Past time for new blood, constructive ideas, promises kept, determined
follow though
Excerpting, editing by Carolyn Bennett
The Occupy movement is a cry for change from workers whose jobs have been shipped overseas and young people whose future is being stolen from them by politicians intent on serving Wall Street rather than the people...
People are being forced from their homes by big banks that defrauded consumers. The planet is being sacrificed to protect profits of polluters. Jill Stein
Green Party national nominating convention slated for Saturday, July 14, 2012, in Baltimore, Maryland.
Barr
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| Roseanne Barr |
Roseanne Cherrie Barr (born November 3, 1952 in Salt Lake
City, Utah) is an award-winning performer, a writer, producer, director,
activist, and a Green Party candidate for the Office of U.S. President.
The Butte, Montana, author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By
in America and Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermining America Barbara Ehrenreich has reportedly called Roseanne Barr a working-class
spokesperson representing ‘the hopeless underclass of the female sex:
polyester-clad, overweight occupants of the slow track; fast-food waitresses,
factory workers, housewives, members of the invisible pink-collar army; the
despised, the jilted, the underpaid,’ but a master of ‘the kind of
class-militant populism that the Democrats, most of them anyway, never seem to
get right.’
On August 5, 2011, Roseanne Barr announced her candidacy for
president in the 2012 presidential election, running on the Green Tea Party ticket.
Barr filed with the Federal Election Commission as a Green Party presidential
candidate in January 2012 and, on February 2, 2012, she formally announced her
candidacy for the party’s 2012 presidential nomination.
Stein
Chicago, Illinois native Jill Stein (b. 1950) is a physician,
politician, activist and candidate for President of the United States in 2012
with the Green Party of the United States. She announced her candidacy for the
presidential nomination of the Green Party in October 2011. Stein resides in Lexington,
Massachusetts, and has been a candidate for governor of that state. She serves
on the boards of Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility and
MassVoters for Fair Elections, and has been active with the Massachusetts Coalition
for Healthy Communities.
Stein advocates for the creation of a ‘Green New Deal’ whose
objectives are to employ every American willing and able to work, to address climate
change and water, soil, fisheries, forest, and fossil fuel crises — by working
toward sustainable energy,
transportation and production infrastructure: clean renewable energy
generation, energy efficiency, intra-city mass transit and inter-city
railroads, complete streets that safely encourage bike and pedestrian traffic,
regional food systems based on sustainable organic agriculture, and clean
manufacturing of the goods needed to support this sustainable economy.”
ROSEANNE BARR responds to
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Green Party Committee’s Presidential Campaign Support (PCSC) Questionnaire
Five most important issue areas
OBLITERATION OF THE ‘TWO PARTY’ SYSTEM
I will achieve this by becoming
the first Green Party President of these United States as a result of our
victory in the 2012 general election. I also believe it’s essential to do away
with the Electoral College.
CORPORATIONS ARE NOT PEOPLE
I will introduce a Constitutional
Amendment that will end corporate personhood and remove the unfair advantage
that corporations have in influencing the decisions made in Washington. If it
doesn’t think, breathe and bleed, it’s not human. It’s not even a dog.
I will then take this one crucial
step further and embrace current efforts to remove all money from our electoral
process.
ECONOMIC JUSTICE
As President of the United States, I will reinstate the
Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 as well as bringing back the financial transaction
tax that, for pennies on the dollar, will be a windfall for social programs in
danger of being cut.
I will remove the immoral cap on FICA tax for the rich.
I will rewrite labor laws so that U.S. companies are bound
by them even when they try to skirt them by shipping jobs overseas. This will
effectively road block mega-corporations from outsourcing production to countries
with immoral, inadequate and nonexistent labor laws.
Our jobs will stay here in the United States of America
where they belong.
I will close the loopholes that allow some of our nation’s most
profitable corporations to get away with not paying any taxes at all.
HEALTH CARE NOT WARFARE
Not only will I bring home all U.S. troops from Iraq,
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, Mexico and the Horn of Africa, but I will
also permanently shut down the 1,000-plus foreign U.S. military bases around
the world.
This would save more than enough money to implement a single-payer
health care system in the United States. Guantanamo Bay (Just kidding on this
part) will remain open and that is where I will send anyone who opposes this
plan.
LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA
I’m sick and tired of this ‘medical marijuana’ sham. All
marijuana is medicinal and we have to stop pretending that there is some sort
of moral superiority to calling some of it ‘medical.’ I will legalize all
marijuana and all drugs in general.
Drug education will be offered and treatment plans will be
put in place for abusers. Sweeping the problem under the rug by turning
non-violent abusers into criminals only exacerbates the problem by pretending
that real solutions don’t exist.
JILL STEIN RESPONDS to
Green Party Committee’s Presidential Campaign Support (PCSC) Questionnaire
Five priority issues
CREATE JOBS THROUGH A GREEN NEW DEAL
An emergency program to achieve full employment and jump
start a green economic recovery. This would provide a Manhattan Project/WWII
scale mobilization to transition to clean renewables and related green sectors
of the economy (including local food and recycling manufacturing) to avert
climate catastrophe while achieving energy independence, improving trade
balances and meeting urgent transportation, energy, housing and environmental
infrastructure needs for the 21st century.
