POSTED BY JILL STEIN FOR PRESIDENT
NOVEMBER 04, 2012
Dear friends:
The time has come. We are at a historic crossroads. Dr. Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala have traveled the country reaching out to folks about the importance of the Green New Deal. Full employment, single payer health care, an end to the school-to-prison pipeline, an end to student debt, real immigration reform and human rights for our youth regardless of documentation, a world that is accessible for all people, both able-bodied and disabled, and a world without evictions or foreclosures is possible. How will you vote?
The Republican and Democratic candidates are spouting the same rhetoric over and over while they continue to work on behalf of corporate interests. There is no mention of the struggles of Black and Hispanic communities. They do not talk about the higher-than-average unemployment rates in the Black community. That is because they do not have a solution. They do not talk about how they are going to keep mothers and children in their homes. That is because they do not have a solution. They do not talk about ecological destruction and exploitation on either the local or the global level. That is because they do not plan on addressing these problems. Dr. Jill Stein has solutions for a healthy planet and for healthy communities.
Dr. Jill Stein, through the Green New Deal, has a plan to keep generations of our children and our children's children on a planet with a sustainable ecology and economy. At present, the choice of the “lesser of two evils” hasn't prevented violence from increasing in urban communities with Black and Latino youth. It hasn't prevented the increasing imprisonment of our young men and women in private institutions that don't rehabilitate anyone at all. It hasn't created jobs to replace the jobs that have been taken overseas, or that have been replaced by technology. And the reality is that these things won't happen under the current two party-system.
It's time to take a stand for ourselves and for our loved ones. It's time to vote for a single payer health care system that ensures that our children, our parents and our grand parents are cared for, regardless of their financial circumstances. It’s time to vote for a candidate who will support a halt to immigration and I.C.E. raids on the local, state, and national levels.
The Green Party's presidential ticket of Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala has a plan for the total, direct, and rapid abolition of poverty. The selection of Cheri Honkala as Vice Presidential candidate is itself a clear sign of this commitment. Ms. Honkala is a formerly homeless mother and lifelong leader in the movement against poverty, unemployment, and homelessness.
It is time to end the destruction, the austerity, and the needless suffering. A moral government would honor the sacredness of human life by ensuring jobs, housing, healthcare, and education for every family living in the United States.
Martin Luther King once said that America has the resources and the technology to end poverty; the only question is whether we have the will. Frederick Douglass said that power concedes nothing without a demand. It is up to us to start creating that will, by taking decisive action right now. We support Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala for President and Vice President of the United States of America.
Sincerely,
Rosa Clemente - Community Organizer, Independent Journalist, Hip Hop Activist
Isabel Espinal - co-chair, Latino Caucus, Green Party of the U.S.
Jared Ball - Associate Professor, Morgan State University
Tina Bell Wright
Shamako Noble - Hip Hop Congress
Tara Colon - Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign
Rahman Jamaal - Artist, Educator, Organizer, Project S.E.E.R.
Darcel Labrie - Hip Hop Artist, President of RonDavoux Records and Community Organizer, Oakland, CA
Malcolm Hoover - Community Organizer and Data Analyst, Oakland CA
Kimberly King - Assistant Psychology Professor, CSULA; Producer, The Beautiful Struggle, KPFK Dione Johnson - Founder, Multi-Media
Janice Carolina - Housing Activist, San Jose, CA
Peter Rodriguez
Deeq Abdi
Khalilah Collins - Former Executive Director of W.I.T. (Women In Transition) Louisville, KY
Mike Werd
Khalil Jacobs-Fantauzzi – Mayoral candidate, Berkeley, CA
Irwin Nack, Associate Professor, William Paterson University of N.J.,Retired; Past President, A.F.T. Local Union 1796, AFL-CIO * All affiliations for ID purposes only
Queridos Amigos,
Ha llegado el momento. Nos encontramos en una encrucijada histórica. Dra. Jill Stein y Cheri Honkala han viajado por todo el país conversando con la gente sobre la importancia del Nuevo Acuerdo Verde. El pleno empleo, la atención de la salud individual pagador medico, el fin de la escuela a la Cárcel, el fin de las propuestas de la deuda estudiantil engañosos que se aprovechan de nuestros "sueños", y de nuestra juventud independientemente de su documentación o no, un mundo que es accesible para todas las personas que tengan o no, discapacidades y un mundo sin desalojos o ejecuciones hipotecarias es posible. ¿Cómo vas a votar?
