Angela Rye Vs. Jill Stein ( Green Party ) on the Breakfast Club
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Stein, Trump and all alike are the people who have no clue on how government is run and refuse educate themselves selves on it but have all sorts of ideas on fixing something they have no clue on. Stein doesn’t even know how many members are in congress.
She got molly-whopped!
She conducted herself poorly and showed that she's blindly loyal to the DNC.
Jill Stein may/will not win, but her campaign run is showing that Black folks want real political change and not just lip service and demands from the shills and sellouts to vote for Democrats w/o getting anything in return.
She conducted herself poorly and showed that she's blindly loyal to the DNC.
Jill Stein may/will not win, but her campaign run is showing that Black folks want real political change and not just lip service and demands from the shills and sellouts to vote for Democrats w/o getting anything in return.
They are loyal to a fault bro.
They can't see the trees for the forest unfortunately.
Damn shame.
No this is based on analysis of most of the candidates. With her she’s a doctor so she has a fundamental understanding of anatomy and physiology and how the body works. The lack of the fundamental inner workings of government, no real political experience, but you want to run for the highest office, get the fuck out of here. The last moron who didn’t and still refuses to have a basic understanding of government told the people to ingest bleach during a global pandemic. Not doing that shit again.
Ralph Nader cost Al Gore the 2000 election and derailed John Kerry in 2004. Jill Stein is a present-day Ralph Nader and could just possibly do to Kamala Harris what Nader did to Gore and Kerry. Stein has absolutely no chance of winning and apparently doesn't care that for all her progressive talk she could put fascist Trump back into Presidency.
Stein, Kennedy and Cornel West all rail against the Democratic Party because of its failings but the Republican Party is so much worse and yet they for the sake of their own vanity are willing sink the Democratic candidate and further hinder the causes they say they care so deeply about. Fuck the three of them.
Stein, Kennedy and Cornel West all rail against the Democratic Party because of its failings but the Republican Party is so much worse and yet they for the sake of their own vanity are willing sink the Democratic candidate and further hinder the causes they say they care so deeply about. Fuck the three of them.
Or maybe she believes both options are varying degrees of the same fascist framework. Why do you think she owes some level of deference to dems simply because her chances of winning at near zero?
Because her vanity political exercise could result in Trump being elected that's why.
Jill Stein says lots of stuff but what has she done? Or are those questions only for VP Harris. And she definitely ain't Black?
And she doesnt view Trump as any worse than Kamala in the ultimate scheme of progress or dethroning current political powers or puppet masters.
This brother is extremely intelligent and his points are valid in my opinion. He is a fool to allow his intellect, imagery, oratory, grassroots activism and true empathy for people, to be used by a tool of Putin, that will lead to the destruction of all that he cares for. Jill Stein ain't shit PERIOD.
This brother, Lamont Hill and Cornell West are brilliant buffoons that are standing on principal in a fight against an enemy with no morals.
Bad timing. What fucking game of life are they watching
This election is not a classroom discussion.
This brother, Lamont Hill and Cornell West are brilliant buffoons that are standing on principal in a fight against an enemy with no morals.
Bad timing. What fucking game of life are they watching
This election is not a classroom discussion.
How does any of this further the black agenda???
Jill Stein still around holding Ls
Pretty much. Jill Stein began her cosplay / Russian asset candidacy for President in mainly swing states, when Obama ran for a 2nd term. Angela Rye was right in calling out this cosplay GRIFT. She raises millions then pockets it. This silly bitch STRUGGLED with basic ass questions.
Red Alert: Putin Puppet Jill Stein and her Russia-Friendly Agenda
Voters considering support for Jill Stein’s presidential campaign must be aware that she is running almost openly as an agent of Russian President Vladimir Putin. And she is parroting Russian and MAGA talking points about Joe Biden, while barely mentioning Donald Trump. That’s why they know she’s useful to them as a spoiler that can help Trump win.Here’s why anyone sickened by Putin and horrified by Trump should steer clear of Jill Stein in 2024:
Jill Stein is a Russian asset.
- Stein is pals with Vladimir Putin and his team: She joined MAGA extremist Michael Flynn as the only Americans to sit with Putin at a dinner in Moscow in 2015.
