germany. i think the germans have a pretty democratic system. they are doing pretty well. i say that as a -- never mind. they have been doing it for 30 years. finally what happened is that people have risen up like never before. we said enough. you had the occupation of the state capitol and the general strike in wisconsin. all of the students and teachers went out. you have occupy wall street and freedom plaza and spread around the world and the revolutions going on in the middle east and the greens came to power in iceland. we are still hearing the same thing. they are still trying to scare us. they are trying to say if you vote for what you believe in

you will get what you don't believe in. right? but there is a line to that line. they deliver that line in texas. they deliver that line in california. they deliver that line in vermont. there is the electoral college. it is still there. the reason why they deliver the line of fear is because they know that the greens represent challenge and that we are competition and they do not want us to take it anywhere in the country. they don't want competition. they are not afraid of the republicans or losing. they lose all the time. they made it an industry, losing. they won all the time they would not have a job. so, i am going to conclude in a few moments. we have a little bit of dirty

work to do here. it is the type of dirty work i like to do. i would like to make it a formality a reality. please welcome holly hart of iowa. the state that al gore walled wisconsin in 2000. wrong side of the river, al. >> so the grass roots rules. we have a vice presidential candidate, and when this person is announced, we need from you at least 50% majority approval. we want you to register it by a show of hands and whatever noise that you wish to make. >> i move -- i will play by the rules here. >> we move that sherry -- ok

with you guys? 50%? >> ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, the vice president for the 99%. the woman who has been leading the fight against forecloseures and leading the fight against the banks. the woman who has been fighting for working people since before it was fashionable. this is a woman known to ride a horse into electer toal combat. she is the sheriff for working people in philadelphia, pennsylvania. deadon -- please welcome her and her son and a lot of the next generations of greens that

are go to lead this fight. >> wow. let's have another round of applause for those next leaders of this country. nothing ever goes easy for us from the neighborhood and very few people know, but these guys

traveled, they got ready to leave at 4:00 in the morning to come up to be here today. the story gets even better. of course nothing goes easy for poor folks. they get a flat tire on their way here. but they are here right now and they are not going anywhere. i bring you greetings from poor and working people in the us of america. i stand here today as a formally homeless mother. a single mother of two children mark and guillermo santos. i accept the green party's

nomination for vice president of the united states. this journey began many years ago for me. watching my poor mother struggle to survive and provide for five hungry children. i never knew why we had to go hungry, specially when i saw so much food in my home state of minnesota. i did not understand. i grew up watching my mom cry night after night about the bills. i grew up watching farmers lose

their farms. and i grew up watching families struggle for something as basic as their land. something just did not seem right to me. especially that day when i had to tell my 9-year-old son, mark, that we were no longer going to be living in an apartment. instead we would have to move into our car. but on a cold winter night in minnesota, i lost my home, the car. when i parked my car in a drunk driver hit and totaled it. unable to find shelter in the dead of the winter in minnesota i faced an important decision.

occupy a heated abandoned house or risk freezing to death on the streets of america. i chose to live and i chose to keep my son alive. so we moved into that abandoned house. and we moved thousands of families into abandoned houses for the last 25 years. but something changed way deep down inside me that night. my hunger for justice was born. i figured that if me and my son, mark, were just left to

die on the streets of the united states of america this had to have been happening to other families across my wealthy country. here i stand today 25 years later. now i have a burning flame for justice. we now suffer from the worst economic equality ever. the new movie "the hunger games" makes the fight for the basic necessities of life look like a cakewalk when we look at what is happening in our country. 1 in 2 people are in poverty. 6 million families lost their homes. we spend more on building prisons than educating our

children. the disabled and immigrants, youth and our elders have been told loud and clear from our elected officials that they just don't matter. but you see they do matter. every day around the world. they matter. and we, the green party of the united states of america are here to stand up and take on our historic role in history. we will refuse to proceed from the politics of fear and scarcity.

we will no longer sit down with rhonda, glen and ms. fran lose their homes to the banks we will no longer sit by as the united states of america continues to have politicians in the u.s. house of representatives that's proposing cutting 300,000 children from free school lunch programs. we will no longer sit by and watch as family members are deported. we are the new and unsettling force that doctor martin luther king spoke of.

