Jill Ellen Stein is an American physician and activist. She is the Green Party’s nominee for president of the United States in the 2024 election, and was previously its candidate in the 2012 and 2016 elections. She was the Green-Rainbow Party’s candidate for governor of Massachusetts in 2002 and 2010. Stein is among the list of several women who have run for President of the United States and also one of the few who received over a million votes in the general election behind both Hillary Clinton and Jo Jorgensen.
In 2003, Jill co-founded the Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities, a non-profit organization that fought for the health and well-being of Massachusetts communities, including health care, local green economies, environmental protection, labor rights, and grassroots democracy. In 2008, Jill helped lead the “Secure Green Future” ballot initiative to move subsidies from fossil fuels to renewable energy and to create green jobs. The measure won over 81 percent of the vote in the 11 districts in which it was on the ballot.
WE ARE A TWO-PARTY SYSTEM. IT IS DIFFICULT FOR A THIRD-PARTY [THE GREEN PARTY] TO WIN. TRUMP MUST NOT WIN.
Butch Ware is a professor and activist. As of August 2024, he taught History, Black Studies, and Islamic Studies at U.C. Santa Barbara.
He is running for vice president on a ticket with presidential candidate Jill Stein (G) in the 2024 presidential election. Stein selected Ware as her running mate on August 16, 2024.[1]
Ware was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota, and a doctorate degree in history from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004.[3][2]
Ware has worked as a professor at Northwestern University and Michigan University. As of August 2024, he worked as an associate professor teaching History, Black Studies, and Islamic Studies at the University of Santa Barbara.[3][2] Ware said his, “teaching focuses on Islamic thought, anti-slavery movements in West Africa and the African Diaspora, and the broader intersection of Race, Religion, and Revolutionary Thought.”[2] He is the author of two books: Jihad of the Pen: The Sufi Literature of West Africa (2018) and The Walking Qur’an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa (2014).[4][5]