A Green Party activist sounds off about Kucinich’s statements that he will support the Democrats’ newest version of the health care bill (which does not include the single-payer option.)

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Tom Cleland is an activist from Minnesota who left the Green Party for the Democrats. Cleland wrote a blog post explaining in detail the background, and then the voting, at a March 14, 2010 Democratic Party convention in Minnesota. His frustration with various candidates and their issues, and with the outcome of the voting, has motivated him to announce a return to the Green Party.

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Reposted from Ballot Access News:
On March 15, Lynne Williams announced that her petition drive to get on the Green Party’s primary ballot for Governor will not succeed. See this story. Although the Green Party is ballot-qualified in Maine, it still has ballot access problems. That is because Maine is one of three states that makes [...]

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Ballot Access News
Montana has four ballot-qualified parties: Constitution, Democratic, Libertarian, and Republican. All four nominate by primary. Filing for the June 2010 primaries closed on March 15.
The Libertarian Party has a candidate for the only statewide office on the ballot, U.S. House. The Libertarians also have one candidate for State Senate, five for State House, [...]

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Posted at OpEdNews (read the full thing here):
For decades now, the great majority of progressives, particularly those in leadership roles, as well as, labor unions, have supported the Democrats unconditionally. No matter what terrible things the Democrats do, progressives have thus far made it clear that they will continue to back them, because they feel [...]

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The British newspaper The Independent is running a piece written by former US Congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney on Monday.  Read the full thing here.
In his State of the Union address to the nation, President Obama defended war, erosion of civil and human rights, creation of the police state, ignoring the US [...]

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Even though Green Party candidate for governor Rich Whitney got over 10 percent of the vote in the 2006 gubernatorial race, for some reason Rasmussen has left him – and other third party candidates – out of a recently released poll.  Still, without any third party candidate mentioned by name, the “other” category was chosen [...]

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Ballot Access News
The web page “Join California” has made a strenuous effort to learn how many candidates filed for partisan office in the June 8, 2010 California primaries. This information is not official. Each candidate files in his or her own home county, so “Join California” had to contact each of the 58 counties to [...]

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Ballot Access News:
March 11 was the deadline for parties to submit a petition to be recognized in Arizona. This year the state requires 20,449 valid signatures. The Green Party is the only party that turned in a petition. That petition contained 29,015 signatures. UPDATE: the 29,015 figure is an updated and accurate total. When this [...]

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Posted by Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch:
Rich Whitney, the Illinois Green Party’s 2010 candidate for governor who earned over 10% of the vote in 2006, has released a detailed working paper with the title “How we can solve the budget crisis in Illinois and build a full employment economy with good jobs for all [...]

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WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party candidates, leaders, and other members will participate in the ‘US Out of Afghanistan and Iraq Now’ march in Washington, DC, on Saturday, March 20.
Greens will join hundreds of thousands of others to demand an end to the wars and occupations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, and Haiti and threats of war [...]

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One of the most successful Green Party politicians in California and the nation, Ross Mirkarimi, has switched his party affiliation from Green to Democratic.  He is a San Francisco City Supervisor and member of the appointed California Coastal Commission.  He was the party’s only elected official in San Francisco, and holds the same seat that [...]

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Posted by Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch:
From Rich Whitney for Governor on facebook:
Chicago’s 55th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade will be a little bit Greener than years past, but Rich Whitney needs your enthusiasm to paint Chicago a different shade of politics!
The Whitney for Governor campaign will need festive parade marchers and canvassers to [...]

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Posted by Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch:
The Massachusetts Green-Rainbow Party has a snazzy new website at greenrainbow.org. In addition to the new look, the site has a Campaign 2010 link with profiles of candidates Jill Stein (governor), Nat Fortune (state auditor), and Scott Laugenour (state rep, 4th Berkshire). The site also has links to [...]

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Posted at Green Party Watch by Dave Schwab…
From Marie-Laure Josselin at RFI, “Green politics make their debut”:
For the very first time African states acted together during 2009’s Copenhagen negotiations on global warming. During the 90s, African green movements made a first, timid appearance. To this day they are struggling to get their voices heard by [...]

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