Yesterday, the leadership of two states made the decision to withdraw from the Libertarian State Leadership Alliance (LSLA). The LSLA has been a topic of conversation here on IPR several times over the past few months.…
Posts published in January 2014
(The following was a press release from Marianne Williamson’s congressional campaign. The original piece can be viewed on her campaign website.)
Dear friends,
Thank you for your support of our Congressional campaign.…
Governor Jerry Brown and his staff are exchanging high-fives over balancing California’s budget, but the people on whose backs it was balanced are not rejoicing. The state’s high-wire act has been called “the ultimate in austerity budgets.”…
Bill: SB70
Sponsor: Senator Cam Ward
Synopsis: Under existing law, to gain ballot access, an independent candidate for office must file a written petition signed by at least three percent of the qualified electors who cast ballots for the office of Governor in the last general election.…
Posted by Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch.
From Jill Stein and the Green Shadow Cabinet:
You’re invited to join Tim DeChristopher, Richard Monje, Cheri Honkala, Sherri Mitchell, Chris Williams, yours truly, and speakers from a broad spectrum of grassroots justice movements on Saturday, January 18, 7:30 PM in Chicago, 333 S.…
From Ballot Access News:
On January 15, a status conference was held in Noble v State, Mercer County Superior Court, c-86-13. This is the lawsuit filed by the Socialist Party to win the ability for voters to register as members of the Socialist Party.…
By E. Zachary Knight at Oklahomans For Ballot Access Reform. Posted with the permission of the author.
On March 8, 2014, The Oklahoma Libertarian Party will be holding it’s state Convention.
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Last week Senators Max Baucus, Orrin Hatch, and Dave Camp introduced the “Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities Act of 2014″ into the Senate. This is legislation which would fast track secretive trade agreements such as the Trans Pacific Partnership (TTP) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), both of which are being written behind closed doors by bureaucrats and corporate lobbyists.…
Green Party leaders and candidates expressed support for the American Studies Association’s (ASA) Dec. 4 endorsement of boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) to pressure the government of Israel to observe human rights (http://www.theasa.net/from_the_editors/item/council_statement_on_the_academic_boycott_of_israel_resolution…