Last year two Wisconsin Greens went to Iowa to help Iowa Greens get Cynthia McKinney on the ballot. They hit Iowa City, and several other cities, before going to Davenport, IA for the Bix Street Fest, a large event with lots of people - ideal for gathering signatures. Event organizers DavenportOne confronted the [...]

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Green Party activist and WBAI in Exile reporter Don DeBar covers Israeli seizure of Cynthia McKinney, the Spirit of Humanity, and the rest of it’s crew. H/T to Anita Stewart.

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Just as the death of Michale Jackson sucked all the oxygen out of the media’s air, making all other news disappear, the Israeli government’s apparent abduction of Cynthia McKinney has been the focus of much of what is going on here. That is as it should be. Never before has another nation taken [...]

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This is my own personal opinion.
Green Party Watch is a privately owned website. The owner has the right to decide who does and who does not post comments here. To this point only one person has been banned from commenting. While I cannot speak for the owner, nor the rest of the [...]

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Ronald Kane Hardy, founder of Green Party Watch, was told by our hosting company that the site has gotten a sudden burst of hits, leading to the site being intermittently unavailable. They inform us that the site hosting has been transferred to another hosting machine to deal with the new traffic. That does [...]

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First, I got a return call from the Israeli consulate in Atlanta and the consulate employee told me that the Israeli Defense Force and Israeli Foreign Affairs office has released information he read which says that Cynthia McKinney is not being detained by the Israeli government. He said that she “had done this sort [...]

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GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org
For Immediate Release:
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Contacts:
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty@greens.org
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene@gp.org
Green Party: President Obama and the US State Dept. must demand release of Cynthia McKinney and 20 other human rights activists on Free Gaza relief boat seized by Israeli gunboats
• The Free Gaza’s [...]

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The latest from www.freegaza.org reports that the humanitarian vessel Spirit of Humanity has been attacked and boarded by the Israelis 23 miles off the coast of Gaza. Former US Congresswoman and Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney is among the 21 human rights workers taken prisoner off the ship.
[23 miles off the coast of Gaza, [...]

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Ohio High court: Prevailing-wage law has limits
Business First of Columbus
The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday shortened the reach of state’s prevailing wage law, ruling it applies only to companies working directly on public-improvement project sites.
The court in a 6-1 decision reinstated a Medina County trial court’s ruling in favor of Gene’s Refrigeration Heating and Air [...]

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Breaking news is coming in regularly from www.freegaza.org, and at this time it appears that the ship Spirit of Humanity, carrying Cynthia McKinney and tons of humanitarian supplies destined for Gaza has been intercepted by the Israeli Navy. The Israeli’s are jamming the Spirit’s radar, GPS and navigation systems, forcing it to navigate by old [...]

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In an appeal to supporters across the globe, Congresswoman and 2008 Green Party presidential nominee Cynthia McKinney has called for phone calls and email messages to Israeli leaders to demand an end to what are described as illegal actions to prevent her and others from reaching Gaza with humanitarian aid. The full text, from [...]

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In a press release issued in early June, the California Green Party and State Assembly candidate Jack Lindblad called out both the Democratic and Republican parties for their positions on Proposition 8, which changed the state constitution to outlaw same sex marriage.
The press release also goes into detail about California’s tax system, proposed early release [...]

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Alan Augustson, a Green Party activist and candidate for Congress from Illinois, published an interesting piece at his Face Book page in which he explains why the Obama administration is not taking the US down a socialist path. The content of the piece can be found by clicking this article’s headline. The text [...]

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From Free Gaza, the ship Spirit of Humanity has left Cyprus and is heading for Gaza. Green Party Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney is on board with 20 other humanitarian workers, along with supplies. The last relief ship that McKinney was on for Gaza was rammed by the Israeli Navy and escorted to port. Will the [...]

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In a Social Media Release the Babylon Green Party announced plans to hold a workshop on understanding empathy as a tool for peace. Wikipedia defines empathy as
Empathy is the capability to share and understand another’s emotions and feelings. It is often characterized as the ability to “put oneself into another’s shoes,”
The text [...]

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