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Jill Stein presidential campaign, 2016/International trade

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Jill Stein announced her presidential run on June 22, 2015.[1]


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See what Jill Stein and the 2016 Green Party Platform said about international trade below.

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  • Stein opposed trade agreements that moved jobs overseas and undermined wages.
  • She also opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

    • Green Party Stein on international trade

    • During a third party debate in October 2012, Jill Stein rejected the expansion of free trade agreements. Stein said, "So, we saw the first free trade agreement, NAFTA, enacted under Bill Clinton, a Democrat. We saw it carried out under George Bush, but then we saw Barack Obama expand three free trade agreements and is now negotiating a secret free trade agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, that will continue to offshore jobs, undermine wages, and, as well, this time compromise American sovereignty with an international corporate board that can rule on our laws and regulations and say whether or not they pass muster. This is an absolute outrage against American sovereignty, democracy and our economy."[2]
    • In 2012, Stein said, "A free trade agreement is free if you're a corporation. But if you're a human being, it's extremely costly because it undermines wages here and also in the countries that we're in agreement here with. It allows a lot of dumping of cheap U.S. goods. That's what generated the whole wave of undocumented immigrants into this country."[3]
    Trans-Pacific Partnership
    • On June 22, 2016, Stein tweeted, "Purpose of TPP is to ⬆️ profits for corporations & ⬇️ wages for workers. We need just trade policies that benefit all. #LibertarianTownHall."[5]
    • On May 9, 2016, Stein tweeted, "We must stop the sovereignty-stealing TPP & TPIP. Existing corporate trade agreements like NAFTA must be replaced w/ fair trade agreements."[6]
    "Flush The TPP," March 24, 2015.
    • On March 24, 2015, Stein released the ad, "Flush the TPP." In the ad, she said, "If you think corporate personhood is a bad idea, just wait for corporate nationhood. In fact right now, the Obama administration and bipartisan supporters are trying to ram through Congress a secret global deal, the Trans Pacific Partnership or TPP. This backroom deal gives corporations more power than nations. It lets multinational corporations, foreign powers, overrule our laws including critical protections for workers, our health and the environment. For the safety of our food, our air and our water, the security of our bank accounts, our access to the Internet and so much more; it even overrides the Constitution. People call it NAFTA on steroids because it intensifies the offshoring of our jobs and the downward pressure on wages. It enforces this new world governance by creating a special global court, consisting of three super-judges appointed by the World Bank. In short the TPP is a Trojan horse for a global corporate coup."[7]
    • During a debate in October 2012, Stein called the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal "an absolute outrage against American sovereignty, democracy and our economy." She said, "So, if the question is how to stop the outsourcing of our jobs, you know, it’s very clear we need to stop expanding the free trade agreements that send our jobs overseas and which also undermine wages here at home by effectively threatening workers that if they don’t drop their wages and their benefits, that their jobs are gone. So, we saw the first free trade agreement, NAFTA, enacted under Bill Clinton, a Democrat. We saw it carried out under George Bush, but then we saw Barack Obama expand three free trade agreements and is now negotiating a secret free trade agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, that will continue to offshore jobs, undermine wages, and, as well, this time compromise American sovereignty with an international corporate board that can rule on our laws and regulations and say whether or not they pass muster. This is an absolute outrage against American sovereignty, democracy and our economy. We need to turn the free trade agreements into fair trade agreements. And again, the Green New Deal will create the community-based jobs we need here, supporting small businesses, worker co-operatives, and public services and worker—and public works to put people back to work right now, for the cost—less than the cost of the first stimulus package."[8]


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    Footnotes

    1. ↑ Democracy Now, "Green Party’s Jill Stein Announces She Is Running for President," June 22, 2015
    2. ↑ Democracy Now, "Exclusive: Expanding the Debate with Third-Party Candidates Jill Stein, Virgil Goode, Rocky Anderson," October 17, 2012
    3. ↑ Green Party, "Jill Stein, 'Wake Up'," accessed July 6, 2015
    4. ↑ Twitter, "Jill Stein," accessed July 11, 2016
    5. ↑ Twitter, "Jill Stein," accessed July 11, 2016
    6. ↑ Twitter, "Jill Stein," accessed July 11, 2016
    7. ↑ P2016.org, "Jill Stein for President: Flush the TPP," accessed July 11, 2016
    8. ↑ Democracy Now, "Exclusive: Expanding the Debate with Third-Party Candidates Jill Stein, Virgil Goode, Rocky Anderson," October 17, 2012
    9. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
    10. ↑ Green Party, "The 2016 Green Party Platform," accessed August 23, 2016
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