Posted at socialistparty-usa.org: May Day 2010 Passed by the Socialist Party National Action Committee April 2010 Socialism – An Idea Whose Time Has Come! “Ideas,” someone once wrote, “move rapidly when their time comes.” As we gather to celebrate May Day, the continuing capitalist crisis makes socialism an idea ready to move rapidly. While the [...]

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Posted in the Billings Gazette: CHEYENNE — Casper businessman Mike Wheeler is set to become the Libertarian nominee for governor at the state party’s convention today in Lander. But as Wheeler prepares to accept the nomination, he’s also writing a formal apology to Latinos for comments he made at a gubernatorial candidate forum last week [...]

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Posted at viva-la-revolucion.org: Jerry Wilson is taking his politics more seriously. A longtime activist, Wilson served on the National Democratic Party Platform Drafting Committee in 2004, and has been a been a Chief Petitioner on two statewide Initiatives, one to force the closure of the Trojan nuclear power plant in 1992 and one to decriminalize [...]

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Opinion piece posted by SouthernPatriot at Free Patriot Press. Offered here for discussion: Rasmussen and the Wall Street Journal both released results of polls that seemingly are not related, until one looks a bit beneath the surface.Rasmussen reports that 8% of voters surveyed “always vote for the Republican candidate & 10% always vote for the [...]

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The following was posted by Brian Holtz at Libertarian Intelligence. It was originally intended as an article for IPR, but our internal IPR email discussion raised concerns that it exceeds IPR’s restrictions on editorializing in articles by our writers. Although Brian Holtz also writes for IPR, IPR as a site is not taking any positions [...]

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One of the stories IPR has been covering lately is the nomination battle for Governor by the Libertarian Party of New York. For an index of past articles, see http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/?s=kristin+davis and http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/?s=warren+redlich That nomination will be decided today. For additional details about the convention (if you are reading this on the day it is posted) [...]

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At the Examiner, Brian Irving reports on the SEIU’s petition drive to get the North Carolina First Party on the ballot this November, comparing it with previous efforts by the state’s Libertarian Party: The State Employees Association of North Carolina is expressing its ire by trying to form a new political party. SEANC, and is [...]

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The US Senate race in Florida is interesting in several ways. Alex Snitker became the first Libertarian to qualify for the US Senate ballot in the state’s history. The sitting Republican Governor, behind in his own party’s primary, may run as an independent instead. And a Democratic Party candidate has gathered over a hundred thousand [...]

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Yesterday, local Green Parties and Greens across Pennsylvania participated in protests against natural gas drilling in the state.  There was a protest at each regional Department of Environmental Protection, including one in the state capital, Harrisburg.  A press release announcing the protests can be found here. I (Ross Levin) attended the rally in Norristown, which [...]

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Posted by Walter at Green Party Watch: By Rich Whitney, Green Party candidate for Governor The 40th Anniversary of Earth Day reminds me of the very first Earth Day, in 1970. I was a high-school Freshman that year and I remember an upper-classman named Billy Barth who recruited some of us to go out to [...]

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From 2008 Constitution Party Presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin’s latest column: My son, Tim Baldwin, who is a constitutional attorney, recently engaged my friend, attorney Ed Vieira, Jr., in a spirited and intellectual written debate on the rightness or wrongness of State secession. Vieira took the unionist position that states do not have the constitutional right [...]

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Posted by Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: From Green Party US: It’s the 40th Earth Day, and while the Green Party of the United States recognizes this historic event, we have no special celebration planned. Every day is Earth Day for us, so we continue today to do what we do all the time [...]

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Garry Reed reports at the Examiner: Last fall, Antonio Musumeci, membership director and webmaster of the Manhattan Libertarian Party, was forced to the pavement by federal officers, had the video card from his camera confiscated, arrested, detained, ticketed, and further harassed and threatened with arrest on two successive occasions. On Thursday, the New York Civil [...]

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Both the Republican Party and Democratic Party organizations have come out in opposition to Proposition 14, the Top Two Initiative in California. However, many top politicians in both parties have endorsed the measure. However, the Republican Party organization has begun circulating petitions all over the state which push three “top” issues which encourage voters to [...]

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Bob Smith is a former Republican U.S. Senator from the State of New Hampshire, as well as a former Presidential candidate in the Republican and Constitution Parties (though the Constitution Party was then called the US Taxpayer’s Party). In 2000 Smith left his party to run for President as the Constitution Party nominee but very [...]

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Email from Mark Hinkle, the California rep to the Libertarian National Committee, who is running for LNC Chair at the LP National Convention in five weeks: About a year ago, I asked Sharon Harris, President of the Advocates for Self Government (www.theadvoocates.org) if the LP could put a link from our web page (www.lp.org) under [...]

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Jake Towne is an Independent candidate for Congress in Pennsylvania. Posted at LibertyMaven: Below is a video of an April 10th talk I gave that appeared on Pennsylvania Cable Network (PCN) and was broadcast on TV statewide. Luzerne County Campaign for Liberty sponsored this Challengers Town Hall event and I remain highly appreciative for the [...]

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Posted at Essential Green Party Politics by Daryl Northrop: It’s fairly unavoidable being labeled as an environmentalist if you are a Green Party member. But do I live in a solar powered tree house? No. I like electricity, I like cars, I like modern doo-dads made of plastic and other such high-tech space age materials. [...]

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Today, the Green Party of Florida joins eleven other national and regional environmental organizations in calling upon U.S. nuclear regulators to launch an investigation into newly identified flaws in Westinghouse’s new reactor design. The coalition is asking three federal agencies to suspend the AP1000 reactor from licensing and taxpayer loan consideration. Four new AP1000 reactors [...]

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From Libertarian Republican blog by way of Third Party and Independent Daily: The poll conducted by Politico (via Rightosphere), asked a myriad of questions to Tea Party rally attendees in Washington, DC April 15. Of particular interest, those surveyed were asked to identify the one political party most closely aligned with the beliefs of the [...]

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