https://padlet.com/hana_huber/mwdgghly7izs Jill Stein en-us 2016-10-18 17:20:57 UTC 2025-11-16 06:52:26 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Bigthunderstorm.png hana_huber https://padlet.com/hana_huber/mwdgghly7izs/wish/131570861 Jill Stein is the Green Party candidate for the 2016 Presidential election. Even though she has not been elected, she has also been the Green Party's 2012 candidate for President. The Massachusetts Green-rainbow Party wanted her to run for governor of Massachusetts in 2002 which was the start of this career. After, she ran for other levels  within state as well. Born in Chicago, Illinois, she has gone to Harvard University and Medical School, and originally worked as a medical doctor, as a professor of medicine in Harvard Medical school, and became an environmental health activist and organizer. ]]> 2016-10-18 17:32:59 UTC https://padlet.com/hana_huber/mwdgghly7izs/wish/131570861 hana_huber https://padlet.com/hana_huber/mwdgghly7izs/wish/131864367 2016-10-19 17:22:11 UTC https://padlet.com/hana_huber/mwdgghly7izs/wish/131864367 hana_huber https://padlet.com/hana_huber/mwdgghly7izs/wish/131867135 2016-10-19 17:28:38 UTC https://padlet.com/hana_huber/mwdgghly7izs/wish/131867135 hana_huber https://padlet.com/hana_huber/mwdgghly7izs/wish/131867530 2016-10-19 17:29:34 UTC https://padlet.com/hana_huber/mwdgghly7izs/wish/131867530 hana_huber https://padlet.com/hana_huber/mwdgghly7izs/wish/131868596 In an interview in August 2012, she answered that the U.S. food system is being treated as a tool for agribusiness and market share, instead of for what they actually are meant for. And also, many of our current donations are being used for unhealthy industrialized food systems. On her 2012 presidential campaign website, Stein supported a jobs creation program which included opportunities in "sustainable organic agriculture."]]> 2016-10-19 17:32:44 UTC https://padlet.com/hana_huber/mwdgghly7izs/wish/131868596 hana_huber https://padlet.com/hana_huber/mwdgghly7izs/wish/132327469 Stein believes that the best way to control the amount of wasteful federal spending is to cut the extremely bloated military budget by at least half of it. She says that it is impoverishing our country in financial and moral ways, and it created a "trigger-happy foreign policy", which has lead the middle east to failed states, mass refugee migrations, and terrorist threats worsening.]]> 2016-10-21 13:05:32 UTC https://padlet.com/hana_huber/mwdgghly7izs/wish/132327469 hana_huber https://padlet.com/hana_huber/mwdgghly7izs/wish/132358984 She believes that everybody's freedom needs to be respected, and if your freedom means taking someone else's, then you do not deserve freedom. And that businesses should never discriminate based on gender or religion or any other thing. Businesses are public individuals that exist in the public marketplace and need to respect everyone's human rights.]]> 2016-10-21 14:36:31 UTC https://padlet.com/hana_huber/mwdgghly7izs/wish/132358984 hana_huber https://padlet.com/hana_huber/mwdgghly7izs/wish/132362086 Stein was an elected member of the local legislative body in Lexington, Massachusetts called the Lexington Town Meeting. She was elected to a three year term twice, but resigned to run for Governor. Her electoral campaign history within Massachusetts is: Gubernatorial candidate in 2002 and 2010, 
Massachusetts House of Representatives candidate in 2004, 
Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth candidate in 2006, and
Town of Lexington Town Meeting Representative in 2005 and 2008.]]> 2016-10-21 14:46:08 UTC https://padlet.com/hana_huber/mwdgghly7izs/wish/132362086