(ThyBlackMan.com) The Green Party convention in Houston, Texas reached its climax late Saturday with presidential nominee Jill Stein calling on the American left to turn its back on the “two corporate parties” and “vote for our deeply held beliefs.”
Vying for the support of those who previously backed former Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein championed her vision of “an America and a world…that puts people, planet, and peace over profit.”
During her acceptance speech, Jill Stein said she was excited “to be running in alliance with the Bernie Sanders movement that lives on outside the Democratic Party.”
“We owe you such a debt of gratitude, for getting the revolution 
going. And then for refusing to be shut down,” she said, prompting chants of “Jill not Hill!” from the crowd.
Outlining what she described as “transformational solutions” to the current “unprecedented crisis,” the nominee touched upon a number of issues that were also key planks of Bernie Sanders’ campaign platform: Medicare-for-All, criminal justice reform, free college tuition, ending fossil fuel subsidies, and transitioning to a renewable energy economy.
Watch the full speech below:
“We face unprecedented crises that call for transformational solutions, a new way forward based on democracy, justice and human rights. And that won’t come from corporate political parties funded by predatory banks, war profiteers and fossil fuel giants,” Stein intoned. “It will come from we the people, mobilized in a broad social movement, with an independent voice of political opposition, because, as Frederick Douglass said, ‘Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has. It never will.’ And we must be that demand.”
“So it’s time to vote for our deeply held beliefs, not against what we fear,” she concluded. “Democracy needs a moral compass. We must be that moral compass.”
Despite the fact that Bernie Sanders himself endorsed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, and has called on his supporters to do so as well, Stein specifically thanked the “Bernie Sanders or Bust movement” for merging “with our campaign in rally after rally, growing stronger by the hour.”
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