Stein Endorses Unified Progressive Platform!

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has endorsed the Unified Platform, a document drawing on the platforms and ideologies of six current and legacy Progressive organizations, including the NPA, Greens, Socialists, and others dating to America's first Progressive Era.

Here is Stein's endorsement in full, received May 8:

To: New Progressive Alliance
From: Jill Stein
Subject: Endorsement of NPA Platform

This is to confirm that as a candidate for President I endorse the platform of the New Progressive Alliance.

I thank the NPA for the hard work that went into developing this excellent statement of progressive values.

As you know, I worked actively with the NPA as a board member until I took a leave of absence to work on my presidential campaign. I hope to see the NPA flourish and make a major contribution to the revival of the progressive movement in America.

2012 is shaping up as a year in which we have a golden opportunity to create a permanent progressive presence on the national political scene. I am currently involved in Green Party ballot access drives with the goal of putting our progressive ticket before more than 94% of the voters in America. I am also working hard to qualify for FEC matching funds that would give credibility to our campaign and provide us with funding to undertake several important initiatives. But this is not a short-term effort to make a splash in one election. It involves organizing permanent organizations in as many states as possible and helping elect local and state officials who will organize in their areas.

We all know that no matter who is elected president on November 6, we will face enormous challenges over the next four years. We have to make this election the springboard to what will follow. Every vote we get in this election, every volunteer that we activate, and every donor that we discover will put us in a better position to meet the challenges that will come.

I would like to invite NPA to jump into the fray and demonstrate that they can make a decisive difference in the electoral arena. There is much to be done. The Internet and social media have given us exciting new techniques for political action - and these are ideally suited to the skills of NPA activists. This is the year to show that we can revitalize the progressive movement in America and rescue our democracy.

I respectfully request the endorsement of NPA and their full engagement in the exciting work before us.

Forward!

Jill Stein
Candidate for President of the United States
Green Party