Los candidatos republicanos y demócratas están soltando la misma retórica y otra vez mientras ellos siguen trabajando en nombre de la influencia corporativa. No se hace mención de las luchas de las comunidades negras e hispanas. Ellos no hablan de las tasas de desempleo en la comunidad negra que son más altos que el promedio nacional. Esto se debe a que no tienen una solución. Ellos no hablan de cómo van a mantener a las madres y los niños en sus hogares. Esto se debe a que no tienen una solución. Ellos no hablan de la destrucción ecológica y la explotación a escala mundial o en el local. Esto se debe a, que no tienen planes de hacer frente a estas problemas. Dra. Jill Stein tiene soluciones para una planeta sano, y comunidades saludables.
Dra. Jill Stein, a través del Nuevo Acuerdo Verde , tiene un plan para mantener a las generaciones de nuestros hijos en una planeta con una economía y ecología sostenible . En este momento, la elección de "mal menor", no ha impedido el aumento de la violencia en las comunidades urbanas con jóvenes Negros y Latinos. Esto no ha impedido que el encarcelamiento creciente de nuestros hombres y mujeres jóvenes en las instituciones privadas que no "rehabilitar" a nadie en absoluto. No ha creado puestos de trabajo para reemplazar los puestos de trabajo que se han adoptado en el extranjero, o han sido reemplazados por la tecnología. Y la realidad es que estas cosas no van a suceder en los dos actuales sistemas del partidos.
Es hora de tomar un partido por nosotros mismos y nuestros seres queridos. Es hora de votar por una sistema de atención de salud de pagador único que garantiza que nuestros hijos, nuestros padres y nuestros abuelos son atendidos sin importar su nivel de seguros. Es hora de votar por un candidato que apoye detener detenciones locales, estatales y nacionales en asuntos de inmigración y el ICE redadas.
Campaña presidencial del Partido Verde de Jill Stein y Honkala Cheri tiene un plan para la abolición total, directa e inmediata de la pobreza. La selección de Cheri Honkala como candidato a la vicepresidencia es un signo claro de este compromiso. Sra. Honkala es una madre sin hogar y líder de por vida en el movimiento en contra de la pobreza, el desempleo y la falta de vivienda.
Es hora de poner fin a la destrucción, la austeridad, y el sufrimiento innecesario. Amoral gobierno honraría el carácter sagrado de la vida humana, asegurando puestos de trabajo, la vivienda, la atención sanitaria y la educación para cada familia que vive en los Estados Unidos.
Martin Luther King dijo una vez que Los Estados Unidos tiene los recursos y la tecnología para terminar con la pobreza, la única pregunta es si tenemos la voluntad. Fredrick Douglass, dijo, el poder no concede nada sin una demanda. Corresponde a nosotros a empezar a crear esa voluntad mediata a la adopción de medidas decisivas en estos momentos. Apoyamos Jill Stein y Honkala Cheri para Presidenta y Vicepresidenta de los Estados Unidos de América.
Jill Stein is releasing a TV ad today which links the policies of Obama and Romney to the increased floods, fires and droughts that the planet is currently experiencing. "I like coal," says Romney in the ad. "We built enough pipeline to wrap around the entire earth once," boasts Obama.
Will some voters react to Hurricane Sandy by casting "climate votes" for the Green Party? That is what in fact happened last year in Germany as the German Green Party, die Grunen, grew by over 70% as voters reacted to the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan.
Stein is the only national presidential candidate who has made climate change and a 100% renewable energy economy a major focus of her campaign. She supports reducing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere to below 350 ppm. The Green New Deal, the centerpiece of her campaign, includes investing hundreds of billions of dollars to transition to a carbon neutral economy, paid for through cuts to the military budget, elimination of subsidies for fossil fuels and nukes, and higher taxes on the wealthy and Wall Street.
The world already has five times as much oil, coal and gas available as climate scientists say the atmosphere can tolerate. So rather than drill for more fossil fuels, we must keep 80 percent of those reserves locked away safely underground to avoid a climate disaster. While recognizing that climate change is already underway, Stein has laid out a number of major steps that should be taken to slow it down. Stein said that the government must also begin investing in how to mitigate its impacts.
Meanwhile, Obama and Romney are heading in a very different direction.
