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Green Pages roundup, Winter 2009

February 10th, 2009 · 13 Comments

In light of the recent digitization of the Green Party’s “national newspaper” the Green Pages, here is a roundup of some of the most notable* pieces in the Winter 2009 issue:

In the Features section, The Fight for Self-Government in Topsham, John Rensenbrink looks back at a campaign he participated in in his town of Topsham, [...]

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Tags: Green Party · Third parties, general

Libertarian Party blog on ’stimulus’: $9.7 trillion and rising, federal control of doctor decisions, and history of failure

February 10th, 2009 · 16 Comments

Note from Paulie: some people have complained about the reposting of Libertarian Party blog posts knocking other reporting off the front page. This has become more of an issue as the pace at LP.org has picked up since Donny Ferguson has taken over from Andrew Davis. At the same time, other people have asked me [...]

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Tags: Libertarian Party

Green Party’s Green Pages now online

February 10th, 2009 · 8 Comments

Posted at Green Party Watch by Ronald Hardy. Reposted to IPR by Paulie.

The GPUS Newspaper Green Pages has moved to the GP Server and articles from the Winter issue are now online.
Green Pages Home
Winter 2009 Features:

Giving Bush the Boot! – Protesters hurl shoes on the Presidents last day
When natural gas drilling comes to your [...]

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Tags: Green Party

Eric Sundwall formally announces for CD-20 in New York

February 10th, 2009 · 17 Comments

Eric Sundwall, the chairman of the New York Libertarian Party, has formally announced his intention to run in the special election to replace Kirsten Gillibrand in CD-20. Sundwall said in the announcement:
We will have 12 days to collect over 3500 signatures to get on the ballot. We accept this challenge because the people of the [...]

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Tags: Libertarian Party · Non-left/right parties · Right-wing minor parties

Socialist Webzine: Socialists confront the economic crisis

February 10th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Posted at The Socialist Webzine. Reposted to IPR by Paulie.

Statement of the SP-USA National Committee
The current financial crisis is not just a temporary setback, nor is it caused primarily by the lack of regulation in the financial sector. The collapse of the financial sector is indicative of the total failure of the capitalist economy.
In [...]

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Tags: Socialist/left parties

Doug Stanhope interviewed by Iranian Press TV

February 10th, 2009 · 4 Comments

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=82054&sectionid=3510302
By Luke Manzarpour, Press TV, Tehran
Comic and writer Doug Stanhope’s ‘not for everyone’ take on contemporary America has been a voice of manic reason amid drab observations and mechanical feel-good entertainment -– an anomaly in the culture industry conveyer belt of distraction –- for nearly twenty years.
Having dropped his own run for presidency in a [...]

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Tags: Libertarian Party

Australian Sex Party: ‘Where you come first’

February 10th, 2009 · 13 Comments

February 2009’s Australian Sex Party News

2009 is already set to be a very interesting year for all of us. A new progressive President in the US, a global financial crisis and if southern Australia’s recent scorching temperatures are anything to go by, a global climate crisis.
All of which will affect many of the Sex Party’s [...]

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Tags: Uncategorized

Libertarian Party blog: Congression Budget Office reports the current economic slump will end sometime around mid-2009

February 10th, 2009 · 5 Comments

Posted by Donny Ferguson at LP.org.
Reposted to IPR by Paulie.

The non-partisan Congression Budget Office reports the current economic slump will end sometime around mid-2009.
Keep in mind Obama himself admits any effect he thinks his government expansion will have on the economy won’t take place until 2010 — well after the slump will end anyway.
Between [...]

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Tags: Libertarian Party