- At an event in New York that same year, she met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. – NBC News; Jill Stein
- The Russians helped Stein in 2016: “Russians working under the direction of the Internet Research Agency, the firm run by a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, tweeted the phrase ‘Jill Stein’ over 1,000 times around the time of the election. The posts were often accompanied by variations of the same hashtag, ‘Grow a spine and vote Jill Stein…’ – NBC News (December 22, 2018)
- And Stein touted their propaganda in return: In 2015, Stein “recorded a video from Moscow’s famous Red Square, in which she talked about ‘the need to rein in American exceptionalism’ and replace ‘a U.S. policy based on domination’—words that sounded like they were ripped from Putin’s talking points.” – POLITICO (June 20, 2017). During the campaign of 2016, Stein “parroted the Russian position on Ukraine and criticized the U.S. for installing a government in Kiev ‘hostile to Russia.’” – NBC News (December 22, 2018)
- She still sounds like a Russian propogandist on Putin’s invasion of Ukraine: “Russia’s invasion was a provoked response to the bigger, more murderous and illegal game plan of US empire - in which ‘overextending’ and defeating Russia is only one small part of the picture… In 2014 the US backed a coup in Ukraine led by far-right insurrectionists. The installation of the new government was a giant step towards the goal of adding Ukraine to NATO - and putting hostile bases and nuclear-capable missiles right on Russia's border.” – Jill Stein (February 24, 2022)
Stein attacks Biden, not Trump. (Just like Putin.)
- Abortion: Stein has never criticized Trump or his Supreme Court picks for overturning Roe, but she attacks Joe Biden for it: Stein says Biden is “holding our bodies hostage for political posturing…” and “Biden’s pledge to [codify Roe] disappeared.” – Jill Stein (May 3, 2022)
- Climate: Stein makes false attacks about Joe Biden’s climate investment law: “Biden has betrayed every voter who believed his climate promises.” – Jill Stein (April 12, 2024)
“Biden has put climate progress into hard reverse.” – Jill Stein (March 12, 2023) Even as Stein campaigned for climate action in 2016, she owned nearly $1 million in stock “that maintain[ed] significant stakes in Exxon and other energy companies like Chevron, Duke Energy, Conoco Phillips, and Toho Gas.” – Daily Beast (October 26, 2016) - Democracy: Stein believes that Biden and Democrats are fascist and pose a threat to democracy: “The Democrats are leading the charge in war and censorship, and co-leading the assault on working people and democracy. That's not a counter to fascism. That is fascism.” – Jill Stein (September 28, 2023)
“I think the Democrats also pose very serious threats to democracy…They have their own way of undermining the integrity of our elections…Democrats are leading the charge in the attack on free speech, freedom of the press, the right to protest.” – Jill Stein, TruthDig (December 18, 2023) - Health Care: Stein ignores and lies about Biden’s expansion of the Affordable Care Act and prescription drug reform: She lies about Biden strengthening the power of Medicare, saying, “Once again, Biden is proving more Trumpian than Trump.” – Jill Stein (October 11, 2022)
- Immigration: Stein lies about Biden’s immigration policy: She asserts it’s the same as Trump’s, that it “would rip more families apart, put more kids in cages,” and that “Biden is looking more like Trump every day.” – Jill Stein (December 14, 2023)
- Biden’s Age: Stein says Biden has cognitive decline: “Joe Biden is showing he doesn't have the cognitive faculties to run a successful campaign for President, much less do the job.” – Jill Stein (March 2, 2020)
“Why does Joe Biden make so much stuff up? Why is he so incoherent? Will it hurt him in the election? Lots of people are talking about the undeniable decline in his speech & memory. But Joe Biden has a history of lying - A LOT - even before #BidensCognitiveDecline” – Jill Stein (March 10, 2020)
Russia and the MAGA right are using Stein as a spoiler to help Trump.
