Green Party again nominates Jill Stein for president of the United States

The Green Party nominated Massachusetts physician-activist Jill Stein for her second White House bid on Saturday at its convention in Houston.

"We are not only deciding what kind of a world we will have in this election," Stein said in accepting the party's nomination at the University of Houston. "We are deciding whether we will have a world or not going into the future. The day of reckoning is coming closer...We cannot wait. We have to act now, if we want to stop that sea level rise from happening in 2050."

The party's environmental concerns wove into a series of crises that Stein said only could be solved with transformative change by the progressive movement. She promoted community boards to monitor police brutality, an end to deportation and removal of all college student debt.

Stein denounced Hillary Clinton as a presidential option for leftists, hammering the point that voting for the Democratic Party will exacerbate systemic oppression.

"The lesser evil is a losing strategy because people stop coming out to vote," she said. "Hillary Clinton is the problem. She is not the solution to Donald trump. We are the solution. We are the ones we've been waiting for."

"We are in revolt," she said of the Greens' responsibility to take on the elite.

She extolled Sen. Bernie Sanders from Vermont for popularizing a progressive platform that inspired his disaffected supporters to band with the Green Party, which Stein described as "burning green."

"On the day that Bernie Sanders endorsed Hillary Clinton, the floodgates opened in our campaign to more volunteers, more ballot access drivers, more funding," Stein said. "We are a different campaign than we have ever been for having joined forces with you.

She quoted Dr. Martin Luther King: "The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice."

Then she explained the relevance of King's quotation to the Greens: "I know that arc is bending in us and through us right now. We are the actors in something that is much bigger than us, as we struggle for peace, community and healing together.

"That arc of justice is moving through as we mobilize to make sure that every black life matters, as we move to end violent policing, as we sit in and as we lock down to stop fracking pipelines and fossil fuel bomb trains and coal and LNG export terminals and all manner of poisonous fossil fuel and nuclear infrastructure," she said.