Written by Robert Inrakesh
Jill Stein's recent arrest has been noted as an example of how peaceful protesters are being unjustly suppressed by U.S. law enforcement.
This Saturday, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was arrested by police at Washington University in St. Louis, becoming one of more than 100 people arrested at anti-war protests on college campuses across the country.
However, many stuck in America's two-party paradigm do not even know that this third option exists due to a lack of relevant media coverage.
Who is Jill Stein?
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Jill Stein practiced internal medicine for 25 years of her professional life and graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1979 after previously studying psychology, sociology, and anthropology. .
While working as a doctor, Stein became interested in the relationship between health and the quality of the local environment, and became an activist after noticing the link between exposure to toxic substances and disease.
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In the late 1990s, she began protesting the “Filthy Five” coal-fired power plants in Massachusetts and eventually won awards for her environmental activism in 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2004.
She also co-authored two reports on this issue, titled “In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development” in 2000 and “Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging” in 2009. Despite joining her U.S. Democratic Party, she told reporters in 2016 that she decided to leave the party and join the Green Party because “campaign finance reform was blocked” in her home state. He said he did.
He organized two campaigns for governor of Massachusetts, but fell short in both elections, although he defeated his Republican opponents.
However, she ran for local council in Lexington, Massachusetts and won the seat in both 2005 and 2008. At the 2006 Green Rainbow Party state convention, Jill Stein was nominated for federal secretary in a two-way race. The Republican candidate against the Democratic Party received 353,551 votes, or 17.7% of the vote.
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In 2012, Jill Stein ran for president of the United States and made history as the first Green Party candidate to qualify for federal matching funds, but both accused Barack Obama of representing the Wall. He was nowhere close to competing with Mitt Romney. street.
In 2016, Stein warned that the presidential election, which once again won 1 percent of the popular vote, then electing either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, could foster a two-party system.
In 2016, Jill Stein was also arrested by authorities in North Dakota for supporting the Standing Rock protests.
Supporting nonprofits and marginalized communities fighting environmental injustice and racism, we support “campaign finance reform, racially just redistricting, and cleaning up incinerators, coal-fired power plants, and other harmful threats. ” won the victory.
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She is also a longtime supporter of the Green New Deal to end America's foreign wars and advocates respect for international human rights law and Medicare for All.
A Jewish American, she has long been an active supporter of Palestinian human rights and has strongly condemned Israel's genocide, particularly in Gaza. Mr. Stein and Mr. Cornel West are the only two actively pro-Palestinian presidential candidates running in the 2024 election.
Jill Stein's recent arrest highlights how peaceful demonstrators are unjustly suppressed by U.S. law enforcement while supporting massive student protests underway across college campuses. It is attracting attention as an example of how it is done.
(Palestinian Chronicle)
– Robert Inrakesh is a journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker. He focuses on the Middle East, particularly Palestine. He contributed this article to the Palestine Chronicle.