June 2, 2026
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From the Socialist Party USA website:
On Wednesday, April 15th members of the Chicago Socialist Party and Indianapolis Socialist Party joined together in the Fight for 15 march along with more than 5,000 fellow workers to fight for a better standard of living that has been long owed to them by the capitalist establishment.…
From Richard Winger at Ballot Access News:
On April 1, the Commission on Presidential Debates said it will soon announce a transparent online process for receiving and reviewing submissions from any organization or individual who wishes to share their ideas about the debates, including the criteria used to determine who will be invited to debate.…
From the Tax Wall Street Party’s morning briefing, dated 4/15/15:
AN APPEAL TO GREEN PARTY LEADERS AND ACTIVISTS
As we reported yesterday, Illinois’ Green Party mainstay Rich Whitney penned a forceful Op-Ed in support of Chicago’s “LaSalle Street Tax,” a bridge too far for failed mayoral candidate Chuy Garcia.…
Independence is the only real option for Puerto Rico. This is not to say that statehood isn’t a valid option, because within the American union statehood represents political equality.…
From Seth Berner at the Maine Green Independent Party website:
Many of you are aware that the Portland, ME Finance Committee (FC) approved increasing the minimum wage in Portland from $7.50 to $9.75 by 2020.…
Per Richard Winger at Ballot Access News, Time Magazine has published this article profiling five women NOT named Hillary Clinton who sought the presidency, namely Victoria Woodhull of the Equal Rights Party, Gracie Allen of the Surprise Party, Shirley Chisholm of the Democratic Party, Linda Jenness of the Socialist Workers Party, and Jill Stein of the Green Party.…
From Doug Kaufman at Liberation News:
For the first time in California history, the state government under Governor Jerry Brown has imposed water rationing and restrictions to address an ongoing four-year-long drought that seems to have no end.…
A group of Czech actvists associated with the libertarian Party of Free Citizens, has claimed a sliver of land along the Danube between Croatia and Serbia as the “Republic of Liberland”.…
An initiative to create a top-two system for Florida has started to circulate. Progressive Campaigns is the paid petitioning company that is doing the drive.…