With a collective of black leaders and journalists, 2008 Green Party candidate Cynthia McKinney is launching a new organization called “Dignity” which is an attempt to awaken the black body politic. The organization is non-partisan, and is a response to the fact of US torture abroad, as well as the experience of black and brown people in the United States who have experienced being beaten, raped, sodomized and even murdered by “terroristic agents of the state.”

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According to PolitickerNJ, ten “independents” – meaning an independent or a minor party candidate under New Jersey state law – have filed to run in the race for New Jersey governor.  The deadline to file was yesterday, as were the primaries for the Democratic and Republican Parties.  The independent and minor party candidates are: former [...]

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2008 Libertarian Party vice-presidential nominee Wayne Root blogged today against the federal takeover of General Motors; excerpts below.  Separately, Root announced that the first guests on his new talk radio show will Ron Paul and Judge Andrew Napolitano of FOX News Channel.

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This Tuesday, Ralph Nader appeared on the nationally broadcasted television and radio show Democracy Now!, hosted by Amy Goodman.  He appeared alongside Professor Harley Shaiken to discuss the bankruptcy of General Motors, and he briefly discussed his accusations of bribery against Terry McAuliffe, the leading candidate in the upcoming Democratic primary for governor of Virginia.  [...]

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Posted by Austin Petersen yesterday on the Libertarian Party blog:

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2008 Libertarian candidate for President Bob Barr supports the death penalty. Though, Barr has released an Op-Ed piece about the need to give Troy Davis of Georgia a new trial. Bob Barr reflects on how legislation he supported as a Republican Congressperson may have affected this case.

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Newsmax reports that 2008 Libertarian Party vice-presidential nominee Wayne Root is launching a libertarian radio show on June 6.  The show will debut on stations in “the three largest markets, New York (WNYM), Los Angeles (KABC) and Chicago (WIND).”  Article excerpt: The GOP mainstream today, Root asserts, is fiscally conservative and socially conservative, while Root [...]

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Former presidential candidate Ralph Nader has issued a press release on the occasion of today’s General Motors bankruptcy filing, scolding Congress and the “secretive, unaccountable, Wall Street-minded government task force” whose judgment it deferred to as the architects of needless hardship for thousands of GM stockholders, workers and consumers. Calling the proposed reorganization a “complex [...]

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