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PLP: Communists Are Attacked: Teachers, Students and Parents Fight Back!

June 13th, 2011 · 2 Comments

From an article published Wednesday, June 8, 2011 on the Progressive Labor Party web site BROOKLYN, NY May 26 — More than one hundred students, teachers, and parents held a militant rally outside Clara Barton High School to fight an attack against two communist teachers. The protest was sparked by the principal launching an investigation [...]

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New York Libertarians sue for ballot access, accuse state of failure to count votes

March 9th, 2011 · 12 Comments

From New York LP chair Mark Axinn via LP blog: Libertarian Party Candidate Files Lawsuit against NYS Board of Elections for Failure to Count Votes Warren Redlich, the Libertarian Party’s candidate for Governor of New York in the 2010 election, today filed a lawsuit in Albany County Supreme Court against the New York State Board [...]

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Green Party of New York garners press by protesting Mayor Bloomberg’s education pick

November 30th, 2010 · 8 Comments

The Green Party organized a protest earlier today in front of the Hearts Tower in New York City, the former workplace of the newly appointed schools chancellor in the city.  Retired teachers were asking to be hired as the head of the publishing company, since that was Cathie Black’s – that is, the new chancellor’s [...]

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Liberty Lion: ‘Dan Halloran – The first Governor Elected On The Libertarian Party Line?’

November 17th, 2010 · 4 Comments

Dr. Tom Stevens writes at Liberty Lion: New York City Council Member Dan Halloran represents 161,000 constituents and is the highest elected Libertarian Party official in the nation elected from a single district in a partisan race. He ran as a fusion candidate and appeared on the ballot in 2009 as the candidate of the [...]

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Capital New York features Howie Hawkins’ succesful effort to garner 50,000 votes and ‘save the Greens’

November 8th, 2010 · No Comments

An interesting article on CapitalNewYork.com examines the personal and Green Party history of Howie Hawkins, the Greens’ 2010 gubernatorial nominee in New York who was successful in getting the 50,000 votes necessary for ballot access, as well as the history of the Greens in New York and their plans for the future, among other subjects.  [...]

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Warren Redlich interview, WPIX 11 TV in NYC

October 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments

Interview with Libertarian candidate for Governor of New York Warren Redlich at WPIX 11 TV in NYC forwarded by Eric Sundwall:  

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Libertarian Warren Redlich Interviewed about his campaign for NY governor

October 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment

Kyle at LP blog: On Thursday October 21, 2010, the Local East Village Newspaper interviewed Warren Redlich to discuss his thoughts on government spending, the war on drugs and student loans.  Redlich is the Libertarian Party candidate for governor of New York who has some unconventional ideas for fixing the state’s $8 billion deficit. In [...]

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PSL: ‘Thousands of people protest near Ground Zero in opposition to racist Tea Party rally’

September 13th, 2010 · 82 Comments

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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Green Howie Hawkins: 911, the Mosque and “why do republican rightwingers hate our freedom”

August 29th, 2010 · 10 Comments

On The Wilder Side: Notes from the Wilders: Correct website for Green Party of New York State is www.gpny.org Howie Hawkins tells us about the 1st amendment of the Constitution. Freedom of religion is the cornerstone to what our forefathers envisioned as a free society. With all the troubles of the working class in New [...]

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Conservative Party of New York State campaigns against ‘Mosque at Ground Zero’

August 29th, 2010 · 2 Comments

http://www.cpnys.org/: Conservatives to Con Ed: No Mosque at Ground Zero CPNYS Cordoba ConEd from Howard Lim, Jr. on Vimeo. Watch our new ad, then call Andrew Cuomo CPNYS Mosque Lazio Cuomo from Howard Lim, Jr. on Vimeo. In case you missed Chairman Long debating on the Cordba Mosque on Fox 5 NY this morning, you [...]

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Libertarian Peacenik on the “Ground Zero Mosque” and the Libertarian Party

August 28th, 2010 · 28 Comments

Posted by Thomas Sipos at Libertarian Peacenik: Wayne Allyn Root, John Hospers: The LP’s Anti-Libertarian Faces Massachusetts Libertarian Party Chair George Phillies reports on Independent Political Report (comment 148): “I am amused to report that the LNC was contacted by a reporter who wanted to do a story on possible interactions between the Libertarian Party [...]

