June 2, 2026
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Opinion column published in the fall 2009 Green Pages:
by Don Whitehead, Independent Affiliate of the Tennessee Green Party (Nashville)
U.S. Greens who call for an “open borders” policy need to look at the broader picture in order to make a more balanced resolution to this moral dilemma.…
The Christian Science Monitor tells today of an international group of over 1,000 activists seeking to enter Gaza via Egypt to deliver supplies to the blockaded region on the anniversary of Israel’s most recent offensive there.…
by Bob Barr
as published in The Atlanta Journal Constitution
During my eight years in the House of Representatives, I saw plenty of deals being negotiated, renegotiated, confirmed, reconfirmed, removed, undone, re-done, and finally cast in stone.…
Posted at Kn@ppster:
As most readers of KN@PPSTER probably already know, the Libertarian Party‘s 2010 national convention will be held in St. Louis over several days spanning Memorial Day weekend.…
Ballot Access News (emphasis added):
On December 21, a lower state court in Maine ruled that if election officials take longer than the time allowed to check petition signatures, then the petition must be deemed valid.…
The Providence Journal reports that Lincoln Chafee will officially announce his candidacy for governor of Rhode Island as an Independent next week. The report goes out of its way to emphasize that Chafee “lags behind” Democratic rivals in fundraising, but fails to note that he has nonetheless been leading them in polls. …
Posted at PSLweb.org by Ian Thompson:
Far from the “change” promised by President Obama and his new administration, 2009 reinforced capitalism’s status quo. It was a year of suffering for workers and poor people.…
The December 28 issue of the Biloxi, Mississippi, Sun Herald, has this story about Brian Moore’s ongoing lawsuit to settle the exact deadline for candidates to file presidential elector paperwork to be on the ballot.…
2009 is nearly over and what a year it has been for us all as European Greens! We had a great common campaign for the European Elections and obtained an excellent result, although we know that there is a lot of hard work ahead of us to improve our performance in those regions of the EU where Greens are not represented in the European Parliament or in the national parliament.…