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Testify!

Friday, October 27th, 2006

My name is Lee Barstow, and I’m an apprentice minister in the Congregational Church, which is a democratic institution that is part of the United Church of Christ. I’m here because Jill has asked for some religious voices to join this celebration of change.

Jill wants to hear religious voices because she knows that all true traditions have at their heart the same moral values that are at the heart of her candidacy.

Religious voices that hold to their true traditions have always put themselves on the line for moral values. And it is time that we take back the concept of moral values from those who abuse that phrase. Truth is a moral value.

Justice is a moral value. Trust is a moral value. Equality is a moral value. These are the sacred that are at the heart of the true America. The man called Jesus put his life on the line for these. He said the most important thing we can do are to love God - which I take to mean holding all creation to be sacred - and the other most important thing we can do is to love each other. He didn’t make this up - he got it from the earliest laws of Judaism.

This is why I’m here today - because Jill Stein knows how to restore these sacred values. Jill works for elections that are actually fair, elections in which the people decide who will represent them, and not the corporations. Jill works for stewardship of the environment. Jill works to make sure that what’s sacred in our public life is not bought and sold for power or money.

So please - for all of us, and for our children, and for their children - let’s do our part by voting in the November election. Vote for whomever you think will best protect what’s sacred. For me, that will mean voting for Jill Stein.

written by: Lee Barstow

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Who Is Jill Stein?

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

Jill Stein is a physician and health advocate who is nationally known for her work to protect children from toxic exposures.

Jill with her family

Jill’s involvement in politics grew out of her attempts to keep needed health-protection from being blocked by powerful corporate lobbying forces on Beacon Hill. She became involved in the movement for Clean Elections and other democracy reforms which she understood as essential for improving health and the environment. This led her to run for political office for the first time as the 2002 candidate for Governor of Massachusetts under the Green Party label.

Jill’s candidacy was praised by the Newton Tab as “the bolder, brighter and better choice.” According to the Needham Times, “Based on her past public policy experience…Stein possesses the ability to work with the state legislature and the bureaucrats to galvanize a new era of policy activism and to inspire a new group of voters.” Joan Venocchi of the Boston Globe described Jill’s debate performance: “In the midst of the madness, the candidate who spoke the most clearly was Green Party candidate Jill Stein.”

Now Jill is running for Secretary of State — the office that oversees critical foundations of Massachusetts democracy – elections, lobbying, public information, corporate charters and more. She is running as the
Green-Rainbow Party candidate to ensure that the authority of the Secretary’s office serves as an independent watchdog over the crucial matters before the Commonwealth.

Jill believes that — with your help — we can open up Beacon Hill, get the big money out, and let the people back in. We can:
• End the culture of secrecy by applying the open meeting law to the Legislature – removing the exemption they bestowed upon themselves.
• Restore public financing for qualified candidates, so we can elect candidates that don’t owe favors to big money campaign donors.
• Fight influence-peddling by shining daylight on lobbying.
• Allow voters more choices through an “instant runoff” voting system that allows voters to rank candidates, ensuring that no one’s vote will be thrown away.
• Keep electronic voting machines out of the Commonwealth unless they have been redesigned and proven reliable, cost effective, verifiable and tamper proof.

So let’s get down to business and restore the promise of a Commonwealth of, by, and for the people.

written by: Eli Beckerman

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