Ajamu Baraka comes out of the tradition of the African-American intellectuals, the people who really been standing up … - Jill Stein

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I grew up in this Southern Baptist atmosphere, and my mother and father were both, I guess you would say, academics. They were both teachers.

Jill Stein

Ajamu Baraka comes out of the tradition of the African-American intellectuals, the people who really been standing up for African-American rights and economic rights and workers rights.

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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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