Posted by Tom Knapp at Kn@ppster. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. It should have been obvious to me that using KN@PPSTER as a presidential campaign site wasn’t going to work, even from the start. That became more clear to me when I began planning campaign events and had to think about how attendees at those [...]

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Posted in Ballot Access News. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. Most states routinely decide which political parties are qualified, within days of tabulating their official election returns. But in recent decades, the New Mexico Secretary of State has developed a habit of not declaring which parties are qualified until months after the election. The employee [...]

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On Saturday, April 18, Reverend Billy Talen — a self-proclaimed reverend, performance artist and activist — will open his campaign office in his bid for Mayor of New York City. On April 16th, a story about Talen and his run for office appeared in the Wall Street Journal.

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From a recent press release: Las Vegas, NV-April 16, 2009– 2008 Libertarian Vice Presidential candidate Wayne Allyn Root will keynote the Georgia LP State Convention on Saturday April 18th in Atlanta. The convention theme is: “Georgia Libertarians: Revolutionaries from 1775 to 2009!” That’s the perfect theme for a keynote speaker whose newest book will be released on [...]

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The NYC Local of the Socialist Party lands mainstream media coverage: a story and a photo in The NY Post.

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Elizabeth May, Green Party of Canada Leader, is launching her book, “Losing Confidence: Power, Politics and the Crisis in Canadian Democracy.”

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The Green Party of Pennsylvania calls on a “no” vote on the nomination of John Hanger to Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection. John Hanger has made comments which would tend to support drilling/extraction of natural gas in the Marcellus Shale.

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Ralph Nader and Ed Begley Jr. appeared at Livability Summit Thursday, hosted by Valley Forward. They delivered a message of optimism and struggle, in the tough times we face today. Here’s an excerpt: Each put a hopeful front on a movement that both have been involved in for decades, but said there are plenty of [...]

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From The Raw Story by David Edwards and John Byrne: As conservatives coalesce in nationwide protests against rising taxes, government spending and what they call the “bailout mentality” of President Barack Obama’s Administration, the ship appears to have sprung a leak. Speaking on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow show Tuesday evening, Rep. Ron Paul’s (R-TX) media coordinator [...]

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Pennsylvania Supreme Court agrees to hear Nader re-appeal on 2004 fees related to petition challenges.

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Green Party leaders called US participation in the Durban Review Conference an imperative and called on President Obama to drop earlier plans to avoid the antiracism conference. The Durban Review Conference (’Durban 2′), an international summit to review progress in the fight against racism since the first meeting in 2001 in Durban, South Africa, will [...]

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White House attacks gun rights, sparks trade war as Obama leaves for Latin American trip WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama leaves today for a trip to meet with Latin American leaders, and America’s third largest party urges him to use the occasion to open up markets to American products, instead of continuing to use foreign [...]

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THE TEA PARTY’S OVER by Mary Starrett Constitution Party Communications Director Posted at http://www.constitutionparty.com/news.php?aid=930 Reposted to IPR by Paulie April 15th protests throughout the country showed us that furious Americans can and did mobilize against government tyranny. Now what? For many at Tea Parties throughout the U.S. that marked the end of their activism. They [...]

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H/T Austin Petersen via facebook -Paulie

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On Saturday, April 18th, at 1 PM Reverend Billy will be interviewed on our brand new blogtalkradio channel.  Yours truly (Ross Levin) will be conducting the interview.  Click here to listen. If you have a question you would like me to ask the Reverend, please say so in the comments. Reverend Billy Talen, of the [...]

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York University in Canada will hold a Black Voices Conference, with key note speaker Cynthia McKinney, 2008 Green Party candidate for President of the United States, and former Congresswoman from Georgia.

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An opinion piece written by Alan Wallace. An excerpt:

Around the time of the election of ’96, republicans who believed in the ideals in the “contract” began to realize that their party had deserted them in favor of holding onto their newly rediscovered power. Some republicans already discovered that the Libertarian Party was very close to their “contract” ideals especially in economics and were telling their republican friends about this third party that espoused some of the same ideals that were important to them.

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2008 Green Party Vice Presidential Candidate Rosa Clemente comments on Obama’s strategy regarding Cuba and the travel ban. Clemente is quoted as saying, “It’s really for him [Obama] to shore up the vote of the right wing Cuban Lobby in Miami.”

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Posted at http://www.constitutionparty.com/news.php?aid=928. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. 2nd Report in Recent Weeks Warns of Violence by “Right Wing Extremists” Lancaster, PA: The US Department of Homeland Security has issued a report warning law enforcement to pay close attention to “right wing extremists.” The DHS report titled Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling [...]

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Over at http://www.bostontea.us/, Jim Davidson writes It is with a heavy heart that I report that one of our vice presidential candidates in 2008, Marilyn Chambers, has passed away. Her story here. Today we have 1,339 members on this site. We have 1,297 members of our largest Facebook group. Please ask your friends and family [...]

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