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Phil Maymin: In the Lower Manhattan Islamic center debate, everyone is pretending to be something they’re not

August 26th, 2010 · 16 Comments

By Phil Maymin, 2006 Libertarian candidate for U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut’s 4th congressional district. Forwarded by Marc Montoni via email. When it comes to the mosque to be built near Ground Zero in New York City, everyone is pretending to be something they’re not. Perhaps for the first time since Grover Cleveland, a [...]

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Libertarian Party Blog: ‘Ron Paul, former LP Presidential candidate, supports property rights of Islamic cultural Center supporters’

August 23rd, 2010 · 108 Comments

Libertarian National Committee Chair Mark Hinkle at Libertarian Party Blog: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20014453-503544.html Libertarian Congressman Ron Paul is breaking with many of his fellow Republicans – among them his son Rand – to support the creation of the planned Islamic cultural center near the former site of the World Trade Center that has come to be known [...]

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Libertarian Mike Beitler: ‘Mosque issue hijacked for political expediency’

August 23rd, 2010 · 5 Comments

Liberty Point: The issue of whether or not to build a mosque near the site of the World Trade Towers terrorist attack has been hijacked for political expediency, said Mike Beitler, Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate in an op ed on his website. “To collectively blame every Muslim for the actions of a few is [...]

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Howie Hawkins (G-NY) Decries Attack on Proposed Muslim Center near World Trade Center

August 23rd, 2010 · 8 Comments

OnTheWilderSide: The only way that the Green Party can regain ballot status in NY is to get 50,000 votes for their Governor candidate in 2010. This opportunity comes only once every four years, and it only applies to the Governor’s race. Gaining ballot status will enable the Green Party to run more peace candidates, more [...]

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Statement on the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ by Jake Towne

August 22nd, 2010 · 10 Comments

Originally published August 17, 2010 at http://towneforcongress.com/individual-rights/ground-zero-mosque/ On the front page of today’s Morning Call was an article on the mosque to be located near Ground Zero in NYC. Below is a video statement and transcript of those remarks. My comments were misinterpreted slightly, and I absolutely do not speak for all Muslims – just [...]

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Video: New York Libertarian candidate Warren Redlich comments on “mosque” controversy

August 22nd, 2010 · 8 Comments

Libertarian Party blog: Libertarian Warren Redlich is running for Governor of New York. In this video he points out the problems with his opponents’ position on the New York mosque controversy: Visit the Redlich campaign website. Other takes on the “mosque” controversy: John Jay Myers, Darryl Perry, Wayne Root (1) and (2), John Hospers, Reactions [...]

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George Phillies: ‘Islamophobia is an opposite of Libertarian’

August 16th, 2010 · 56 Comments

By George Phillies: Our National (LP) Party Platforms over the years have been quite clear on this matter. The 2010 Platform includes “We condemn bigotry as irrational and repugnant… We favor the freedom to engage in or abstain from any religious activities that do not violate the rights of others. We oppose government actions which [...]

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John Jay Myers: ‘My shameful take on the Mosque’

August 16th, 2010 · 14 Comments

By John Jay Myers. Others opining on this issue include Darryl Perry, Wayne Root, John Hospers, Reactions to Root’s piece from the libertarian blogosphere, LNC member Daniel Wiener, Tom Knapp, Kristin Davis, Warren Redlich, Carl Paladino, and LPHQ interns Marissa Giannotta and Josh Roll. I called this “My shameful take on the Mosque”, because I [...]

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Darryl Perry: In Support of the (non)”Mosque” (not) at “Ground Zero”

August 7th, 2010 · 38 Comments

Emailed to IPR and posted at Free Patriot Press by Darryl W. Perry, Chair of the Boston Tea Party National Committee: Lately it seems everyone is putting in their “two cents” on the Cordoba House; which opponents – including some supposed “libertarians” (Wayne Allyn Root, John Hospers & Neal Boortz) – are calling a “mosque [...]

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