It will be funded by taxing the rich and large corporations,
through trillion dollar savings from single payer health care and the
associated reduction of health care inflation, and through downsizing the
bloated military.
The Green New Deal will get economic help directly to people - and end the Obama/Bush trickle-down philosophy that forces ordinary people to subsidize the massive transfer of wealth and power to the super-rich.
The Green New Deal will get economic help directly to people - and end the Obama/Bush trickle-down philosophy that forces ordinary people to subsidize the massive transfer of wealth and power to the super-rich.
ECONOMIC BILL OF RIGHTS
The Green New Deal will include an ECONOMIC BILL OF RIGHTS,
including the right to living wage jobs, health care, quality education,
retirement security, and affordable housing.
PEACE NOW
End the needless wars that have drained America of the
resources we need to fund our communities. Bring the troops and war dollars
home now. Reduce the bloated military budget to provide defense not empire
building.
RESCUE DEMOCRACY
Restore our freedom of political expression, our imperiled
civil liberties, and protections from government surveillance by the swollen
Homeland Security complex. End the hijacking of political speech by the biggest
spender, (resulting from the Citizens United and Buckley v Valeo Supreme Court
decisions).
Create real freedom of political expression, full public
participation, and informed voter choice – free from fear and intimidation - at
the polls through policy reforms including: publicly funded elections, free
access to public airwaves for all legitimate candidates, instant runoff voting
and proportional representation, fair ballot access for all political parties
and candidates, safeguards against electronic election fraud, and an end to
voter suppression schemes, the corporate-electoral revolving door, and rampant
influence-peddling by lobbyists.
SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE
Improved Medicare-for-all to provide quality, comprehensive
health care to all as a human right
Single payer saves money by ending the 30 percent
administrative overhead of private insurance and by controlling the runaway
health care inflation that is bankrupting families, business, and all levels of
government. And it puts an end to insurance company meddling in personal health
care decisions and choice of doctor.
The Green Party on process, candidates and convention
Among the candidates competing for the Green Party’s
presidential nomination are Roseanne Barr, Kent Mesplay, and Jill Stein. Jill Stein is the frontrunner, having won 138
of the 184 delegates assigned so far. Roseanne Barr, in second place, has been
endorsed by the Green Party Black Caucus and the Green Party of Philadelphia.
State Green Parties have been participating in primary
elections and hold statewide conventions and caucuses to apportion delegates
for the nomination.
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| U.S. Green Party presidential candidates 2012 |
The nomination will take place on Saturday, July 14, 2012 at
the Green Party’s 2012 National Convention in Baltimore, Maryland.
The convention running from July 12 to July 15 will be held
on the campus of the University of Baltimore.
During the one or more rounds of voting by delegates, the
first presidential candidate to gain more than half of the votes will win the
nomination.
The 50 states, District of Columbia, and U.S. territories
have widely varying rules for party status and ballot access, so the various
state Green Parties have their own rules for choosing delegates. The Green
Party is tracking the results of the state primaries, conventions, and
caucuses. http://www.gpconvention2012.com/
Sources and notes
http://www.jillstein.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Stein
http://www.uncoveredpolitics.com/2012/04/30/jill-stein-sweeps-weekend-contests-in-south-carolina-connecticut/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseanne_Barr
“Roseanne Barr enters 2012 presidential race” (Ameena
Schelling), August 5, 2011, http://news.yahoo.com/roseanne-barr-enters-2012-presidential-race-190630408.html
http://www.roseanneforpresident2012.org/
Roseanne Barr, Presidential Candidate 2012,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1NiG5h7cXI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=p3hAZpt0FrE&feature=fvwp
“Roseanne Barr seeks Green Party presidential spot” ( Joe
Garofoli), May 15, 2012, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/14/MNB51OHAJF.DTL
The Banking Act of 1933 (Pub.L. 73-66, 48 Stat. 162, enacted
June 16, 1933) was a law that established the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation (FDIC) in the United States and imposed banking reforms, several of
which were intended to control speculation. It is often referred to as the
Glass–Steagall Act, after its Congressional sponsors, Senator Carter Glass (D)
of Virginia, and Representative Henry B. Steagall (D) of Alabama.
The term Glass–Steagall Act, however, is most often used to
refer to four provisions of the Banking Act of 1933 that limited commercial
bank securities activities and affiliations between commercial banks and
securities firms.
Starting in the early 1960s federal banking regulators
interpreted these provisions to permit commercial banks and especially
commercial bank affiliates to engage in an expanding list and volume of
securities activities.
By the time the affiliation restrictions in the
Glass–Steagall Act were repealed through the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act in 1999 by
President Bill Clinton, many commentators argued Glass-Steagall was already ‘dead.’
Most notably, Citibank’s 1998 affiliation with Salomon Smith
Barney, one of the largest U.S. securities firms, was permitted under the
Federal Reserve Board’s then existing interpretation of the Glass-Steagall Act.
Many commentators have stated that the Gramm-Leach-Bliley
Act’s repeal of the affiliation restrictions of the Glass-Steagall Act was an
important cause of the late-2000s financial crisis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_Act
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