From the Progressive Party’s blog: The House and Senate convened and organized this week, and Progressives fared well in committee assignments. The returning house members all remained on the same committees from last session.Sarah Edwards returns to Natural Resources and Energy, the House committee which deals with Vermont Yankee. Susan Davis (on Corrections and Institutions) and Mollie [...]

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Press release from Libertarian Party national HQ: WASHINGTON – Mark Hinkle, Chair of the Libertarian Party, issued a statement condemning the shooting of Congressional Representative Gabrielle Giffords, and others in Tucson, Arizona. According to reports, federal Judge John Roll and five others were killed in the shooting, and several others were seriously wounded. “The Libertarian [...]

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Emailed by Wayne Root to contact.ipr@gmail.com: What Liberal Media- Including FOX News- Didn’t Tell You. Is it the Tea Party to Blame, or the Media and Hollywood? By Wayne Allyn Root As Americans and simply decent human beings, all of us should be shocked and saddened by Saturday’s tragedy in Tucson, Arizona. Nineteen shot. Six [...]

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The Green Party of Philadelphia will be holding two events this month, a “green night out” with activist Jasmine Rivera and a party meeting.  Information from the party is below. ___________________________________________________ Green Party of Philadelphia www.gpop.org GREEN NIGHT OUT Saturday, January 22, 7:00 pm Enjoy an endless supply of vegetarian Chinese food. Discuss neighborhood activism [...]

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A press release sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Florida TEA Party Chairman Denounces Shooting. Decries ’politics’ of hate.’ Florida Tea Party Chairman Peg Dunmire denounced the shooting of United States Congresswoman Giffords and eighteen (18) other individuals in which six were killed, including a nine-year old girl today in Arizona. “The ‘politics of hate’ that was so prevalent this past [...]

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From MySuburbanLife.com: Berwyn, IL —Rita Maniotis knew that running a campaign for school board in Morton High School District 201 would be  difficult, but she didn’t anticipate a legal fight just to get on the ballot. Paul Nosek of Berwyn and Alejandro Rueda of Cicero have filed a formal objection to Maniotis’ nominating papers and [...]

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An interview with Green Party 2010 Governor candidate, Howie Hawkins. Discussion about the conservative, fiscal policy of Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo, as well as opportunities opened up by the Green Party of New York State regaining automatic ballot status.

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In a letter sent to Governors Sonny Perdue and Nathan Deal, officers of the Georgia Green Party asked why the Georgia Department of Corrections withheld from Terrance Dean’s family news of his condition and whereabouts. The letter asks that they “launch an investigation into whether the DoC’s apparent efforts to conceal (Mr. Dean’s) condition rises to the level of a criminal conspiracy”. The Georgia Green Party has lent its support to the Concerned Coalition to Respect Prisoner Rights working in solidarity with striking Macon State Prison inmates.

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A new candidate has emerged in the open seat gubernatorial race in Montana. From the Great Falls Tribune: [Ron] Vandevender lives near Craig and twice unsuccessfully has run for a seat state House District 84. “I look forward to the opportunity in the coming months to work with the press and the people, not just [...]

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After earning 2.6% of the vote as the Libertarian candidate for Governor of Kansas, Andrew Gray is running for the Topeka City Council. From a local news outlet: Gray stated that he was recruited to run for Topeka City Council by voters who identified with his passionate commitment to fiscal responsibility and personal liberty during [...]

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The Green Party blasted the Emergency Fiscal Plan outlined by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in his State of the State Message as a continuation of the failed policies of previous administrations of the Democratic and Republican Parties.

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(Long Branch, NJ, 01/06/2011) Jacob Zychick, chairman of the newly created Reform Party of New Jersey, recently visited the largely vacant storefronts of downtown Long Branch. The oceanfront resort’s business district, located along Broadway, is populated primarily by empty structures, a reminder of a failed “Broadway Center” redevelopment project. Long Branch garnered national controversy in [...]

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John Halle is a former Green Alderman from New Haven, Connecticut.  The full piece, excerpted below, appears in Dissident Voice. Counterpoised to these brute force tactics, a more traditional and effective means of information management is to prevent positions judged unacceptable from finding their way into print in the first place.  In its internet variant, this [...]

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From the Sydney Morning Herald: Mr Wood, whose wealth was estimated at $372 million in last year’s BRW Rich 200 list, gave $1.6 million to fund the Greens’ TV advertising campaign, helping to significantly increase votes for the party in key states… Mr Wood’s donation enabled the Greens to run advertisements on high rotation on [...]

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Bruce A. Dixon is an editor of Black Agenda Report and a member of the Georgia Green Party’s State Committee.  The following is an excerpt of his most recent piece on Black Agenda Report: On October 16, 2007 Arnold Porter went into full cardiac arrest. He died. His pulse and breathing stopped, he had to [...]

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An update on the new Americans Elect Party from Ballot Access News: Last month, Americans Elect Party submitted approximately 21,000 signatures to qualify as a party in Nevada. This is three times as many signatures as are legally required. By January 7, the Secretary of State will probably have determined that the petition has enough [...]

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The following press release was sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: The Free and Equal Elections Foundation held a press conference yesterday at 1pm to introduce the language for a proposed ballot access bill. State representative Jim Watson (R-97, Jacksonville) has expressed interest in sponsoring the proposed bill. If passed, the bill would open Illinois elections, improving democracy for [...]

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A freshman Congressman from Florida who associates himself with the Tea Party – not the party itself, however, which has formed in several states, including Florida – said the following in an interview with CBS: CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric speaks with three new members of the House of Representatives Rep. Allen West (R-FL), [...]

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Kucinich to switch and Traficant to profit? Read more below the fold.

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The title may be a bit of an exaggeration, but the famed MIT exhibits a significant libertarian streak.

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