Socialist Webzine is carrying tweets from the G20 People’s Summit in anticipation of the G20 in Pittsburgh, 24-25 September. Here are the tweets which are up at their website now. More will be added later at the original article on Socialist Webzine (link above), but not this one. @lacymacauley – “My hometown in Mexico was [...]

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Daryl Brooks and Charles Green, two newcomers to the Libertarian Party, have announced their candidacy for New Jersey’s 15th Assembly District. They are challenging the Democratic incumbents, and run on a platform of education and prison reform. You can read the full article here. Source: The Trentonian.

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: At a meeting in St Paul, the recently formed Minnesota Open Progressives endorsed Maplewood Mayor Diane Longrie in her bid for re-election. Mayor Longrie sat with the MN-OP and discussed her goals of increased citizen participation and empowerment, honesty, transparency and maintaining respectful relations with others, even when they disagree. She also [...]

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By Steve Kubby ShadowCabinet.US Phillip Garrido has been charged with kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991, when she was 11, and raping her over the course of years. Dugard was kept hidden for 18 years in a backyard compound, despite a 2006 call a neighbor made to 911, reporting that women and children were living [...]

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Democracy Now!: As the United States prepares to host the Group of Twenty nations summit in Pittsburgh later this week, we speak with longtime consumer advocate, corporate critic, author and presidential candidate Ralph Nader. Nader discusses Congress’s failure to pass any meaningful financial reform on Wall Street over the past year and critiques Obama’s healthcare [...]

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Posted by Thomas Knapp at Center for a Stateless Society: According to Joseph Cirincione of the Ploughshares Fund — addressing the subject of missile defense on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show Thursday — “President Bush was promoting a technology that doesn’t work against a threat that doesn’t exist.” The policy in question was a plan to [...]

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Ballot Access News reports: The Green Party of Canada does well in elections, but has never elected anyone to the Canadian Parliament. On September 19, the party nominated its national leader, Elizabeth May, to run in the next national election from the British Columbia district known as Saanich-Gulf Islands. In the last election, May ran [...]

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Posted at LP.org: Excerpt from the Brownsville Herald: Several other political parties exist, although most of them are single-issue groups like the Green Party, America First Party and the U.S. Marijuana Party. Some, however, do offer comprehensive philosophies that can be applied to all aspects of life and government. The largest of these is the [...]

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A recent upsurge in violent crimes in Richmond, California has citizens looking to the local government and its leaders for solutions. Mayor Gayle McLaughlin, a Green who has a constituency larger than any other elected official from her party in the country, is trying to address those concerns.

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Ballot access expert Richard Winger comments: “In June 2010, California voters will be voting on a ballot measure to revise elections for Congress and state office. The measure would provide that all candidates run on a single primary ballot, and all voters get the same primary ballot. Then, only the two candidates who received the most votes in the primary could be on the November ballot…it is a bad idea. In practice, it would eliminate minor party and independent candidates from the November ballot.”

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A new poll by the Republican firm Neighborhood Research finds independent Chris Daggett at eight percent in the New Jersey gubernatorial race. The firm’s August poll had Daggett at six percent. In August, 56 percent of respondents said they had never heard of Daggett; in the new poll, conducted September 14-17, that number is down [...]

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Socialist Workers Party candidates in New York City held a campaign rally on health care, the economy, and foreign policy issues on September 11, The Militant reports. Mayoral candidate Dan Fein “spoke about why the economic depression is not ending but just beginning” and Manhattan borough president candidate Tom Baumann “spoke out against Washington’s wars [...]

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The Kerrville Daily Times of Texas reports, “Libertarian Party of Texas officials, currently on a three-month, 24-city recruitment tour,” visited Kerrville on Saturday “to garner local candidates and support prior to the 2010 elections.” The state LP is running a “four-part action plan known as Project GROW (gather, recruit, organize, win), meant to expand the [...]

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Posted at GoldAmericaGroup. Forwarder forwards from LibertyForAmerica Magazine: The LNC “August” filing, covering its expenditures in July, show for the month that the LNC raised $75,461, bringing its total for the year to $632,319. For the same month, the LNC spent $84,192, giving it a total of $609,124 in spending for the year. Cash on [...]

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By Bob Barr Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Last Wednesday, September 9th, the US Senate moved off the front burner issues such as record deficits, rising American casualties in Afghanistan, and the Obama Administration’s plan to take control of America’s health care. These matters were cast aside temporarily in favor of taking up and passing the “Travel Promotion [...]

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By: Enrique Vasquez PSLweb.org As Pakistan’s government continues its full-scale offensive in the northwest of the country, there have been reports of hundreds of bodies dumped on the streets. Bodies have been found with torture marks and a bullet to the neck or head. Aftab Ahmed Sherpao, a senior politician from the Swat Valley region [...]

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Posted at RootForAmerica.com: “Wayne Allyn Root (WAR) means business. In “The Conscience of a Libertarian,” he is declaring WAR on big government, big spending, big taxes, big unions, big business, arrogant career politicians, lawyers, lobbyists, and the media elite. What a refreshing change to read the words and ideas of a small businessman, homeschool dad, [...]

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Socialist Webzine by Rev. John Tamilio III, Ph.D. Candidate The nonprofit, nonpartisan religious organization Sojourners, founded by Jim Wallis (of God’s Politics fame), circulated a bumper sticker and hosted an on-line petition during the 2004 campaign under the mantra God is not a Republican…or a Democrat. That’s true. God may be a Socialist, though — [...]

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As previously reported at IPR, Joe Kennedy was looking at running for US Senate in Massachusetts, and he has now declared: My name is Joe Kennedy and I am running as an Independent to fill the open Senate seat for the State of Massachusetts in the special election. I have created this site to inform [...]

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Posted at Socialist Webzine: from WikipediaUpton Sinclair, Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968), was a Pulitzer Prize-winning prolific American author who wrote over 90 books in many genres. He achieved considerable popularity in the first half of the 20th century, gaining particular fame for his 1906 muckraking novel The Jungle. The book dealt [...]

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