Jill Stein

Green Party’s Jill Stein — Who is she?

Excerpt: Jill Stein is running for the US office for the third time on behalf of the Green Party

Jill Stein is a doctor of medicine from Harvard and an environmental health and prosperity advocate. She has tried to overcome environmental racism, injustice and pollution crisis.

Stein has always been an activist, including serving as a principal organizer for the Global Climate Convergence for People, Planet, and Peace.

For her efforts, Stein has received awards including the Clean Water Action’s Not in Anyone’s Backyard, the Children’s Health Hero and the Toxic Action Center’s Citizen.

US Election 2024

Green Party’s nominee Jill Stein, who previously ran for office in 2012 and 2016, is also among the White House hopefuls.

In 2023, the party announced that Stein would offer support for the former Green Party candidate Cornel West. However, as West withdrew from the party and revealed that he would run for office as an independent candidate, Stein withdrew her support as well and announced that she would be campaigning for the 2024 election as a Green Party candidate.

Stein announced her campaign in a video message stating that she wanted to give the American voters an option outside of the two-party system in the upcoming election.

Campaign Messages

• I'm running for president with the Green Party to offer a choice for the people outside the failed two-party system.

• We'll put a pro-worker, anti-war, climate action agenda front and center in this election and on the ballot in November.

Early Life and Education

Green Party nominee Jill Stein was born to Russian Jewish parents and was raised during the Reform Judaism movement. It was a movement to abandon traditional Jewish practices and adapt modern social and cultural aspects to Judaism.

Stein’s Core Policies

Green New Deal

Stein has previously run for the office in 2016 and 2020 and both of her campaigns were based on the platform popularly known as the Green New Deal. The programme is the revised version of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programme, which was enacted during his administration years from 1933 to 1945.

The Green New Deal programme offers for the availability of millions of living-wage jobs, an economic system based on renewable energy sources, free education in public schools and a Medicare for all system where the government would finance the health insurance.

Anti-Police Brutality

Stein has often criticized police brutality and has stated that law enforcement in America should be trained more when it comes to handling conflicts. Cases and events of police brutality in the US started to come out after George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis in 2020 at the hands of the police.

Abortion and Reproductive Rights

Stein has favoured abortion rights for women living in the US. Criticizing the Democratic officials, she stated that they had failed to codify protection provided by Roe v Wade when the party controlled both the houses of Congress and the White House. She also slammed the Democrats stating that the party only had been fundraising off the debate and the issue surrounding abortion.