Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: Local Chapters of the Green Party are meeting across the Nation this week. Does your local chapter have a meeting or event coming up? If so, let us know! GPW@greenpartywatch.org See our Events Calendar for other meetings and events. Tuesday February 1, 2011 – Hernando Greens (Florida) 6 PM [...]

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Ross Levin at Op-Ed News (H/T Gregg Jocoy at Green Party Watch): The quickly growing Green Party of Philadelphia has a community dinner, citywide meeting, and fundraising concert with folk singer Tom Neilson/the bard insurgent all coming up in the next few weeks. We’re also supporting a march to end foreclosures in Philadelphia on Monday. [...]

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TPID: Former sheriff of Graham County, Arizona, Richard Mack, will be a featured speaker at the Spring 2011 Constitution Party national meeting in Pennsylvania.  In a statement by Mack reproduced at the Constitution Party discussion forum, Mack argues that “the greatest threat we face today is not terrorists; it is our own federal government.”  From [...]

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From the Times-Tribune: Spring Brook Twp. Supervisor Harry Blumer, 70, died Thursday while visiting the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, longtime friend and fellow township Supervisor Jack Flyte confirmed Friday afternoon. The two, who had known each other since childhood, went to the Farm Show to attend the governor’s annual luncheon, said Mr. Flyte. Afterward, [...]

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From Philadelphia Weekly (read the whole thing here): Hugh Giordano, a 26-year-old, Roxborough native and food workers’ union organizer for UFCW Local 152, ran on the Green Party ticket against Democrat Lou Agre for a seat in the 194th. He lost, but garnered 18 percent of the vote (23 percent in Philly)—an unprecedented number for [...]

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The following article ran in several newspapers in the Philadelphia, PA area (you can read the full thing here): On November 30, the monthly meeting of the Green Party of Philadelphia (GPOP), www.gpop.org, provided a look at a rejuvenated political organization… Much of the discussion focused on Hugh Giordano, www.hughgiordano.com, who recently ran for PA [...]

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A press release from the Green Party of Pennsylvania, which supports banning hydraulic fracturing (aka fracking) for natural gas and organized statewide protests against the practice on Earth Day: Last week, Pittsburgh City Council voted to ban hydrofracturing, or “fracking” within city limits.  Fracking is a controversial method of natural gas extraction from the Marcellus Shale formation [...]

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Via Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: This list was put together by Brent McMillan, consisting of Green Party campaigns for State House (or Assembly) seats. It includes all of the races that finished with over 15% of the vote in 2010: Mark Miller for State Representative 3rd Berkshire District, MA 4,459 votes 45.0% Jeremy [...]

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Ballot Access News: In the aftermath of the November 2010 election, 35 states plus the District of Columbia have at least one ballot-qualified party other than the Democratic and Republican Parties. This is the highest such number, immediately after a midterm election, for any election since 1918. The 15 states without a ballot-qualified party (statewide), [...]

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There will be a meeting of the state party’s committee, a fundraiser dinner featuring Green Party activist Mike Nance answering the question, “Was Hericletus right?” and a pancake breakfast the next morning at the house of Green Party activist Hillary Kane, which is part of an effort to form a new West Philadelphia Greens group.  [...]

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At Hugh Giordano’s election night party in Philadelphia, there were two volunteers from this effort present, collecting signatures.  Incidentally, the numbers for Hugh’s race are wrong in the article below.  He actually got about 18 percent of the vote and came in about 2 percent behind the Republican.  Now, from the website In Defence of [...]

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From Jake Towne via Third Party and Independent Daily: From the not-yet-100%-official results from the state elections board, 15,241 votes were cast in favor of freedom in the district yesterday, for about 8% of the total. I suppose the bad news (and sorry to be blunt) is this means 92% of the votes were cast [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: Despite having a number of promising campaigns for state legislature in various states, Greens fell short of victory in every race – a few by painfully close margins. However, one former Green running for state legislature as an independent in Maine did win. In Maine, Fred Horch of Brunswick [...]

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From the Green Party of Pennsylvania: GREEN PARTY OF PENNSYLVANIA http://www.gpofpa.org Green Party offers viable alternatives in tomorrow’s election As the exchange of missives between the two large corporate-dominated parties intensifies while the campaign season for the November 2010 general election winds down, the Green Party of Pennsylvania continues to offer a viable alternative that [...]

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Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: There are 60 candidates running for the United States House of Representatives on November 2. This is the first of three posts on Green Party House candidates, beginning with the Eastern portion of the United States. There are candidates running in Connecticut, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and [...]

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Kyle at LP blog: Erik Viker is the Libertarian Party candidate running for the House of Representatives seat in Pennsylvania’s 85th District. While he is currently running for office, he is also an elected Libertarian serving on the Selinsgrove Borough Council. His campaign has gained momentum and significant press coverage as he fights to break [...]

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GREEN PARTY OF PENNSYLVANIA http://www.gpofpa.org Green Party supports residents of Dimock Since DEP Secretary John Hanger announced his decision to construct a pipeline from Lake Montrose to Dimock to provide safe drinking water to the residents who are unable to use their wells, there has been a backlash. Cabot has denied all responsibility.  They claim [...]

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Posted by Jake Towne at Liberty Maven on October 6: “Know ye not, Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow?” – Lord Byron Last night at a local candidates’ night I gave the below speech, though the bracketed paragraphs were cut out due to time limitations. The event was co-sponsored by the Lehigh [...]

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From Montgomery Media (disclosure: I’m a volunteer on Giordano’s campaign): Hugh Giordano, the independent Green Party candidate in the 194th District is making waves in this election and continues to shock and amaze. This week, the Green Party candidate made a huge announcement in which Giordano promises to give back 10 percent of his salary [...]

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As protests are held nationwide against FBI and PA department of Homeland Security domestic spying, the Green Party issued the following press release: Group calls for termination of Homeland Security Chief over ITRR contract Feels violated as one of the activist groups spied on The Green Party of Pennsylvania shares the outrage of fellow citizens [...]

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