Jill Stein has officially accepted the Green Party nomination for United States president at the party’s convention amid wide voter discontent with both major-party candidates.
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HOUSTON ― The Green Party officially nominated MA physician and progressive activist Jill Stein as its presidential candidate on Saturday, also selecting human rights activist Ajamu Baraka as her running mate. “We have to act now, if we want to stop that sea level rise from happening in 2050”. She had asked the senator’s supporters to rally behind her and her running mate. “Hillary Clinton’s infamous “super predator” remark, Bernie Sanders” support for the second amendment, practically anything Donald Trump says – all three (and more) have gifted the 2015 and 2016 news cycles with plenty of material.
Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein hailed Julian Assange as a hero Saturday, saying the WikiLeaks founder’s disclosure of Democratic National Committee emails exposed the American electorate to important information. Currently, the commission requires candidates to receive at least an average of 15 percent in five nationwide polls in order to participate.
Even so, the Greens have reason for optimism. Stein was the Green Party candidate in 2012, where she brought in almost 470,000 votes, or about 0.36% of the overall vote.
She’s a medical doctor and former Democrat.. “Not just for you, but with you”. The mood was cheerful, the chatter about converting Bernie Sanders supporters to Jill Stein voters excited.
But while Clinton and Trump both have plenty of negatives, Johnson and Stein are in no position to steal voters away from them. She is not the solution to Donald trump. Realize we need to resurrect an independent press, and that a century ago papers like Appeal To Reason were not only openly socialist but able to break with established orthodoxy because they weren’t beholden to investors with a stake in the status quo. “We are deciding whether we will have a world or not going into the future”. Green Party candidate Jill Stein has also seen an uptick since June – from 2.5 percent to 3.5 percent.
“We are at such an incredibly powerful, unprecedented moment in history”, Ms. Stein told delegates. She called for “transformational change”.
But in this election, he added, the Republican Party appears to have the most on the line. “We are closer to that now than we’ve ever been”. Anyone voting for Stein is doing so from a stuck-up position of privilege, the argument goes.
Continuing U.S. military aid to Israel would be “decisively against our common values, to support apartheid, to support home demolitions, to support occupation, to support violations of global law”, Stein said in an interview with Newsweek, published on Friday.
Judge Collyer ruled that the commission is a private entity, not a “public forum”, and rejected arguments by Mr. Johnson and Ms.
He said this is a campaign that says “we won’t lie to the people”.
“Yes, that’s right. The American presidential candidate hoping to take Sanders” place as the far left’s best representative come November was once part of a folk rock duo called Somebody’s Sister.
“It’s been incredible how people from around the state have really stepped up, have gone and visited their neighbors in small towns in every corner of Vermont”, said Peter Spitzform, an activist in the Stein ballot-access coalition and a librarian at the University of Vermont.
After Sanders’ address left many of his supporters angry and confused, though, it became clear that Stein had a much bigger audience.
The figures represent a 5 percent increase in support for Mrs. There was no movement in Stein’s share which remained at 13 percent.
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In other words, the ISO, oriented towards the upper-middle class “liberal Democratic base”, views the Green Party campaign as a means by which to promote the illusion that the Democratic Party can be “pressured”, and thus keep workers and young people politically subordinated to it. “We are that other choice”. Bernie Sanders endorsed Hillary Clinton, triggering a voter shift dubbed “Demexit” by some participants. Although he didn’t accept her offer, the convention was evidence that he won’t be forgotten on the campaign trail. We owe you such a debt of gratitude for lifting up this revolution that has been smoldering for decades. You broke through the media blackout. We are also glad to know that Black people, at last, have a candidate, as Jill Stein is not indifferent to their problems. I thank Bernie for opening up my eyes.