- Megyn Kelly cheers Stein on as a spoiler: “Go, Jill, go! You go sister…We knew that she was a spoiler, but going back and reading just how big of a spoiler is interesting. In 2016, Stein drew 1.4 million votes nationally as the Green Party nominee...Clinton lost Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin to Trump by fewer votes than Stein received. I mean think about it...she cost the Dems the election.” – Megyn Kelly, The Megyn Kelly Show (November 10, 2023)
- Charlie Kirk says Trump would be President today if Stein was on the ballot in 2020: “Biden's math gets messy when you introduce a Jill Stein…The Green Party was not on the ballot in 2020. It was not on the ballot in Georgia...there was no Green Party in Wisconsin. No Green Party in Pennsylvania…if the Green Party would have been on the ballot, Donald Trump would still be President.” – Charlie Kirk, The Megyn Kelly Show (November 10, 2023)
- Steve Bannon says Stein is key to Trump’s path to victory: “The path to victory here is clearly maximizing the reach of these left-wing alternatives…No Republican knows that oil production under Biden is higher than ever. But Jill Stein’s people do. … Stein is furious about the oil drilling…The more exposure these [third-party candidates] get, the better it is for us.” – Steve Bannon, New York Times (April 10, 2024)
- Jill Stein acknowledges that Trump needs a spoiler candidate: “Trump wants a 2016 rerun.” – Jill Stein (March 4, 2020) “It’s not having a Green candidate that makes the difference.” – Jill Stein, Salon (January 2, 2020)
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Right. Outright ridiculous.
When did reciting someone's factual record of Ls become a fucking talking point? Jill, you lost. Every damn time. I'm not saying don't run for office, but describe how you'll win within this current system or how your movement "for the people" wins within this system.
So, Jill wants to dismantle the two party system without a clue how to get wins for us in the current system!?!?!?!?! As a matter of fact, list the accomplishment/s that you (Green Party) can claim as yours within the current system in the past 8 to 10 years.
Shows up like the Washington Generals.
She just there to look stupid every cycle. She barely gets any endorsements either.
Facts!
So what's the work during the offseason looking like? Oh you're boycotting the system??? No endorsements is just lazy and further proof that they dont believe you, you need more people. Like MANY MORE! Not putting in any work is an L itself. So, not only is your record full of Ls, so is your preparation, work ethic, and dedication to that movement.
To simplify, we all believe 4Dimensional without hesitation when it comes to anything weather related. The homie presents us with the work through diagrams and assertions backed by his wins for us all to stay safe. On a PORN BOARD no less. That has earned us all LIFE WINS. It ain't difficult. We have life saving results based on his advice.
Jill Stein and Butch Ware are the Green Party of the United States 2024 nominees for president and vice-president.
Jill Stein is a Harvard-educated doctor, a pioneering environmental health advocate, and an organizer for people, planet, and peace. She has helped lead initiatives to fight environmental racism, injustice, and pollution, to promote healthy communities, and to revitalize democracy. She has helped win victories in campaign finance reform, racially-just redistricting, and the clean-up of incinerators, coal plants, and other toxic threats. She was a principal organizer for the Global Climate Convergence for People, Planet, and Peace over Profit.As a practicing physician, Jill became aware of the links between toxic exposures and illness emerging in the 1990s. She began to fight for a healthy environment, assisting non-profits and marginalized communities in combating environmental injustice and racism. She helped lead the fight to clean up the “Filthy Five” coal plants in Massachusetts, raising the bar nationally for a cleaner standard for coal plants. She helped close a toxic medical waste incinerator in Lawrence, MA, one of the poorest communities in New England. She played a key role in rewriting the MA fish advisories to better protect women and children, Native Americans and immigrants from mercury contamination.
Having witnessed the power of lobbyists and campaign contributions to block health, environmental and worker protections, Jill became an advocate for campaign finance reform, and worked to help pass the Clean Election Law by voter referendum. This law was passed by a 2-1 margin, but was later repealed by the overwhelmingly Democratic Massachusetts Legislature on an unrecorded voice vote. This sabotage of campaign finance reform by the Democratic Party was a pivotal event in Jill’s political development, strengthening her growing alignment with the Green Party.
In 2003, Jill co-founded the Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities, a non-profit organization that fought for the health and well-being of Massachusetts communities, including health care, local green economies, environmental protection, labor rights, and grassroots democracy.
In 2008, Jill helped lead the “Secure Green Future” ballot initiative to move subsidies from fossil fuels to renewable energy and to create green jobs. The measure won over 81 percent of the vote in the 11 districts in which it was on the ballot.
