Now available: View the People's State of the Union
Thank you for joining me for "A People's State of the Union: A Green New Deal for America." It is gratifying to know that so many people came together from across the country out of interest and support for a new direction for our nation. This event happened in two parts, both of which are viewable below.
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Obama State of the Union "subverts New Deal" says Stein
Jill Stein, Green Party presidential candidate, called today for a Green New Deal to counter the "trickle down economic agenda" laid out by President Obama last night in his State of the Union address. Stein plans to release her alternative at 8:30pm Eastern Time in a "People's State of the Union: A Green New Deal for America" that will be given via her campaign website: http://www.JillStein.org
After viewing President Obama's address, Stein commented that "It is startling how the candidate who four years ago promised to be an agent of change has morphed into the candidate of more of the same. The key features of the President's State of the Union address were drawn from the centrist Republican agenda. He's glorifying militarism, calling for more business tax cuts, promoting offshore oil drilling and hydrofracking, pushing trillions in cuts to discretionary Federal spending, promising cuts to Social Security and Medicare, and putting American workers into a struggle for survival in a global economy dominated by big corporations."
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Dr. Stein rallies movement to "Occupy the Courts"
Tens of thousands of Americans in over 130 cities gather today at federal courthouses and in public squares, nearly the two-year anniversary of Citizens United v. FEC, to reject the doctrines of corporate personhood and money is speech. Dr. Jill Stein, Green Party presidential candidate, is a lead speaker today in Washington, D.C., where she joins protestors on the steps of the court building of the Supreme Court of the United States. Dr. Stein joins leading members of the Move to Amend coalition, as well as Thom Hartmann, Medea Benjamin, and others in this role.
"Since 1996, the Green Party has called for a constitutional amendment to abolish the doctrine of corporate personhood," said Stein. "Greens have been ahead of the curve, but today, the curve has caught up with us, and now this movement for a constitution that serves we, the people, has gathered a historic momentum."
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SOPA is more corporate takeover of democracy, says Stein
Jill Stein, Green Party candidate for president, said today she opposes the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA, H.R. 3261) for giving the government and corporations too much power to restrict speech on the internet.
"Democracy can only succeed when free speech is a reality, not merely a promissory note. SOPA would impose censorship on the internet and threatens whistle-blowers and others whose speech is vital to a healthy society. SOPA is part of the escalating assault by global media corporations and many governments on the openness of the internet," said Stein.
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Stein Embraces Dr. King's Call to make Health Care a Right, Promote Economic Justice and End War
Dr. Jill Stein, running for president as a Green Party candidate, said if elected she would honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy by not only embracing his call for civil rights and racial equality but continuing his struggle for peace, economic justice and universal health care.
Dr. Stein, a graduate of Harvard Medical School, said she would make health care a right and enact a single payer, expanded and improved Medicare for All. In 1968, Dr. King said that “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”
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Workers deserve a raise, not anti-labor legislation
American workers need and deserve real increases in their take-home wages, not anti-union legislation, according to Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein. She called the shift toward so-called “Right to Work” legislation in Indiana and elsewhere just the latest blows to the earning power of working people:
"The anti-worker economic policies adopted under Presidents Obama and Bush have depressed wages, and no improvement is in sight under their economic proposals. In major industries, we are seeing the spread of a two-tier wage systems in which young workers are paid 40% less than older workers. This reflects an abandonment of the principle of equal pay for equal work. It also represents a disastrous discrimination against younger workers. It will prevent many young people from gaining a foothold in the middle class."
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