Twenty seven year old activist Peta Lindsay is running for President of the United States on the Party for Socialism and Liberation ticket.
In an interview with The Root, Lindsay said, “With the explosive growth of the Occupy Wall Street movement, people are already struggling against the exploitation of the capitalist system.”
Lindsay views her campaign as the beginning of a movement, and has been speaking on college campuses and organizing outreach as a way of getting out the word for her campaign and her movement. She understands that, even if elected, she doesn’t meet the age required by the Constitution to serve as President, but Lindsay sees a bigger picture.
“I get a lot of Facebook messages, sometimes from people in places like North Dakota and Oklahoma, where we don’t have a branch, but they’re following the campaign,” she said. “Everybody’s for housing, health care and education. They just want somebody to say, in very plain language, ‘This is how we should do it.’ “
On Obama, Lindsay says “Think about when Obama first won, and thousands of people were in the streets excited about it. Democrats were controlling both houses of Congress. Obama could have done anything,” she said. “He could have passed [a universal] health care bill. He could have withdrawn the troops. People would have supported him, but he didn’t do it. That’s not because the people didn’t want that. He didn’t do it because he has a responsibility that’s not to the people, but in fact to greater profits for the big banks and corporations.”
Originally published by Your Black World.