and the daughter and the woman and the doctor that will help lead this new and unsettling force to create another country and another world that values the human rights of all human beings. it is my distinct honor to introduce my running mate and green party nominee for president of the united states of america, dr. jill stein. [cheers and applause]

[crowd chants "jill"] >> love you back, all of you! it has been such an honor and an inspiration to get to know all of you or at least nearly all of you over this past year. and together we are unstoppable. [applause] i am so very honored to be your nominee and to be running on the ticket with sherry hunkala.

thank you, sherrifment -- sherry. because together we are the 99% and this is the year we take our country back. [cheers and applause] something incredibly wonderful is happening across america and i have seen it firsthand traveling across the country this past year. in the face of severe, hard times, oppression and intimidation, people are standing up and speaking out. we are occupying our city squares, our impearled schools and workplaces, our threatened homes and now with this election, we are preparing to occupy the voting booth. [applause]

the need could not be more urgent as so many people know who are in this room. we are at the breaking point for people, for our economy, for our homes, for our democracy and for our planet. the heat is rising. the ranks of the poor are swelling. our young people are drowning in debt. there aren't enough jobs and wages are shrinking while the rich keep getting richer and the rest of america gets poorer year by year. an entire generation has grown to adulthood knowing nothing but social decline. the two establishment parties have taken turns leading the way. bush and clinton, then bush, now obama while the party labels

change, the policies have stayed largely the same. in fact, on most key issues, obama has embraced the policies of george bush and even gone further with more massive bailouts for wall street, more free trade agreements that send our jobs overseas and depress wages at home, more threats to medicare and social security, more skyrocketing foreclosures and student dead, more attacks on our impearl civil liberties, immigrant rights, medical marijuana, more plundering of the environment and wrecking of the climate and endless illegal wars. have we had enough? [cheers and applause]

we have had enough. and that's why people like you and me are standing up in a way the world hasn't seen in generations. we are a movement that is alive and well across america and we are here to stay. [cheers and applause] so let me tell you why i am standing up and how i come to be standing here today before you. 30 years ago, i was a new doctor starting off in medical practice but even then it was easy to see that our broken health care system was failing the people who desperately need it. as a mother, i was especially deeply disturbed by the new epidemic of disease descending

on our children, the rising tide of obesity and diabetes and asthma and cancer and learning disabilities and autism and more, these were new. i became impatient with just dispensing pills and sending people back to the very things that are making us sick to start with. everything from pollution to poverty to industrial nutrition, racism and violence. i thought if only our elected officials knew all the amazing solutions that save lives and save money and create jobs while saving the environment. surely they would do something. like supporting healthy,

sustainable local farms. instead of pouring our tax dollars into agriculture and poisonous fossil fuels. [applause] but slowly i realize that if you want to persuade elected officials forget all that cost-saving, life-saving, job-creating stuff. that doesn't really count. what you need is giant bundles of big campaign checks and that was my wake-up call that if we want to protect children's health or want anything for that matter, the health care we need or the education or the jobs, we need to first stick to broken political systems. [applause]

that's why -- that's why i now say that i'm practicing political medicine because it's the mother of all illnesses and we've got to fix this one to fix everything else that ails us. [applause] so i went to work to try to fix that problem and i joined a broad coalition in massachusetts to get big money out of politics and you know what, we won or so we thought we did. we passed a referendum to provide public financing for political campaigns and we passed it by a huge 2-1 margin. but our state legislature which

was about 85% democratic, they repealed the law as soon as it was passed on an unrecorded voice vote so no one could be held accountable for defying the will of the people. audience: boo! >> and that was my real wake-up call, that if we want to change the broken political system, what we need is not just a new law or a new lobbying effort or a fresh face in the same old corrupt system, we need a new, unbought political party that can put people of integrity into office. [cheers and applause]

