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Liberal Arts Dude commented on the diary post Fighting the Duopoly: An Interview with the Vermont Progressive Party by Liberal Arts Dude.
Hello there Phoenix Woman. Not quite sure what you mean by your response. I posted this diary inspired by your original post on the Greens and Tea Party. I detect a hint of sarcasm (please correct me if I am off the mark with that observation) but I don’t understand why. My intention for posting [...]
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Liberal Arts Dude commented on the diary post Fighting the Duopoly: An Interview with the Vermont Progressive Party by Liberal Arts Dude.
Thanks Matthew Detroit! Good idea on making a profile of the Working Families Party as my next diary entry. Lemme work on some questions to ask them. To whet your appetite I recommend two books which have a pretty good introduction to the Working Families Party and their success on the local level in New [...]
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Liberal Arts Dude commented on the diary post Fighting the Duopoly: An Interview with the Vermont Progressive Party by Liberal Arts Dude.
Many thanks metamars for the kind words! I appreciate it! For anyone interested in local elections, consider this from the New Organizing Institute: Candidate Project The Candidate Project has very helpful resources on local elections, running for local office, finding out the rules for filing a candidacy in your local area, and has a library of [...]
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Liberal Arts Dude wrote a new diary post: Fighting the Duopoly: An Interview with the Vermont Progressive Party
I conducted this interview in December 2011 and originally published it for a now defunct blog on third party politics. Phoenix Woman’s recent diary on the Tea Party, Greens and third party politic s got me thinking about these issues once again so I decided to re-post this article here at FDL. The point I am trying [...] -
Liberal Arts Dude commented on the diary post Tea Partiers, Greens, and the GOP by Phoenix Woman.
Thanks for the link on Kshama Sawant, @one_outer! I checked it out immediately grabbed by the description of an openly Socialist candidate gaining victory with 28% of the vote. I checked out the news section in Sawant’s website and came upon this pretty good analysis on electoral prospects for Left activism post 2012 . QUOTE: District and [...]
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Liberal Arts Dude commented on the diary post Tea Partiers, Greens, and the GOP by Phoenix Woman.
Great article @Phoenix Woman! And I appreciate the pragmatic responses of @TarHeelDem and @textynn. Coming in late to this discussion but here’s my two cents’ worth. If anyone is interested in Chad Peace’s more recent activities, he is a founder of a website and news platform for independent voters called the Independent Voters Network (IVN): http://ivn.us/voters/Chad_Peace/profile/ — he [...]
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Liberal Arts Dude commented on the diary post Towards a Tea Party-OWS Rapprochement? by skolion.
The idea of members of the Tea Party working together with #OWS is actually not so far-fetched. Here’s a couple of links where Tea Party members come out in support of #OWS — one of them is by Tea Party founder Karl Denninger! http://politeaparty.blogspot.com/2011/10/tea-party-founder-speaks-out-in-support.html http://www.notinkansas.us/occupy.html There are factions of the Tea Party which haven’t been [...]
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Liberal Arts Dude commented on the diary post Have you had enough? New party on the horizon by Alan Maki.
There is an organization in the UK that supports and serves as a resource center for independent political candidates. It is called the Independent Network: http://www.independentnetwork.org.uk/about-us. They have had a certain amount of success in their efforts primarily on the local level. As far as I know there is no organization in North America that [...]
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Liberal Arts Dude commented on the diary post OWS – The Legal Working Group by Cynthia Kouril.
Ah! The #Occupy working group system! I think this is the movement’s best-kept secret that is actually wide in the open! I recently wrote an article singing the praises of the working group system and you can read it here: The Future of the #Occupy Movement — http://thirdpartyindependent.com/node/138 I recently signed up to the NYC [...]
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