[From City Hall News] By Selena Ross UPDATE: Council Member Vallone wrote in with a statement to explain that he had made the decision not to take matching funds knowing that Serpe would be seeking them. He has since raised $100,000 in private funds, with about $40,000 left on hand–though he will still be outspent [...]
Archive : Politics
On The Obama Peace Prize – Reverend Billy
[From Vote Reverend Billy] Now we have to change all our words around. I never thought of Peace as a word that was moveable. All our words have been shifted by Consumerism and Militarism. Democracy is gone, America and Freedom are gone. Peace always stayed there in one place. Peace patiently waited for us to [...]
PUTTING OBAMA BEHIND US
[From The Progressive Review] Sam Smith As inevitable disillusionment grows with Barack Obama, thanks to his lackluster performance, unfulfilled promises and often indistinguishable variation from his predecessor, it is perhaps time to put our toys away and return to real life. The Obama campaign was in many ways just a misleading trailer hyping what’s turned [...]
Rev. Billy Talen and the anarchists
[From Green Party Watch] by Gregg Jocoy This AP article says that several hundred people have been protesting at the G-20 summit currently underway in Pittsburgh. The reporters, Daniel Lovering and Michael Rubinkam, write that The hundreds of marchers included small groups of self-described anarchists, some wearing dark clothes and bandanas and carrying black flags. [...]
Green leader May wins Island nomination – Canada.com
[From Google Search: "green Party"] CTV.ca Green leader May wins Island nominationCanada.comFederal Green party Leader Elizabeth May has won her party's nomination in Saanich-Gulf Islands and will face Tory MP Gary Lunn in the next federal election …Canada Green Party Nominates Its National Leader to Run for …Ballot Access Elizabeth May wins party's nomination in [...]
German Green party activist resigns over dead fish
[From Europe News via Monsters and Critics] German Green party activist resigns over dead fish Berlin – One of the Green Party’s lead candidates, Renate Kuenast, expressed regret on Wednesday at the decision of a prominent party member to quit – over a dead fish. Author and actress Barbara Ruetting said she could not remain [...]
Two Maine Green Independent Party Leaders Take Opposing Views on Tax Referendum
[I think it is a sign of party growth to see public reasonable debates on issues that Greens disagree on. -RS] [From GREEN PARTY WATCH by Walter] This is interesting. Maine Green Party Independent leaders Pat LaMarche and Lynne Williams (2010 candidate for governor) are on the opposite sides of a tax referendum issue, Question [...]