we need real public servants who listen to the people, not to the corporate lobbyists that funnel campaign checks into the big war chest. that's what brought me to the green party, the only national party that is not bought and paid for by corporate money. [applause] and here's why my resolve has only grown stronger over the years. as a mother and a doctor, the concerns that activated me 30 years ago have only intensified. i like you see that our young people are still struggling in every aspect of life, struggling for good health, for decent

schools, struggling to stay safe on the streets. struggling to afford a college education, struggling to get a job, to get out of debt, struggling to have a climate that can actually live in for the future and they are losing the battle on every front. so when people ask me why i keep fighting political battles in a rigged system, the answer is simple -- i keep fighting because when it comes to our children, mothers don't give up. [cheers and applause] and you know what, neither do

fathers. [applause] or sisters and brothers and sons and daughters. and young people haven't given up. and they are the ones really carrying the burden of this rigged system. if they're not giving up, we're not giving up. we are not only not giving up, we are doubling down and rising up. we are a movement for democracy and justice that is alive and well across the country.

we are in eviction blockades and bank of america protests, in student strikes to stop tuition hikes, in protest against stop and press and shoot first and sp-1070 in mass arrest that nuclear power plants an civil disobedience to stop fracking and stop mountain top removal and stop the keystone pipeline. [cheers and applause] because they are mark game over for climate. and we're not going to settle for that. to quote alice walker, the biggest way people give up power is by not knowing they have it in the first place. [applause] well, we know we've got it. and we're going to use it.

and one of the ways we're going to use it is by having a voice in this election and a choice at the polls that's not bought and paid for by wall street. [cheers and applause] because voting for either wall street candidate for mitt romney or for barack obama gives a mandate for four more years of corporate rule. every vote they receive is an endorsement of the deadly trajectory that we are on for the american people and the planet. it's time to change that plunge into catastrophe and that change

starts with voting for real change. [applause] every vote we receive is a vote for democracy for the 99% and survival for the planet. to achieve that future as president, i will work to deliver a green new deal for america. a package of emergency reform to put 25 million people back to work and jump start the green economy and that economy will put a halt to climate change, a halt to unemployment and make wars for oil obsolete. [cheers and applause]

the green new deal reforms not only our economy but our financial system and our democracy. and it's not just an academic idea. it's based on a program that actually worked, the new deal that got us out of the great depression of the 1930's. it's time to bring it back and put it to work. these reforms create living wage, community-based jobs and communities decide what kind of jobs they need to be sustainable, not just eck logically, but socially. that mean first starters jobs in the green area of the economy, clean manufacturing, local organic agriculture, public transportation and clean

renewable energy. i want to tell you about a young man whose life was transformed by this kind of job. his name was ricardo and i met him in holio, massachusetts, touring some of the green small businesss that are thriving there. ricardo had dropped out of school after being held back three times in the ninth grade. like most kids in poverty his classes were too big, too underfunded and too dominated by less than inspiring test prep. but he found a training program in an efficient, an intall lation program offered by a, koa power in western mass. ricardo was then hired by a

small green energy business where he became a crew leader within one year and while doing all that, this high school dropout held back three times in ninth grade entered a g.e.d. program and graduated even before his own high school class received their diplomas. [cheers and applause] at age 20, he's now been leader of his crew for three years supporting his family and his young child. this is a triple win. ricardo pulled his life together. the community gets lower energy cost and cleaner air and the climate gets a little more stable for us all. under the green new deal, this win-win jobs will be the rule and not the exception and they're coming to your community.

[cheers and applause] so the green new deal not only creates jobs like ricardos like make us eck logically sustain b. it also creates jobs that meet our social needs. let's hire back those 300,000 teachers who have lost their jobs in this great recession. [applause] and let's hire on the nurses we need and the childcare and the after school and the home care and senior care and violence and drug abuse prevention and rehabilitation and affording housing construction. these jobs, yes, these jobs -- these jobs will be nationally funded and locally and democratically controlled. they are community based small

businesses, not big multinational corporations. and they are worker-owned cooperatives and public works, in public services. so instead of going down to the unemployment office, you can just go down to the employment office and get the job you need. [cheers and applause] so to be clear, the green new deal ends unemployment in america. this would never occur to washington politicians and you can imagine why. their corporate backers depend on the threat of unemployment to hold wages down and their

