Ajamu Baraka is a human rights advocate and an international human rights advocate, who's been defending racial justice, … - Jill Stein

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In sixth grade, we all had to write this opinion paper. Most wrote about things like why we should be able to chew gum in class - I wrote about why women should receive equal pay.

Jill Stein

Ajamu Baraka is a human rights advocate and an international human rights advocate, who's been defending racial justice, economic justice, worker justice, indigenous justice, and justice for black and brown people all over the world, and in the United States has been helping to lead the charge against the death penalty here, and is an extremely eloquent and empowering person. And one of the great things about running with him is that we speak to all of America.

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The Obama Administration has embraced the policies of George W. Bush, and then gone much further. Wall Street bailouts went ballistic under Obama-$700 billion under Bush, but $4. 5 trillion under Obama, plus another $16 trillion in zero-interest loans for Wall Street.

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We call for cancelling student debt, for bailing out young people like Wall Street was bailed out to the tune of $16 trillion.

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We need a broad commitment to human rights across the board. We cannot attain that simply by protecting one oppressed group or the other.

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We also call for free public education going forward. We know it pays for itself.

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The other piece of this is that we call for cutting our bloated and dangerous military budget. And this is something that is made possible by moving to 100% clean renewable energy, where we cannot justify wars for oil, and where we cannot justify having some 700, 800 bases gathered around the world in something like 100 countries in significant measure protecting either access to fossil fuels or protecting routes of transportation.

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