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Entries from November 2008

Green Party of Nepal calls for halt to ‘dictatorship’

November 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments

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 [...]

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Book Review: Rejected by Michael L. Soha

November 30th, 2008 · 4 Comments

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 Ron [...]

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Tags: Libertarian Party · Uncategorized

UK Libertarian Party holds first Annual General Meeting

November 30th, 2008 · No Comments

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 [...]

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LNC attorney Bill Hall is tired of in-fighting and second guessing of his opinions

November 30th, 2008 · 7 Comments

Sent by email from “leaky sieve” bill-hall-lnc

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Chuck Turner blasts media, City Council

November 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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 [...]

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Malik Rahim: New Orleans, from the 1800s to today

November 30th, 2008 · No Comments

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 [...]

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LNC financial package 2008

November 30th, 2008 · 17 Comments

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EcoAction Committee Greens oppose push for nuclear

November 30th, 2008 · No Comments

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 [...]

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Draft EcoAction Committee proposal for Green Party statement on water

November 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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 [...]

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Alaska Independent Bob Bird calls Globaloney

November 30th, 2008 · No Comments

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 [...]

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Tags: Independents · Right-wing minor parties

Hawaii Green Party leader Bonk dies

November 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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 leader [...]

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Independent Green Campbell to seek office in Virginia

November 29th, 2008 · 9 Comments

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 effort to [...]

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Brian Holtz responds to Jim Davidson: ‘multiple freedom parties is dumb’

November 29th, 2008 · 95 Comments

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 Henry [...]

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Tags: Libertarian Party · Non-left/right parties

Update: Minnesota Senate race isn’t the only recount this election season

November 28th, 2008 · 5 Comments

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 decided [...]

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Cindy Sheehan asks, ‘Is Citigroup thankful for corrupt government and robbed taxpayers?’

November 28th, 2008 · 5 Comments

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 reform [...]

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Green-Rainbow Party stands with Chuck Turner, calls for broad investigation of influence-peddling

November 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Posted on the Green-Rainbow website The Green-Rainbow Party stands with Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner, who has been a tireless servant in the broad struggle for justice, and who has a distinguished history fighting on behalf of the people of Boston and beyond. Councilor Turner has unswervingly taken the side of the disadvantaged and disempowered, [...]

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Washington State’s Party of the Commons

November 28th, 2008 · 26 Comments

According to the party’s blog, Commoner: A Party of Commons journal. Progress, Tradition, Ecology “We have become the 4th most popular party in Washington state, based on the number of votes in recent elections. Only the “Big 2″ major parties and the Constitution party are ahead of us in popularity in Washington.” However, a quick [...]

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Malik Rahim profiled in the San Francisco Bay View

November 28th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Full article here. Additional IPR coverage here. Pat LaMarche, Green Party candidate for vice president in 2004 and for governor of Maine in 2006 and author of “Left Out In America: The State of Homelessness in the United States,” writes in the Bangor News: “I’m staying just a few blocks from Jefferson Davis Parkway. His [...]

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Stephen Meier: Open letter to the LNC

November 28th, 2008 · 167 Comments

sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com Nov 26th, 2008 To: Libertarian Party National Committee Subject: Angela Keaton In regards to the upcoming LPNC meeting to be held Dec 6th and 7th in San Diego, CA. An agenda has been published at: http://lncregion7.blogspot.com/2008/11/agenda-san-diego-lnc-meeting.html This published agenda includes the line “Discipline of Angela Keaton 30 minutes”. I am deeply disturbed [...]

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Video: Ralph Nader at University at Buffalo Law School

November 28th, 2008 · 3 Comments

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Tags: Independents