profits up. but ending unemployment and war is front and center for americans who need jobs. so it's front and center on the green agenda. as green, we are committed not only to jobs but also to improving social conditions for everyone in america. that's why the green new deal will create an immediate moratorium on foreclosures and evictions. [applause] we cannot afford to have even

one more rhonda thrown out of her home. we're going to put an end to that. and that's why we want medicare for all. this, not only provides quality, comprehensive care for everyone. it will restore your choice of provider and put you back on control in your health care decision instead of having them made for you by a profiteering-sharing c.e.o. and it will save trillion yons.

-- trillions over the next decade by streamlining the health insurance bureaucracy and putting away to runaway medical inflation. [applause] we will forget the crushing student debt burden. and we will liberate an entire generation of young people who have been turned into indentured servants. and we will provide tuition-free public education from

prekindergarten through college. this is an investment in our future. and it pays off enormously. we know that from the g.i. bill, after world war ii that provided $7 in increased economic benefits for every dollar that we the taxpayers invested. in order to create an economy that works for people, we need not only jobs in secure working conditions, we need a financial system that is free from domination by big banks and well-connected financiers who hijack our economy and our

democracy. [applause] instead we will create a system that is open, honest, stable and serves the real economy, not the phony economy of high finance. [applause] we will end the bailouts and the corporate giveaways and ensure that the resources are available for investments in our communities, for consumers and small businesses and cooperatives. through these reforms, we will break up the big banks that are too big to fail. [applause] we will restore the glass stea gallon separation -- steagall of

separation of commercial banks. [applause] we will regulate all financial derivatives and require them to be open on exchanges. we will demock -- democratize the money to -- for credit creation. and we will tax capital gains as income, tax wall street transactions to stop reckless speculation and put a 90% tax on bonuses for bailed out bankers. [cheers and applause]

in order to secure these reforms, we must also enact political reforms to give us a real functioning democracy because as you know we don't have that yet. so to start with, we must end the domination of our election by corporations and big money which makes government of, by and for the people impossible. for this reason, we urgently need to amend our cons constitutions to make clear that corporations are not persons and money is not speech. [cheers and applause]

those rights belong to living, breathing human beings like you and me, not to business entities controlled by the very wealthy. the green new deal will also undercut the power of lobbyists and billionaires to control elections. and we will do that by enacting a voter bill of rights. [applause] in so doing, we will guarantee, a voter-marked paper ballot for all voting and require all votes are counted. [cheers and applause] we will bring simplified, same-day voter registration to the nation so no qualified voter

is barred from the polls. [cheers and applause] we will replace partisan oversight of elections with non- partisan election commission's and we will restore the vote of 1.4 million african-american men who are barred from voting because they are ex-felons. [applause] and we will implement election reforms like instant offloading and proportional representation that can truly reflect voter sentiment. [applause]

and we will take money out of politics and replace it with full public financing and free and equal access to the public airways. [applause] and we will guarantee equal access to the ballot and to the debates for all qualified candidates.

[cheers and applause] >> occupy the debates, exactly. they don't know what they are in for, but they are going to find out. [applause] so in summary, the green in new deal is a comprehensive program to pull us back from the brink and move beyond the current state of emergency for our economy, our environment, and our democracy. there is much more to it. i won't hold you here for the next three hours about that but you can go to our website and find out more about it.

but there is more to be done beyond the universe of the green new deal. that is why i am committed to emergency action in other areas as well. so first, i will bring the troops and the war dollars home. we need to bring them home from these illegal and immoral what words, including the wars and theg drone morri

soldiers in bases around the world where we do not need to be. [applause] foreign-policy and based on militarism and the protection of oil resources will be replaced. by diplomacy, diplomacy based on respect for international law and human rights. [applause] i will restore our imperiled civil liberties by repealing the un-american provisions of the patriot act, the national defence, and it is not only the

patriot act, as you know. it is also the national defense authorization act. and the antitrust pass an anti- terrorism act which criminalize protest and directs our protest to spy on nonviolent dissenters. i will prohibit the department of homeland security and fbi from conspiring with local police to suppress our freedoms of assembly and speech. [applause] i will also work to legalize marijuana.

