This year the Green Party’s nomination for President was won by Dr. Jill Stein, a physician from Massachusetts who has been making waves around the country on her campaign tour.

Jill Stein is considered an environmental health pioneer, known for her widely cited reports, In Harm’s Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development, published in 2000, and Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging published in 2009. She works closely with parents, teachers, community groups and others, advising them on a variety of health and environmental issues. In Massachusetts, she was involved in a successful campaign to clean up coal plants and has been involved with the group, Physicians for Social Responsibility. She is also the co-founder of Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities.

On September 27, 2012, Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar interviewed Jill Stein in an hour-long conversation.

Watch the interview in two parts:

PART 1:

PART 2:

Bipasha Shom recorded this interview.