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Green Party wraps up its 2009 Annual National Meeting in Durham, NC; video clips of meeting highlights posted online

Posted on July 28, 2009 by iwilder

Among the videos: a forum on health care reform, an address by Cynthia McKinney, and West Virginia’s Jesse Johnson speaking on mountaintop removal for coal The Green Party of the United States concluded its 2009 Annual National Meeting in Durham, North Carolina, on Sunday.  The meeting was attended by at least 95 delegates from at […]

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Nader: Health Care Hypocrisy

Posted on July 28, 2009 by iwilder

About the only lesson Barack Obama has learned from the Hillary and Bill health insurance debacle of 1993-1994 is to leave Michelle Obama out of his current drive to get something—anything—through the Congress labeled “reform”. Otherwise, he is making the same mistakes of blurring his proposal, catering to right-wing Democrats and corporatist Republicans, who want […]

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Green Party National Meeting wrap-up

Posted on July 27, 2009 by kwilder

KW writes: The Green Party of the United States (GP-US) held is Annual National Meeting in Durham, North Carolina. It was an off election year and non-presidential prep year, so the focus was on workshops, issues, local candidate elections, and internal elections.

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Help support a Racial Justice Act in regards to the death penalty

Posted on July 27, 2009 by kwilder

If you are an opponent of the death penalty, or if the Henry Louis Gates wrongful arrest story has you thinking about racial profiling and bias in our criminal justice system, please consider helping out with this bill. It is in regards to North Carolina law. Though, passing it would create an interesting precedent and […]

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Ballot Access News puts extensive archives on-line!

Posted on July 27, 2009 by kwilder

KW writes: Ballot Access News, Richard Winger’s web-site, just put more of its archives on-line. Below is the kind of “just the facts” story I posted about it on Independent Political Report, where I am a kind of news stringer. But, here onthewilderside, I wanted to add my less objective comments… Richard Winger is awesome! […]

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Green Party Nat’l Meeting: Friday eve update

Posted on July 24, 2009 by kwilder

Post meeting wrap-up with full list of Steering Committee candidates: here Roger Snyder, GP-US NC Rep for New York and Chair of the Green Party of Suffolk, is on the ground in Durham, North Carolina for the Green Party of the United States Annual National Meeting. Here are some reports from Roger: One of the […]

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Canadian Healthcare: A reality check on a reality check

Posted on July 24, 2009 by iwilder

A reality check on a reality check As the debate on health care reform heats up the United States, it seems certain that Canada’s public health care system will be used, or more accurately misused, in the battle for hearts and minds. For years, Canadians have feared the American health care system; now Americans are […]

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Green Party National Meeting: Workshops

Posted on July 24, 2009 by kwilder

If you are in Durham, North Carolina, or you can get there this weekend, you could attend the Green Party of the United States Annual National Meeting. If you cannot attend, there is live-streaming. I found it embedded at Independent Political Report: here. IPR has a very open comments section. – KW National Committee Meeting […]

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Photos and update: Green Party national meeting in Durham

Posted on July 24, 2009 by kwilder

Friday evening update is at the wilderside: here. – About the workshop: “Constructive Critique of the US Green Party…” – Constructive Critique of the U.S. Green Party and Recommendations for Improvement (Workshop) 9:00-10:30

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Confronting those who justified torture: John Yoo

Posted on July 24, 2009 by kwilder

– Above video: Author of Torture Memos Pranked in Classroom A former [U.S.] Justice Department official who wrote controversial memos authorizing the Bush administration to conduct torture was the object of a prank by an Australian comedian during one of his recent law class lectures. John Yoo, a former deputy assistant attorney general who has […]

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FL hospital deported patient: Will they get away with it?

Posted on July 23, 2009 by kwilder

(excerpt from) The Miami Herald Fla. hospital accused of deporting patient By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ / Associated Press Writers STUART, Fla. — The guardian of a Guatemalan man [Luis Alberto Jimenez] with serious brain damage is suing a South Florida hospital, alleging that the facility illegally deported the uninsured patient to his native country… The trial […]

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A chink in the Prison-Industrial Complex

Posted on July 21, 2009 by kwilder

KW: Wow! I keep realizing that between the economic crisis bringing down the luxury culture, and Bernie Madoff having taught rich people to think more carefully about get-richer-quick schemes, things should eventually get better for the middle class, working class, and the oppressed. Everything is becoming more down-to-earth. Now, the California budget crisis has caused […]

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Oppose Hate Crimes and the Death Penalty

Posted on July 21, 2009 by iwilder

It is necessary to take extra steps to get law enforcement officials to prosecute hate crimes.  Often existing laws are not used to prosecute hate crimes because of bias against those in the LBGT community, but imposing the death penalty does nothing to lessen that bias.   – IW New Yorkers For Alternatives to the Death […]

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Intrigue in Minneapolis with major party/third party elected officials

Posted on July 21, 2009 by kwilder

The city of Minneapolis will have elections for Mayor in November 2009. One of the candidates will be RT Ryback, the incumbent Mayor, who is a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and an officer in the National Conference of Democratic Mayors. In the last election cycle, Mayor Ryback’s campaign published a piece of literature stating […]

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