and put it into a safe, regulatory framework, because marijuana is a substance which is dangerous because it is illegal. it is not illegal because it is dangerous. [applause] and finally, i will end the bipartisan more on immigrants. i will stand up against

discriminatory republican laws like the remnants of arizona's sb-1070. and i will stand up to the racist demagoguery that wrongly blames immigrants for the unemployment brought on by wall street's abuse of the economy. applause]nd a mosque the program has deported more than 1 million immigrants, heartlessly splitting families and taking thousands of children away from their parents. this issue also gets my blood

boiling. with that track record, the obama white house has been the most anti-immigrant administration in a century. it is true, obama did a pre- election about-face last month and gave temporary work permits to a limited number of immigrant youth, and even this fortunate group will still face deportation at age 30. it is not a solution. i am -- on taking office, i will immediately issued an executive order to end the deportations now. [applause]

and i will vigorously support passage of the dream act, and i will work to provide a welcoming pat to full, equal citizenship for undocumented americans who are vital members of our economy and our communities. [applause] and i will work to replace the corporate so-called free-trade agreement which generates economic refugees in the first place.

these will be replaced with a rare trade agreements that respect workers in this country and in latin america. now, we need these solutions, and the public supports them by substantial majorities in poll after poll. so why have we not gotten them? and there are big fear campaigns that have been waged over the past decade that have been telling us to just be quiet and vote your fears. but we have done that long enough now to see that silence is not an effective political strategy. [applause]

in fact, the politics of fear have brought us everything we were afraid of. what democracy needs is not fear and silence, but voices and value. it is time to answer the politics of fear with the politics of courage. [applause] as those massachusetts radicals did when they took on the british east india company and dumped the tea in the harbor and declared themselves free of king's law and corporal rule, by

the way, like the abolitionists did with the liberty party, and women suffer just did with the women's party, and working people did with the people's party and the socialist party and fighting the progressive party. in each of these cases, independent politics was critical to formulate the political demand which as frederick douglass said so famously, it is essential, because power concedes nothing without a demand. never did, and it never will. [applause] by bringing that demand into the presidential elections, we can advance the movement for

democracy and justice and drive these solutions into the political agenda. the history of progressive politics is filled with social movements allied with independent political parties that made history together. abolishing slavery, securing women's right to vote, the right to form unions, the 40-hour work week, campaign finance laws, child labor laws, social security, the new deal, and more, and that is what this campaign is all about. standing up and reclaiming our political voice and our political courage, because the moment we do, the real

aspirations of the american people can no longer be denied. we will have a base from which we can deabuild, and we can stat to drive for those critical solutions that people broadly support and which wall street politicians have kept off the table and which we are the only vehicle forward in this election and the foreseeable future. [applause] we will give people a choice and a voice in the voting booth and enable them to go to the polls and vote for the green new deal and vote for the reforms that will improve our lives right now. so i ask for your vote, but i ask for something much more.

help our ballot access drive. help us raise money. help form new green party locals all over the country. help support our local candidates. insure that the voice of principled opposition will be heard. now, and into the future, by standing up and pushing forward with this campaign for economic and political democracy, we signal to the world that we, the people, the 99%, have taken the stage political stage, once again in the united states of america. we will take the lead in our campaign as an our democracy. we will create an unstoppable movement and we will not rest until we have turned the white house into a green house.

[cheers and applause] and together, we will take back the promise of our democracy and the peaceful, just, green future we deserve. thank you so much. [cheers and applause] ♪ [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012]

[applause] >> next live your calls and comments on washington journal. news maker with texas congressman kevin brady.

>> historian anthony beaver with new look of the second world war. >> his main objective not to be captured alive by the russian. he was afraid to be paraded through the cage and ridiculed. he was determined to die. >> more with anthony beevor tonight at 8:00 on c-span's "q&a." >> this morning from the national governor's association meeting, iowa governor terry branstad discuss his state's economy and opposition