and accessible drinking water for all Minnesotans. [ 56 OUs, 8 CDs]

44. Right To Repair Laws

  • Supports right-to-repair laws that protect the ability of consumers and third parties to repair consumer electronics and agricultural equipment. [ 29 OUs, 8 CDs]

86.  Universal Single Payer Healthcare

  • Supports legislation for a health care system that puts patients over profits, by enacting the Minnesota Health Plan at the state level and the Medicare for All Act of 2023 at the national level. [ 84 OUs, 8 CDs

90.  Rural Child Care Shortage

  • Supports the passage of legislation that addresses the shortage of available child care in rural Minnesota. [ 28 OUs, 7 CDs]

98.  Minnesota ERA

  • Supports amending the Minnesota State Constitution to add an Equal Rights Amendment that guarantees women freedom from discrimination in word or in effect. [ 86 OUs, 8 CDs

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