President Obama has the most important speech of his Presidency on Thursday. A speech built around creating jobs and economic recovery. You want an economic recovery?…
Posts published in September 2011
Michael Cavlan, candidate and IPR commenter, gets third party opinion piece published
By Kimberly Wilder on September 7, 2011 7:30 AM
Published at Southside Pride:
Time for an alternative to business as usual?
by Michael Cavlan
The swing to the far right initiated and pushed by the extreme Republicans and quickly followed by the Democrats is the political reality we face today.…
Green Party blasts Obama & GOP capitulation to corporate lobbyists on Tar Sands & axing EPA smog regs
By Kimberly Wilder on September 7, 2011 7:17 AM
Original press release and interesting discussion at Firedoglake: here.
As posted by Green Party member Ian Wilder at onthewilderside, below:
Green Party promotes Green New Deal: real action to curb global warming and end oil addiction, create new jobs in energy conservation, alternate energy development, and public transportation
Green Party leaders strongly criticized President Obama’s recent decisions on the controversial tar sands pipeline and EPA smog regulations, calling his support for the Keystone XL Pipeline and withdrawal of smog standards reckless and dangerous to public health and the environment.…
Mark Hinkle Emails the LNC re: the Jud Com Ruling About Oregon
By Jill Pyeatt on September 6, 2011 11:17 PM
Lee Wrights: Ten years of fear is enough
By Brian Irving on September 6, 2011 11:05 PM
“Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear, kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency.
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Magellan Poll for New York Special U.S. House Race
By Ryan Brennan on September 6, 2011 10:24 PM
Source: Ballot Access News
New York holds a special election to fill the vacant U.S. House seat, 9th district, on September 13. Magellan Strategies, a pollster, just released a poll for this race.…
“The Empire”, Voice of WNYC, Carries Lengthy Story on Working Families Party Nominee for Legislature in Brooklyn Special Election
By Ryan Brennan on September 6, 2011 6:47 PM
Source: Ballot Access News
“The Empire”, politics blog of WNYC (the leading National Public Radio station in New York city) has this lengthy story about Jesus Gonzalez, the Working Families Party nominee in the September 13 special election, Assembly, 54th district.…
Ian Gilyeat: Creating Jobs in America Requires Work
By RedPhillips on September 5, 2011 3:09 PM
Creating jobs in America is not all that complicated and it clearly is not the job of the Federal government to create jobs. Private sector companies create jobs, individuals create jobs – governments create cost. …
Green Party and US Conference of Mayors: “Bring the War Dollars Home”
By Kimberly Wilder on September 5, 2011 2:52 PM
Repost from my co-blogger at onthewilderside:
Green Party of Suffolk Adopts US Conference of Mayors’ “Bring the War Dollars Home” Resolution and Challenges the County, Towns, and Villages to Also Adopt It
The Green Party of Suffolk, Suffolk County’s largest peace organization, has adopted the US Conference of Mayors’ resolution “Calling on Congress to Redirect Military Spending to Domestic Priorities.”…