Jill has received several awards for health and environmental protection, including Clean Water Action’s “Not in Anyone’s Backyard” Award, the “Children’s Health Hero” Award, and the Toxic Action Center’s Citizen Award. Jill has appeared as an environmental health expert on the Today Show, 20/20, Fox News, and other programs. She also served on the board of directors for Physicians for Social Responsibility.
She is the co-author of two widely-praised reports, In Harm’s Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development, published in 2000, and Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging, published in 2009. The first of these has been translated into four languages and is used worldwide as a community tool in the fight for health and environmental justice. The reports connect the dots between human health, social justice, a healthy environment and green economies.
Jill was born in Chicago and raised in Highland Park, Illinois. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1973, and from Harvard Medical School in 1979.
Professor Butch Ware is a lifelong activist and educator specializing in the history of empire, colonialism, genocide and revolution. For the past two decades, Ware has put scholarship in service of the people, especially in response to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, as well as the George Floyd murder in 2020. He has organized teach-ins, community education curricula, and other activist and organizing initiatives. More broadly, Ware has been working as a public intellectual, activist, artist, and organizer, supporting communities across the country and around the world to challenge imperialism, ethnic cleansing, and endless war, and to build sustainable, just, peaceful alternatives rooted in African, Indigenous, and Abrahamic traditions.
Butch was born in Washington DC and raised in Minneapolis. He graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1991, and completed his doctorate in 2004. With his Ph.D in history from the University of Pennsylvania, Ware is a leading academic authority on the U.S. Black Radical Tradition, Africa and Islam. Since 2004 Professor Ware has been a full faculty member at Northwestern, Michigan, and now UC Santa-Barbara, teaching in History, Black Studies, and Islamic Studies.
3. Reparations and a Black Agenda
The development of the United States was tainted by the displacement of Native Americans and the barbaric institution of slavery, built upon the belief in white supremacy, which we as Greens condemn. In slavery’s aftermath, people of color have borne the brunt of violence and discrimination. The Green Party unequivocally condemns these evils, which continue to be a social problem of paramount significance.Reparations
- The descendants of enslaved Africans, whose ancestors endured centuries of human rights violations, including the Transatlantic slave trade now recognized by the United Nations as a “crime against humanity”, have legitimate claims to reparations including monetary compensation. As our Nation has done in the past with respect to the Choctaw, the Lakota, the Lambuth, and more recently for Japanese Americans and the European Jewish community, reparations are now due to address the debt still owed to descendants of enslaved Africans.
- We recognize that reparations are a debt (not charity) that is due from the government, corporations, and institutions that profited from slavery and racial exploitation. We believe in elevating the voices of Black activists and leaders in policy development and decision-making processes within the African American community, whose right to self-determination and autonomy to chart the path to healing we fully recognize as part of the Black Agenda.
While the specific elements of full and complete reparations are still evolving, the Green Party’s existing platform positions already align with many other aspects of the Black agenda. These alignments focus on environmental justice, economic equity, and community health, to empower Black communities and address systemic inequalities. We support the following initial steps, aligning with the Black agenda:
- Establish a reparations’ trust fund financed by recovered wealth and other profits accumulated from the slave trade. Funds will be sourced from recovered wealth amassed by slave trade beneficiaries, corporations that profited from racial exploitation, and potential taxes on wealth accumulated through historical systemic disparities. Descendants of enslaved Africans, through their chosen representatives and organizations, will have a central role in shaping the calculation, distribution, and use of the reparations trust fund.
- We recognize that money is the governing factor and that our privately owned debt-based financial system is rooted in the exploitation of people and the planet. It has perpetuated the legacy of colonialism, slavery, and systemic discrimination. To achieve true equity and sustainability, we must fundamentally transform our nation’s current monetary system to a public asset-based system. This will enable our elected representatives to address all the economic injustices, including nurturing Black businesses, closing the racial wealth gap, providing crucial financial resources and support services directly to Black entrepreneurs and cooperatives, empowering us to thrive and contribute to the economic well-being of our communities.
