Jill Stein’s Acceptance Speech As Green Party
Presidential Nominee
by Stephen
Lendman
It’s
official. Green Party delegates in Houston on Saturday nominated her as party
standard bearer for president of the United States. She’s the real thing, the
only true people’s candidate in the race for the nation’s highest office.
Money-controlled
oligarch interests oppose her - humanity’s scourge, destroying planet earth one
raped country after another, a trail of death, destruction and immiseration a
testimony to their ruthlessness.
Clinton or
Trump succeeding Obama assures more of the same, Hillary by far the worst of
two unacceptable choices, the greatest threat to world peace if anointed
America’s next president.
Jill
humbly accepted her party’s nomination, saying “(t)his is what democracy looks
like. This is what political revolution looks like.”
Her agenda
reflects a nation and “world that works for all of us…that puts people, planet
and peace over profit.”
The Green
Party “stands up for the people” on all issues vital to everyone - endorsing
peace over war, respect for fundamental human and civil rights, transition to
green energy, social justice over neoliberal harshness, and governance serving
everyone equitably.
Jill’s
running mate Ajamu Baraka “brings a lifetime of dedication to racial and
economic justice.” She called it “an honor” to run for president at a time of
“unprecedented crisis and unstoppable momentum for transformational change…”
It won’t come
from money-controlled “parties funded by predatory banks, war profiteers and
fossil fuel giants.” Grassroots activism alone can change things.
Jill
quoted abolitionist champion Frederick Douglas once saying “(p)ower concedes
nothing without a demand. It never has. It never will.” We “must be that
demand,” she stressed.
False
claims about economic recovery and strength ignore a national “emergency,”
including mass unemployment and underemployment, increasing poverty,
homelessness, hunger and deprivation, a generation of debt-entrapped students,
endless wars in multiple theaters at home and abroad, and national leaders
caring only about their own self-interest.
“Meanwhile,
the super-rich party on, richer than ever,” said Jill. “Twenty-two of these super-rich
people have the wealth equivalent to half of the US population.”
“And the
political elite that serve the economic elite are making things worse,
inflicting austerity on everyday people while they squander trillions on wars,
Wall Street bailouts, and tax favors for the wealthy.”
Government
of, by and for everyone equitably and fairly is crucially needed at the most
perilous time in world history.
Tell Trump
“we don’t need no friggin wall. We just need to stop invading other countries,”
said Jill. Both wings of America’s one-party state support dirty business as
usual getting dirtier all the time.
“We can’t
simultaneously fight terrorism with one hand, while we and our allies fund
terrorism, train terrorists and arm terrorists with the other,” Jill
stressed.
“The only
ones benefitting from this catastrophic policy are the war profiteers
themselves, who are calling the shots in foreign policy by funding the
establishment parties and their politicians.”
“US
foreign policy has become fundamentally a marketing strategy for the weapons
industry. We started the terrorist threat. Now it’s time to shut it down. That
is what our campaign alone will do.”
“Hillary
Clinton is the problem…not the solution to Donald Trump. We are the ones we’ve
been waiting for.”
In
November, vote Green, the only acceptable choice.
Stephen
Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at
lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
His new
book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive
for Hegemony Risks WW III."
http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html
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