Posted at Ballot Access News
On December 31, 2008, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court again refused to reconsider the matter of costs that Ralph Nader was ordered to pay to the people who challenged his petition in 2004. The original request for reconsideration had been based on new revelations that the challengers had been indicted for [...]

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H/T Kimberly Wilder
Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney was the Green Party candidate for President in 2008. Ms. McKinney traveled aboard the boat “Dignity”, which tried to bring doctors and medical supplies to Gaza, as a humanitarian response to the recent bombing of the Gaza Strip by the Israeli government.The Dignity is a project of www.freegaza.org. [...]

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The Party for Socialism and Liberation is a running a mayoral candidate in Los Angeles this coming year, 22 year old Carlos Alvarez:
Carlos is an anti-war activist and leader of the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism). He has helped bring tens of thousands of people to the streets to stop [...]

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John Walsh, a former member of the Green Party’s national committee, has written an article for CounterPunch declaring the party “now lies in the political graveyard”, citing numerous examples of dysfunctional organization and counterproductive agendas in what he characterizes as a “badly needed postmortem”:
In the summer of 2007 when I was newly elected to the [...]

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WASHINGTON, DC — The Green Party of the United States calls for an immediate end to Israel’s bombing attacks on Gaza, which in the past four days has already caused at least 364 deaths, including Palestinian women and children, with hundreds more wounded. “It’s clear that President Bush gave a green light for Israel’s [...]

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After many requests, comments are being opened up to anyone. Where previously you had to register and log-in to make comments on our blog posts, anyone can now comment. We at IPR think this will lead to a larger readership and more open dialogue between readers, bloggers, and editor.
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Earlier today, the organization Green Change posted an online petition which they hope will garner the attention of President-Elect Barack Obama with the following text,
U.S. military spending in 2008 totaled over $710 billion1 – more than double the spending of the next five militaries in the world combined.2 More than half of it paid for [...]

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Two groups closely associated with the Workers World Party have issued statements of opposition to the Israeli airstrike on Gaza.
The “marxist youth organization” Fight Imperialism Stand Together, or FIST, sent its statement to the WWP’s press organ Workers World, lamenting conditions in Gaza it sees as deriving both from its recent enforced isolation as well [...]

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The Constitution Party has run a presidential candidate in each of the last five presidential elections. In 2008, its presidential nominee, Chuck Baldwin, polled a higher percentage of the vote than any previous Constitution Party presidential candidate had ever polled in 27 states.
Those 27 states are: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, [...]

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The Communist Party USA has issued a statement regarding the ongoing Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza strip:
The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) emphatically condemns the continuing Israeli air strikes in Gaza, which have left hundreds dead and over a thousand wounded. The hundreds of Israeli air strikes have been carried out with a total disregard for [...]

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Posted by Chris Hedges in TruthDig. Excerpt:
The corporate forces that are looting the Treasury and have plunged us into a depression will not be contained by the two main political parties. The Democratic and Republican parties have become little more than squalid clubs of privilege and wealth, whores to money and corporate interests, [...]

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Socialist Action has issued a statement calling for an end to “all aid to Apartheid Israel” and slamming neighboring Arab states as complicit in the latest episode of violence in the Gaza strip:
Since it withdrew its occupation of Gaza, the Zionist rulers of Israel have maintained it as an open-air prison and most of the [...]

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Posted by Ann Garrison at Colored Opinions. One error of fact, which does not change the larger point: Nader ran as an independent in 2004, Green candidate Cobb and Libertarian Badnarik actually were arrested at a presidential debate that year, but Nader did run on the Green ticket in 1996 and 2000. Excerpt from a [...]

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By Joseph Burgess at The Populist Party
Did you read or hear recent news reports that the Iraqi television newsman who heaved his shoes at George W. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad on December 14 is scheduled to go to trial on December 31, charged with assaulting a foreign leader?
Yep. A spokesman for the [...]

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In a post at Green Party Watch, Ronald Hardy reports on an attack on the Dignity, a small vessel carrying human rights activists to the Gaza strip. Included amongst the passengers is 2008 Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney.
The ship, carrying medical supplies, was rammed in international waters, and forced to port in Tyre, [...]

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