In an e-mail to supporters, the Green Party says the American Federation of Teachers “has joined Clinton’s royal court,” with its executive council voting to endorse Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.…
Posts published in July 2015
From Tony Wilsdon at the Socialist Alternative website:
The demand for a $15 minimum wage continues to surge forward as a concrete answer to one of the central issues driving U.S.…
From the Socialists of Color website:
Freddie Gray was murdered by the police, just like an untold number in this country every day. More often than not, the legal system is not sympathetic to the people in the streets chanting “Black Lives Matter.”…
Robert Fantina writes at CounterPunch: “There is currently much excitement in the United States about the possibility of the first woman president,” and “this writer, too, has begun to share some enthusiasm about the possibility of a woman in the White House.”…
From Richard Winger at Ballot Access News:
The blog of the Birmingham News, Alabama’s biggest newspaper, published an appeal by the Constitution Party for a candidate to step forward to run in an upcoming special legislative election.…
Jesse Walker has this article at Reason about Bernie Sanders and his position on gun rights. The piece specifically ties his views to those of the Liberty Union Party in the ’70s.…
In a letter to the editor of The New York Times, Oliver B. Hall of the Center for Competitive Democracy, which works to eliminate barriers to political participation and protect open and competitive elections, criticizes left-wing journalist and scholar Todd Gitlin over an op-ed he wrote for the Times last week on Sen.…
From the American Freedom Party website:
The American Freedom Party’s Board of Directors commissioned activists in Oregon to campaign for Proportion Representation (“PR”), also known as “ranked choice voting”, by getting it on the ballot this November through the initiative process.…