- We recognize that full employment and a national minimum wage are essential to achieving both economic justice and environmental sustainability. We support prioritizing green jobs and investment in historically disadvantaged communities, alongside policies like worker cooperatives and a guaranteed minimum income funded by progressive taxation, to finally break the cycle of poverty and end environmental racism.
- Initiate the repeal of the slave clauses within the U.S. Constitution. They contribute to ongoing racial disparities, mass incarceration, and other injustices.
- Work to restore lands stolen from Black communities through various discriminatory practices like the Sharecropping system and land ownership restrictions that continue to impact Black farmers’ opportunities and success. We also demand access to safe, secure, and affordable housing – free from discriminatory practices like redlining and forced evictions. We support policies that empower us to plan and preserve our land or neighborhoods, prioritize community needs over large-scale displacement, and invest in culturally sensitive revitalization efforts.
- Support the release of all political prisoners held by the USA. We reject the authority of the U.S. State to imprison Black individuals whose imprisonment stems from their defense of Black people’s democratic and self-determination rights, regardless of the specific location or movement associated with their activities.
- Support existing Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Education and Development Funds.
- Take action to overcome the effects of over 200 years of racial discrimination, including ending official support for any remaining symbols of slavery, specifically call for the removal of the Confederate battle flag from all government buildings, and addressing issues like racial profiling, police brutality, voting rights, and access to language resources.
- We oppose discriminatory English-only pressure groups. We call for a national language policy that would encourage all citizens to be fluent in at least two languages.
- We strongly support the vigorous enforcement of civil-rights laws, the aggressive prosecution of hate crimes, and the strengthening of legal services for the poor, including:
- Black Women: We pledge full partnership with Black women as architects of our liberation, wielding power equally to build a world free from oppression.
- Self-Defense: When facing violence, the right to defend ourselves is intrinsic. While advocating peaceful solutions, we affirm self-defense as a tool for justice.
- Voting Rights: Winner-take-all denies true representation. We demand proportional voting systems that amplify Black voices, reflecting our diverse aspirations.
- Black Women: We pledge full partnership with Black women as architects of our liberation, wielding power equally to build a world free from oppression.
- Protect and Preserve African/African American Cemeteries
We call upon government agencies at all levels to protect and preserve African/African American cemeteries in the US and its territories. Special attention is needed to ensure that these sacred burial grounds are identified and appropriately marked to prevent accidental or intentional desecration. The erasure of African/African-American history, such as the desecration of African cemeteries, is the bedrock and foundation of white supremacy. Desecration is one of the physical manifestations of genocide and historic trauma.
The Green Party calls for the immediate cessation of any and all drilling, excavation and/or digging of soils in all African/African American Cemeteries in the US and its territories. We call for the Department of Justice to bring criminal charges against all parties involved in the desecration of any such cemetery. We call for reparations and the immediate repatriation of all remains and bone fragments previously displaced from any such cemeteries to the descendant community.
The destruction of cemeteries and graveyards is understood to be a distinct form of cultural violence. “Cultural destruction during genocidal campaigns is a dimension of genocide itself and is evidence of the intent to completely erase the targeted group from existence.” (1) Killing the dead: The logic of cemetery destruction during genocidal campaigns, Noa Krikler, European Institute, March 6, 2023, DOI: 10.1111/nana.12956
We understand that such desecration is a violent, political, cultural, and spiritual act, perpetuated by those holding political and economic power committed to erasing the legacy, significance, history, memory, and ancestry of the oppressed to dominate and hold hegemonic power. Desecration seeks to launder and plunder sacred land, thus transferring wealth from vulnerable groups to landowning aristocracies.
- Establish a reparations’ trust fund financed by recovered wealth and other profits accumulated from the slave trade. Funds will be sourced from recovered wealth amassed by slave trade beneficiaries, corporations that profited from racial exploitation, and potential taxes on wealth accumulated through historical systemic disparities. Descendants of enslaved Africans, through their chosen representatives and organizations, will have a central role in shaping the calculation, distribution, and use of the reparations trust fund.
4. Indigenous Peoples
We have great respect for Native American cultures, especially their deference for community and the Earth.- We recognize both the sovereignty of Native American tribal governments and the Federal Government's trust obligation to Native American people. Native American nations are just that — nations — and should be treated in like fashion, with the special circumstance that they are located within the United States.
