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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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I think we are approaching the perfect storm in Ireland. Everything is falling apart all at once. Property prices, rents, underpaid public workers now all striking at once. Increasing childcare costs, no support for the government… what a time to be in FG!!
Public sector needs reform with the disbanding of unions and professional contracts for our teachers and guards that are not linked to tenure. On the housing front we need high rise in certain areas of Dublin.
What’s with you and teachers? You have an agenda as you’ve nothing good to say on them or their profession. Some of the largest class sizes in Europe and new entrants paid pittance, that together with rising house prices and ridiculous rents means a husband and wife teacher or guard cannot even think of buying in Dublin or the commuter belt and hope to start a family. But go ahead, those bad teachers and your agenda.
Underpaid Public workers?
Hi rise is that because there is land shortage or just maximising developers pockets
James, out of curiosity which ” certain” areas in Dublin are most suited to high rise buildings ?
Hi=high
@Catherine Mc: The areas that aren’t anywhere near him?
Daisy, that is what I was thinking.
James, you must be a secondary school drop out. Don’t be ashamed of it.
@Shawn, THEIR INCREASING WORKLOAD WOULD ONLY MEAN ONE THING..,YES THEY’RE INDEED UNDERPAID!
Let’s keep the recovery going.
I do wish people would stop coming out with ‘The government must do/act……’. The government are not going to do a damned thing except throw out some soundbites and bide their time til they’re thrown out, FF will come in, do the same (as in nothing), get thrown and it’ll be FGs turn again. And so it goes…
James Darcy: yeah, lets make conditions even worse for workers in your thatcherite dreamland. That’ll solve homelessness alright
I have been looking for a place for someone with 2 kids. She can not go over 1,400 that’s the max that she can go. No where to be found. The ones that she has looked at and applied for have gone or they wont take rent allowance. Horrible thinking that you and your kids are going to be homeless. Great place we live in (sigh)
All our professional people are leaving this country – Our Garda, our teachers, our doctors and nurses Ireland will be even more strained in the coming years that we will have no one to fill these positions and we won’t have to worry about unions or pay structures.
You’ve just got to love Ireland!
Successive governments have failed this country. Nothing has changed over the last 10 years. What an opportunity we had to redistribute the wealth, but successive FF and FG governments facilitated making the rich richer and the poor poorer. The current govt are on the payroll of lobbyists too. Ireland is no better off than it was in 2006. Despite whatever spin they tell you, the future is more uncertain than ever…..
Someone is making a fortune on the backs of others.
Ireland is a failed society where 1 income is insufficient to put a roof over your head.
Call for Referendum on “Right2Home” in Ireland … amend Constitution like Germany.
https://www.change.org/p/referendum-on-right2home-in-ireland
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