Jill Stein
Green Party
Who is Jill Stein...?
By Scott Angilly
Dr. Jill Stein is the 2016 Green Party's candidate for president. She also ran as the party's presidential candidate in 2012, as well. She is a mother, physician, organizer and pioneering environmental-health advocate. Dr. Stein was born on May 14, 1950 in Chicago, Illinois and is 66 years old. Her spouse is Richard Rohrer and she has two children. Their names are Noah Rohrer and Ben Rohrer. She now resides in Massachusetts.
What is the Green Party?
The Green Party is one of four political parties considered to be a major party (Republican Party, Democratic Party, Green Party, Libertarian Party). They follow the four pillars which are the following: Ecological Wisdom, Social Justice, Grassroots Democracy and Nonviolence. The first pillar, ecological wisdom includes ecosophy which is essentially an environmental philosophy. The second pillar, social justice includes human rights, women's rights and the overall rights of man. The third pillar, grassroots democracy includes more decision making at the local level. The fourth pillar, nonviolence includes simply not being violent, hence the name. The Green Party doesn't believe in the aggressive use of our military or other violence.
What Will Jill Stein do for Our Country?
Dr. Jill Stein is the 2016 Green Party's candidate for president. She also ran as the party's presidential candidate in 2012, as well. She is a mother, physician, organizer and pioneering environmental-health advocate. Dr. Stein was born on May 14, 1950 in Chicago, Illinois and is 66 years old. Her spouse is Richard Rohrer and she has two children. Their names are Noah Rohrer and Ben Rohrer. She now resides in Massachusetts.
What is the Green Party?
The Green Party is one of four political parties considered to be a major party (Republican Party, Democratic Party, Green Party, Libertarian Party). They follow the four pillars which are the following: Ecological Wisdom, Social Justice, Grassroots Democracy and Nonviolence. The first pillar, ecological wisdom includes ecosophy which is essentially an environmental philosophy. The second pillar, social justice includes human rights, women's rights and the overall rights of man. The third pillar, grassroots democracy includes more decision making at the local level. The fourth pillar, nonviolence includes simply not being violent, hence the name. The Green Party doesn't believe in the aggressive use of our military or other violence.
What Will Jill Stein do for Our Country?
- Ending Poverty in America: Guarantee access to food, water, housing, utilities, and any other necessities. Establish the right to a living wage job. Free universal child care. Public Assistance Reform.
- Climate Change: Enact an emergency Green deal to turn the tide on climate change. Initiate a WWII scale national mobilization to halt climate change. Enact energy democracy based on public, community and worker ownership of our energy system. Treat energy as a human right.
- Jobs as a Right: Create living-wage jobs for every American who needs work. Replace unemployment offices with employment offices. Create 20 Million jobs in sustainable energy by enacting more Green deals. Advance worker´s rights to form unions.
- Healthcare as a Right: Eliminate the cancer of health insurance, which adds costs while reducing access to healthcare. Prioritize preventive health care, including physical activity, healthy nutrition and pollution prevention. End overcharging for prescription drugs by using bulk purchasing and negotiations.
- Education as a Right: Guaranteed tuition-free, world class education from Pre-k to university. Restore art, music and recreation to school curriculums. Replace common core with curriculum developed by educators, not corporations, with input from parents and communities. Use restorative justice to address conflicts before they occur, and involve students in the process.
- Economy: Guarantee a living wage job for all. Set a $15.00 an hour minimum wage, with indexing. Democratize the Federal Reserve. Ensure equal pay for equal work, ending discrimination based on race, gender or generation. Take action against wage theft. Provide full protection for workplace rights.
- Freedom and Equality: Expand women's rights, including equal pay and reproductive freedom and pass the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment). Protect the LGBT community from discrimination. Defend indigenous rights, land and treaties. Protect the free Internet. Oppose the Online Piracy Act and all other legislation that would undermine freedom and equality on the Internet.
- A Just Immigration System: Demilitarize border crossings throughout North America. Support immigrant's rights. Halt deportations of law-abiding undocumented immigrants. Make more aggressive use of executive authority for refugees fleeing extreme violence in Central America, Mexico, and other Countries.
- Criminal Justice Reforms: End the failed war on drugs. Replace drug prohibition with harm reduction. Repair our communities rather than dump resources into the prison system.
- Justice for All: Enforce the Bill of Rights by protecting the right to free speech and protest, to be secure from unwarranted search and seizure and invasion of privacy, as well as our other Constitutional rights.
- Peace and Human Rights: Establish a foreign policy based in diplomacy. Cut military spending 50% and close 700+ foreign military bases. End use of assassination as a method of U.S. foreign policy. End the US's role as the world's arms supplier.
- Election Reform: Eliminate the doctrine of corporate personhood that among other things has been used to justify unlimited corporate spending in elections with a constitutional amendment to clarify that only human beings have constitutional rights.
- A Humane Federal Budget with Fair Taxes: Increase government revenues for social need by restoring full employment, cutting the bloated, dangerous military budget and cutting private health insurance waste.
- Financial Reform: Establish federal, state and municipal public-owned banks that function as non-profit utilities and focus on helping people, not enriching themselves. Manage pension funds by board controlled by workers.
- Housing: Impose an immediate moratorium on foreclosures and evictions. Expand rental and homeownership assistance and increase funding for public housing. Create a federal bank with local branches to take over homes with distressed mortgages, and either restructure the mortgages to affordable levels, or if the occupants cannot afford a mortgage, rent homes to the occupants.
- Autism: Provide support services for autistic individuals and their families across the lifespan. With our proposed Medicare for All system all necessary autism services including occupational therapy, speech therapy, housing, employment services, mental health services, and assistive technologies would be fully covered.
- Military and Veterans´ Affairs: Raise the base pay of military service members to family-supporting wages. Increase the current pay levels, including monthly combat pay, imminent danger pay, and family separation allowances for those risking their lives in combat zones. Eliminate use of private contractors in place of military personnel. Honor all laws concerning time limits on deployments and between deployments.