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Greens introduce a plan for environmental action for a Green President’s first 100 days in office

GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

An environmental program for Green presidential candidates—and a challenge to Democrats and Republicans

WASHINGTON, DC—The Green Party’s Eco-Action Committee has announced a set of recommendations for environmental actions for the first 100 days of a Green [...]

From the Maryland Greens:

At its Annual Assembly on Saturday, the Maryland Green Party concluded its Presidential primary election. 16 delegates were selected to represent Maryland at the Green Party of the United States’ nominating convention in Chicago.

Cynthia McKinney, former Congresswoman from Georgia, will be represented by 6 delegates. Jesse Johnson, filmmaker and former [...]

From the Green Party:

In late 2006 Brent McMillan, Political Director of GPUS did an analysis of each state’s history of fielding candidates. He used this information to set up a challenge for each state. Based on the past ability to field candidates what would a field of one thousand candidates look like on a state [...]

The Green Party of the United States will send six delegates to the Second Global Greens Congress, to take place in Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 1-4, 2008.

The US Green delegates are Mike Feinstein (former Mayor of Santa Monica, California), Marnie Glickman (Oregon), and Julia Willebrand (New York). Alternate delegates will also attend: John Rensenbrink (Maine), [...]

I’ve watched the 9/11 Truth movement within the Libertarian and Constitution Party, but haven’t really observed it within the Green Party before. This call for “Truthers” to support Cynthia McKinney’s candidacy is the first I’ve seen of the sort:

Many people in the 9/11 Truth Movement have understandably been energized by the Ron Paul campaign [...]

Matt Funiciello is a well known Greens Activist that is a delegate to the Green National Committee. Eric Sundwall serves as an alternate representative on the Libertarian National Commitee. They talk about Ralph Nader, the Greens and Libertarians, as well as ballot access and media coverage on Capital Outsider.

We thought we’d provide some video of the key independent and third party contenders for the presidential race in 2008. Our goal was to provide footage of video which (for the most part) hasn’t ever been embedded at Third Party Watch before. When possible, we selected video from the candidate’s official YouTube channel [...]

The online drug war policy journal “Drug War Chronicle” has written two articles on Third Party positions on ending the Drug War. Drug War Chronicle is by the Drug War Coordination Network which call for an “end to drug prohibition”.

The two articles stake out at the onset why those against the Drug War should seriously [...]

ConnieTalk provides a great wrap-up of where third party and independent presidential candidates will be this weekend:

Constitution Party: Former Republican Alan Keyes is now running his presidential campaign from the Constitution Party. The former UN Ambassador under Ronald Reagan discussed his recent break from the GOP at an April 15th rally in Hazleton, [...]

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Ballot Access News

The Pennsylvania primary on April 22 is an excellent opportunity for petitioning parties to collect many signatures. The Constitution, Green, Libertarian Parties, and independent Ralph Nader, are all circulating a petition to get on the Pennsylvania ballot. Petitioning at the polls on primary day is one of the best techniques for petitioning, because [...]

Audio here.

Third Party Watch Publisher Stephen Gordon was recently interviewed on Seattle’s Newstalk 710 KIRO.

Good Third Party Watch sound-byte from Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic: “It’s a good source of—like—alternative (I come from the alternative rock world)—it’s a good source of alternative politics.”

Here’s another from Novocelic: “It’s kind of like the independent music store, the underground, the [...]

I’d like to make a personal request and ask that everybody who visits this site take a couple of minutes of your time to contact one or more legislators in Alabama and urge them to support HB738, which is a bill that will significantly decrease the signature requirement for independents in Alabama.

The committee meets [...]

In a rare* example of Democratic-Republican collusion, Arkansas Democrats are not challenging Republican House incumbent John Boozman, and Arkansas Republicans are not challenging Democratic House incumbents Marion Berry, Vic Snyder, and Mike Ross, nor Democratic Senator Mark Pryor.

The Green Party of Arkansas is stepping up to give both parties a challenge.

So far they have nominated [...]

By Kevin Zeese and Linda Schade

Citizens from across the political spectrum in Maryland worked together for a dramatic reversal in how Maryland votes. Since 2002 Maryland has experimented with paperless electronic voting. That experiment will end in 2010 when Maryland adopts a paper-based voting system with optical scan recounts.

This is a dramatic turnaround for a [...]

The Green Party is on the ballot in Arizona. From the Tucson Citizen:

The Arizona Green Party has been recognized by the state as a new political party for the fall elections.
The Green Party filed 22,570 verified signatures with Secretary of State Jan Brewer on April 8, a news release from Brewer’s office said. The party [...]

This video “chronicles the recurring patterns of disenfranchisement witnessed from 2000 to 2004 while following the story of Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who not only took an active role in investigating these election debacles but also found herself in the middle of one after publicly questioning the Bush Administration about the 9-11 terrorist attacks.”

Kevin Zeese is covering the three most prominent former elected officials who have recently jumped from either the Republican or Democratic Party who currently have (in Barr’s case, an exploratory committee) presidential aspirations.

McKinney:

The first to take the leap was former Representative Cynthia McKinney. McKinney served 12 years in the U.S. House of Representatives where she [...]

The Illinois Green Party has announced that it has concluded a major state wide recruiting effort for candidates, and will be running 60 candidates across the state from US Senate to County Board:

Since the slating period began in early March, the party has added 7 candidates for U.S. Congress and 1 candidate for U.S. Senate [...]

The Rhode Island Green Party Saturday gave Cynthia McKinney 6 of their 8 delegates, with the other two delegates going to Jesse Johnson.

From the Providence Journal:

Local Green Party backs ex-GA legislator for President by Mark Reynolds

Thirty-six members of Rhode Island’s Green Party gathered yesterday afternoon and picked a slate of delegates that favors a former [...]