Christina. I am thrilled to welcome you to the second event of the 2024 free residential debate series. We are live from new york city. I want to begin by thanking marie for another stunning rendition of our national anthem. And lift every voice and sing. More americans identify as independent than as eit. That is why we want to amplify more voices and choices to encourage discourse choices the voters actually have. Tonights debate will feature five independent candidates running in this years candidates were selected by the public through our voting up. They represent a variety of Party Affiliations and bring an array of positions to the table. We will laugh targeting questions on the topic the Mainstream Media avoids. Some questions were submitted by the public. At the conclusion of the event, we will host a poll on our website for you to decide the winner of the debate. The poll will be open for 72 hours to make sure to weigh in with your thoughts. Ing the freeandequal. She is a former correspondent from one america news network, caitlin sinclair. A familiar from last months excuse me. We also have from last months debate, jason palmer. Caitlin, what if you want to be involved in this event . I believe Younger Voters are increasingly looking for alternatives to classic rtain policies we have seen for some time now. In my opinion, you look at the most apathetic group outherethe. They are looking for a different perspective. I am excited to highlight this platform for all candidates. You for being here and for the youth. Jason, we are back with us. Thank you for your organization, together, which is cosponsoring tonights event. Is my pleasure to be here on behalf of the president ial campaign and a newly founded corporation i want to announce to all of you. It is called together and its goal is to increase Youth Participation in this years election and future months. I have firsthand the media and electoral challenges for independents annew candidates who have not been involved with Traditional Party for a long time. Citizens deserve m candidates tt decision at the polls. I was excited to participate in lastte and tonight. I may not agree with all of these candidates viewpoints but i welcome the opportunity to share their views and it is crucial for our american democracy. Great to have jason here tonight as an example of how the Free Equal Elections Foundation focuses on unity to bring about solutions. Lets introduce the participants in tonighs debate. From the Libertarian Party, we oliver. Also from the party for socialism and liberates him, have dr. Jill stein and jasmine sherman. We also have from the Libertarian Party, chase oliver. We look forward to a lively, respectful exchange of ideas. The format, each candidate will deliver a two minute opening statement. Then we will ask a series of response and a one minute rebuttal. Each candidate has four opportunities for rebuttal. We questions as a way to cover even more topics. The debate will conclude with a two minute closing statement from each candidate. The order of the candidates was determined by a random draw. We will begin starting with lauraease give us your introduction. When i said the system is rigged, you know that is true. Aryo ready to do something about it . I am. I am pissed off and im over it. The entire system is corrupte po unrig it. Our economy is rigged. Our government has stolen 34 6rbillion. It is reducing your standard of living in the form of inflation. You all feel it every day when you go to the store. The corruptg citizens. We need to end the regime of the corrupt irs and let people keep 100 of their paycheck. Only you have the power to unr ig the system. Or Health Care System is a total joke. My prices go up while the quality of care goes down. We all know it is a rigged system that needs to be turned upside down. Our criminal Justice System is also a total joke. 50year war on drugs that is a failure. We have to stop criminalizing people for victimless crimes and treat people with to get them the help they need. What you put in your body is your choice and the government should have no say in that whatsoever. I am trying to unrig the system in america because everyone is filling the pressure. S your Education System, your Health Care System, i just want to make americans feel better. The government has completely shammed the system. Go to my website and learn more about my policies, unrig8 the system and make it fair and have more integrity for america. Thank you. Thank you. Excuse me. [backgrounduting] thank you, security is taking care of that. We do not allow that in the room. Thank you so much for having us, free equal foundation. Necessary in the sham that is democracy in the United States. I am a workingclass secondgeneration immigrant, mother, organizer, educator and a proud socialist also a membery for socialism and liberation that has existed for the last 20 years and has been on the front struggle across different fronts of struggles. Everything from defending our rights to housing, our rights to health care, against Police Brutality. We are actively engaged all across the country■y organizing, educating and mobilizing workingclass people to end the dictatorship of the billionaires which is ultimately the root of our problem. The u. S. Does not lack resources. It does not lack the ability to provide housing, create jobs, provide Free Health Care and education for everyone in society. Instead we have a society that produces misery, creates 160 Million People living in or near poverty, produces 500,000 People Living in homelessnes we have a handful of billionaires and profitmakers that are benefiting from our misery and suffering. Billionaires and millionaires who profit from the endless