Monthly LNC E-Meeting January 8, 2023 at 9pm Eastern
I will once again live-blog.…
Posts published in December 2022
The first Black woman to be nominated as a Presidential candidate has died.
Charlene Mitchell, 92, died on December 14 in Manhattan. Mitchell was the 1968 Presidential candidate of the Communist Party, receiving just over 1,000 votes and finishing 11th among nominated candidates.…
The People’s Party and the Libertarian Party will organize a collaborative anti-war rally outside the Lincoln Memorial early in the new year. The event, announced by organizers as Rage Against the War Machine, is scheduled for February and focuses on several issues related to civil liberties, American foreign policy, and the ongoing war in Ukraine.…
Posting on twitter, Dr. Jill Stein (Green Party candidate for President, 2012 and 2016) has spoken out on the Russian war on Ukraine. We quote:
With latest UKR aid, cost will reach $115B + countless lives lost in war we could’ve avoided, had we not moved NATO east, supported Minsk or simply not scuttled Turkish peace deal.
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The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire will discuss several proposed bylaws changes at its next state convention, including one proposal that would authorize the Executive Committee to remove members it deems harmful to the state party.…
In a resolution (full text here) adopted unanimously at the 6th Convention of the Libertarian Party of Spain (Partido Libertario) on December 3rd, 2022, Partido Libertario, as part of an extended resolution, voted that it:
EXPRESSES its rejection of the infiltration and takeover strategies launched by the international extreme right regarding the libertarian movement in general and libertarian political parties specifically.
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Meeting is approaching. The National Chair and her newborn are on-screen.
They have reached the budget. I had several computer issues and missed the opening. They are changing names of budget categories. …
Kyrsten Sinema, the senior senator from Arizona, announced her departure from the Democratic Party Thursday evening. “I’ve registered as an Arizona independent,” she told CNN’s Jake Tapper in a television interview.…
A source familiar with Forward Party operations in Virginia recently spoke with Independent Political Report to disclose internal conversations for securing recognition and future ballot access in the state.…