Butch Ware, former Green Party VP nominee, announces next run for office
Santa Barbara, CA – Dr. Rudolph "Butch" Ware, the Green Party's 2024 vice-presidential nominee, has announced he is running to become the next governor of California.
"11/11 11:11 I hereby officially announce my candidacy for Governor of the State of California," Ware posted on X.
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Brianha Joy Gray on Democratic suppression of third parties
Brianha Joy Gray joins The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate to discuss the massive hurdles the Green Party faced in the 2024 campaign as the Democratic Party's vast machinery sought to prevent it from obtaining ballot access in order to deny voters an antiwar alternative.
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Fighting for a working-class alternative to the Republicans and Democrats
The US presidential election takes place on 5 November along with the election of vice president, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 34 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate. 13 state and territorial governorships and numerous other state and local elections will also be contested. BW Sculos, Vice President of Rio Grande Valley United Faculty (TFA/NEA) (personal capacity), Edinburg, Texas, explains what the Independent Socialist Group (the CWI’s co-thinkers in the US) is calling for.
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Albany’s Dem/GOP duopoly blocks third parties
New Yorkers filling out their ballots this year will notice something unusual: there are only two presidential candidates listed. In fact, New York has the dubious distinction of being the sole state in 2024 with only two presidential candidates on the ballot.
In a time when both Democratic and Republican parties loudly decry alleged voter disenfranchisement, New York has managed to suppress every alternative party and constrain voter choice. This is a serious form of voter suppression that has received almost no political attention, and it comes at a time when 58% of Americans polled by Gallup show support for a third political party.
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Green Party of New York Wages Write-In Campaign for Voter Choice and Ballot Status
As Election Day approaches, New York has a rather dubious distinction. It is the only state in the country in which Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are the only presidential choices voters have listed on their ballots. Anyone wanting to choose other candidates will have to write in those names.
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Watchdogs Claim Cong. Stefanik sides with Businesses over Workers
NY 21 Congress Watchdogs, a Ralph Nader-inspired group, is out with a report documenting how Congressmember Elise Stefanik has introduced several bills that, while sounding pro-worker, threaten their economic well-being.
Fred Balzac outlines why a trio of Cong. Stefanik's labor bills are actually pro-business. With Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.
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Mass. Green-Rainbow party members talk about their goals for the election
With one week until the election, the presidential race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump is close. Consequently, eyes are turning towards third-party voters.
Some have criticized third-party candidates, like the Green Party's Jill Stein, for potentially pulling voters away from the Democratic ticket and swaying the vote in favor of Trump. But many third-party voters say the major party candidates hold views that they cannot support.
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The ‘Genocide-for-Groceries’ Candidate
This week, Kamala Harris said she knows about voter revulsion over the Israeli genocide in Palestine. But people better vote for her anyway if they want abortions and affordable groceries.
An extraordinary moment occurred on the CNN “town hall” with Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday. Asked by an audience member what she would do to end the slaughter of Palestinians by U.S.-sponsored bombs, Harris delivered her usual canned answer about how “far too many” Palestinians have died and the need for a two-state solution, after which host Anderson Cooper asked a follow-up question.
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In the Name of Equity, Portland City Councilor Anna Trevorrow Refuses to Condemn Hamas’ Oct. 7 Terrorism
'To treat both sides as equal is actually to tip favor to the oppressor': Portland City Councilor Says Condemning Hamas is Out of Step with 'equity'
On the anniversary of terrorist attack against Israel carried out by the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, a member of the Portland City Council voiced her opposition to a proclamation in remembrance of the event, refusing to condemn the terrorist organization’s massacre of civilians in the name of “equity.”
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Green Party View – A write-in vote for Jill Stein is a vote for democracy
Shamefully, in New York it is the case that we are the only State, Commonwealth, or Territory of the United States to have only two candidates for President on the ballot. This is a result of changes to our electoral laws spearheaded by the so-called “Democratic” Party, in which ballot access for independent candidates was made nearly impossible by *tripling* the number of voters’ signatures that are required, and by establishing an unreasonably compressed time frame in which to collect these signatures.
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