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Green Party VP Nominee Ajamu Baraka: We Must Disrupt Our Relationship to Democratic Party
When Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein tapped Ajamu Baraka to be her running mate back in August, there was a flurry of news stories. Most tried to paint him as the anti-Obama—too radical, too intense, too left to occupy the space just a heartbeat away from the Oval Office. All of these characterizations of Baraka amounted to attempts…
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#NoDAPL: Arrest Warrants Issued for Green Party’s Stein, Baraka for Standing With Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and Green Party vice presidential candidate Ajamu Baraka have both been charged with misdemeanor counts of criminal trespass and criminal mischief for protesting with the Standing Rock Sioux tribe against the Dakota Access Pipeline, CBS News reports. Arrest warrants for Stein and Baraka have been issued. Stein and Baraka…
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#NoDAPL: DOJ Temporarily Halts Construction of Dakota Access Pipeline in Wake of Standing Rock Protests
Updated Friday, Sept. 9, 2016, 5:30 p.m. EDT: In the wake of the brave and unrelenting actions of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and water protectors, joined by other First Nations and nonnative allies, the Department of Justice, the Department of the Army and the Department of the Interior released a joint statement announcing the halt…
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MSNBC's O'Donnell on #DAPL: US Was Founded on Dishonesty and Genocide
In about four minutes, MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell reminded liberal white America that it has the blood of indigenous people on their hands. In a riveting segment on Aug. 26, O’Donnell called what is happening in North Dakota to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe a “morally embarrassing reminder” of the genocide that Europeans committed in the…
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'We Need Real Democracy': On the Choice of Stein-Baraka This Fall
I’ll say this about Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein: She may have tried real hard during Wednesday night’s first-ever Green Party town hall on CNN to get mainstream Bernie Sanders voters into the party fold, but she did not stop her running mate, Ajamu Baraka, from saying what he really feels about America. Barack…
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Green Alert: Presidential Hopeful Dr. Jill Stein Taps Human Rights Activist Ajamu Baraka as Her VP Pick
Green Party presidential hopeful Dr. Jill Stein has tapped Ajamu Baraka as her vice presidential pick for the upcoming 2016 election. Read more about Baraka below via Stein’s campaign website: Ajamu Baraka is a powerful, eloquent spokesperson for the transformative, radical agenda whose time has com—an agenda of economic, social, racial, gender, climate, indigenous and immigrant justice.…
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