- The federal government is obligated to deal in good faith with Native Americans; honor its treaty obligations; adequately fund programs for the betterment of tribal governments and their people; affirm the religious rights of Native Americans in ceremonies (American Indian Religious Freedom Act); provide funds for innovative economic development initiatives, education and public health programs; and respect land, water and mineral rights within the borders of reservations and traditional lands.
- We support efforts to broadly reform the Bureau of Indian Affairs to make this vast agency more responsible and more responsive to tribal governments.
- We support the just settlement of the claims of the thousands of Native American uranium miners who have suffered and died from radiation exposure. We condemn the stance of secrecy taken by the Atomic Energy Commission during this era and its subsequent claim of government immunity, taken knowingly and immorally at the expense of Native people. We support the complete clean-up of those mines and tailing piles, which are a profoundly destructive legacy of the Cold War.
- Native American land and treaty rights often stand as the front line against government and multinational corporate attempts to plunder energy, mineral, timber, fish, and game resources; pollute water, air, and land in the service of the military; expand economically; and consume natural resources. We support legal, political, and grassroots efforts by, and on behalf of, Native Americans to protect their traditions, rights, livelihoods, and sacred spaces.
- The Green Party supports the rights of indigenous peoples to their lands, their ways of life, and all other rights of free peoples. We support the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples adopted by the UN General Assembly on September 13, 2007, and call for its provisions to be actively supported by our own government and by governments worldwide.
5. Justice for Native Hawaiians: Kanaka Maoli
Since illegal annexation in 1898, the federal and state governments have cheated and neglected the native Hawaiian people. In 1993, the U.S. Congress passed, and President Clinton signed into law, the "Apology Bill" (U.S. Public Law 103-150). This admission of crime states in part, "the native Hawaiians have never lost their inherent sovereignty nor their national home base."The Green Party demands justice for Kanaka Maoli. We support the following:
- Protecting sacred and culturally significant sites.
- Efforts to nurture native Hawaiian culture.
- Kanaka maoli leadership and guardianship in protecting gathering rights, and lobbying the legislature to safeguard these rights without interference.
- Return of, or fair compensation for, ceded lands.
- Immediate distribution of Hawaiian Homelands, with government funds allocated for the necessary infrastructure.
- Prohibition of future sale or diminishments of the Ceded Land Trust.
- A call for open dialogue among all residents of Hawai'i on the sovereignty option of full independence.
- Hawaiian sovereignty in a form that is fair to both native Hawaiians and other residents of Hawai'i.
- We acknowledge and actively endorse the inherent and absolute right of indigenous nations to self-determination, and thereby call upon the U.S. government to reverse its opposition to enactment of the proposed United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in its entirety.
6. Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
In keeping with the Green Key Values of diversity, social justice and feminism, we support full legal and political equality for all persons regardless of sex, gender, sexual orientation, or gender identity, characteristics, and expression.- The Green Party affirms the rights of all individuals to freely choose intimate partners, regardless of their sex, gender, or gender identity.
- The Green Party recognizes the full civil rights of sexual and gender minorities. The existing civil rights act prohibits discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, and disability. We will work to add sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression to the existing civil rights act.
- The Green Party will be inclusive of language in local, state and federal anti-discrimination law that ensures the rights of intersex individuals and prohibits discrimination based on gender identity, characteristics, and expression as well as on sex, gender, or sexual orientation. Gender critical or trans-exclusionary social theories such as the sex-based womens’ rights declaration are not recognized as radical inclusive feminism and will be opposed by the Green Party. We are opposed to non-consenting intersex genital surgery.
- The Green Party affirms the right of all persons to self-determination with regard to gender identity and sex. We affirm the right of choosing non-binary and gender fluid identification. We therefore support the right of individuals to be free from coercion and involuntary assignment of gender or sex.
- We will pursue legislation where offenders must pay compensation to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual (LGBTQIA) people who have suffered violence and injustice.
- The Green Party will end all Federal military aid to national governments whose laws result in the death, other harm, or imprisonment of its citizens and residents who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual (LGBTQIA).
- The Green Party will enact a policy that the U. S. Government recognize all same sex marriages or legal equivalents such as civil unions, in processing visitor and immigration visas.
