FLINT, MI - In a back room Wednesday morning at Good Beans Cafe in Flint, residents voiced their continued frustration over the city's water crisis during a brief visit by Green Party vice presidential nominee Ajamu Baraka.

Baraka, a long-time human rights activist, listened and spoke with around 20 residents as they filled him in on their continued issues with bottled water and growing angst of feeling the issue has gone back underground after the national spotlights disappeared.

He promised the prospective voters he'd fill in Jill Stein, the Green Party's presidential nominee, on what he learned from the room before campaign handlers packed up T-shirts, fliers, and leftover muffins in boxes prior to heading to stops at a prison in Muskegon and Grand Rapids Community College.

Urging residents to continue having their voice heard over the water issue, Baraka also directed them to seek groups inside the United State that connect with international human rights advocacy "because the U.S. is in clear violation of treaties that they signed."

"There's clear discrimination taking place here," said Baraka, founding director of the U.S. Human Rights Network, of potential environmental injustice in the Flint. "There's some emergency procedures that folks in Flint can appeal to."

Polling numbers for Stein have been hovering in the single digits for weeks, trailing behind Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, and Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson, with roughly three weeks left before the Nov. 8 election.

Baraka offered a quick response when asked how soon a third party candidate could become a legitimate contender to fill the Oval Office - 2020 - if they are able to gain access to the American people.

Candidates must poll at 15 percent in "five selected national public opinion polling organizations" to be included as part of the presidential debate, according to The Commission on Presidential Debates.

"We think by 2020 we're going to be in the position to really challenge, if we can get access to the American people," Baraka said. "This phony democracy that we have in this country, people are finally waking up to the fact if we are going to be able to move forward as a country, as a nation, we've got to address the democracy deficit here in this country with this two-party monopoly representing the same elite interest."

Stein is scheduled to make appearances on Friday, Oct. 28 at the Redford Theater in Detroit and Bowen Field House on the campus of Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti.