David Morales, a high school student who wrote a report on Proportional Representation asked us to post his paper on our website. It gives me great hope for the future in that we have Green Youth such as David and others like him who are getting involved now to help create positive change for the future of our country and the world. Thanks David! CLICK HERE FOR DAVID’S REPORT
David Morales, High School Student
The United States falls victim to a system of voting which does not truly represent its people. In the United States we use a system called “First Past the Post” or FPTP. FPTP presents a system in which voters elect the candidate with the most votes to win the election. A seemingly simple, fair and logical system and yet it presents a multitude of issues. FPTP seems natural to us because it provides a winner based on the person with the most votes: the winner, however, in most scenarios problems arise when this system is used to vote. For example, the majority of voters will inevitably be left without a voice.
There is Instant Runoff Voting (IRV), Proportional Representation, which David Morales writes about (STV – Single Transferable Vote), and other forms of voting that are similar in nature. This is the only way a third party will be recognized in our country and the only way the people’s voice will be heard and counted. We have a responsibility and this is our civic duty to ensure that we get a bill passed which enables our voice and our choice be heard. Contact your State Legislators today by writing them to enact a bill. It could be something as simple as a letter like this. CLICK HERE.
No party has claim to my vote. To call my vote for a third party a “spoiler” is disrespectful to my freedom as an American Citizen to vote for who I think best represents myself and my community.
These two clowns are not our only choices!
Voting for the less of two evils has lead us to this dark place we see on television during the debate between Clinton and Trump, a pathetic mockery and embarrassment to Americans.
Jill will be live on Democracy Now! on Sunday, October 9th during the SECOND Presidential debate from St. Louis, MO
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Amy Goodman, host of the award-winning program Democracy Now!will moderate a pre-debate roundtable from 8-9pm ET,followed by an expanded presidential debate that will air from 9-11:30 ET that will include Jill Stein!
Watch it on Facebook, Twitter or cable TV. #OccupyTheDebates #SteinBaraka
On Sunday night Democracy Now! will air special live coverage of the second U.S. presidential debate. We will air the full debate between Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and give third-party candidates a chance to respond in real time to the same questions. Jill Stein of the Green Party has agreed to participate in our Expanding the Debate special. We have also invited Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party. Our special broadcast will begin at 8 p.m. ET with a one-hour roundtable. Guests will include Nation Magazine publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel; Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University; and Black Lives Matter activist and Professor Melina Abdullah, Chair of Pan-African Studies at California State
Sunday, October 9th, 2016
6PM EST:
Small Press Conference and Meet & Greet at USF St. Petersburg Campus at the Davis Building in Room 130.
7PM EST: Speaking Event with:
*Connie Burton, Housing and Human Rights Advocate
*Hip Hop Artist, Krown Deon
*Vice Presidential Candidate Ajamu Baraka takes the stage at 730PM EST until 810PM EST.
Short Q&A will follow.
Monday Oct 10th, 2016
10AM EST:
Press Conference in Tampa with Florida Homeless Action Coalition to unveil statewide Homeless Bill of Rights for Florida with Frontline Communities as part of World Homeless Day) at Homeless Helping Homeless.
MORE AT THE EVENT PAGE LINKED HERE: https://www.facebook.com/events/543074575890605/
Speeches from current and formerly homeless:
*Reverend Bruce Wright — Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign
*Reverend G.W. Rolle — National Law Center on Poverty and Homelessness *GP VP Candidate Ajamu Baraka
ADDRESS: 106 E Floribraska Ave, Tampa, FL 33603
WEBSITE OF HOMELESS HELPING HOMELESS: http://www.homelesshhh.com/
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE!
Contributions gratefully accepted for:
*HOMELESS HELPING HOMELESS
*THE REFUGE
*Jill and Ajamu’s Campaign
Ajamu Baraka, Green Party Vice-Presidential Nominee, will speak in Gainesville at 7pm on Monday October 10th at the Headquarters Library. 401 East University Avenue, Gainesville, FL 32601, Meeting Room A.
Topics will include: creating systemic change via The Power to the People Plan, cancelling student debt, ending institutional racism in policing, courts, and prisons, and how The Green New Deal will create 20 million jobs.
There will be round of opening speakers (more details coming soon) prior to the talk by Ajamu Baraka.
Admission free.
Event sponsored by Alachua County Green Party
For any enquiries…
Call: 352.871.1995
Email alachuagreens@gmail.com
Short Bio:
A human rights defender whose experience spans four decades of domestic and international education and activism, Ajamu Baraka is a veteran grassroots organizer whose roots are in the Black Liberation Movement and anti-apartheid and Central American solidarity struggles.
Baraka is an internationally recognized leader of the emerging human rights movement in the U.S. and has been at the forefront of efforts to apply the international human rights framework to social justice advocacy in the U.S. for more than 25 years. As such, he has provided human rights trainings for grassroots activists across the country, has given briefings on human rights to the U.S. Congress, and has appeared before and provided statements to various United Nations agencies, including the UN Human Rights Commission (precursor to the current UN Human Rights Council).
We are pleased to announce that the Green Party Vice Presidential candidate, Ajamu Baraka, will be stopping in Jacksonville.
Ajamu Baraka will be on our local NPR radio show First Coast Connect, hosted by Melissa Ross. You can tune in between 9:00am – 10:00am 89.9FM to listen to his interview with Melissa Ross.
Afterwards Ajamu will be speaking at the local IBEW union hall located at 966 N Liberty St Jacksonville, FL 32206 between 11:30 – 12:30.
Other Florida events for VP Ajamu Baraka TBA soon.
For more information about Ajamu’s Campaign tour and to volunteer www.Jill2016.com
