United States Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein is considering three Palestinian rights advocates, including two Arab Americans, to be her running mate in the elections, her campaign has confirmed.
The vice president announcement will be made during a livestream rally on Thursday, the Stein campaign told Al Jazeera.
The candidates are Abed Ayoub, executive director at the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC); Amer Zahr, a Palestinian American activist; and Jacqueline Luqman, a journalist and activist.
All three have been vocal critics of Israel and the US’s unflinching support for the war on Gaza. Stein, a physician and activist, herself is a longtime supporter of Palestinian rights.
Having one of the three on the ballot could boost Stein’s chances of tapping into the mass of disaffected voters who have grown angry with the mainstream Democratic Party’s stance on Israel.
Wake me when her party gets more than 3% in an election. That’s not an alternative.
The best shot the Greeens had was Ralph Nader and he only hit 2.75% 24 years ago.
Stein BARELY cracked 1% in 2016.
And Ralph’s campaign never ran on the platform of winning but to force the Democratic party to adopt more left policies or risk losing.
For a more detailed explanation I recommend this excellent talk from Ralph’s speech writer and all around based person Chris Hedges about it https://youtu.be/69pEzsfX8Aw?t=22m28s
It’s pretty tempting, instead of actual accomplishments to brag about all the bad stuff you prevented from happening. What do you think about the argument that Nader’s playbook for effective political action was ignored by left activists, but adopted by corporate America?
It really was Nader who taught them that “consumers” were interested in civic engagement and oversight. That’s why you can’t buy a latte without “supporting” some charity, or check out at the grocery without a solicitation for cancer research. Corporations have learned to wrap the desire for civic engagement to the act of consumption. To short circuit any engagement that might be against their interests. Arguably, Ralph Nader showed them that they needed to do this, and he showed them how.