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Cynthia McKinney message on the economy, Haiti, etc.

April 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Cynthia McKinney, traveling in Haiti, releases a message titled, “The Economy, From Soros and Greenspan to Napoleon’s Waterloo, And a Tip of the Hat to Haiti, Too”

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Tags: Green Party

Former Green candidate in special election reflects on his experience

April 20th, 2009 · 28 Comments

Matt Reichel, the Green Party candidate in the special congressional election in Illinois on April 7th, published a diary on OpEdNews.com in which he reviews his experience during the brief special election season and the outcome.  Reichel was a Democrat until he had to qualify for the ballot, when he was “recruited” by the Green [...]

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Constitution Party Petitioning in At Least Two States for 2010

April 20th, 2009 · 9 Comments

Ballot Access News reports: The Constitution Party is petitioning for status as a qualified party for 2010 in both Wyoming and Arizona. The Wyoming drive, which could not legally start until April 1, 2009, already has 250 volunteer signatures.

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Minnesota Greens Protest Senate Vote to End State Ban on Nuclear Plants

April 20th, 2009 · 25 Comments

Posted at http://www.mngreens.org/node/224. H/T Green Party Watch; reposted to IPR by Paulie. The Green Party of Minnesota is outraged at the sudden vote on April 2 by which the state Senate seeks to bypass public debate and end the ban on licensing new nuclear reactors. The measure, already defeated in one House committee, was attached [...]

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Ron Paul at Clear Lake, TX TEA Party

April 20th, 2009 · 14 Comments

Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) was the presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party in 1988, and appeared on the 2008 general election presidential ballot as a Taxpayers and Constitution Party in Louisiana and Montana, in addition to running in the Republican primary. He is a life member of the Libertarian Party, and has spoken at numerous [...]

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Tags: Constitution Party · Libertarian Party · Right-wing minor parties

Cindy Sheehan set to reveal her strategy and/or new third party next week

April 20th, 2009 · 62 Comments

Cindy Sheehan, a peace activist who ran for Congress against Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in 2008, is publishing an eBooklet next week which will either call for a new, third party and/or reject or our current system entirely. The eBooklet is titled, “Myth America: 10 Greatest Myths of the Robber Class and the Case for Revolution.”

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Tags: Independents · Socialist/left parties