Warscapes graciously gave us permission to repost this piece by JL Schatz. There’s a war going on. It’s a war against consumer knowledge, against immigrants, a war against the impoverished and a war against animals. This war is being waged through Ag Gag laws that silence information about how food is produced in ...

Jónsdóttir Sonoma, CA -- Birgitta Jónsdóttir, a newly re-elected member of parliament of Althing, the Icelandic parliament and representing the Icelandic Pirate Party, will be visiting the San Francisco Bay Area and speaking at Public Banking 2013 conference, co-hosted by the Public Banking Institute and the Green MBA Program of ...

Jill Stein, the Green Party's 2012 presidential candidate yesterday condemned the recently released Obama 2014 budget proposal, issuing the following statement: "Despite his campaign promises to protect Social Security and make the economy fair, Obama’s budget throws the American people under the bus. And it gives the economic elite a free ride ...

2012 Green Party Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala have issued the following statement: Ending the Great Recession, not the deficit, is nation's top priority 2012 Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein said today that the so-called Fiscal Cliff Talks “need to focus on putting Americans back to ...

The following is a guest editorial by Tim Jorstad. Mr. Jorstad is founder and Chairman of the AltaPacific Bank, a commercial bank located in both Northern and Southern California. This editorial calls for a public bank specifically in the context of Sonoma County, California. Much more information on the public banking ...

(POSTED AT JILL STEIN FOR PRESIDENT tonight): Green Party vice presidential nominee Cheri Honkala arrives back in Philadelphia after two weeks on the campaign trail just in time to witness the impact of Hurricane Sandy on her hometown. Watch it now:

In July of this year, Walter Brasch, award-winning journalist and longtime contributor to the old Shared Sacrifice page and politicalcontext.org currently, filed four Right to Know requests with the Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors, for documents pertaining to state government issues. The Association fought the requests, and the issue ...

We'll keep this quick and to the point: If you like weekends, safe working conditions, and a host of other protections, thank labor unions. If you like labor unions, thank the IWW, the SP, Eugene Debs, Joe Hill, the Matewan strikers, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and the communist ...

The following is a Labor Day editorial by Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein.  I welcome and endorse the AFL-CIO’s campaign to finally fulfill President Roosevelt’s 1944 call for a second, Economic Bill of Rights, including the rights to jobs, living wages, labor unions, voting rights, health care, education, and retirement ...

We adapted the following press release from Jill Stein for President, http://www.JillStein.org Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and her vice presidential running mate Cheri Honkala were arrested on August 1 during a protest at the offices of mortgage company Fannie Mae on Banker's Row in Philadelphia. Among those arrested along with Dr. Stein ...