The Socialist Equality Party held a public conference at Wayne State University in Detroit this past Saturday, presenting its analysis of the current course of the automotive industry and United Auto Workers union, as well as its implications for workers: In the main report to the meeting, WSWS reporter and SEP member Jerry White began [...]

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Found at News Blaze The Green Party of California – noting the Democratic Party’s national platform does not support same sex marriage – is demanding that President-elect Obama un-invite pro-Prop 8 pastor Rick Warren to perform the invocation for the Obama inauguration. Further, Greens charged, it quite possibly was the mixed message sent from the [...]

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Posted on the Libertarian Party of Colorado blog: An investigation into the arrest of nearly 100 protesters on the first night of the Democratic National Convention revealed no “provable” police misconduct, the city’s Office of the Independent Monitor said today. Rocky Mountain News: No police misconduct found in arrest of DNC protesters Wow, who would [...]

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Posted in Ballot Access News On December 17, the 9th circuit denied a rehearing en banc in Alaskan Independence Party v State of Alaska, 07-35186. The issue was whether a political party’s freedom of association extends to controlling who can run in its primary. The original decision on October 6 sided with the state, but [...]

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Press release posted at LP.org Party Says Obama Following Missteps of Bush Administration America’s largest third-party is accusing Barack Obama of pursuing the same “hawkish” foreign policy of his predecessor George Bush. “What we hoped to see with the incoming Obama administration were plans for a total withdrawal from Afghanistan and Iraq,” says William Redpath, [...]

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Posted at Ballot Access News If you are concerned about Indiana ballot access, it is important to know that bills must be introduced only four session days after the legislature convenes on January 7. Indiana ballot access is among the worst in the nation. For the last three presidential elections, the presidential candidate who placed [...]

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Posted by Elizabeth Benjamin in The New York Daily News The never unopinionated radio personality Curtis Sliwa is unabashedly not a fan of the woman to whom he refers as “Princess Caroline,” and much prefers the idea of Ralph Nader as a replacement for Hillary Clinton in the US Senate. Sliwa interviewed Nader on the [...]

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From The Blog of LegalTimes A U.S. district judge has dismissed Ralph Nader’s latest attempt to prove he was the target of a conspiracy by the Kerry-Edwards campaign to keep him off the presidential ballot. Yes, the Kerry-Edwards campaign. In October 2007, as much of the country began turning its attention to a new and [...]

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From Ballot Access News: The Pennsylvania state elections office has released partial write-in totals from the November 2008 presidential election. The state office only tabulated write-ins for Hillary Clinton, Ron Paul, and Chuck Baldwin. Clinton received 4,724; Paul 3,527; Baldwin 986; others 8,180. Only 49 of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties reported any write-ins, which means the [...]

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http://www.lp.org/poll/are-democrats-less-hawkish-than-republicans

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Emailed by George Phillies to “undisclosed recipients” Is there a campaign here? For full data http://www.thedailyliberty.com/story/2008/12/22/104039/26 For the campaign, Barr 2008 raised a total of $1,361,178 and disbursed a total of $1,324,518. For October 16 to November 24 the Barr campaign raised $143,416. They spent $181,160. Unfortunately, in the same period, they also racked up [...]

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From the Hartford Courant, by way of Green Party Watch. Excerpt: When Jean de Smet was elected last year as Windham’s first selectman, she said she wanted to shake up the office by turning “town hall into a public service.” De Smet’s goal almost was overshadowed by her triumph. She was the first Green Party [...]

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http://lp-discuss.org/ About lp-discuss.org This is NOT an official site of the Libertarian Party. It was created by Susan Hogarth, and all inquires about it should be directed to her at hogarth@gmail.com. This site exists to discuss the content on the LP.org website. The general form is that an article/press release/blog entry from LP.org will be [...]

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Video thanks to deesigns at Green Party Watch.

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