The website Mediaforfreedom.com reports on a press conference of the Green Nepal Party.
In a press conference organized on 23 November, GNP said grabbing power with a call of ‘New Nepal,’ the Maoists are trying to take the country towards one party dictatorship. Trying to thrust a polity discarded by the world would be nothing but [...]

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Michael L. Soha’s thesis that “fringe” candidates do not get treated fairly in the media will not come as a surprise to many readers here. In fact, much of the book Rejected: How the Media Excluded Alternative Candidates in the 2008 Primary will not be a surprise to our regular readers, especially the ardent [...]

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Posted at LPUK.org.
I haven’t found anything on the results of the meeting yet. If anyone knows anything, please post in the comments.
The 2008 Annual General Meeting of the Libertarian Party will be held in York on 29 November, 2008. All non-suspended Party Members are welcome to attend, as are any accredited members of the media.
The [...]

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Posted by Jeremy Jacobs at PolitickerMA. Excerpt:
BOSTON - In an emotionally charged press conference, embattled City Councilor Chuck Turner said Monday that he is innocent and stridently criticized the press and his fellow city councilors for presuming his guilt before he has had an opportunity to defend himself in court.
Turner’s remarks came at a highly [...]

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Posted at On The Wilder Side

Green Party congressional candidate Malik Rahim, one of the founders of Common Ground, talks a little about his home Algiers, in New Orleans.
Video by Ed Mays of Seattle, Washington.
Watch footage from Malik Rahim’s NW Tour on Pirate TV — viewable on channel 29/77 in King County, or online at scantv.org. [...]

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Posted by Mato Ska at Green Party Watch
The Green Party of the United States’ (GPUS) Eco-Action Committee rejects President-elect Barack Obama’s reckless support for new nuclear power plants, as such an agenda poses unacceptable health and environmental risks and would be fiscally irresponsible in the extreme.
All of the processes associated with nuclear power are dangerous, [...]

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Posted by Mato Ska at Green Party Watch

The EcoAction Committee considers the importance of the water resource a critical priority in this election year and every year after. The Green Party advocates for the future well-being of generations to come by actively working to implement the necessary legislation, electing the committed candidates and establishing the [...]

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By Bob Bird, via contact.ipr@gmail.com
Vaclav Klaus, the President of the Czech Republic, has been a controversial and outspoken critic of Global Warming. He is about to step into the EU presidency, as per the regular rotation, and the world press, eager to ridicule and denounce him, is beginning to swarm.
In the midst of this, world [...]

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Bill Bonk, a former Hawaii Democratic official who helped found the state’s Green Party, died this week, West Hawaii Today reports. Bonk “was changed by his World War II combat experiences in the Philippines and New Guinea, plus an extended stay in Japan during the American occupation” and became a peace activist and progressive [...]

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Virginia’s Laurel Hill Connection reports former state Independent Green Party chairman Carey Campbell will run for chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. A special election is likely to take place in February; incumbent Democrat Gerry Connolly was elected to the U.S. House earlier this month. Campbell was a leader of an [...]

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Responding to Jim Davidson’s Why two libertarian parties are better than one, Brian Holtz writes at Libertarian Intelligence:
Another freedom party makes sense only if your goal is A) to displace the LP or B) to start an explicitly anarchist party. Competing with the LP to improve it makes about as much sense as [...]

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We have previously reported on independent Cathy Church’s bid for prosecutor in Marquette County, Michigan. Thanks to Greg Peterson of Gather.com for putting these stories together.
Apparently, Church was not convinced with the results of the election and filed for a recount of the votes about a week after the election. The race was [...]

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The following is reposted from OpEd News. It was written by former independent candidate for Congress and prominent anti-war protestor Cindy Sheehan:
While Secretary of the Treasury from 1999-2001, Larry Summers worked with the Clinton administration and Congress to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act so that Citicorp could become Citigroup. The Glass-Steagall Act was a [...]

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