Obama's energy policies include:
Romney supports all of Obama's bad initiatives, plus:
JILL STEIN FOR PRESIDENT
OCTOBER 30, 2012
In the midst of the record-breaking Hurricane Sandy, which caused major damage and deaths along the East Coast, a coalition of climate justice activists known as the "Tar Sands Blockade" have been converging from across the continent with local organizers and landowners to put a stop to the Keystone XL pipeline in Texas.
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein is on her way to bring food and supplies to the blockaders tomorrow, Wednesday, October 31. Dr. Stein left Massachusetts ahead of the hurricane, traveling last night by car, then bus, then bus again to Ottawa, Canada, from which she caught a flight to Texas.
"The climate is taking this election by storm, breaking the silence of the Obama and Romney campaigns that have been bought and paid for by the oil, coal and gas companies," said Stein. "Hurricane Sandy is just a taste of what's to come under the climate destroying policies of Romney and Obama. We must stand up now, not four years from now, and call for climate solutions and green prosperity. The blockaders are heroes. They are on the front line of stopping even worse climate storms in the future."
Activists are opposing the Keystone XL pipeline, in part, for the following reasons . . .
CLIMATE CHANGE – NASA's leading climate scientist, Dr. James Hansen has called the Keystone XL pipeline "a fuse to the largest carbon bomb on the planet." Hansen has said that if all the carbon stored in the Canadian tar sands is released into the earth's atmosphere it would mean "game over" for the planet.
SPILLS – All pipelines spill. According to TransCanada the Keystone 1 pipeline was predicted to spill once every seven years. It spilled 12 times in its first year and it has spilled more than 30 times over its lifetime. The Keystone XL pipeline is built to spill, and when it does it will have a devastating effect upon employment and the economy, according to Cornell University.
WATER CONTAMINATION – The Keystone XL pipeline threatens Texas' Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer which supplies drinking water to more than 12 million people living across 60 counties in drought-stricken East Texas. The pipeline's cross-border section also threatens the Ogallala Aquifer, the largest aquifer in the western North American region, upon which millions of people and agricultural businesses depend for drinking water, irrigation and livestock watering.
Stein noted that the recent events sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates were the first set of presidential debates since 1984 in which global warming was not mentioned. In response, over 2500 climate activists have signed a statement of support for Dr. Stein and criticizing the failures of the political establishment. See http://www.jillstein.org/climate
Meanwhile, drought has blighted 60% of the corn crops in the U.S. and wildfires have turned thousands into refugees. The Arctic ice cap has lost 75% of its ice and dangerous methane gas is seeping out from melting subterranean deposits.
Jill Stein and running mate Cheri Honkala are the only candidates talking about addressing the climate crisis head on by pushing for a 100% renewable carbon neutral economy, with full employment. The Green New Deal that they are proposing would create 25 million jobs in sustainable energy, agriculture, transportation, and manufacturing infrastructure, as well as in social services and public education.
Washington Post
by Josh Hicks
October 26, 2012
Libertarian Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Jill Stein earned the chance to participate in a second third-party presidential debate scheduled to take place Oct. 30 in Washington, D.C., according to the Free and Equal Election Foundation, which is organizing the event.
Registered viewers of the foundation’s first 2012 debate voted for their top two choices through an online instant-runoff election, and of the four candidates, Johnson and Stein won. In addition to Johnson and Stein, the previous Free and Equal debate featured Justice Party candidate Rocky Anderson and Virgil Goode of the Constitution Party. Former CNN host Larry King moderated the event.
The online instant-runoff election resulted in the following vote totals: Johnson 28,149; Stein 15,305; Anderson 4,382; Goode 2,698.
During the first debate, Johnson and Stein both called for marijuana legalization and agreed that special interests control Washington. But the two candidates showed strong differences on other issues. Stein proposed free health care and higher education for all U.S. citizens, as well as a “Green New Deal” that she said could totally eliminate unemployment by creating clean-energy jobs. Johnson said he would drastically reduce spending, in part by slashing the military budget and overhauling entitlement programs.
The second debate will take place at the Washington studio of RT (Russia Today), a multilingual television network funded by the Russian government. The network describes itself as an “autonomous non-profit organization.”
Free and Equal has said it will broadcast the debate live at www.freeandequal.org/live and through RT America’s YouTube channel.
