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Green Party among signatories calling on Green candidate Jill Stein to step aside in US election

The Democratic Party fear she could take enough votes from Harris to influence the national result.

THE EUROPEAN GREENS, a grouping of Green parties in a number of European states, has called on US Green Party candidate Jill Stein to resign from the US Presidential race and to endorse Democratic Party nominee Kamala Harris.

“Donald Trump has promised that if he becomes President again, he will extend abortion bans, deny members of the LGBTQIA+ community their rights, and deport migrants en masse,” said a statement from the group, which includes Ireland’s Green Party.

“The stakes of these elections could not be higher,” it said.

“We are clear that Kamala Harris is the only candidate who can block Donald Trump and his anti-democratic, authoritarian policies from the White House.”

The group said that they believed that Europe needed a Harris presidency, “to take the urgent, decisive action needed on the climate crisis, and to bring about a just and sustainable peace in the Middle East”.

“This election takes place at a watershed moment in the history of our planet. We face a climate crisis that is worsening every year, with heatwaves, floods, and a loss of biodiversity at a rate never seen before.

“Climate policies require democratic institutions, which we fear would be dismantled if Trump is elected,” it said.

However, despite their call, the group also said that there was no link between the European Greens and Stein’s Green Party, as the latter was no longer a member of Global Greens, the international organisation of Green parties.

The party said that this was because of “divergent values and policies”, in part due to “their relationship with parties with authoritarian leaders, and serious policy differences on key issues including Russia’s full-scale assault on Ukraine”.

The statement was signed by Green parties in 16 European countries, including Ireland.

Jill Stein’s name is on the ballot in almost every US state in next week’s election. Her platform, which includes climate change, universal healthcare, and the ending of military supports to Israel, have appealed to enough of the Democratic Party’s base to make the fear of her spoiling the party’s chances against Trump a real one.

Last week, the Democratic National Committee released a television ad against Stein in the battleground states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, which says that “a vote for Stein is really a vote for Trump.”

Stein has sought to distance herself from President Joe Biden’s administration and vowed to stop supporting what she called Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza.

She has advocated for raising taxes for the richest Americans, canceling student debt and reducing defense spending.

With reporting from © AFP 2024.

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    Mute Beachmaster
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    Feb 28th 2017, 9:07 AM

    Lowest viewing figure since 2008.

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    Feb 28th 2017, 9:16 AM

    @Beachmaster:hopefully them numbers will continue to dwindle. Apparently 70% of Hollywood’s revenue comes from outside the U.S. interesting statistic when you consider the amount of Americans they’ve managed to p1ss off, I guess they aren’t too bothered about the domestic market.

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    Feb 28th 2017, 11:34 AM

    As one person tweeted after…M Night Shamalan did a great job directing the Oscars”..

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    Feb 28th 2017, 12:15 PM

    Shamalan went one better and tweeted that he wrote it! https://twitter.com/MNightShyamalan/status/836084032798670848

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    Feb 28th 2017, 10:42 PM

    @Beachmaster: 2008 the year or those who watched it lol.

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    Feb 28th 2017, 9:13 AM

    Ratings down before this fiasco.. talk about making a##es of yourselves.

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    Feb 28th 2017, 9:48 AM

    @LITTLEONE: the cynic in me says it was purposely done for the sake of controversy, and to get people talking .More than likely not, but I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.

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    Feb 28th 2017, 10:33 AM

    Purposely done I doubt it. They have just made themselves look like complete twits . Out of touch with reality…

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    Feb 28th 2017, 8:55 AM

    ““I became an artist and thank God I did,” she continued “because we are the only profession that celebrates what it means to live a life.” — Viola Davis

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    Feb 28th 2017, 9:04 AM

    Is anyone else sock of hearing about the Oscars? You’d swear it actually mattered…

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    Feb 28th 2017, 9:10 AM

    @Titus Groan: I’m sock of it too!

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    Feb 28th 2017, 9:15 AM

    Like… the envelopes were mixed up and they all lost their mind. Some, their jobs. It’s a joke. It doesn’t matter!!!!

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    Feb 28th 2017, 9:17 AM

    Jamie, and Viola Davis gets the Award for ‘Most Pretentious BS of The Century’. Proof, if proof were needed that these peoples learn scripts without understanding the meaning of the words.

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    Feb 28th 2017, 9:18 AM

    @Titus Groan: You’d be hearing about it for a lot longer in case it’d been the other way round – if La La Land had actually won and Moonlight erroneously read out.

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    Feb 28th 2017, 10:16 AM

    @Mick Tobin:

    Why do you think that?

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    Feb 28th 2017, 10:27 AM

    @Joseph Siddall:

    Maybe it was pretentious, but I am pretty sure after graduating from college, spending four years at Julliard and then performing the play on Broadway for 13 weeks, she understands the meaning of the words she is saying.

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    Feb 28th 2017, 10:38 AM

    @Gary Caffrey: Remember last year’s hashtag? http://www.thejournal.ie/oscars-so-white-2016-2549939-Jan2016/ Vice versa the failure would have been all the more epic.

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    Feb 28th 2017, 10:47 AM

    @Mick Tobin:

    You are really trying hard to find a racial side to this. I think that says more about you than anything else.

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    Feb 28th 2017, 10:53 AM

    @Gary Caffrey: Absolutely not. Just saying the cockup would have been rather more significant. I’m happy with more diversity now and glad it didn’t go the other way.

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    Feb 28th 2017, 2:55 PM

    They put a sick it it at this stage..

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    Feb 28th 2017, 10:47 PM

    @Titus Groan: Turns out those in the porn industry have their own award ceremony and the funny thing is that they wear more on their bodies as in clothing than those Hollywood actors, funny that?

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    Feb 28th 2017, 12:35 PM

    Haha.
    The Donald has them rattled.

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    Feb 28th 2017, 2:03 PM

    And the winner of best propaganda goes to…. White Helmets /Al Queda.

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    Feb 28th 2017, 10:45 PM

    @Keiko: Who killed the Syrian Civil Defence force and stole their equipment and who rob the dying of what they have as well as shoot others on sectarian grounds. Funny how in fact Hollywood has really given a reward to the same ones involved in 911 Al Queda really.
    https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=white+helmets+caught+faking+a+rescue&qpvt=white+helmets+caught+faking+a+rescue&FORM=VDRE

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    Feb 28th 2017, 11:11 PM
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    Feb 28th 2017, 9:43 PM

    Did they get any chance to bad mouth The Trumper

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