Sunday, October 21, 2007

SOCIALIST PARTY NOMINATES MOORE FOR PRESIDENT

Brian Moore
2008 Socialist Party Presidential Candidate
21 October 2007


Antiwar Activist Nominated on Third Ballot at Party's National Convention in St. Louis

ST. LOUIS -- Antiwar activist Brian P. Moore of Spring Hill, Florida, was nominated for President of the United States at the Socialist Party USA national convention in St. Louis late Saturday afternoon. The 64-year-old Moore, a former independent candidate for the U.S. Senate, defeated longtime party activist and author Eric Chester of Massachusetts, a retired economics professor, on the convention's third ballot to win the party's nomination. Stewart A. Alexander, a longtime civil rights activist from Murietta, California, was tapped as Moore's vice-presidential running mate. Alexander was the Peace and Freedom Party's candidate for lieutenant governor of California in 2006...


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Monday, March 19, 2007

Stigmatized solutions: Why America needs to find its inner-Socialist

19 March 2007

By Paul Abdowd
The Michigan Independent



"On the eve of the 2006 midterm elections, the Michigan Union lawn was littered with the tiny billboards of a few dozen candidates. A rented truck shot four giant rotating light beams from its chassis to the sky, publicizing a midnight campus visit by Governor Granholm. Giddy Democrats packed the ballroom inside, but outside something was askew. Campaign knick-knacks generally sport some variation of the stars and stripes theme followed by vague promises of a hopeful dawn. But there, drowning in a sea of red white and blue, sat Matt Erard’s campaign sign for the Michigan House of Representatives 53rd District seat. Erard’s Socialist campaign cut costs on their yard-signs - sporting a smaller dimension, black and white print, and neither stars nor stripes - but this one stood out amid the glare of high-beam, two party fanfare..."

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