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Showing posts with label Jill Stein. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jill Stein. Show all posts
27 September 2016
04 March 2016
TO NOT VOTE IS TO SURRENDER 4MAR16
To all the Bernie Sanders supporters out there, DON'T GIVE UP! The Democratic National Convention is in July 2016 in Philadelphia, PA. If hillary clinton ends up being the nominee (and there is a very good chance she won't be in spite of the DNC) you can choose to vote for her, write in Bernie Sanders, or vote for Dr Jill Stein G MA. Check out her Green Party campaign website here. Just don't surrender, VOTE!!!!!
Jill Stein
Born: May 14, 1950 (age 65), Chicago, IL
Nationality: American
20 September 2012
I SIDE WITH QUIZ 20SEP12 & Jill Stein Wants to #Occupy the White House 18SEP12
CHECK this out, it is a quiz to see just how your beliefs and views match the presidential candidates and political parties. I did pick the other option on a lot of the questions, doing so gets you more detailed, in-depth choices. I also chose to answer more questions when offered in the different categories. Click the link to take the quiz and share with others! http://www.isidewith.com/ Explore the site, I really found the Results by state really interesting, especially considering the polling of likely registered voters. There is an article on Jill Stein, candidate of the Green Party, following my results of the quiz. Though my opinions on the quiz match her's most I am donating to, volunteering for and voting for PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA ON 6 NOV 12!!!!! FORWARD AND 4 MORE YEARS!!!!!!
On
the one-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, Green Party
presidential candidate Jill Stein rallies the troops at "Storm Wall
Street."
Here's
one thing Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have in common: They don't have
to battle for attention with a squad of dancing jellyfish puppets. Jill
Stein did, and won. The Green Party presidential candidate spent
yesterday morning in Manhattan's Financial District with the
environmental contingent of Occupy Wall Street, dodging cops, patiently
waiting out street theater performances, and shouting hoarsely into the
People's Mic.
"Wall Street has put our climate in crisis," Stein yelled, to an ample wiggling of spirit fingers. "It's up to us to lead the way on the economy and the climate."
Occupy Wall Street has long eschewed party politics, which makes the appearance of this long-shot presidential contender slightly discordant. But to see Stein, for whom environmental issues are a campaign centerpiece, marks an apex in what Occupy's environmental organizers call a yearlong struggle to bring climate change to the forefront of the movement.
Stein, 62, is a Harvard-educated physician who first entered politics ten years ago as a Green-Rainbow Party candidate for Massachusetts governor, after years of public health activism. Despite her greatest electoral success being a seat on the Lexington, Mass., Town Meeting in 2005 and 2008, Stein will go head to head with Obama and Romney in at least 38 states this November, making her a contender for the votes of environmentally conscious Occupiers nationwide who are dissatisfied with both mainstream parties' mollifying of the fossil fuel industry.
Stein isn't naïve about her chances for the White House. But she's running anyway, because in her mind both parties are tarred by the same brush.
"Without our voices there is no public interest, it's just corporate spin campaigns competing with each other for more corporate dollars."
I side with Jill Stein on most issues in the 2012 Presidential Election.
Candidates you side with...
86%
Jill Stein on domestic policy, foreign policy, environmental, and social issues
81%
Barack Obama on economic, foreign policy, social, and science issues
74%
Rocky Anderson on economic, foreign policy, and social issues
46%
Gary Johnson on foreign policy issues
7%
Virgil Goode no major issues
6%
Mitt Romney no major issues
51%
Virginia Voters on foreign policy and environmental issues.
51%
American Voters on domestic policy, foreign policy, environmental, and social issues.
Who you side with by party...
96% Democrat
83% Green
24% Libertarian
1% Republican
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http://www.isidewith.com/results/123902030 Jill Stein Wants to #Occupy the White House
A special visit to Occupy from the Green Party prez candidate cements the link between climate change and the 1 percent.
On
the one-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, Green Party
presidential candidate Jill Stein rallies the troops at "Storm Wall
Street." "Wall Street has put our climate in crisis," Stein yelled, to an ample wiggling of spirit fingers. "It's up to us to lead the way on the economy and the climate."
Occupy Wall Street has long eschewed party politics, which makes the appearance of this long-shot presidential contender slightly discordant. But to see Stein, for whom environmental issues are a campaign centerpiece, marks an apex in what Occupy's environmental organizers call a yearlong struggle to bring climate change to the forefront of the movement.
Stein, 62, is a Harvard-educated physician who first entered politics ten years ago as a Green-Rainbow Party candidate for Massachusetts governor, after years of public health activism. Despite her greatest electoral success being a seat on the Lexington, Mass., Town Meeting in 2005 and 2008, Stein will go head to head with Obama and Romney in at least 38 states this November, making her a contender for the votes of environmentally conscious Occupiers nationwide who are dissatisfied with both mainstream parties' mollifying of the fossil fuel industry.
