Larry Holmes and Monica Moorehead of the Workers World Party met with Mumia Abu-Jamal at the State Correctional Institution-Greene Supermax prison in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, last week, the Workers World website reports. Abu-Jamal was convicted in 1982 of the killing of a Philadelphia police officer in December 1981 in a case that remains controversial. Workers World [...]
Entries from September 2009
Former Workers World presidential candidates meet with Abu-Jamal
September 18th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Socialist/left parties
Constitution Party: Groups in “Most Surveilled City” Say “No Spy Cameras!”
September 16th, 2009 · 34 Comments
From CP press release archive, first paragraph slightly rewritten: The Constitution Party has joined a massive effort to stop the country’s largest (per capita) “spy cam” program in this city of 55,000. A protest [was held on] Saturday, August 29th [See here]. “These cameras must come down. Social engineering and surveillance cannot be allowed to [...]
Tags: Constitution Party
Angry Australian Sex Party Features in Local, National & International Magazines
September 16th, 2009 · 9 Comments
From the latest email update from the ASP: Sex Party Angry Over Liberal’s Deceits Fiona Patten….angry that the Lib’s future Housing Minister is making their porn policies. Why is the Liberal Party’s Shadow Minister for Housing making statements and preparing legislation on censorship while his colleague, the Shadow Attorney General, remains silent? This is an [...]
Tags: Third parties, general
Elected Libertarian leads repeal of anti-homosexual law in Missouri
September 16th, 2009 · 17 Comments
From LP blog: From Doug Burlison, Libertarian city councilmember in Springfield, Missouri: On September 8, at my urging, our City Council (of which I am a member) repealed a local ordinance that prohibited homosexuals from “soliciting” each other. In other words, it was O.K. to put the “heterosexual moves” on a member of the opposite [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
PSL: U.S. arms sales soar during capitalist economic downturn
September 16th, 2009 · 9 Comments
Posted at PSLweb.org: By: Sean Pavey War profiteering is a criminal enterprise According to a recently released Congressional Research Service report, the United States has firmly established itself as the home of the most successful military arms dealers in the world. While the worldwide capitalist economic crisis has led to a significant drop in profits [...]
Tags: Socialist/left parties
Recent Wayne Root Media Appearances
September 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Media appearances for Sep 4 – 14 of Wayne Root, 2008 Libertarian Party VP nominee. Links below go to online streams of the appearances. FOX News- “Fox & Friends” FOX News- “Strategy Room” “The Lou Dobbs Radio Show” Nationally syndicated “The Jerry Doyle Show” Nationally Syndicated “The Jim Bohannon Show” Nationally syndicated Sirius Patriot Radio [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
Constitution Party Condemns Possible Mandatory Vaccination
September 16th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Posted at constitutionparty.com: Lancaster, PA: Mandatory injections of untested, potentially toxic (H1N1) “swine flu” vaccine of American citizens is strongly condemned by the Constitution Party. The fastest-growing third party joined with a rapidly expanding network of liberty-minded Americans committed to protecting individual civil liberties and Constitutional guarantees of freedom to life and liberty as defined [...]
Tags: Constitution Party
Ohio Green Dennis Spisak’s Petitions Certified, on the ballot in November
September 16th, 2009 · No Comments
Posted by Dennis Spisak at Green Party Watch: Ohio’s Dennis Spisak’s Petitions Certified, on the ballot in November Dennis Spisak, one of the first Greens elected in Ohio back in 2005, has had his petitions certified by the Mahoning County Board of Elections and will seek re-election to the Struthers City Schools Board of Education [...]
Tags: Green Party
Wayne Root on the Lou Dobbs Show, 9/10/09
September 16th, 2009 · 283 Comments
Tags: Libertarian Party
NY: Critique of third party fusion strategy
September 16th, 2009 · 19 Comments
In the Manhattan District Attorney race, Richard Aborn has lost the Democratic Party primary. As a result, Aborn says that he will support the Democratic nominee for DA (even though Aborn is on the ballot as the Working Families Party candidate.) Ian Wilder, blogger and Green Party member, comments.