war andthe problem. We cannot continue to think we can reform capitalism. It is urgent to get the billionaire class out of power. Our campaign is here to expose brutality and organize, mobilize for the society. Votesocialist2024. Com. It is great to see you again. We have been doing this for 12 years now that i have been participating in your process. In tribute much need a debate. I am enjoying hearing things we do not normally hear. The American Public is desperate for more voices and more choices. This is wonderful. My background is as a medical doctor, where i have worked for decades in the clinic. I became very frustrated how our health cannot be addressed tried working upstream on social drivers of illness and discovered reform is essentially stymied by the powers that be. Io . ■k■ moved from clinical medie to political medicine to address the mother of all illnesses, are rigged political system our rigged political system that makes change virtually impossible. We are in this historic moment right now, where the usual order of things, that of empire and oligarchy, is essentially teetering at the brink and we are all crisis in our lives in virtually every dimension of our lives. The need for deep change has never been so urgent. The possibility of that change has never loomed so large. That is very much thanks to the action of people in the listening audience, people who are here tonight that are really standing up to fight for an end to endless war and genocide, the fight for justice in the workplace, the fight for abolishing student debt, defending mother earth and rescuing are very embattled Civil Liberties which are very much under attack. We need solutions but solutions are not permissible in the current political environment. Breaking up our zombie duopoly, zombie political system is essential and look forward to discussing some of the ways to [applause]ight. Good evening. My name is jasminent to get somf the way. I am sat, i am black, i am a socialist running for president of United States. I am not wealthy, i am not living off a trust fund set up , rich parents. Make my friends wealthy or write a book. This election is a black swan event like never before. A thirdparty candidate can win. We do not have to pretend that we are trying to move parties to the right or left. If you want guaranteed housing, universal health care, Free Education and universal basic income, you will vote for jasmine sherman. All my policies will be read to you on my website. Lets reset. We do not need to keep attending. You know what is wrong. You do not need to hear politicians who are wealthy and will go home to their nice problems you experienced. You know there is no food in the refrigerator, you know there is what you dont know is what will solve your issues faster. Politicians have wonderful ideas. Icon. At you need is change. You need someone who can make sure you can feed your family, educate your children, spend time with them. Right now our country is at the precipice and we need to push it forward. If you actually want to do something i would recmeen to a a plan to put money in your pocket tomorrow. If you are not interested, go to jasminesherman. Com for more details and to donate because we have work to do. [applause] 5■qi am done with my time. Thank you, jasmine. Thank you very much for having me here. I think we probably agree there are a lot of problems. They cannot hear you on the mic. One moment. Can you hear me now . We are good. Please start over. I want to say thank you for giving us the opportunity to debate today. I imagine many on the folks on stage will have agreement about the problems we face. My name is chase oliver. I want to be the libertarian candidate for United States because i know people are getting sick and tired of being sick and tired. Over 60 oftheyre willing to va candidate not named donald trump or joe biden. We need to seize this opportunity to bring new solutions to the table. My solutions are rooted in freedom. If you are living your life in peace, notyour life is your lifr property is your property. Not the property or business of an overly intrusive government we have seen frankly my entire adult life. I am 39 years old. I am half of Donald Trumps age. My generation fought the war on terror. The entire Real Estate Market fell out from underneath us as big banks got bailed out in the regular guy got screwed over. It is my generation trying to raise families all over the country with record inflation caused by the overly abusive and intrusive federal government that continues to stifle growth. I got started in politics bein. I am antiwar to the core. I oppose the warfare state all over the world and we need to bring our troops back home. We need to have our milita removed from every continent. The only purpose of the military is to protect us fromi believe e movement immigrants. We have an Immigration Crisis at the southern border. It is the government who refuses immigrants to work andrt e their American Dream. I have also been a criminal Justice Reform advocate. People should be on a level Playing Field with Law Enforcement d government when they get their day in court and that is not happening. Go to votechaseoliver. Com to see my full platform. Thank you, chase. [applause] question 1. Immigration. ]reflecting the voice of the electorate, we ask questions directly from the public for todays debate. The first question chosen f reld concern. Given the evolving tactics of of advanced technology, underground tunnels and the smuggling of narcotics and human trafficking, what innovative approaches do you conceive to stay ahead of these criminal organizations and safeguard our borders while protecting americans and the vulnerable populations often