Howard University graduate and longtime activist Peta Lindsay is the only Black woman running for president in 2012. Heading up the ticket for the Party for Socialism and Liberation, Lindsay sees the 2012 campaign as an organizing vehicle against a system that produces mass unemployment, racism and seemingly endless war.
“People are in motion,” Lindsay told TheRoot.com, adding: “With the explosive growth of the Occupy Wall Street movement, people are already struggling against the exploitation of the capitalist system.”
A Virginia native raised in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., Lindsay has been an activist since 2001, when she became involved in the anti-war movement as a volunteer with the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) while still a high-school student. Lindsay comes from a long line of Black activists.
“Peta Lindsay is one of those people who gives me hope that all is not lost in America,” Courtland Milloy, a Washington Post columnist, said in a 2003 article about Lindsay’s work in the anti-war movement.
The PSL campaign, according to its website, is to use the wealth created by the many to meet people’s needs, not to line the pockets of Wall Street billionaires. The PSL campaign is also fighting for free health care, housing and meaningful work for the millions of workers struggling to make ends meet.
