Standing Up ‘For The Greater Good’: MintPress Will Report From Green Party Convention

Jill Stein and her running mate, activist and scholar Ajamu Baraka, who Stein called an ‘organizer with a powerful voice, vision, and lifelong commitment to building true political revolution,’ are expected to accept the Green Party’s nomination Saturday in Houston.

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell
Dr. Jill Stein, presumptive Green Party presidential nominee, speaks at a rally in Philadelphia, Tuesday, July 26, 2016, during the second day of the Democratic National Convention.

HOUSTON --- As the Green Party’s Presidential Nominating Convention convenes in Houston, there’s renewed attention on the party’s presumptive nominee, Dr. Jill Stein, and increased interest in third-party alternatives to the American two-party duopoly. On Saturday, MintPress News will be at the University of Houston, where Stein and her running

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See You In Philly: MintPress News Will Report Live From DNC 2016 Protests

From demands for third party inclusiveness in American elections to protests against the war on drugs, the streets of Philadelphia could prove even more lively than the convention itself.

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell
A worker walks past a video display during preparations for the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia where MintPress News will be reporting live.

PHILADELPHIA --- While delegates rally and Hillary Clinton turns on the charm at the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, the streets will be full of activists demanding justice. MintPress News reporter Kit O’Connell will be there as supporters of Green Party candidate Jill Stein demand that she have access to the voting

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Mnar Muhawesh: A Force to Be Reckoned With

MintPress News publisher Mnar Muhawesh was inspired by her experiences as a child living in Palestine to speak for truth & a free press.

Zainab Merchant
By Zainab Merchant

Mnar Muhawesh was nine years old when her family moved to Jerusalem from Minnesota. But even then, Mnar quickly realized she had moved into apartheid. “I saw road blocks, checkpoints, the building of the wall and families being separated from each other” she says from her meeting room in Minneapolis, Minn. A year later, when her family

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VIDEO: Rachel Corrie Family Still Searching For Justice 12 Years After Israeli Bulldozer Killed Daughter

Twelve years have passed since an American activist was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer, 12 years which have been marked by a lengthy legal battle and repeated calls for an investigation into Rachel’s death by activists, her parents, and even the Bush and Obama administrations.

Mnar Adley
By Mnar Adley
Cindy, center, and Craig Corrie, right, the parents of Rachel Corrie, a pro-Palestinian activist who was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza in 2003, sit together with their daughter Sarah, during an interview with the Associated Press in Jerusalem, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Human rights activists captured Israel’s appalling human rights abuses that took place last summer under Operation Protective Edge in Gaza that for the first time in a long time the Palestinian plight garnered international headlines because it could no longer be ignored. But these atrocities of course, are nothing new. Twelve years ago, another

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Jill Stein: Time To Reject The ‘Lesser-Evil’ & Stand Up For The Greater Good

Americans are growing weary of the status-quo: choosing between a duopoly of Wall-Street owned parties. Can Jill Stein’s Green Party offer an alternative?

Mnar Adley
By Mnar Adley
Jill Stein, the Green Party’s presidential candidate in 2012, is taking another run at the presidency in 2016;

Correction: We have changed this article's headline to one which more accurately reflects Dr. Jill Stein's viewpoint. The presidential campaign season is upon us, and the corporate-aligned, two-party duopoly is dominating the conversation taking place in American media. In turn, the corporate-funded media is selling only candidates whose agendas

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VIDEO: Reporter Handcuffed, Slammed On Pavement & Detained For Filming Baltimore Police Chase

“I witnessed pepper spray, blunt force, and threats with firearms all used by police and National Guard. As such, it was important to make a record for both the news and the history books.”

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk

This video was filmed beginning at 10:08 p.m. on May 2, 2015 in Baltimore by News2share credentialed reporters Ford Fischer and Trey Yingst.  Here is Fischer 's statement on the the incident. The video basically speaks for itself. As noted in the video, I was staying entirely out of the way of police and protesters, and attempting to make an

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