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Enough With the Shit, Green Party. The Coming Midterms Are Too Important for Your Shenanigans

In theory, the Green Party is vitally necessary for a two-party system with party platforms so rigid and legacy-laced that not all potential candidates can get with either of them. I get it. But in practice, the Green Party has become a catch-all for wackos and faux-Democrats who wouldn’t have a shot in hell in…

By

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Published

August 8, 2018
News

Jill Stein Calls for Recounts in Mich., Wis. and Pa.—But Why Is She Leading the Charge and Not Hillary Clinton?

Throughout election night, the Clinton campaign comforted themselves with the belief that her “blue wall” would ultimately secure her presidential victory. Then, one by one, to the surprise of just about everyone in America, including the Trump campaign, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin all went red. These are states that not only were polling in Clinton’s…

By

Jason Johnson

Published

November 26, 2016
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…

By

Kirsten West Savali

Published

October 18, 2016
News

'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…

By

Todd Steven Burroughs

Published

August 18, 2016
Very Smart Brothas

A Vote For Jill Stein Is A Vote In The Trash

Cornel West recently continued down his long, winding road to breaking my heart. He returned to his recurring role as a panelist on Real Time with Bill Maher, where he was even more overbearing than usual. He battled with Barney Frank and barely let my future second wife Alex Wagner get a word in edgewise;…

By

Dustin J. Seibert

Published

August 11, 2016
Marc Lamont Hill on Voting Green, Not Being Afraid of Trump: 'We Can Afford to Lose an Election; We Can't Afford to Lose Our Values'

Marc Lamont Hill—Morehouse College Distinguished Professor of African-American Studies, New York Times best-selling author of Nobody, VH1 talk show host and a much-sought-after political and cultural commentator—swung by 105.1’s The Breakfast Club to chop it up with D.J. Envy, Charlamagne tha God and Angela Yee. Hill not only talked about his road to success—from dropping out…

By

Kirsten West Savali

Published

August 7, 2016
Dear Centrists: The Left Has Something to Say Whether You Like It or Not [Retracted]

RETRACTED (6/12/18): This story has been removed because we have discovered it was in breach of our editorial standards. If you’d like to know more, you can read an editor’s note here. A cached version of the story is available here for transparency.

By

Kirsten West Savali

Published

August 3, 2016
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.…

By

Kirsten West Savali

Published

August 2, 2016