Jill Stein

Jill Stein
Born	May 14, 1950 Chicago, Illinois, United States
Nationality	Statesian
Political orientation	Democratic centralism Imperialism Anti-Zionism
Political party	Green (2002–present) Democratic (1968–2002)

Jill Ellen Stein (born May 14, 1950) is a Statesian political activist, Harvard educated physician and presidential candidate. She is running for president as the Green Party nominee for the 2024 presidential election and was previously its candidate in 2012 and 2016. She previously ran for governor of Massachusetts in 2002 and 2010.

Although presenting herself as a progressive through her campaign, her actions contradict this given her condemnation of actual anti-imperialist countries and her investments in the very companies she claims to oppose.

Political positions

Domestic policy

Stein's policies have been cantered around a support for the environment in order to prevent climate change and has repeatedly called for pension funds to divest from fossil fuel companies. On October 26, 2015 she called for the death penalty for Exxon (she has also called for the abolition of the death penalty). However, despite this she has invested between $995,011 to $2.2 million in funds with significant stakes in energy companies Exxon, Chevron, Duke Energy, Conoco Phillips, and Toho Gas.

Stein claims to support medicare for all, including mental health care and dental care. However, as of 2017 she had shares worth between $50,001 and $100,000 in pharmaceutical company Merck as well as investments worth between $1,130,010 to $2,400,000 in funds with significant stakes in Pfizer, Novartis, Johnson & Johnson, and Allergan. In addition to this she has investments worth between $500,004 to $1,100,000 in funds with a stake in tobacco multinational Phillip Morris International.

Stein claims to support free public education through college and graduate school, the abolishing of student debt, increased and equal funding for public schools and an end to the privatization of public schools.

She advocates for the creation of public banks and public ownership of the four largest banks in the United States. However, she in fact has investments worth between $1.2 to $2.65 million in banking companies JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs.

She is supposedly in favor of increased taxes on the wealthy and the closing of loopholes which allow the wealthy to not pay taxes, while also advocating for lower taxes on working people. She claims to want a 25 dollar minimum wage and a guaranteed livable income in addition to the closing of loopholes which allow employees to be paid below minimum wage.

She claims to support worker-owned cooperatives and unionization, including among "gig" workers, as well as worker representation on corporate boards.

She pushes for an end to homelessness and housing insecurity and the funding of social housing. In addition to this she supports the Tenants Bill of Rights, universal rent control and the treatment of housing as a human right. She promises to direct the department of labor to establish a National Tenants Union.

Foreign policy

Stein is an anti-Zionist and argues that equating Judaism with Zionism is antisemitic.

Stein has stated opposition to the use of drones by the U.S. military, yet has invested between $50,001-$100,000 in a fund with a large stake in defence company Raytheon Corp. which manufactures these drones.

In September 2024 Stein sold out to imperialism, presumably in hope of gaining more votes, by condemning Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad, declaring them "war criminals" and putting them at the same level as imperialist war criminals such as Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Donald Trump.