Jill Stein

Elected Experience: Lexington Town Meeting

Other Professional Experience: Physician

Education: MD, Harvard Medical School, 1979; BA, Psychology-Sociology-Anthropology, Harvard University, 1973

Community Service: Dr. Jill Stein is a mother, housewife, physician, longtime teacher of internal medicine, and pioneering environmental-health advocate.  She served in elected leadership roles with the Coalition for Healthy Communities, Citizens for Voter Choice and the national Physicians for Social Responsibility.  She won several awards including Clean Water Action's Not in Anyone's Backyard Award, the Children's Health Hero Award, and the Toxic Action Center's Citizen Award.  In 2002, she ran for governor against Mitt Romney.  In 2012 she was the Green Party's candidate for President.

Ajamu Baraka

Elected Experience: NA

Other Professional Experience: Founding Director  US Human Rights Network (2004-2011) with 300 organization and 1500 individual members working on the full spectrum of US human rights issues.  Taught political science at Clark Atlanta University, Spelman College and others, guest lecturer at academic institutions throughout the US, authored several articles on international human rights.

Education: University of South Florida, Clark Atlanta University

Community Service: Served on boards of  Amnesty International (USA), National Center for Human Rights Education, Center for Constitutional Rights, Africa Action, Latin American Caribbean Community Center, Diaspora Afrique, and Mississippi Workers' Center for Human Rights.  Currently on boards of Praxis Project and Cooperation Jackson.

Statement: After a career in clinical medicine, I am now practicing political medicine, running for President to help heal our ailing nation.  In this historic moment, people are standing up like we haven't seen for generations, calling for an America and a world that works for us all. We face unprecedented crises that need transformational solutions that put people, planet and peace over profit. We must break the stranglehold of billionaires and their parties that have thrown us under the bus.

We the people have the power to end unemployment, poverty, and rampant inequality; to liberate a generation trapped in predatory student debt; create a welcoming path to citizenship; and end racism in policing and beyond.

We can create a Green New Deal establishing 20 million living wage jobs that provide 100% clean renewable energy by 2030 - reviving the economy, halting climate change, and making wars for oil obsolete. We can create an improved Medicare for All system, public higher education as a right, and save trillions ending corporate welfare, catastrophic wars, and tax favors for the wealthy. We can protect women's rights, Indigenous and LGBT people, our civil liberties and the Internet.  And create a foreign policy based on international law and human rights.

My running mate, Ajamu Baraka, is a human rights defender whose experience spans four decades of domestic and international education and activism.  He is a veteran grassroots
organizer whose roots are in the Black Liberation Movement and anti-apartheid and Central American solidarity struggles. 

It's time to vote for what we believe, not against what we fear. To reject the lesser evil and fight for the greater good, like our lives depend on it.  Because they do.

The power to create this new world is in our hands!  Learn more at Jill2016.com .