Asa Gordon, a member of the DC Statehood Green Party, filed a lawsuit challenging the Electoral College asserting that the Mal-Apportionment Penalty clause of the 14th Amendment should be applied. The US District Court for the District Columbia has issued a ruling that, while dismissing the plaintiff for lack of standing, did not reject the validity of his arguments challenging the Electoral College.

[Read more →]

Report sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Michael Calvan RN. No changes have been made to the text.
Last week there was a meeting of Third Party activists in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The purpose of the meeting was to discuss and strategize on building an effective electoral resistance to the current pro-war, corporate corrupted two party system.
Activists invited and [...]

[Read more →]

Posted by Steve Kubby at ShadowCabinet.US and reposted to IPR by Paulie. Steve Kubby was the 2008 and 2000 runner up for the Libertarian Party VP nomination, the 1998 California Libertarian Party candidate for Governor, and a candidate for the 2008 Libertarian Presidential nomination. Disclosure: I worked on Kubby’s 2008 Presidential nomination campaign.

“Government doesn’t [...]

[Read more →]

Green Party of New York
http://www.gpny.org/
Contact:
Peter LaVenia chair2@gpny. org, 518-463-8653
Eric Jones, chair@gpny.org, 716-908-5226
The reform of the Rockefeller Drug Laws proposed during the NY State budget negotiations is a welcome sign in the abolition of these exceedingly unjust laws, but does not go far enough, according to the New York State Green Party, whose 1998 gubernatorial candidate [...]

[Read more →]

Posted at shadowcabinet.us and emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com. Reposted to IPR by Paulie.

Thomas L. Knapp
admin@shadowcabinet.us
ST. LOUIS, April 10 — Thomas L. Knapp, libertarian presidential candidate and creator of the “Libertarian Shadow Cabinet” project, announced the appointment of three new cabinet officials — and his intent to separate the shadow cabinet project from his presidential [...]

[Read more →]

Movie showing with panel discussion about the creation of a feminist party
The Feminist Initiative film and discussion
last in the series…
Women’s Herstory Across the Globe
The Feminist Initiative
Sunday, April 26 at 2pm
Cinema Arts Centre
www.cinemaartscentre.org
423 Park Avenue Huntington, NY
Guest Speakers:
Hedda Marcus, Professor of English, Women’s Studies and Multidisciplinary Studies at Nassau Community College
Kimberly Wilder, writer at Independent Political [...]

[Read more →]

Posted by Austin Petersen at LP blog. Reposted to IPR by Paulie.

    Citizens across America rejoiced on hearing the news that the income tax is voluntary. We have it straight from the mouth of one of our elected representatives. Senator Harry Reid in this short clip describes our tax system as a voluntary system. [...]

[Read more →]

Posted by Gregg Jocoy at Green Party Watch. Reposted to IPR by Paulie.

Green Party National Political Director Brent McMillan sent Green Party Watch a full range of reports on election day results.
Bruce Samuels won his race for Oak Park (IL) Village Library Board. He finished first of five candidates [...]

[Read more →]

http://www.lp.org/poll/which-libertarian-principle-most-helps-your-family:
Which Libertarian principle most helps your family?
-Making health care more affordable and accessible by repealing anti-competition regulations promoted by health care lobbyists
-Improving your child’s school by restoring local control, enacting school choice and getting bureaucrats out of education
-Creating good jobs for all Americans by giving employers tax and regulatory relief
-Cutting your taxes, while also reducing [...]

[Read more →]

Posted by Gregg Jocoy at Green Party Watch. Reposted to IPR by Paulie.

In this video, posted to YouTube by Craig Seeman, Rosa Clemente indicates that she may seek elected office in New York. Thanks to Lou Novak for the link.

[Read more →]

Email from LPHQ:

Dear Paul,
Somewhere, Barack Obama is smiling – and your freedoms are in greater danger now than perhaps at any other point in our nation’s history.
You see, a new national poll finds only 53% of Americans say capitalism is better than socialism.
Another 27% aren’t sure which one is better. Really.
And it gets even [...]

[Read more →]

Lee Scott Laugenour, an active member of the Green-Rainbow Party, will be on the ballot on May 11 in the Lenox, Massachusetts race for town select board.  The Green-Rainbow Party is the Massachusetts affiliate of the national Green Party.  Lenox is a town in Berkshire County with a population of over 5,000.
The Berkshire Eagle offers [...]

[Read more →]

The Green Party of the United States has endorsed International Seeds Day on April 26, which will mark the fifth anniversary of the passage and signing of Order 81 by Paul Bremer, administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. Order 81 prohibits Iraqi farmers from reusing seeds harvested from new varieties introduced in Iraq and registered under the law. Order 81 has made farmers in Iraq — who have planted since 7000 BCE — dependent on companies like Monsanto.

[Read more →]

In America, it is still possible to win for Governor as an independent. The list of independent Governors includes: Angus King for Maine, Walter Hickel for Alaska, Jesse Ventura for Minnesota, and Lowell Weicker for Connecticut. Now, former United States Senator Lincoln Chafee, and independent, has filed papers to run for Governor of Rhode Island.

[Read more →]