Jill Stein
Elected Experience: Lexington Town Meeting
Other Professional Experience: Physician
Education: MD, Harvard Medical School, 1979; BA,
Psychology-Sociology-Anthropology, Harvard University, 1973
Community Service: Dr. Jill Stein is a mother, housewife, physician,
longtime teacher of internal medicine, and pioneering environmental-health
advocate. She served in elected leadership roles with the Coalition for
Healthy Communities, Citizens for Voter Choice and the national Physicians for
Social Responsibility. She won several awards 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. In 2002, she ran for governor
against Mitt Romney. In 2012 she was the Green Party's candidate for
President.
Ajamu Baraka
Elected Experience: NA
Other Professional Experience: Founding Director
US Human Rights Network (2004-2011) with 300 organization and 1500
individual members working on the full spectrum of US human rights
issues. Taught political science at Clark Atlanta University, Spelman
College and others, guest lecturer at academic institutions throughout the US,
authored several articles on international human rights.
Education: University of South Florida, Clark Atlanta University
Community Service: Served on boards of
Amnesty International (USA), National Center for Human Rights Education,
Center for Constitutional Rights, Africa Action, Latin American Caribbean
Community Center, Diaspora Afrique, and Mississippi Workers' Center for Human
Rights. Currently on boards of Praxis
Project and Cooperation Jackson.
Statement: After a career in clinical medicine, I am now practicing
political medicine, running for President to help heal our ailing nation. In this historic moment, people are standing
up like we haven't seen for generations, calling for an America and a world
that works for us all. We face unprecedented crises that need transformational
solutions that put people, planet and peace over profit. We must break the
stranglehold of billionaires and their parties that have thrown us under the
bus.
We the people have the power to end unemployment,
poverty, and rampant inequality; to liberate a generation trapped in predatory
student debt; create a welcoming path to citizenship; and end racism in
policing and beyond.
We can create a Green New Deal establishing 20 million
living wage jobs that provide 100% clean renewable energy by 2030 - reviving
the economy, halting climate change, and making wars for oil obsolete. We can
create an improved Medicare for All system, public higher education as a right,
and save trillions ending corporate welfare, catastrophic wars, and tax favors
for the wealthy. We can protect women's rights, Indigenous and LGBT people, our
civil liberties and the Internet. And
create a foreign policy based on international law and human rights.
My running mate, Ajamu Baraka, is a human rights
defender whose experience spans four decades of domestic and international
education and activism. He is a veteran grassroots
organizer whose roots are in the Black Liberation Movement and anti-apartheid
and Central American solidarity struggles.
It's time to vote for what we believe, not against what
we fear. To reject the lesser evil and fight for the greater good, like our
lives depend on it. Because they do.
The power to create this new world is in our hands! Learn more at Jill2016.com .