Green Party Watch held a presidential poll with the following results: 1,792 votes cast, Jill Stein received 1,223 of them, or 68%. Roseanne Barr, who had just entered the race in the last week, picked up 526 votes, or 29%. There were 35 votes for Kent Mesplay, and 8 votes for Harley Mikkelson GPW reports [...]

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From the Socialist Party Socialism 2010 Conference: Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan speaking about the co-option of the early 21st century US peace movement by the Democratic Party. Sheehan ran for Congress as an independent in 2008 against Nancy Pelosi (In a seven-way race, Sheehan came in second with 46,118 votes (16.14%) to Pelosi’s 71.56%), and [...]

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The following was sent to Cindy Sheehan supporters in an email: Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox “There’s no cloud so thick that the sun ain’t shining on the other side.” Rattlesnake, 1870′s mountain man Dear Friend, Three years ago, this very month, I traveled to Egypt to be in solidarity with over 50 political prisoners that dictator, [...]

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At 8:00 EST, Cindy Sheehan will take part in a live chat on Patriot Polls.com. Sheehan is a member of the Peace and Freedom Party of California. In 2008, she ran as an Independent against former Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, earning 16.14% of the vote in that bid. Sheehan also runs a website here.

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Cindy Sheehan at Al Jazeera by way of Dandelion Salad and On The Wilder Side: My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency [...]

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The following article on Al Jazeera English was written by Cindy Sheehan (peace activist, Peace and Freedom Party member, and 2008 independent candidate for Congress) and sent to her supporters.  An excerpt is printed below. It is hard to separate this issue from the activities of the military. War might be a “racket”, but it is also [...]

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As the presidential race begins to take vague shape, the left searches for its new Ralph Nader.

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Matt Gonzalez has a colorful history as a third party candidate. He is the former President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors as a Green. In addition, in 2003 he ran against Gavin Newsom for Mayor, losing a hotly contested race. In 2008 Gonzalez left the Green Party, joining Nader to run on his [...]

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The following are remarks by peace activist and 2008 independent candidate for Congress Cindy Sheehan for Los Angeles and New York events, according to her website, marking the anniversary of 9/11: Many people here today just woke up (whether abruptly or gradually) to the fact that the US Empire is a criminal construct capable of [...]

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Socialist Webzine: The Socialist Party USA had an excellent National Organizing Conference (NOC) this year in Madison, Wisconsin. The three-day event featured music, speakers and workshops that offered practical skills to enhance our activism. A little more than 50 people turned up for the event from all over the country. The relatively new South Central [...]

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Via Peace and Freedom Blog, registered Peace and Freedom Party voter Cindy Sheehan writes at Peace of the Action: OAKLAND, CA – August 31, 2010 – Tomorrow, August 31st, in a fake ceremony in Baghdad, the U.S. will once again declare a false end to the war in Iraq. Cindy Sheehan’s Statement on the “End [...]

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Updates posted at peaceandfreedom.org: Peace and Freedom Party State Chair Arrested “Someone needed to stand with the disability rights community and I did,” said C. T. Weber, Peace and Freedom Party State Chair and nominee for Lieutenant Governor. Weber was arrested at a rally on Disability Rights Day at the state capitol on Wednesday, August [...]

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Interview with Cindy Sheehan by Billy Wharton at Socialist Webzine: Cindy Sheehan is the most recognizable anti-war activist in the US today. Since her son Casey’s death in Iraq in 2004, she has thrown herself into anti-war organizing. One high point of her protests came in 2005 as she set up a Camp Casey across [...]

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Via On The Wilder Side:Requiem for the Antiwar Movement by Cindy Sheehan During the campaign, many colleagues and friends of mine, assured me that Obama was just saying this hostile crap to “get elected” and once he was elected that he would “do the right thing.” Well, first of all, why support such a pandering [...]

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The following was sent to Sheehan supporters: Officially FUBAR! “If Americans pulled back and started paying attention to this war, it would become even less popular,” a senior adviser to head of NATO ops in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal (via Rolling Stone) FUBAR: Military slang for: Fu#ked Up Beyond All/Any Repair/Recognition. FUBAR also has a [...]

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Sent to supporters of Cindy Sheehan: For this Mother’s Day, I am not going to write about Juliet Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day proclamation and how Mother’s Day is a “Day for Peace.” By now, most of us are well aware of Ward’s proclamation (if not, click here) that we Mother’s should not send our sons [...]

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The Socialist Alternative has an event notice on their website about the “Northwest Socialism Conference”. Attendees include former Green Party San Francisco Supervisor and Vice Presidential candidate to Ralph Nader, Matt Gonzalez. Other invitees include Cindy Sheehan, an antiwar activist and independent congressional candidate in 2008. The American people elected Obama and the Democrats who [...]

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From an email to Cindy Sheehan’s supporters: A funny thing happened while we have been working away at the documentary of our trip to Venezuela to interview President Hugo Chavez and to bring the truth about him and the Bolivarian Revolution to light–We were so inspired by what we witnessed and our research for the [...]

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Email to supporters of Free and Equal: Leading Voices for Independent Politics Unite on April 26 for Landmark Event at University of Wisconsin at Madison CHICAGO, Ill., April 20, 2010 – Next week, a distinguished group of panelists from across the American political spectrum will gather to discuss electoral reform, the peace movement, and the [...]

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Cindy Sheehan will be on the independent radio and television program Democracy Now! on Friday talking about her new project Camp OUT NOW, an encampment on the national mall, and the peace march on Saturday in Washington DC.  An email sent to supporters: On the 7th tragic commemoration of the uneccessary invasion of Iraq, Cindy [...]

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