- The Green Party would end security surveillance and covert infiltration of organizations that promote rights for sexual and gender minorities.
7. Rights of the Disabled
We support the full enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities Act to enable all people with disabilities to achieve independence and function at the highest possible level. Government should work to ensure that children with disabilities are provided with the same educational opportunities as those without disabilities.The physically and mentally challenged are people who are differently abled from the majority, but who are nevertheless able to live independently. The mentally ill are people with serious mental problems who often need social support networks. Physically and mentally challenged people have the right to live independently in their communities. The mentally ill also have the right to live independently, circumscribed only by the limitations of their illness. These people are their own best advocates in securing their rights and for living in the social and economic mainstream.
Current Medicaid policy forces many challenged people to live in costly state-funded institutions. Excluding these people from society alienates them; excluding them from the work force denies them the chance to use their potentials. The diminishing funds available to provide care for the growing number of the mentally ill often result in their homelessness, vagrancy and dependence on short-term crisis facilities. Lack of funding also increases the necessity of placing them in long-term, locked facilities. The Green Party urges the government to:
- Increase rehabilitation funding so that persons with disabilities can pursue education and training to reach their highest potential. The differently abled should participate fully in the allocation decisions of state rehabilitation departments' funds.
- Aggressively implement the Americans with Disabilities Act.
- The Green Party supports the ratification of the United Nations Convention on Rights for Persons with Disabilities as well as the Optional Protocol.
- Fund in-home support services to allow the differently abled to hire personal care attendants while remaining at home.
- Allocate adequate funding to support community-based programs that provide out-patient medical services, case management services and counseling programs. We should provide a residential setting within the community for those who do not need institutional care but who are unable to live independently.
- Make it easier for the chronically mentally ill to apply for and receive Supplemental Security Income.
- Mainstream the differently abled. Increase teacher training in regard to the needs of differently abled students.
- Discourage stereotyping of the mentally and physically challenged by the entertainment industry and the media.
- Fund programs to increase public sensitivity to the needs of the mentally ill and differently abled.
8. Religious Freedom and Secular Equality
The United States Bill of Rights guarantees freedom of religion. We affirm the right of each individual to the exercise of conscience and religion, while maintaining the constitutionally mandated separation of government and religion. We believe that federal, state, and local governments must remain neutral regarding religion.We call for:
- Ending discriminatory federal, state, and local laws against particular religious beliefs, and non-belief. The U.S. Constitution states that there shall be no religious test for public office. This requirement should apply to oaths (or affirmations) for holding public office at any level, employment at all government levels, oaths for witnesses in courts, oaths for jury membership, and the oath for citizenship.
- Prosecution of hate crimes based on religious affiliation or practice.
- Elimination of displays of religious symbols, monuments, or statements on government buildings, property, websites, money, or documents.
- Restoration of the Pledge of Allegiance to its pre-1954 version, eliminating the politically motivated addition of "under God."
- Ending faith-based initiatives and charitable choice programs, whereby public funds are used to support religious organizations that do not adhere to specified guidelines and standards, including anti-discrimination laws.
- Ending school vouchers whereby public money pays for students in religious schools.
- Ending governmental use of the doctrines of specific religions to define the nature of family, marriage, and the type and character of personal relationships between consenting adults.
- Ending religiously based curricula in government-funded public schools.
- Ending the use of religion as a justification to deny children necessary medical care or subject them to physical and emotional abuse.
- Ending the use of religion by government to define the role and rights of women in our society.
- Revocation of the Congressional charter of the Boy Scouts of America. Any private organization that practices bigotry against certain religious beliefs and classes of people should not have a Congressional endorsement or access to public property and funds.
9. Youth Rights
All human beings have the right to a life that will let them achieve their full potential. Young people are one of the least protected classes of human beings, yet they represent our future. We must ensure they have an upbringing that allows them to take their place as functioning, productive, and self-actualized members of their community.- Youth are not the property of their parents or guardians, but are under their care and guidance.
- Youth have the right to survive by being provided adequate food, shelter and comprehensive health care, including prenatal care for mothers.
- Youth have the right to be protected from abuse, harmful drugs, violence, environmental hazards, neglect, and exploitation.
