This CNN Video report titled “Are you on the list?” features the arrest of Ken Krayeske and his legal challenge. He was allegedly arrested for attempting to organize a protest and for taking pictures of the Governor. He is described in the video as a former “Green Party Campaign Director”.
Embedded video from CNN Video
“If [...]

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Lynne Serpe, the Green Party candidate for New York City Council in District 22 (Astoria), responded to the recent primary runoff elections in NYC with an editorial in the New York Daily News championing instant runoff voting:
Holding two elections is expensive. It’s inconvenient. Voters get burned out and confused.
What’s the solution? A simple reform called [...]

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Green Party Senate candidate John Gray says that he favors strong single payer health care reform, which would eliminate the waste that is inherent to the delivery of health care through insurance brokers.

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Tomorrow is the last day of the 3rd Quarter FEC Reporting Period and the date set for the Matt Reichel for Congress Money Bomb. From the Facebook page:
On the last day of the 3rd quarter FEC reporting period, the Matt Reichel for Congress campaign is asking supporters to pledge a gift of $50. Our [...]

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In Texas’ largest city, three Greens are making a team effort to get elected to Houston City Council. Deborah Shafto, Don Cook, and Alfred Molison are running as “The Progressive Coalition”, with a platform focused on public transportation, recycling, living wage, issue advocacy, policing, and public safety. They hope to guide Houston to a less [...]

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I just read that there was also a local election in the Upper Austria province held today. The Greens got 9.2% of the vote, a .2% increase from the last election.

Yesterday’s Upper Austrian provincial election saw disastrous losses for the Social Democrats (SPÖ) leaving them with their worst ever result in the province.
Final results saw [...]

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Election results from Germany are trickling in and exit polls are showing Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats on track with 33.5% and the Free Democrats at 14.5%. That doesn’t equal 50% I know, but all the stories I’ve read said that due to quirks in seat allocatement, they will have enough to form government.
The Social Democrats [...]

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German elections for the Bundestag, the national parliament, will take place tomorrow.

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union and her allies are expected to cruise to victory after a campaign that has been described as boring. Polling has put the Social Democrats a far second.
The real question will be what coalition government will form after the [...]

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This last spring, Deb Leticia Gordils was one of five candidates seeking the Illinois Green Party nomination to run in the special election for Rahm Emanuel’s seat. She was beat out by Matt Reichel, who is now running again for that seat next fall.
As for Deb Gordils, she is now seeking the Republican Party’s nomination [...]

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In Pittsfield, MA, Green-Rainbow Party member JD Hebert has finished in the top 2 of 4 candidates for the Ward 7 City Council seat and will advance to the general election on November 3rd.
Hebert works as director of transportation, housing, shelter and facilities for Berkshire Community Action Council, an anti-poverty organization in Western Massachusetts.
In an [...]

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The latest Email Newsletter from the Lynne Serpe for NYC Council Campaign contains a lot of great news. This campaign should definitely top the list of campaigns to watch this November.
As we enter the final phase of our City Council Campaign, I want to share how far we’ve come here in District 22, [...]

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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. Others wore helmets and safety goggles.
The article [...]

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From VoteRevBilly.org:

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 8:00pm

Reverend Billy and the Life After Bloomberg Gospel Choir
Busboys and Poets: 5th and K Street, Washington DC
Tuesday Sept 29, 8 PM
Medea Benjamin, Code Pink co-founder, hosts the fundraising part of the evening.
Rev Billy Talen is the Green Party candidate for mayor.
Admission is free — we appreciate your on-site donations to [...]

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Posted over at Independent Political Report:

I was listening to the radio last night and happened to catch Ralph Nader being interviewed on Radio Times, a locally broadcast show on WHYY, the Philadelphia NPR outlet.  The main topic was his new novel “Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!”, but he was talked about his regrets (the [...]

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Received from Brent McMillan, the Green Party Black Caucus will be involved with a WPFW Radio Interview tomorrow (webcast live), and a number of other events over the next several days in the DC area. Check it out below:
WPFW RADIO INTERVIEW:
Thurs, Sept 24 - tomorrow - GP BLACK CAUCUS on WPFW, 11:30-NOON: DC Statehood [...]

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