Third parties face a natural hurdle when attempting to burst upon the electoral scene: legitimacy. Every political party wants voters to feel like they present a credible alternative to the other options available on election day, lest the stigma of “spoiled vote” is attached to the party’s brand. It is no surprise then that party-switching [...]

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PSLweb.org:   New York City, Sept. 11, 2010 Thousands of people rallied today in lower Manhattan in defense of the Muslim, Arab American and South Asian communities that have been increasingly demonized in recent months. The demonstration dwarfed the smaller right-wing, racist mobilization that was organized in opposition to the planned construction of an Islamic [...]

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(Distributed by the Green Party of the United States, http://www.gp.org) North Carolina Green Party For immediate release Tuesday, August 31, 2010 Contact: Theresa El-Amin Phone Number: 919-824-0659 E-mail: teagreenparty@aol.com Web site: http://www.ncgreenparty.org Press conference, 9 am in front of the courthouse in Raleigh on Sept. 9 On September 9, 2010 , the North Carolina Supreme [...]

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David Josue, a Cynthia McKinney supporter, sends out organizing message to Green Party grassroots as 2008 Green Party candidate Cynthia McKinney participates in national Bike4Peace trip.

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by the Green Party US national HQ and posted at Green Party Watch by Dave Schwab: WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party leaders and candidates are urging Congress to pass House Resolution 301 to remove US forces from Pakistan. The privileged resolution was introduced by Reps. Dennis Kucinich (D-Oh.) and Ron Paul (R-Tex.), [...]

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On The WilderSide: Here’s the message from the Bike4Peace organizers: Dear all, I’d love to be the tour coordinator of this but I’ll be cycling and can’t be. If you want to coordinate the tour while we’re cycling, please let us know. Malik Rahim has already left New Orleans on a separate route. We’ll all [...]

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On The Wilder Side: “Vilsack Must Keep Black Farmers on their Land: One Million and a Half Black-Owned Farm Acres Being Looted by USDA While Farmers Wait for Justice“ Cynthia McKinney [USDA Secretary] Secretary Vilsack admitted in a press conference today, “I did not think before I acted.” It is clear from Agriculture Secretary Vilsack’s [...]

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(excerpt from) Boston.com Calling all Governors: stop spying on ordinary Americans! Posted by Carol Rose, On Liberty July 9, 2010 05:28 AM When the National Governor’s Association convenes in Boston today, freedom-loving governors of all political stripes have one issue around which they all should agree, namely, the need to stop unchecked government spying on [...]

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This editorial at AllHipHop.com contends that Hip Hop is, and always has been, political in content. The question of the editorial is whether Hip Hop will remain political in the future. The editorial mentions several of the most prominent members and candidate of the Green Party. Lastly we’d have to talk about Dr. Jared Ball [...]

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The Sunshine State News ran an article on Monday about the number of Independent and Third Party candidates on the ballot in Florida in 2010. While Gov. Charlie Crist and gubernatorial candidate Bud Chiles are getting most of the attention, Florida is seeing a large number of independents taking on both the Democrats and Republicans [...]

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Cynthia McKinney is a member of the Free Gaza movement which is currently embroiled in a controversy involving a humanitarian ship and an attack on that ship by Israeli commandos. She penned an OpEd about the controversy which can be read, in its entirety, here. The first couple of paragraphs follow. I am outraged at [...]

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Cynthia McKinney releases a statement to mourn the dead of the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza. Cynthia McKinney was the 2008 Green Party candidate for President of the United States.

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While the more well-known Libertarian Party National Convention is occurring this weekend in St. Louis, Missouri, a Black Power Convention is occurring in Atlanta, Georgia. The convention is hosted by the New Black Panther Party and features a number of its most prominent members, including Chairman Malik Zulu Shabazz, and regional director Allah Divine. Other [...]

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Posted by Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: Cynthia McKinney, the 2008 Green Party candidate for president, will lead “Bike For Peace 2010″, a bike ride across America that will take place from July to September. Details from the website: We’re bicycling from San Francisco to Washington, DC between 24-July and 22-Sept, 2010, without motorized [...]

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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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Press release: On January 10, 2010 a group of long time activists from inside and outside the Democratic, Green, and Progressive Parties united to form a broad coalition. This coalition, composed of Democrats and Republicans, individual activists , and third-party supporters, has united to support an independent candidate for the U.S. Senate seat currently held [...]

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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 [...]

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On Truthdig, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges recently wrote an opinion piece advocating that people join the Green Party.  Read the full thing here. We owe Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney an apology. They were right about Barack Obama. They were right about the corporate state. They had the courage of their convictions and they [...]

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http://www.gp.org/cynthia/display.php?ID=30 They shot this Black man in his genitals and in his back. It sounds like a hate crime to me. How else could one describe it? Well, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, it was self-defense. But how many times have we heard self-defense by cops used as a cop out? Well, what [...]

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Found at OnTheWilderSide. By Cynthia McKinney. Well, I do want as many of you as possible to participate in some way in our cross-country bike for peace. Some of you will ride, some of you will support, some of you will pray/chant/meditate for us and keep the positive vibrations with us while our core group [...]

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