manske attorney and democracy advocate and campaign manager for green party presidential candidate jill stein and hell bent on the complete even tell me about the american spring well what you're seeing is that there's a lot of different sectors of the movement that are mobilizing right now it's a b f l c i o is doing something unusual you see the steelworkers in a whole constellation of organizations that are holding trainings around the country there's also american spring that's happening here in d.c. with the now d.c. coalition that's actually why i'm here in town doing the number of sessions about the move to amend and continuing to build this long term movement to overturn citizens united but also to bring democracy into our constitution and you're seeing that movement is moving forward in fact my home state of wisconsin just last night west allis wisconsin which went fifty five percent for scott walker in two thousand and ten voted seventy percent for a constitutional amendment resolution and that kind of social movement resolution is it makes clear the corporations don't have constitu

now someone who attended that rally and is currently running for president of united states dr jill stein is here she is the green party candidate for president of the united states after stein welcome back thanks so much tom great to be here to have you with us tell us about the restaurant workers in america what what are the challenges they're facing enormous challenges you know we know that the minimum wage is completely inadequate seven dollars and twenty five cents and it's been incredibly eroded to be something like half of its value back in the one nine hundred sixty s. well get this many of the workers in the restaurant industry they don't have a minimum wage they have a minimum wage for tipped workers and their minimum wage is the fact of the two dollars and thirteen fans it hasn't changed in twenty years so federal law yes it is federal that's right and they've been working you know for a long time fruitlessly to try to raise and you know they're not getting tips i was talking to a couple of the young women who were there they were students actually one of them a scholarship stu

choir will announce the debt jubilee along with david greenberger and francis fox put in as well as jill stein who is the green party presidential candidate so it's a mock celebration because we are breaking the link between higher education and wall street tomorrow and so we thought we would celebrate this this horrible milestone with the banks or. it's great you ventured to cuba you want to get into the explain what that is. historically when deaths have been incredibly high in societies which the necessary to maintain. just harmony within society has been to a race the stats and so that's basically what it is those jubilees come every fifty maybe one hundred years we certainly haven't had one here in the united states so we thought hey why not one trillion dollars we may as well however own jubilee yeah it'd probably be one of the best things we could do economically for a whole generation of young americans coming out trying to find work i mean this is this is an issue that the president has been speaking out a lot about on lately here isn't exactly made many friends with the occupy moveme

independent power without having an independent voice going into this election like the green party's jill stein like independent candidates running for office movement politics yeah movement politics at the ballot box then we will end up being at the mercy of democratic party operators in a political party that is essentially bankrolled by wall street as well and yet you know lyndon johnson didn't run as a civil rights pres and f.d.r. i didn't run as the new deal press both of them ran on very very different forms and the people were demanding something that's right and people got what they wanted that's right so you see all the rather sick and up and demand as it almost doesn't matter the party that's right and that's what that's really what has to have it's progressives of all stripes need to continue to stand up and speak in our vote in our own voice you know whether we're greens or democrats or independents who are socialists whatever our people identify we have to be united and not allow the political system to trap us in to sort of silence us because we have seen what silence gets us sort

drawing attention to the struggles these workers face dr jill stein green party candidate for president was at that rally and she's going to join us and tell us more about. player. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for life you think you understand it and then you limp something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. download the official anti obligation job on the phone oh i pod touch from the top still. life on the go. big.

politics but what we're getting from americans elect unfortunately is still corporate sponsored jill stein thank so much for being with us thank you just agreed to be here. in a related story today is equal pay day twenty twelve and according to a new center for american progress study women make just seventy seven cents for every dollar that men earn in fact over the course of a woman's career she makes an average of four hundred thirty thousand dollars less than a male counterpart the staggering amount of money could be used to feed a family of four for thirty seven years or even pay for food for seven four year degrees at a public university and a bit romney is elected president in november the situation won't be getting any better in an interview with diane sawyer airing tonight romney refused to say whether he would sign the lilly ledbetter fair pay act of one thousand of two thousand and ronnie's opposition to the lead better ads is the latest chapter in the republicans war on women a new report by people for the american way outlines the all out assault on women's rights and discuss

jill stein and rocky anderson. she was the most presentable in terms of what they are policy was.der ham was exciting. he was the rabble rousing socialist and he said, i know i'm not going to win. peta lindsay was forceful. she was born in 1984. i asked her why she was running for president if she's not legally able to be president when elected. she said that the rules will be changed if she's elected. >> in the end did you come away more impressed or less impressed? keep it reel. >> i will keep it real. i felt like i was dealing with a group of people who obviously are not going to win the presidency. there was a lot of passion in the room. it seemed some of the people seemed somewhat fringed. some of the people watching and people on stage in terms of what their ideas are. they are obviously not main main-stream people. it was a corny proud to be american moment because you're listening to ideas everywhere. some of them were radical. let's end capitalism. that's not going to happen. but it was thrilling to be a part of that and it was fun. they're all very passionate. >> from my