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It's this mingling of the economic and political elite which is really destroying our democracy.

Jill Stein

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Jill Stein
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: May 14
Peace Activist
Physician
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Chicago
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Jill Ellen Stein
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Most progressive in the Democratic Party doesn't cut it, you know. If we still can't have a health care system that provides health care as a human right, if we still cannot, you know, ban fracking and fossil fuels and move like our lives depend on it - you know, we say in the next 15 years we need to phase out fossil fuels.
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