Green-turned Democrat-turned Green

By Kimberly Wilder on March 17, 2010 8:54 PM

I posted this at onthewilderside as “A peek indside a caucus, and inside party politics: Tom Cleland” Many of the characters in this story are in the Green Party or were in the Green Party.…

Cynthia McKinney: Leaders’ lack of respect for rule of law makes us all victims of 9/11

By Ross Levin on March 14, 2010 7:39 PM

The British newspaper The Independent is running a piece written by former US Congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney on Monday. Read the full thing here.…

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT): ‘One year later, the White House gets it’

By Ross Levin on March 10, 2010 10:52 PM

Bernie Sanders is an independent US Senator who is closely associated with the Vermont Progressive Party. He caucuses with the Democrats in Congress. From The Raw Story:

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From FAIR and News for Greens: Reporting on new nuclear plant leaves questions

By Kimberly Wilder on February 20, 2010 8:37 PM

This article was posted at “News for Greens”, one of the personal blog projects of Suffolk County Green Party Chair Roger Snyder.

Action Alert: Network Nukes Boosters

[From FAIR]

Reports on New Nuclear Plant Leave Key Questions Unasked

On February 16, ABC World News and NBC Nightly News aired incomplete and unbalanced reports following Barack Obama’s announcement of $8 billion in new loan guarantees for a nuclear power plant in Georgia.…

Cynthia McKinney’s response to President Obama’s speech

By Kimberly Wilder on December 3, 2009 8:31 AM

Former Congressperson Cynthia McKinney was the 2008 Green Party candidate for President of the United States.

Is President Obama’s Surge A Trap?
Cynthia McKinney
December 2, 2009
Last night [December 1, 2009], President Obama announced both his decision to add 30,000 U.S.

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Congressional candidate Matt Reichel responds to President Obama’s plans for Afghanistan

By Ross Levin on December 1, 2009 9:24 PM

In an email to supports, Green candidate for Congress in Illinois Matt Reichel writes:

President Obama just blew the smoke of war propaganda in America’s face: a public that wanted change has to stomach an increase in the violence of our immoral occupation of Afghanistan.…

GP 2008 Prez candidate Cynthia McKinney: Shame on press already calling President Obama’s plan an “Exit Strategy”

By Kimberly Wilder on December 1, 2009 6:47 PM

Many in the special interest press are cynically reporting the President’s speech tonight as an “Afghanistan exit plan.” We have now reached the point where those who make and interpret current events think they can make us believe that war is for peace, ignorance is strength, slavery is freedom, and lies are the truth.

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Ralph Nader video featured on Yahoo Finance

By Kimberly Wilder on October 13, 2009 4:34 PM

Ralph Nader has run for President of the United States on the Green Party line, and more recently as an independent. Nader was recently featured in a Yahoo!…

National Green Party urges widespread antiwar protests on day Obama accepts peace prize

By Kimberly Wilder on October 9, 2009 10:29 PM

From a press release at the Green Party of the United States web-site: gp.org

Greens urge widespread antiwar protests on the day President Obama accepts his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
Friday, October 9, 2009

WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party leaders expressed puzzlement and outrage over the decision to award President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize, and urge widespread demonstrations against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to take place in Oslo, Washington, and other cities on the day Mr.

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