Via email by Steve H. to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Libertarian Nick Taiber won his run-off election for Cedar Falls, Iowa (pop: 36,000) City Council At-Large in a landslide 65%-35%. Taiber, a 32 year old business consultant, won the most votes with 46% and 11 of 15 precincts in the November election but fell short of the majority [...]

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In Illinois, the Democratic-controlled legislature allowed a November 30th deadline to pass on Civil Union legislation, with no action except for postponing the deadline. In New York, the NY State Senate finally allowed same-sex marriage to come for a vote, and then voted it down. Included is commentary from Patrick Kelly, a Green Party member from Illinois, and from Kimberly Wilder, a green activist from New York State.

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Webcartoonist and activist Nicholas Ivan Ladendorf pits his wit against big party dollars. Nicholas Ivan Ladendorf isn’t your typical comic book artist. “I’m using Op-Ed style comics to reach voters” explains Ladendorf who is running as a Progressive in the race for the house seat for Missouri’s 7th district. The medium allows [...]

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Since December 2008, IPR has been able to provide live broadcasts of the last three LNC meetings. At this time, I have not heard back from anyone who can make a laptop with webcam (or a laptop and a regular videocamera that they will have there and know how to run through it) available for [...]

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San Francisco, California, December 4, 2009. Rob Power today announced his candidacy for Libertarian National Committee Secretary. “The time is right for us Libertarians to adopt a new strategy,” Mr. Power said. “Our Party is unique in its longstanding rejection of perpetual war, central planning, and government favoring certain classes of individuals over others. After [...]

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Reported in Ballot Access News: Because Ohio has no valid law in place on how a group becomes a qualified party, and because no bill to create a valid law is close to passing, the Ohio Secretary of State will leave the Constitution, Green, Libertarian, and Socialist Parties on the ballot for the 2010 election. [...]

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Two recent public opinion polls from Arkansas ahead of the US Senate election in 2010 indicate a tight race between incumbent Democrat Blanche Lincoln and her potential Republican rivals (see Rasmussen and Daily Kos).  However, Arkansas’s independents may choose to support Trevor Drown, a former Green Beret who formed an exploratory committee and announced his [...]

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Posted at Baltimore City Green Party: The Baltimore City Green Party thanks the jury for their service in Mayor Sheila Dixon’s trial and hopes that despite Tuesday’s embezzlement conviction the people and government of the city of Baltimore can move forward and work to build a truly sustainable, ethical, and economically-just city for all its [...]

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The Obama War Plan: A Recipe for Disaster! How Obama Uses the War in Afghanistan as Just Another “Opportunity” to Expand Government and Destroy Capitalism. A Libertarian-Conservative View of the War in Afghanistan That May Surprise You. By Wayne Allyn Root, Author The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gambling [...]

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Forwarded by the DC Statehood Green Party. End US Wars is a nonpartisan coalition. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE End US Wars http://www.enduswars.org “No You Can’t!” Rally at the White House on December 12 Unity among Peace Movement Groups against Obama War Escalation — Warning of Reprisals to Troop Surge WHEN: Saturday, Dec. 12, 11 am to [...]

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As reported in the Philadelphia Inquirer: John Famularo, 70, a Libertarian force By Sally A. Downey Inquirer Staff Writer John D. Famularo, 70, of Center City, a computer consultant and leader in the Libertarian Party, died of complications from multiple myeloma Monday at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Mr. Famularo was secretary of the National Libertarian [...]

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By Ralph Nader Nader.org Misusing professional cadets at West Point as a political prop, President Barack Obama delivered his speech on the Afghanistan war forcefully but with fearful undertones. He chose to escalate this undeclared war with at least 30,000 more soldiers plus an even larger number of corporate contractors. He chose the path the [...]

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Cynthia McKinney writes, “…there is deep disquiet today within the ranks of the President’s own base in the Democratic Party, with independents, and with middle-of-the-roaders called “swing” voters. In unprecedented numbers, voters in the United States of all previous political persuasions went to the polls and invested their dreams and, most importantly, their votes in the “hope” and “change” promised by the Obama campaign…War-weary voters in this country are committed to peace.”

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Posted at LP.org: WASHINGTON – The Libertarian Party (LP) today expressed its opposition to the Afghanistan war plans announced by President Barack Obama last night. Wes Benedict, Executive Director of the LP, said, "Rush Limbaugh should buy Obama a nice cigar. The liberal president has done exactly what the conservative leader wanted: escalate the war." [...]

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Posted by Juan Carlos Hidalgo cato-at-liberty.org: A new poll published today by Costa Rica’s daily La Nación shows that Libertarian presidential candidate Otto Guevara has 30% of support among likely voters, trailing the candidate of the incumbent social democrat party Laura Chinchilla, who has 43% support. The news here is that in just two months, [...]

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On Wednesday,December 2, 2009 at 7pm, the Babylon Green Party Gathering will feature musician Hank Stone for the annual Green Party Holiday Party. The event will be held at Pisces Café, 14A Railroad Avenue, Babylon, NY. The event is free and open to the public.

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According to wikipedia, Barry J. Hess, II is an investor and United States Libertarian Party activist. He was the Libertarian Party of Arizona candidate for U.S. Senate from Arizona in 2000 finishing 4th of 4 with 70,724 votes (5.06%), and the Libertarian candidate for Governor of Arizona in 2002 (4th of 4 – 1.66%) and [...]

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by Bob Barr as published on The Conservatives.com From the Tiger Woods mansion in Windermere, Florida to the White House at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in the nation’s capitol; and from the coffee shop near Seattle, Washington where four police officer were savagely gunned down over the past weekend, to the Little Rock-based website of former [...]

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Posted at PSLweb.org: Report by PSL Los Angeles On Nov. 21, around 200 people attended the Party for Socialism and Liberation’s Socialism Conference in Los Angeles. Held at Los Angeles City College, one of L.A.’s most working-class and multinational community college campuses, the conference drew people locally from Long Beach, Orange County, the Inland Empire, [...]

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by Jack Uldrich and Jim Moore http://www.independenceminnesota.org The Independence Party definitively differentiates itself from the two entrenched political parties. At its State Party Convention in Brooklyn Park, MN, Independence Party delegates overwhelmingly reaffirmed the party’s ban on accepting special interest money (PAC money) and eliminated cross-endorsement of candidates representing other political parties. State Party Chair Jack Uldrich said [...]

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