Gloria La Riva, a labor, community and socialist activist with the Party for Socialism and Liberation has announced that she is seeking the Peace and Freedom Party nomination to run against Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi in the 2010 election.

by John Crockford
October 10, 2009

According to Ballot Access News...

"On September 10, the California legislature passed AB 30. It lets any citizen who is 17 years old complete a voter registration form and submit it. The county would process it, but it would not take effect until that individual is 18 years old. Under current law, 17-year-olds can only fill out a voter registration form if they will be age 18 by the next election."

by Jim Smith

[Presentation to the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS) Convention Workshop on Building the Progressive Majority and the 2010 Elections, July 25, 2009]

What do Socialist do? This is a relatively simple question, and one whose answer can be ascertained from the practice of socialists around the world.

From FiveThirtyEight.com:

Like most Americans, there are few things I would like to see more than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's hateful President, to be voted out of office. Elections in thuggish, authoritarian states like Iran need be treated with the utmost skepticism and scrutiny. I can't say I have any real degree of confidence in the official results, which showed Ahmadinejad winning with some 62 percent of the vote.

Excerpts from a piece on the Free and Equal website:

In a press conference this morning from the Illinois State Capital, The Free and Equal Elections Foundation announced an ambitious campaign to help place an Independent and/or Third Party candidate on the ballot in EVERY SINGLE Congressional District for the 2010 mid term elections.

If you really would rather not perform jury duty but you would like a few extra bucks in your pocket, then there just may be something coming down the road that may be of interest to you.

The Peace and Freedom Party is proud to introduce Andrew Bligh, candidate for State Assembly for the 31st District.

An excerpt from Andrew's biography: