CLAYTON — Two activists who participated in a pro-Palestine protest last spring at Washington University now face charges, the St. Louis County prosecuting attorney’s office said Wednesday.
Those charged include Jill Stein, the presidential nominee of the Green Party in 2024, who is accused of hitting a police officer with a bicycle and kicking him at the protest. Stein, 74, was charged Friday with first-degree trespass and fourth-degree assault.
In charging documents, Washington University police said demonstrators were given numerous warnings to leave the university’s private campus. Officers moved in for arrests around 8 p.m. Court documents alleged Stein interlocked her arms with other demonstrators and refused to leave.
In an interview with the Post-Dispatch just days after the protest, Stein disputed accounts that she struck an officer.
“While I was being assaulted with a bicycle, one of the police bent down and picked up my foot in order to try to further destabilize me into falling backwards,” Stein said. “And I wiggled out of his grip, you know, in an effort not to fall back on my head.”
Did trump run as the Fascist Dictatorship party candidate?
No, he ran as a Republican and turned the Republican party into the Fascist Dictatorship party.
Similarly you have a better chance of taking over the Democratic party and turning it into the Green party than you do of winning as a Green party candidate.
The game is rigged to prevent third party candidates from winning, If you want to actually improve things you either have to play the game with a party that can win an election, like AOC or Bernie, or you have to play a different game altogether, like Luigi.
No, the game is rigged to prevent views the bourgeoisie doesn’t like from reaching government. You can’t turn the Dems left just as much as you can’t get a left wing Congressperson
Please go back to reddit. There are plenty of people with these smooth-brained takes there. You’ll feel right at home.
AOC and Bernie haven’t improved anything.
The problem with trying to replicate Trump’s success at taking over a party from the inside is that there’s institutional resistance from the party against moving to the left. Republicans and their donors don’t really oppose being the fascist dictatorship party. Democrats and their donors absolutely oppose being a democratic socialism party.
Electoralism is not a game we can win. The only winning move is not to play.
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