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Posts published in “Day: November 16, 2010

Winona LaDuke in 2012?

from Green Party Watch
Winona LaDuke in 2012?

One election ends and the next begins. A movement is afoot to draft Winona LaDuke for President in 2012.

Ralph Nader: ‘Bush At Large’

By Ralph Nader at Nader.org:

George W. Bush is on a roll—a money roll with a $7 million advance for his book Decision Points and a rehabilitation roll to paint his war crimes as justifiable mass-slaughter and torture.…

PSL Video: National Conference on Socialism 2010

Via PSLweb.org. Text here and here.


Opening Plenary
Building the struggle against capitalism across the United States


Special International Solidarity and Awards Session
Fighters for justice, champions of freedom


Keynote Plenary

Tasks and perspectives of the socialist movement

LP: Wherefore the urge to purge?

IPR reader “Gains” comments regarding the LP of Florida’s motion to boot Wayne Root from the LNC and LNCC:

WHEREAS, we are not able to produce peace enough in our party to act as friends and allies, and

WHEREAS, our petty jealousies, repressed fears, and incapacity for social interaction render us unable to allow charismatic people to leverage their skills for our benefit, and,

WHEREAS, we are unwilling to promote our ideals to the public because, well, we don’t know how to talk to the public, and,

WHEREAS, we are fearful of engaging the enemy and find others circled in the wagons with us much easier targets with which to prove our marksmanship, and,

WHEREAS, socializing others whose understandings are less than optimal is not nearly as fun as using our position in coalition trust to make sport out of destroying others good works, and,

WHEREAS, political activism that is effective is too much work compared to getting together and writing acerbic declarations, and,

WHEREAS, libertarian ethics are easy to corrupt and ignore when a contrived Machiavellian game, or juicy rumor of personal pain piques our appetite for unattained personal power:

NOW LET IT BE THEREFORE RESOLVED, the mote in our eye is nothing compared to the splinter in _____.…

LP of Florida says LNC, LNCC should boot Wayne Root

Karl Dickey at The Examiner and Liberty for All:

During a regular meeting of the Libertarian Party of Florida’s Executive Committee last night, they created a resolution (found below) to repudiate recent comments made by Libertarian National Congressional Committee chairman Wayne Allyn Root and suggested his removal from any leadership position within the Libertarian Party.