Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein announced Butch Ware, a professor at the University of California Santa Barbara, as her running mate on Friday. The announcement was made during a virtual rally organized by the campaign.
“I’m honored and thrilled to welcome Butch Ware as my running mate and the Vice President we need at this moment in history,” Stein posted on X following her announcement. “[…] This is truly a historic ticket bringing together a Jewish woman and Black Muslim man against genocide, endless war, climate collapse, and rampant injustice, and for an economy that works for working people, a livable future for our children, and an America and a world that works for all of us.”
Earlier this month, the Stein campaign told Al Jazeera that Stein would select her running mate during a virtual announcement rally, giving the names of three potential options. The rally was initially planned for last Thursday on Zoom but was rescheduled due to a health emergency.
In addition to the announcement, Friday’s rally featured an array of speakers, including Stein’s 2016 vice-presidential running mate, Ajamu Baraka, and her 2012 running mate, Cheri Honkala. Other notable speakers included Palestinian-American activist Jenan Matari, peace activist Medea Benjamin, Indigenous advocate and water protector Crystal Cavalier, and economist Michael Hudson. Several individuals considered potential running mate choices by the campaign were also in attendance.
Delegates at the Green Party’s Presidential Nominating Convention will vote on the party’s presidential ticket on Saturday afternoon, with the chosen nominee expected to give a press conference following the roll call vote. The convention officially began on Thursday and will continue through the weekend.
Probably off-topic for this thread, but long time GP activist Phil Donahue has passed on:
https://www.dispatch.com/story/entertainment/tv/2024/08/19/phil-donahue-dies-talk-show-marlo-thomas/71403549007/?utm_source=dispatch-newsalert-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsalert&utm_term=hero&utm_content=ncod-columbus-nletter01
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If Stein had ever bothered to pay even the tinyist bit of attention to the honorable professor Dugin, then she wouldn’t be such an anti-semitic, pro-abortion, pro-LGBTQ+, feminist SJW, endlessly propagating the leftist hoax of “anthropogenic climate change” in a pathetic bid at totalitarian control over every facet of people’s lives.
Everything about Stein and her “green-left” (i.e. eco-fascist) party, is diametrically opposed to Dugin. So alleging that she and her stormtroopers embrace Dugin is as insulting and ridiculous as calling Dugin a fascist is. If only more American politicians took a leaf out of Dugin’s books, the US might never have become such a fascist shit hole as it is today.
Wish that we could trade anti-semite Stein for someone like the honorable Avigdor Eskin – now there would be a candidate worth campaigning for and donating to.
Wow! Who knew?
Jill Stein spoke along w/ Cynthia McKinney and many types of right wing and Fascists including the MAGA Communist Jackson Hinkle, 2 weeks ago at the presser ( 1 of 2 reporters?) who just threw soft ball questions to Maduro in Caracas after was he declaring himself winner in Venezuela.
Cynthia McKinney- part of the Lyndon LaRouche movement since 2005 was the Green Party Candidate in 2008 . Part of his fraction in the ultra right of the Libertarian Party , Hedges was the MC
The “Rage Against the War Machine” rally: A reactionary political freak show
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/02/20/lfjm-f20.html
Read Thread Below:
https://twitter.com/areidross/status/1553081411950653440?cxt=HHwWgMClqZnU040rAAAA
In 2014, The FSB Proxy Anti-Globalist Resistance—Now The ADR—Held A Conference That Drew In Participants From The Texas Nationalist Movement, The International Action Center, And A Member Of The Uhuru Movement- They have now part of being charged Read Thread Below:
https://twitter.com/areidross/status/1553081411950653440?cxt=HHwWgMClqZnU040rAAAA
In 2014, The FSB Proxy Anti-Globalist Resistance—Now The ADR—Held A Conference That Drew In Participants From The Texas Nationalist Movement, Black Hammer And A Member Of The Uhuru Movement-
https://twitter.com/areidross/status/1553081411950653440?cxt=HHwWgMClqZnU040rAAAA
Jill keeps embracing her inter Russian fascist Dugin. Both Ajamu Baraka & Medea Benjamin have supported his conferences and views on a multi polar world.
Medea spoke several conferences in Iran where Dugin also spoke.
At some point after the founding of the Anti-Imperialist Camp, the International Action Center and the AGMR seem to have come in contact with each other, with the IAC being mentioned on the “Anti-Globalist Resistance”‘s website as “US anti-globalists”, though I was not able to find out whether it was through the Anti-Imperialist Camp or LaRouche (which is likely, given Ramsey Clark’s association with the IAC and LaRouche, his trips to Syria, and LaRouchites’ use of Clark’s name to infiltrate anti-war groups during the Gulf War) or the RKRP. The AGMR organized a “Right of Peoples to Self-Determination and Building a Multipolar World” in Moscow in December 2014. The WWP-affiliated United Anti-War Coalition (UNAC), on whose board are Sara Flounders and Abayomi Azikiwe, and the IAC sent five representatives as delegates to the conference:
Margaret Kimberley, member of UNAC’s board and Senior Editor of Black Agenda Report
Joe Iosbaker of the FRSO
Maureen Hannah, a women’s rights activist
Bill Dores of the International Action Center
Joe Lombardo, member of UNAC’s board and Co-Coordinator UNAC
All the UNAC and IAC delegates signed a joint statement, whose other signatories include:
Joe Lombardo of UNAC
Margaret Kimberley of the Black Is Back Coalition (whose chairman is Omali Yeshitela of the Uhuru Movement) and UNAC
Marina Dudanova, a member of both the AGMR and of the Boston chapter of UNAC
Joe Iosbaker of UNAC
Bill Dores of the IAC and UNAC
Maureen Hannah
Orazio Maria Gnerre, the leader of Millennium, the Italian Communitarian Party. Gnerre was featured on RT to comment on the death of Fidel Castro
Maksim Shevchenko
Fedor Biryukov from the Rodina party
Oleg Tsarev, the speaker of the Unity Parliament of Novorossiya
Aleksandr Kofman, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Donetsk People’s Republic
Andrew Korybko, a Sputnik columnist and regular contributor to the Duginist journal Geopolitica [archive] and to Katehon
Andrey Kovalenko, the head of the Moscow branch of the Eurasian Youth Union
Aleksandr Ionov of the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia
[Note: The chairman of the Black Is Back Coalition is Omali Yeshitela of the Uhuru Movement, which later sent delegations in 2015 and 2016 to Moscow, organized by the AGMR.
Margaret Kimberley was a speaker for the Black Is Back Coalition’s 2016 Annual Conference and has defended Ajamu Baraka, himself presently listed as a speaker for its Annual Conference, after his ties to Kevin Barrett were revealed. Baraka is himself an editor and columnist for the Black Agenda Report of which Margaret Kimberley is the senior editor.
Kimberley herself as well as Lamont Lilly from the WWP are members of the Coordinating Committee of the Black Alliance for Peace, of which Ajamu Baraka is the National Organizer and National Spokesperson.
Both groups received money from Chinese influences also. https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/the-big-business-of-uyghur-genocide-denial/
https://fashbusters.wordpress.com/2021/11/02/does-goldman-sachs-fund-the-peoples-forum-psl-codepink-aipac-and-vijay-prashads-tricontinental/
My thoughts on the final choice, and the long backstory behind it, including the Noura Erekat angle and a bunch of duh-ness from Nathan J. Robinson.
The health emergency may have been Ayoub’s, which led him to back out as Veep choice.
https://socraticgadfly.blogspot.com/2024/08/so-its-butch-ware-as-jill-steins-veep.html