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RACINE — The lighting may have been dim inside Infusino’s Banquet Hall on Sunday evening, but former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein didn’t let that put a damper on her message to the Greens’ newest members: the Racine Green Party.

The organization, which formed in January with 10 members, invited Stein to help with its efforts to get the City of Racine to decriminalize marijuana.

About 100 people attended Sunday’s event, which found Stein speaking on a range of Green Party platform issues, among them the need for free higher education; the cancellation of student loan debt; single-payer national health care; and sanctuary cities for undocumented immigrants.

Stein called on those gathered to back Green Party candidates who stand for things they support, as opposed to voting for the lesser of two evils.

“The solution is not going back to the same old Democratic Party that got us here in the first place,” Stein said, adding that the election of Donald Trump was not a true vote for Trump but a “revolt.”

“The solution is a new politics of by and for the people that is not sponsored by the big banks, and the fossil-fuel giants and the war profiteers,” said Stein, who lives outside of Boston.