- Youth have the right to develop in a safe and nurturing early environment provided by affordable childcare and pre-school preparation.
- Youth have the right to an education that is stimulating, relevant, engaging, and that fosters their natural desire to learn.
- Young people's creative potential should be encouraged to the greatest extent possible.
- Young people should have input into the direction and pace of their own education, including input into the operation of their educational institutions.
- Young people should be provided with education regarding their own and others' sexuality at the earliest appropriate time.
- Young people should be provided the opportunity to express themselves in their own media, including television, radio, films and the Internet. Young people should also be given skills in analyzing commercial media.
- Young people should be kept free from coercive advertising at their educational institutions.
- Lower the voting age to 16 for all elections to give young people the right to take part in deciding their future.
10. GI and Veterans' Rights
Support for men and women in the armed forces must go far beyond the rhetoric used to discredit the peace movement in the U.S. today. We believe that the ill-advised and illegal actions of the U.S. administration have unnecessarily put our troops in harm's way. We further believe that the dangerous burden of fighting the unnecessary wars in the Middle East, due to the administration's overly narrow and militaristic response to terrorism is disproportionately borne by families of lesser means. Those who are required to carry out militaristic policies, often with great hardship to themselves, their families, and even the risk of their lives, deserve our respect and our commitment to adequate compensation and benefits.Our first priority in foreign policy considerations is to creating a future without war. We are committed that future generations not face the separations and sacrifices of war.
We recommend the following actions:
- Increase the current pay levels, including monthly combat pay, imminent danger pay and family separation allowances for those risking their lives in combat zones.
- Provide better care for the wounded, sick and injured soldiers. Restore full funding for veterans' health programs. Ensure that the Pentagon takes all steps necessary to fully diagnose and treat the physical and mental health conditions resulting from service in combat zones, including post-traumatic stress disorder. Support increased funding for additional clinics to provide services which now are too often delayed or denied throughout the Veterans Affairs system because of over crowding and budget constraints.
- Ensure that all pre-deployment physicals are completed within the standard allotted time period, and that medical follow-ups are routinely given to all soldiers.
- Honor all laws concerning time limits on deployments.
- Ensure a smooth transition from active military service to civilian life by providing counseling, housing, emergency management, job protection and other support systems.
- Many of those U.S. Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Airmen who served during U.S. Wars in recent decades have been exposed to nuclear, chemical and possibly biological warfare agents. We insist that the Veterans Administration can't ignore their suffering since coming home from the war. The Congress should fund and the VA should implement a comprehensive program to survey Vets and the impacts of their deployment on them and their families and to provide the best possible medical treatment available to minimize the suffering of these men and women and their families.
- Veterans are being unfairly discharged from the service with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other injuries caused by stress, trauma and head injuries, under trumped-up behavioral charges, as a means of military budget cost-cutting. As Greens we insist that all U.S. combatants are entitled to medical and psychiatric health care by the VA, after serving any time in a combat zones. Service members serving in combat zones are subjected to assorted variations of permanent physical and mental damage and are entitled to treatment by the Veterans Administration. This nation has a moral obligation to provide health care services and disability entitlements to its veterans. We support funding for additional clinics to provide services which now are too often delayed or denied because of over-crowding and budget constraints throughout the VA system.
- Provide recognized, independent veteran organizations with access to military personnel to ensure they are being informed of their rights, including those who are hospitalized due to service related injuries or illnesses.
- Establish a panel of independent medical doctors to examine and oversee the military policies regarding forced vaccinations and shots, especially with experimental drugs. Insist that the military halt the practice of testing experimental medicines and inoculations on service members without their consent.
- Enact a new GI Bill, similar to the one that began after World War II and ended in 1981, to provide tuition grants for four years of college or other educational opportunities, low-interest loans for housing or business start-ups, and free medical care for military personnel and their families for ten years following separation from the armed forces.
- Support a transparent and democratic conscientious objection process free of harassment, imprisonment, or deployment to war zones for conscientious objectors. Defend the right of individuals in the military service to modify or completely separate from military involvement because of conscientious objection.
God-Of-War-420
Mr. Pool
Which proves she's an idiot, just look at the supreme Court to see what an illogical take that is.