Tags: Green Party · Socialist/left parties · Third parties, general
New York Libertarian Ballot Access Case Set for October 7
September 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Ballot Access News reports: The Suffolk County, New York Libertarian Party candidates for county offices will be heard in state court on October 7, in their fight to show that the Suffolk County Board of Elections should not have removed them from the ballot. They are Steve Kosin for Sheriff, Christopher Garvey for District Attorney, [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
Modern Whig Party Chair Michael Lebowitz Joins Kokesh for Congress Team
September 15th, 2009 · 38 Comments
Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com. Adam Kokesh is an antiwar veteran and “Ron Paul Republican” with significant alternative party and independent support. Michael Lebowitz is the chair of the Modern Whig Party. Contact: Tina Richards (505) 470-1917 Tina@KokeshforCongress.com Nationally Renowned Attorney Joins Kokesh for Congress Team WASHINGTON, D.C., SEPTEMBER 14, 2009 – The Kokesh for Congress Campaign [...]
Tags: Constitution Party · Independents · Libertarian Party · Non-left/right parties
John R. Rarick Dies
September 15th, 2009 · 19 Comments
Posted in Ballot Access News: On September 14, former Congressman John R. Rarick died in St. Francisville, Louisiana, at the age of 85. He had been the American Independent Party’s presidential candidate in 1980. He had served in Congress as a Democrat from Louisiana between 1967 and 1975. He endorsed George Wallace for President in [...]
Tags: Right-wing minor parties
Liberty for America September Issue contents
September 15th, 2009 · No Comments
Email from George Phillies: Greetings from Liberty for America — Independent Libertarian Joe Kennedy for Senate — Liberty for Maine Gets Press — Your Monthly Step for Liberty-Forming a Local Group — Upon Strategic Planning — Ferguson leaves LNC Staff — Where Our Money Went — the LNC Book Review: The Conscience of a Libertarian [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
Ballot Access News: Hearing Set in Unity ‘08 Case in U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit
September 15th, 2009 · No Comments
Posted in Ballot Access News: The U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, will hear Unity08 v Federal Election Commission on October 15, 2009, at 9:30 a.m. The panel consists of Judges Douglas H. Ginsburg, Karen Henderson, and Stephen Williams. The issue is whether the FEC was correct when it told Unity ‘08 in 2006 that [...]
Tags: Non-left/right parties
Libertarian Party Monday Message: Libertarians march in 9/12 protest
September 15th, 2009 · 12 Comments
Posted at LP blog: Dear Friend of Liberty, Several LP headquarters interns and staffers marched in the big 9/12 DC protest on Saturday. We carried a sign pointing out that Republicans are to blame for oversized government, not just Democrats. Take a look at our blog post. LP volunteer intern Krista Zerby commented, "It was [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
International Newspaper Covers Frances Villar Campaign for New York City Mayor
September 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Ballot Access News reports: The September 14 U.S. edition of Metro has this story about Frances Villar’s campaign for Mayor of New York city. Villar is the candidate of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Metro is an international daily newspaper published in 100 cities in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In the U.S. it [...]
Tags: Socialist/left parties
Tom Knapp: ‘What individuals should do’
September 15th, 2009 · 25 Comments
Posted by Tom Knapp at Kn@ppster: [Note: This is part of an informal "what X should do" series about ObamaCare; I've previously posted on "what President Obama should do" and "what the insurance companies should do"] To quote Nancy Reagan, “just say no”. Specifically, just say no to this: [U]nder my plan, individuals will be [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
Open Letter to Greens across the country from Robert Gumbs
September 15th, 2009 · 11 Comments
Posted at Greens for Greens: [From the Green Party Black Caucus Journal] Robert “Bob” Gumbs, veteran and Green Party candidate for the 15th Congressional District in the US House (Charles Rangel’s seat) has been an active member of the Green Party of New York for 5 years . Bob is the newly elected GP Black [...]
Tags: Green Party
Bob Barr: Going abroad? Leave the laptop
September 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment
by Bob Barr as published in The Atlanta Journal Constitution Planning a trip abroad? If so, you might want to reconsider taking your laptop or BlackBerry with you. If you do, and if you then want to bring it back to the U.S., keep in mind Uncle Sam’s agents are authorized to inspect and detain [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
