The Green Party of Philadelphia has three events in the next two weeks.  First, they will be demonstrating against fracking on Earth Day.  Next, they will be holding a monthly meeting.  Finally, on May Day they will be having a community celebration.  More details below. Earth Day demonstration at the local Department of Environmental Protection: [...]

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From a media release by the Collett campaign: Libertarian Congressional candidate Steve Collett has focused his campaign on U.S. drug prohibition and immigration policies with America’s important neighbor and trading partner Mexico. He has released several statements on his website www.ElectCollett.com with titles such as, “Mexico Death Counter”, “Economic Prosperity and Immigration are not Zero [...]

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From a media release by Free & Equal: In 1964, the federal government reacted to a shameful but undeniable truth, that in many places in our country the most fundamental element of American freedom, the right to vote in a fair election process, was not only failing, it was being intentionally misused. The Civil Rights [...]

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From a Green Party media release: For Immediate Release: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 Obama’s retreat from promises of change led to the Democrats’ sell-out and a battle to save Social Security, Medicare, collective bargaining, public broadcasting, the EPA, scientific research, and Planned Parenthood Greens blast Obama’s proposed $1 trillion cut in Medicare and Medicaid and [...]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jim Duensing for President www.JimDuensing.com Patriot’s Day 2011 APR 19 – God Bless Samuel Whittemore Libertarian Presidential Candidate Jim Duensing supports the increased production of nickels. With the bad economic times of this New Depression there are few investments paying off for the United States Government like its stockpiles of nickles. A [...]

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I received an invitation to this event via a Facebook friend. Join us in Marina del Rey for an organizing meeting at Jerry’s Deli. We will begin mapping out our California ballot access strategy, filling vital positions and assigning tasks. Here is the Citizens Party “About Us” page. Here is their “Platform” page.

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Judge Roy Moore announced the formation of a presidential exploratory committee on an Iowa radio station yesterday. Although he doesn’t actually say this, I assume he is considering seeking the Republican nomination since he announced it in Iowa and has made several recent trips to Iowa. I post this here at IPR because Roy Moore [...]

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R. Lee Wrights returned to his home state April 16 to formally announce he is seeking the 2012 Libertarian Party nomination for president.

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And here is how it is done. The Republican-appointed “Emergency Manager” of Benton Harbor, Michigan, appointed by the Republican Governor of Michigan, has just dissolved the City Government of Benton Harbor in favor of his personal rule as, oh, we need a title, “People’s Commissar”. Or, if you have an alternative opinion of Republicans “Gauleiter”. [...]

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Press release sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Free and Equal: Former Arizona Sheriff Richard Mack and 2004 Libertarian Presidential Candidate Michael Badnarik are giving a joint presentation on the Constitution at the University of Kentucky on April 23. The event takes place in the W.T. Young Library Auditorium, 401 Hilltop Avenue in Lexington. Seating is limited [...]

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Between Roger Stone, Guilderland politics, income taxes, and the cold weather, Warren Redlich has had enough. Reid Epstein of Newsday reports: Warren Redlich, the Libertarian Party ‘s 2010 candidate for New York governor, said he is moving to Florida because of fliers that attacked him during last fall’s campaign. As a result, he said he [...]

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After recently suggesting he might run as an independent if he fails to gain the Republican nomination, Donald Trump seems to have changed his tune. Now he says he will run as a Republican and downplays the idea of running as an independent which he says would split the vote and help Obama. Trump, who [...]

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TAKE HEART, LIBERTARIANS– JOHN HARRINGTON ACTUALLY GOT ELECTED ! Libertarian Wins Seat on San Gabriel City Council By Ted Brown On March 8, John Harrington, a long-time registered Libertarian, won election to the City Council of San Gabriel, a city of 40,000 people about 10 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. Even though 3 other [...]

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From The Day: [Lori] Hopkins-Cavanagh is a member of the New London Republican Town Committee but says she would not run for mayor as either a Democrat or Republican. She said she has had conversations with members of the Green Party in the city about running as a Green candidate for mayor. If she announces, [...]

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From MonstersAndCritics.com: For the first time, the Greens emerged a point ahead of the Social Democrats (SPD), considered the other main opposition party, with the pair combined scoring 10 per cent more than the current centre-right coalition. The Greens and SPD jointly scored 47 per cent in the survey by TNS Emnid, compared to just [...]

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From Ballot Access News: On April 5, Detroit elected members of Citizens’ District Councils in non-partisan elections. The city has 19 districts for this office, and each district elects six members every year, for three year terms. Each council has 18 members. Matt Erard, a leader of the Socialist Party, was elected this year in [...]

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Posted as a note to Facebook early morning Sunday, April 17: This weekend I was supposed to speak at the Mississippi Party’s State Convention, something I was looking forward to, but instead I made the trip to Washington D.C. to try and fill the slot that was left vacant on the Libertarian National Committee by [...]

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HICKORY, N.C. (April 16) – R. Lee Wrights, a longtime libertarian writer and activist, announced today at the N.C. Libertarian Party State Convention that he will be seeking the Libertarian nomination for President of the United States. Here is his statement: “I’m returning to the place where this campaign began … ten years ago. North [...]

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The Libertarian National Committee is meeting in Alexandria, VA this weekend (4/16/2011 – 4/17/2011). There is a live video available on justin.tv. The agenda is available for download.

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Posted on the LP website: For Immediate Release Friday, April 15, 2011 Libertarians call spending compromise “travesty” WASHINGTON – Libertarian Party Executive Director Wes Benedict issued the following statement today: “Just in time for Tax Day, the Republicans and Democrats in Congress have joined hands to clobber American taxpayers. “According to the Associated Press, the [...]

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