Stein isn't naïve about her chances for the White House. But she's running anyway, because in her mind both parties are tarred by the same brush.
"Without our voices there is no public interest, it's just corporate spin campaigns competing with each other for more corporate dollars."
The
environment hasn't always been a top concern in the Occupy movement. In
the earliest days in Zuccotti Park, sustainability discussion groups
cropped up here and there, and the green-minded managed to get a few
bicycle-powered generators in operation. Climate change would come up
and get dropped. In a sea of distractions ranging from overhauling
finance regulations to avoiding imminent arrest, it took months for
climate change to register as a prominent issue, according to Occupy
organizer Rebecca Manski, who dropped out of the world of environmental
non-profits to move to New York in the first days of the occupation.
"For some reason, people still don't see the connection between environmental and economic justice," she said in a phone interview with Climate Desk last week. "But gradually we're seeing that we're being heard."
Unsurprisingly, the environmentalists of Occupy have not come out with "official" stances on specific Obama administration policies. But they're far from toothless: Cathy Duval, political director of the Sierra Club, said that over the last year Occupy has become an important partner for mainstream environmental groups. The movement's particular talent for turning out large groups of enthusiastic, outraged people has also been a boon. Occupiers showed up to protest the Keystone XL pipeline in front of the White House in November, rallied against fracking in Pennsylvania and New York, and last week got arrested for blocking construction of a pipeline that will carry natural gas from fracked wells into Manhattan. And Phil Areneau, a regional organizer for 350.org, said the movement's far-reaching social networks have proved an effective mechanism for disseminating climate change talking points.
"I think it's healthy to have some movements that focus on politics, and some that don't," Duval said. "One of [Occupy's] strengths is that they don't engage with traditional players."
After her speech, Stein's slight frame and poof of grey hair dissolved into the crowd that had gathered for "Storm Wall Street," an event staged on Occupy's one-year anniversary dedicated specifically to climate change. People in polar bear costumes rubbed shoulders with anarchists in black hoodies, while anti-fracking activists carried signs and shouted slogans as if they'd just been bused in from Albany.
A tall blonde polar bear named Monica Hunken expressed optimism that climate change will keep gaining as an important issue in Occupy. Responding to arrests, evictions, bank divestments, and other pressing daily issues often keeps the movement "in a state of reactivity," she said. As the short-term impacts of global warming become more apparent, expect more action from the Occupiers: "What we'll see is the urgency of climate change, of sea level rise knocking at the door."
"For some reason, people still don't see the connection between environmental and economic justice," she said in a phone interview with Climate Desk last week. "But gradually we're seeing that we're being heard."
"This machine that is driving our economy and our climate over the cliff is bought and paid for by Wall Street."
That connection was the backbone of Stein's speech, and is also a
central tenet of her campaign. "This machine that is driving our economy
and our climate over the cliff is bought and paid for by Wall Street,"
she said in a one-on-one chat an hour before her speech, flipping
through a fat clipboard of notes and smoothing a dark blue pantsuit.
"It's wonderful that people are connecting the dots here, to say we have
a crisis with the economy, a crisis with the climate, we have to fix
them both by standing up to Wall Street, by breaking down the big
banks."Unsurprisingly, the environmentalists of Occupy have not come out with "official" stances on specific Obama administration policies. But they're far from toothless: Cathy Duval, political director of the Sierra Club, said that over the last year Occupy has become an important partner for mainstream environmental groups. The movement's particular talent for turning out large groups of enthusiastic, outraged people has also been a boon. Occupiers showed up to protest the Keystone XL pipeline in front of the White House in November, rallied against fracking in Pennsylvania and New York, and last week got arrested for blocking construction of a pipeline that will carry natural gas from fracked wells into Manhattan. And Phil Areneau, a regional organizer for 350.org, said the movement's far-reaching social networks have proved an effective mechanism for disseminating climate change talking points.
"I think it's healthy to have some movements that focus on politics, and some that don't," Duval said. "One of [Occupy's] strengths is that they don't engage with traditional players."
After her speech, Stein's slight frame and poof of grey hair dissolved into the crowd that had gathered for "Storm Wall Street," an event staged on Occupy's one-year anniversary dedicated specifically to climate change. People in polar bear costumes rubbed shoulders with anarchists in black hoodies, while anti-fracking activists carried signs and shouted slogans as if they'd just been bused in from Albany.
A tall blonde polar bear named Monica Hunken expressed optimism that climate change will keep gaining as an important issue in Occupy. Responding to arrests, evictions, bank divestments, and other pressing daily issues often keeps the movement "in a state of reactivity," she said. As the short-term impacts of global warming become more apparent, expect more action from the Occupiers: "What we'll see is the urgency of climate change, of sea level rise knocking at the door."
Tim McDonnell
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