http://www.GeorgiaGreenParty.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, August 2nd, 2012
Dr. Jill Stein Visits
Georgia
Green Party Presidential Candidate
Campaigns in Atlanta
Dr. Jill Stein, the Green Party's 2012 Presidential Candidate will
begin her campaign swing through Georgia Friday morning with a press
conference on the West steps (Washington Street side) of the Georgia
State Capitol, Friday morning at 10 AM. Her two day visit is
filled with events providing the voting public an opportunity to
meet her and to weigh their options for this year's General Election.
"This week's defeat of the one-percenters' transit plan at our expense
shows that Georgia's political life is neither people-proof or
democracy-proof," said Bruce Dixon, Co-Chair of the Georgia Green
Party, which is hosting this tour. "We hope voters will continue
to critically weigh their options and will come out to meet a candidate
ready to address real issues and work in their interests. Greens
offer an option to those sick of puppets financed by the banksters who
tanked our economy and and fund a billion-dollar ad-fest passing for a
presidential campaign."
Dr. Stein expects to visit with families of some of Georgia's nearly
60,000 prisoners. With one in thirteen (more than any other
state) Georgia adults in prison, on bail, probation, work release or
other forms of correctional or court supervision, the state has yet to
shake its founding reputation as a penal colony.
Georgia Greens hope to introduce their candidate to members of
Georgia's immigrant and undocumented communities who are struggling
against HB-187, 287(g) agreements between local law enforcement and
Federal immigration officials, the nation's largest immigrant detention
center in Stewart County and an ongoing wave of family-shattering
deportations.
A meeting is in the works with those who worked with and alongside the
Georgia Green Party in opposing T-SPLOST, not out of generalized
objection to so-called "big government" and taxation, but out of the
conviction that transit and other economic development planning should
be done in public with full and transparent citizen participation; and
that it ought to be funded without reliance on regressive sales taxes.
Dr. Stein will visit local urban agriculture projects, confer with
local health professionals, and drop in on homeless shelters and
community groups struggling against the tide of foreclosures that state
and federal authorities have done nothing to stem. In fact,
before boarding her on her Atlanta bound flight, the Stein campaign is
working this morning to bond the Presidential candidate and her running
mate out of a Philadelphia jail following their arrest yesterday at the
Fannie-Mae officeswhere they participated in a peaceful sit-in intent
on preventing the eviction of home-owners in that city.
A medical doctor by training, Dr. Stein has built a reputation
advocating policies to prevent illness and promote wellness. She
will confer with opponents to the construction of Georgia Power's
deadly new nuclear plants in Burke County Georgia. An epidemic of
cancer rages in a mostly black town which already hosts two reactors
known to have contaminated well water and to have degraded the Savannah
River. State and federal officials refuse to test the air, water, soil,
fish, wildlife or people of the Shell Bluff community for radiation.
Dr. Stein will also visit House District 57 stretching from Atlanta's
West End through to the Morningside community on the DeKalb border,
where the Georgia Green Party's candidate Kwabena Nkromo is winding up
a petition drive to get on the ballot for state representative in the
November 2012 election.
"Nkromo, Stein and Georgia Greens face the nation's most
anti-democratic and unfair ballot access laws explicitly crafted to
restrict the choices of Georgia voters to limited options provided by
the corporate parties," said Dixon. Candidates of the corporate
parties access the ballot by paying a filing fee, while those of
emerging political parties labor under onerous signature collection
requirements, twenty thousand and more for congressional candidates,
and nearly sixty thousand for candidates who would appear on statewide
ballots. The Georgia Green Party is a plaintiff in ongoing
litigation aimed at lifting these barriers to voter choices.
Many of the events on Dr. Stein's calendar are open to the public, who
are encouraged to watch the state party's website for developing
details.
Members of the media wishing to interview Dr. Stein, one-on-one are
urged to call the Party, using x3 to schedule an appropriate time.
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