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Green Party Candidate Hawkins Arrested During Health Care Protest

Roger Snyder — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:54:22 +0000

Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins was arrested Wednesday afternoon during a peaceful protest in Syracuse, NY. About a dozen people gathered outside of the Wellpoint/Excellus offices to protest some of the company’s practices. Syracuse Police say Hawkins was arrested for a trespassing violation. They say he stood in the doorway of the building blocking customer [...]

Greens Gain Majority on Fairfax, CA City Council

Roger Snyder — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:50:59 +0000

Greens won a majority on the Fairfax, CA city council, just down the road from Richmond where Green Gayle McLaughlin is mayor. It would be the third time Greens have held the majority on a city council in California – Arcata (1996-1998) and Sebastopol (2000-2006) have also had Green majorities, according to the Green Party [...]

Green Party Election Results

Roger Snyder — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:07:05 +0000

Non-offical returns for all NY Green Party Candidates. Allen Carstensen Town Supervisor, Ulysses Roxanne Marino (Dem) 693 88% Allen Carstensen (Grn) 91 12% Evergreen C. Chou City Council, 20th District, Flushing, Queens Peter Koo (GOP) 8,081 49.6% Yen Chou (Dem) 7,278 44.7 % S.J. Jung (WF) 664 4.1% Evergreen Chou (Grn) 270 1.7% Jennifer Dotson Alderperson, 1st ward, Ithaca Running unopposed, 212 votes [...]

Reverend Billy Talen for Mayor Interview, theresident.net | Cloud_Greens

Roger Snyder — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:25:05 +0000

[Via Cloud Green] This anti-consumerist/performance artists/pastor/awesome guy is running for mayor of NYC. From: theresident.net Video Here.

Vote Green Party in NY Today!

Roger Snyder — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:17:48 +0000

Election Day is upon us today. This year the Green Party in New York State has a dozen strong candidates across the state running for election or re-election. The Green Party represents a real choice in the usually sordid world of New York State politics. Greens around the state have been fighting against the spoiling [...]

Rev. Billy on Running for NYC Mayor – WSJ

Roger Snyder — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:52:06 +0000

[From GPNY] The Rev. Billy Talen, running for mayor of New York City on the Green Party ticket, tells WSJ’s David Weidner whether people have taken to his anti-corporation message. The performance artist also discusses his identity as The Rev. Billy.

Reverend Billy tells Mike Bloomberg what NY City is about

Roger Snyder — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:58:23 +0000

Reverend Billy interrupts Mike Bloomberg to tell him what this city is about.

Walt Nestler’s Tour de District

Roger Snyder — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:12:46 +0000

A newly released video from the campaign provides a summary of the thought-provoking “toxic tour” of the 18th NY City Council District hosted by Walt Nestler. The video follows the route of this bus tour as it makes stops at various contaminated sites. At each stop, Walt explains what the issues are and what [...]

Green Party candidate challenges incumbent.

Roger Snyder — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:35:29 +0000

[From Arlington Connection] By Emily Canal Green Party candidate John Reeder is challenging incumbent Jay Fisette in this year’s election for the Arlington County Board. Although he lost the race last year, he earned about 21 percent of the vote and he hopes his affiliation with the Green Party will bring a higher number. “Democrats have controlled [...]

PR in Germany

Roger Snyder — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:34:37 +0000

[From Pragmatos] I ran across two rather different takes on the proportionality of the results of Germany’s recent election. First we have Matthew Søberg Shugart at Fruits and Votes: The German result Perusing the results of last Sunday’s German election (thank you, Adam Carr), one thing that jumps out at me is the high—by standards of Germany’s proportional system—disproportionality. [...]