On Saturday, April 4, 2009 in New York City, United for Peace and Justice is organizing a “March on Wall Street.” A variety of third parties and major party pressure groups have endorsed the event.

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Green Party leaders in Illinois condemned legislative attempts to repeal the Illinois moratorium against new nuclear production. House Bill 875 and Senate Bill 2162 would delete the provision in state law prohibiting the construction of new nuclear facilities until the nuclear waste storage issue is resolved.

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The Green National Committee is currently voting to choose members of the Green Party’s Senatorial Campaign Committee and House Campaign Committee. This is a re-vote, occasioned by the failure to reach a quorum on an earlier vote. Both the Senatorial and the House votes have now reached the quorum requirement, so the only question remaining [...]

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Posted at http://www.constitutionparty.com/news.php?aid=909 Constitution Party 2008 Presidential Candidate, Chuck Baldwin, will be on the Dave Levine Show Tuesday, April 7 7:00-7:30p.m. Central http://www.blogtalkradio.com/PatriotsHeartNetwork

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From the Party for Socialism and Liberation: As LGBT people around the country await the California Supreme Court ruling on the legality of Proposition 8, around 40 activists set foot on a five-day march from San Francisco to Sacramento to call for its repeal and to build solidarity with other communities. Proposition 8 changed the [...]

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Press release posted at LP.org. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. WASHINGTON – Libertarian National Committee (LNC) Chair William Redpath released the following statement Friday concerning the passage of a $3.5 trillion budget by Congress last night: “Yesterday’s passage of a $3.5 trillion budget, stuffed full of wasteful and unconstitutional spending and funded by prosperity-killing tax [...]

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Matt Reichel – the Green Party candidate for Congress in the April 7th special election in Chicago, who has previously been covered here and here -participated in a short televised debate against his opponents on Wednesday night.  Both the Democrat and Republican who Reichel is competing against were there, on a 13-minute segment on a [...]

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Ballot Access News: California will hold a run-off special election to fill the vacant State Senate seat, 26th district, on May 19. The district is in Los Angeles County. The three candidates on the ballot will be Democrat Curren Price, Republican Nachum Schifren, and Peace & Freedom Party member (Cindy) Varela Henderson.

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A press release from the Libertarian Party of North Carolina Restaurant owners choked by own second-hand smoke RALEIGH (April 3) — Restaurant owners and their lobbyists are choking on the second-hand smoke wafting from the back rooms of the North Carolina General Assembly, said a Libertarian Party of North Carolina spokesman. “It’s ironic. They’re coughing [...]

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Posted by Donny Ferguson at LP.org. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) is sponsor of the “Pay for Performance Act,” a bill that gives the Treasury Secretary absolute power to confiscate “obscene salaries” from every employee of a private company that accepted bailout funds. Somewhere Hugo Chavez is kicking himself for not [...]

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Press release at LP.org. Posted to IPR by Paulie. NDIANAPOLIS – Indiana Senator Luke Kenley (R) and Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard (R) presented the State’s plan to bail out the Indianapolis Capital Improvement Board (CIB) today. Instead of asking the users of CIB properties in Indianapolis to step up and pay their fair share first, [...]

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Sponsored by the Green Party of Colorado,, Resolution 383 would provide for the election of party co-chairs by an online voting system during the annual national meeting. The resolution has been seen by some as a possible disincentive to attend the annual meeting in person, which may help explain the current 35 to 33 vote, [...]

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The Green National Committee is voting on a resolution opposing the death penalty. The proposal was sponsored by the California Green Party. Resolution 382 would put the Green Party of the United States on record opposing the death penalty. While the Green Party of the United States is already on record opposing the death penalty [...]

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Former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned an audience at the College of the Ozarks in Missouri that the election of 2012 would see a strong third-party movement unless the GOP “shapes up,” and ceases to be the “right wing party of big government.” Here’s an excerpt: “Remember, everything Obama’s doing, Bush started last [...]

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California Green nominee for Comptroller General Laura Wells appeared recently on Fox News’s program “Your World” addressing the question of tax fairness. The interview is below the fold. H/T to the Green Party of New York State for the link. A 2002 interview with Wells can be found at YouTube.

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