exported by drug cartels who are smuggling. One of the things my platform does is recognize there is an immigrant crisis at the border. The u. S. What we need to do is decriminalize all Substance Abuse items. We need to put Safe Use Centers in every zip code. We need to get people universal health care. It must be in your zip code. You mustave access. It should include your prescriptions and holistic care. By making sure we go ahead and tke access, the same way it is easy to access when people were coming to ellis island, we would not have the border crisis. Ed to do is make sure we provide more medical staff, treat drug issues like disease they are instead of pretending these problems are bigger and not solvable. We have the funds to do it. What we do notave his leaders willing to put doctors in every zip code. We do not have leaders were not trying to play nice with the bad guy. We need younger leadership, more direction, entry americans the way they want to bdr■eai undersr government to make us think people are flooding our borders and to think america is under invasion but that is not accurate. We have tons of room in this country for more people. We had tons of room when people were taking over and jenna siding Indigenous People here and genociding Indigenous People here. We should reform the system and put money back in americans pockets. There is space for all of us. The difference is we need to be working towards making this country better. I am done with my time. [applause] chase. The point of your question is great. You talk about how we are digging tunnels. This is a perfect reason we dont need a giant wall on our southern border full of razor wire, stealing peoples property to build that. To have an ellis island style immigration system. You should be able to come to report of entry, do a quick check, and come here and get to work. There are jobs that need to be filled. There are people willing to do that and we need to keep the way of those people. If you look at the number of businesses crated by native born or firstgeneration immigrants, immigrants i increase the econoe for everyone. Talking about defunding cartels, the best way to do that is eliminate the war on drugs and remove the profit motive for cartels. If we allowed people to come through ports of entry easily, we would be able to put our focus on human trafficking. Let peaceful people in and let the small sliver of human traffickers be taken down by Law Enforcement. I. Do want to say this the time attacking immigrants. Those were the same slanders thrown against our forefathers who came here from germany, ireland, italy, and all over europe. Now theyre coming from south of the border and everywhere else. We should be welcoming them here. Be the next generation of american ottoman oars, Business Owners american entrepreneurs, Business Owners, people whoprosperity. I dont believe in the scare tactics. I live near immigrants, go to church with them,w and its ridiculous anybody would try to stop good, hardworking people from wanting to come to our country and stop there American Dream the way 40 of our country did. We need to get government out of the way. Thank you. To mitigate the Immigration Crisis, which happens to be a crisis now, but was not when the european settlers came to this nation, but so far, happens to be now, because its gendered, k about immigration, we need to think about Foreign Policy the ways the u. S. Has, through imperialist mechanisms, displaced people. 60 Million People across the world are moving because of wars, famine and Climate Change. We went to protective order . The best thing to do is get out of other peoples nations. Our solution is building foreign built on collaboration, bill on bringing back troops, closing the 800 military bases across the globe, shutting down nato, shutting down the southern coand, and putting those soldiers that are out there doing the bidding of capitalism, in this country to do meaningful work. [applause] lawrence . Thank you. I love that you framed it in the form of cartels because this is the problem that i see in america today. Prohibition does not work. We have prohibition in 1930s around alcohol and what did that create . Al capone. The government creates monopolies in crime when they prohibit things and they have created a monopoly for the cartels. If you are in business, what do you do when you are in business . You try to increase sales and production. The business of selling drugs and pushing drugs on americans. I believe the failed war on drugs has created more drug users than it hastd. It is time to end this failure. Throwing more people in jail and spending more money on the problem will not fix it. To deschedule drugs at the federal level and in the cartels altogether. This will solve a big part of the problem at our southern border. We have chs border because of the federal governments policies at the border. The cartels are disrupting the people south of the border and they are fleeing the violence and crime that comes with the cartels, so by eliminating them, we can get rid of the problems, but there is still chaos, so we need to streamline the system so people can come here easily, find work easily and be legal in this country like my ancestors were able to come and try to find the American Dream. I agree with claudia. We need to stop the imperialism in america. We need to stop rejecting ourselves all over the world. We need to close down those 800 bases she was talking about. We could usedb j that money to create an energy race that would lower the cost of Energy Across America and lower the cost of energy across the world. Would start lifting people up all over the World Without america spending any more money. [applause] thank you.