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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Ballot Access News: The Wisconsin legislature is currently considering SB 116, a bill with the major purpose of moving the primary (for office other than President) from the first Tuesday in September to the first Tuesday in August. Unfortunately, the bill also moves the petition deadline for a new party from June 1 to April [...]

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St. Croix, WI, October 1, 2011. Carl Person, Candidate for the Libertarian Party’s nomination for President, made the following statement today as part of solving the unemployment and economic problems existing in Wisconsin and most if not all other states: Background – My background – business owner at age 9 (newspaper route in North Platte, [...]

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From Madison.com: Ben Manski, the Green Party candidate who lost his bid for a West Side Madison Assembly seat to Democrat Brett Hulsey last year, has great ideas for opening up the political system and correctly identifies the existing redistricting process as “an incumbency protection racket.” But on the collective bargaining issue, Democrats are on [...]

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From Ballot Access News: Both Wisconsin and Illinois held local non-partisan elections on April 5. Green Party members won six elections: 1. Steve Alesch was elected to the Warrenville Park District Commission in DuPage County, Illinois, in a contested election. 2. Toni Williams was elected to the Thornton Township High School District 205 board, Cook [...]

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C.T. Weber on the homepage of the Peace and Freedom Party: Remember the so called sneak attack on Pearl Harbor? That awakened a sleeping giant, the United States of America. Well the sneak attack on state workers in Wisconsin may have just awakened another sleeping giant, the working class. This is a fight for unity [...]

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Ralph Nader at Nader.org: Dear Vice President Biden: Word has reached us from reliable sources that the unions in Wisconsin tendered an invitation sometime last week or earlier for you to appear at one of the growing rallies in Madison protesting the legislative straitjacketing of public employee unions. Since you have just returned from trips [...]

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Miami-Dade Green Party via On The Wilder Side: The Miami-Dade Green Party adds its voice to the growing coalition of groups and individuals standing in opposition to anti-immigrant bills that have been recently introduced in the Florida legislature. These bills–modeled after Arizona’s racist SB 1070 law—allow for racial profiling and if passed, will result in [...]

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From the York Daily Record: York, PA - Demonstrators supporting Wisconsin unions waved and shook their signs at drivers who beeped their horns as they passed U.S. Rep. Todd Platts’ office in Springettsbury Township at rush hour Friday.Signs reading “Stand with Wisconsin workers” and “Support a teacher” were held by some in the group who decided [...]

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Lee Anderson at American Conservative Party Highlights from the 2007 study by Randall Eberts: Teachers Unions and Student Performance: Help or Hindrance reveal the following about the impact of collective bargaining on public education system: 1. Teachers unions can, and have, come out strongly against state referendum to allow charter schools and voucher systems, which [...]

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Source: Al Jazeera The Peace and Freedom Party looks forward to the success of popular uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East, and in Madison, Wisconsin. We urge participation in actions in solidarity with workers in Wisconsin and elsewhere. People of North Africa and the Middle East can and must create their own democratic [...]

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Sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Darryl W. Perry: The “showdown” between the State Legislature, Governor and public school teachers in Wisconsin has lasted over two weeks, with no end in sight. Governor Scott Walker is threatening to lay-off some government employees if the 14 Democratic State Senators don’t return to the capitol in order for the [...]

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“The world is backwards. It should be the taxpayers striking in the streets of Wisconsin. But, private sector taxpayers can’t afford to take a day off, let alone a week. Doesn’t that say everything? Only government employees with their powerful unions, lifetime job security, short work-weeks, loads of sick days, nonstop holidays, early retirement, and bloated pensions, can afford to stand in the street protesting. Common sense tells us anyone with this much time to protest and the ability to abandon their work duties, is greatly overpaid.” – Wayne Root

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by Darrell Castle Constitution Party National Committee Vice-Chairman What do the people rioting in the Middle East and the people protesting reductions in public-sector union bargaining rights have in common? Not much, but the driving force behind each of them is similar, and that driving force is economic hardship. What we are likely seeing is [...]

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Ralph Nader at Nader.org: The large demonstrations at the state Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin are driven by a middle class awakening to the spectre of its destruction by the corporate reactionaries and their toady Governor Scott Walker. For years the middle class has watched the plutocrats stomp on the poor while listening to the two [...]

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Posted on February 22, 2011 by the State Executive Committee of the Peace and Freedom Party: The Peace and Freedom Party stands in solidarity with Wisconsin’s worker and student demonstrations. We demand: * The Wisconsin Legislature kill the bill that would deny collective bargaining to state workers * Governor Walker refrain from calling in the [...]

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by Omar Mohamad, Socialist Party of South Central Wisconsin and Billy Wharton, co-chair Socialist Party USA: The mass protests led by public employees unions in Madison, Wisconsin have been presented by some mainstream commentators as a labor’s last stand. They are not. They are a spark, a spark with the potential to create a new [...]

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Michael H. Wilson at Evergreen Libertarian: The standoff between the Republicans and the Democrats in Wisconsin over the unions has managed to capture a significant portion of the news and now is spreading to Ohio, Indiana and elsewhere. Teachers are a large portion of the government employees involved. Caught in the middle of all of [...]

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Thomas L. Knapp at Center for a Stateless Society: The Big Domestic Policy Question of the Week, driven by Wisconsin’s government budget crisis, is “what to do about government employee unions?” As the conventional wisdom would have it, collective bargaining between the state and government employees — cops, firefighters and most especially “public educators” — [...]

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From The New Yorker: Two weeks after Gawker published a shirtless Craigslist photo of Congressman Chris Lee and solicitous e-mails he sent, leading him to resign, Ian Murphy, one of his erstwhile constituents, prank-called Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, and now has his eye on Lee’s vacant seat. Murphy, editor-in-chief of the Buffalo Beast, the alt-weekly [...]

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