Jill Stein
Jill Stein was the presidential candidate for the Green Party in 2016.
Background
Jill Stein "was born in Chicago and raised in suburban Highland Park, Illinois. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1973, and from Harvard Medical School in 1979."
Jill "began to advocate for the environment as a human health issue in 1998 when she realized that politicians were simply not acting to protect children from the toxic threats emerging from current science. She offered her services to parents, teachers, community groups and a native Americans group seeking to protect their communities from toxic exposure."
In 2003, Jill co-founded the Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities, a non-profit organization that addresses a variety of issues that are important to the health and well-being of Massachusetts communities, including health care, local green economies, and grassroots democracy.
In 2008, Jill helped formulate a "Secure Green Future" ballot initiative that called upon legislators to accelerate efforts to move the Massachusetts economy to renewable energy and make development of green jobs a priority. The measure won over 81 per cent of the vote in the 11 districts in which it was on the ballot."[1]
Rage Against the War Machine
Rage Against the War Machine was a protest held on February 19, 2023 organized by the Movement for a People's Party and the Libertarian Party against US intervention in Russia's attack on Ukraine. Jill Stein was a speaker listed on the Rage Against the War Machine website.[2]
Stein/Honkala ticket
Tackling Climate Change through the Lens of Social Justice
"Join Dr. Jill Stein for a keynote address and a discussion with activists from the Justice Action Mobilization Network on climate change, as well as local and statewide environmental issues. Together we will explore the intersection of social and environmental justice—and the political vision that can bring them about."[3]
Dining with Putin
Jill Stein in Moscow with Vladimir Putin and Mike Flynn.
Russian asset?
October 2019 Hillary Clinton appeared to claim in a podcast interview that Russians will support Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as a third-party presidential candidate—and called Jill Stein “a Russian asset.”
Clinton made the remark on Campaign HQ with David Plouffe. “I’m not making any predictions, but I think they’ve got their eye on someone who’s currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate. She’s the favorite of the Russians,” said Clinton, apparently referring to Rep. Gabbard, who’s been accused of receiving support from Russian bots and the Russian news media. “They have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far.” She added: “That’s assuming Jill Stein will give it up, which she might not because she’s also a Russian asset. Yeah, she’s a Russian asset—I mean, totally. They know they can’t win without a third-party candidate. So I don’t know who it’s going to be, but I will guarantee you they will have a vigorous third-party challenge in the key states that they most needed.” Clinton spox Nick Merrill later clarified, when asked if Clinton was referencing Gabbard: “If the nesting doll fits.”[4]
Voice of Russia
According to Shamako Noble in Peoples Tribune September 2013 The Green Party’s annual national meeting was held in Iowa City, Iowa from July 25-28.
Jill Stein, Cheri Honkala, and Shamako Noble are interviewed by Voice of Russia during the Green Party annual meeting.
People’s Summit
September 25, 2009 "Talk Back to the G-20 at the People’s Summit about our jobs, homes, health and environment, with Jill Stein, Art MacEwan, and Avi Chomsky": at Northeastern University, Boston.[5]
World Courts of Women
February 2014
Participants at the World Courts of Women in Philadelphia. The women are (from left to right) Walda Katz-Fishman, Cheri Honkala, Corinne Kumar, Rose Brewer, and Jill Stein.
Collective and community rights:
The People’s Tribune met with four leaders of the World Courts of Women in Philadelphia: World Courts of Women Founder Corinne Kumar, Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign Director Cheri Honkala, University of Minnesota Professor Dr. Rose Brewer, and Green Party 2012 presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein. The World Courts of Women are public hearings held in countries around the world to document the lives of women, their human rights, their visions, and their strategies.[6]
Poverty Tour 2.0
Highlights from the first stop on The Poverty Tour 2.0 in Cleveland, OH with Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Cleveland City Councilman Brian Cummins, Justice for Janitors organizers Laurie Couch and Sandra Ellington, Chris Cooper from Kent State University’s Ohio Employee Ownership Center, Green Clean Co-op worker-owner Mary Vel Vera, and Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein.[7]
Left Forum 2016
Jill Stein, leader of the Green Party and its' presidential candidate for 2016, participated on several panels at the "Left Forum 2016".
For a complete list of panels and panelists, go to the Left Forum's website where the 2016 program is in a PDF format, with an Index to names and page mentions at the back of it.
South Korea
The U.S. Solidarity Peace Delegation in South Korea July 2017, to build solidarity with the peace/anti-war movement there -- visited the village of Soseong-ri in Seongju County from July 24 to 27 to support the villagers in their fight to stop the deployment of the U.S. THAAD anti-missile system there.
The delegation -- Jill Stein of the Green Party USA, Medea Benjamin of CODEPINK, Reece Chenault of US Labor against War, and Will Griffin of Veterans for Peace -- heard from the villagers of Soseong-ri about their year-long anti-THAAD struggle. “Our children no longer want to come here. If the THAAD comes, the water will go bad, the air will be bad,” said an elderly farmer.
“Will the THAAD protect us? No, it won’t. If the THAAD comes, we think it will be war,” said another grandmother, who worried that the THAAD will only make Soseong-ri and Seongju a target in the crossfire between the United States and its opponents in the region.
The delegation -- organized by the Task Force to Stop THAAD in Korea and Militarism in the Asia Pacific's (STIK) -- asked the residents to send a message to CEO Marillyn Hewson of Lockheed Martin, the leading U.S. weapons manufacturer. “You are also a mother. Stop making weapons of destruction and contribute to making peace,” they said.
The delegation also participated in an anti-THAAD rally in Seongju, where the local residents displayed a model of the U.S. THAAD battery then proceeded to smash it as a demonstration of their disapproval of the war weapon.[8]
On Facebook, Jill Stein posted[9] about the rally:
- "Exciting news! Medea Benjamin and i are heading out this week with a Peace Delegation to South Korea. We'll be supporting the growing South Korean resistance to US militarism in Korea and the Asia-Pacific.
- "We'll also bring solidarity to the movement to stop the destabilizing US THAAD missile system in South Korea. In fact, these are the very conditions recently provoking North Korea to resume its nuclear weapons and missile development programs.
- "These are also the very conditions that are diverting urgently needed resources from critical human needs here at home - for education, jobs, health care, housing and urgent climate action.
- "It's so inspiring that the people of South Korea - a global center of nuclear conflict - are leading the charge against the nuclear arms race and expanding US militarism.
- "The full mission statement of the peace delegation is at the link below. And please share this posting to your networks and spread the word!
- "The delegation itself includes leadership of Code Pink, Veterans for Peace, US Labor Against the War, the Green Party, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, Solidarity Committee for Democracy and Peace in Korea, and the Korea Policy Institute.
- "Your support would mean a lot. Not just to defuse the crisis in Korea. But to help build the global people's movement for peace, justice and democracy. We can end this era of war, oppression and global instability, and move towards a new era of security based on international law, human rights, social justice and diplomacy.
- "Current endorsers of the South Korea Peace Delegation include Noam Chomsky, Chris Hedges, Cheri Honkala/Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, Ray McGovern, Colonel Ann Wright and many more.
- "Now more than ever we face the choice - as Martin Luther King put it - between chaos and community. Nuclear confrontation on the Korean Peninsula makes this crisis really clear.