National Green Party press release asserts that many Tea Party activists may be in the wrong party, and urges Tea Partiers to consider the Green Party.

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A report, complete with an Action Alert, addressing inadequate reporting of the nuclear energy controversy. The Action Alert was issued by FAIR, Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting.

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2008 Green Party candidate for US President, Cynthia McKinney comments on the snow she encountered in Atlanta, Georgia.

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There is a lot of discussion about NY State Senate Bill S4779 and NY State Assembly Bill A6702, which would allow young people (of an unspecified age) to receive STD vaccinations, without the consent, or even knowledge of their parents. In New York State, there have been various reactions from different sections of the left and right.

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The California Secretary of State has released new registration data. The only two parties that actually have more registered voters than they did in the last report (May 2009) are the American Independent Party and the Libertarian Party. Ballot Access News reported the results for all parties in California, which also include: Democratic Party; Republican Party; Green Party; Peace & Freedom Party; and Reform Party. California now has 20.740% voters who are “independent and miscellaneous”.

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The Green Party of the United States congratulated former Congresswoman and former Green Party US Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney on winning the “Peace through Conscience” award. The award will be presented this weekend during the Internationale Muenchner Friedenskonferenz (Eighth Munich International Peace Conference).

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On January 28, the Delaware Senate passed HB 245, so the bill will now go to the Governor. The bill would take effect as soon as the Governor signs it. The bill doubles the number of registrants for a party to be recognized from one-twentieth of 1%, to one-tenth of 1%. Richard Winger of Ballot Access News notes that there is case law that says it violates due process for a state to increase ballot access requirements in an election season and then implement that change in that very same election year.

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Commentary released by the national Green Party yesterday, in anticipation of President Obama’s “State of the Union” speech. Green Party candidates and leaders had called on President Obama to announce a reversal in his administration’s current actions and policies related to health care, global warming, prisons, security, war, and fiscal responsibility.

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Historian, activist and professor, Howard Zinn died today at age 87. Green Party Watch notes that Zinn had showed support for the Green Party, and had worked with Ralph Nader.

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Ron Hardy is a founding member and contributor of Green Party Watch, and a green activist from Wisconsin. Ron Hardy is running for Oshkosh Common Council for Spring 2010. It is a non-partisan race, with 7 candidates vying for 3 seats.

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Ralph Nader is a former Green Party, and more recently independent, candidate for President of the United States. Nader states, “The decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission shreds the fabric of our already weakened democracy by allowing corporations to more completely dominate our corrupted electoral process…This corporatist, anti-voter decision is so extreme that it should galvanize a grassroots effort to enact a Constitutional Amendment to once and for all end corporate personhood…”

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Green Party leaders expressed sympathy and solidarity with the people of Haiti in the wake of Tuesday’s catastrophic earthquake, and urged President Obama to make peace, political self-determination, and economic self-sufficiency part of US relief efforts for Haiti. Party leaders also demanded that US forces not obstruct relief efforts, after a Doctors Without Borders cargo plane carrying medicine and other badly needed supplies was blocked from landing. (Update: There have been more incidents of Doctors Without Borders planes blocked from landing in Haiti.)

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A post by Ian Wilder at onthewilderside.com, based on a GPNYS press release:

The Green Party of New York State (GPNYS) stated today that it opposed the ethics reform deal announced earlier this week as being too late, too late, an attempt at damage control rather than the real reform New York taxpayers deserve. The Greens [...]

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Green Party candidate for Governor of Illinois Rich Whitney issued a response to the State of the State speech given by current Illinois Governor Pat Quinn. Whitney notes: “What the current State of the State should tell us is that there is an overwhelming need for new political leadership, leadership that comes from the people and the progressive movements that already have most of the policy answers to the problems facing us today. We need leadership that comes from the movements for peace, social justice, civil rights, the environment, labor, women’s rights, real health care reform, education reform, and grassroots democracy, including economic democracy. We need leadership that comes from a real people’s political party, a party based on these movements and their core principles; a party that does not accept corporate money and its corrupting influence…”

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On Wednesday, January 13th at 3:30pm, in Carbondale Illinois, Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney will hold a press conference to respond to Governor Pat Quinn’s State of the State Address.

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