In a March 20 article at ChuckBaldwinLive.com, 2008 Constitution Party Presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin writes, in part, It seems that most everyone focuses his or her attention on what is happening in Washington, D.C. People don’t seem to get excited about politics until a national election rolls around or unless the President makes some startling [...]

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Article by Bob Maschi at http://peaceandfreedom.org reposted to IPR by Paulie. A ‘conspiracy’ is a bad thing. It can be, depending on who is actually involved, seditious, evil, treasonous, fraudulent and, perhaps least of all, illegal. It implies a well-coordinated plot to manipulate circumstances for the betterment of an elite few while victimizing the innocent. [...]

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Posted at The Socialist Webzine. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. Socialist Party USA members took part in two mobilizations on Wall Street to protest against the financial crisis and the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thousands participated in these events as popular anger over capitalism’s endless cycles of economic crisis and war continues to [...]

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As of this writing, the fundraising ticker at LP.org shows $104,740 has been raised towards the 2009 goal of $200,900 from online donations. -paulie

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Ballot Access News reports: According to an article in the New York Daily News of April 11, Mayor Mike Bloomberg has now secured the support of the county chair of the Bronx Borough Republican Party. New York election laws permit an independent (or a member of another party) to run in a party primary for [...]

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By Ralph Nader Nader.org Where were the giant accounting firms, the CPAs, and the rest of the accounting profession while the Wall Street towers of fraud, deception and cover-ups were fracturing our economy, looting and draining trillions of dollars of other peoples’ money? This is the licensed profession that is paid to exercise independent judgment [...]

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Posted at LP.org by Donny Ferguson. Reposted to IPR by Paulie. The Obama administration, convinced that lightbulbs and other uses of energy are destroying the planet, is considering imposing $646 billion in new "light switch" taxes on Americans to drive up utility bills and force people to use less electricity.  The American Council for Capital [...]

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The Examiner published an op-ed piece by Jason Pye titled “So you want a third party?”. Pye addresses: Newt Gingrich’s recent prediction that a third party may arise; public opinion about third parties; and ballot hurdles that third parties face.

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HB 2981 , which earlier passed the WV House, cuts the number of signatures from to 2% to 1% of the number of voters who voted for a given office in the previous election to get someone on the ballot for that office in an upcoming election. The State Senate passed an equivalent bill today, [...]

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Richard Winger of Ballot Access News has written an article expressing his dismay at an op-ed piece written by a Republican party official in South Carolina, who advocates for even tougher petitioning requirements for independent candidates.

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(HOUSTON) Jeff Daiell, District 13 representative on the State Libertarian Executive Committee of Texas (SLECT), will address a Government class at Wharton County Junior College on Monday, April 13th, which is Thomas Jefferson’s birthday. The 10 AM class will hear “Respecting the Rights of Individuals” , a general introduction to Libertarianism. The class meets in [...]

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A political writer gives Green Party elected official Rep. Richard Carroll of the Arkansas Legislature a “Bubba Award.”

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Guess Jeans co-founder Georges Marciano is planning a bid for governor of California.

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On Sunday, April 19th, as part of the Left Forum 2009, the NYC local of Socialist Party USA will hold a panel, “Not our war: Afghanistan and the Challenges for the Global Peace Movement”. The Chair of the panel will be Kristin Schall, with panelists: Helmuth Markov, David McReynolds and Jonas Sjostedt.

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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.

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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