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The People's Party ran Dr. Benjamin Spock for president and Julius Hobson for vice president in the 1972 U.S. presidential election.The party platform included free medical care, legalized abortion, legalized marijuana, a guaranteed minimum wage, the withdrawal of American troops from all foreign countries, [1] a guaranteed maximum wage, and promoting toleration of homosexuality.
Russell Raymond Veh (real name unknown) (born 1950) was the head of the San Diego–based neo-Nazi organization World Service. From the early 1970s through the 1990s, Veh edited and distributed neo-Nazi and racist propaganda books, periodicals, and films around the world by mail.
In the 1976 United States presidential election, Wright represented the People's Party, and her running mate was Benjamin Spock, who had been their presidential candidate in 1972. Their ticket was also endorsed by the Peace and Freedom Party. Bumper stickers advertised her as a "Socialist for President." The ticket received 49,016 votes (0.06% ...
People's Party, Peoples Party or Popular Party may refer to one of the following political parties. Translations into English of the names of the various countries' parties are not always consistent, but People's Party is the most common.
The party originated from a campaign initiated by members of the Spark. [6] The party ran its first candidates in 2014 in Michigan (as independents, as the party did not have ballot access yet). However, a petition drive to get ballot access was successful in 2016.
In December 2020, the first People's Party state organization was registered in Maine. [23] [24] According to Michael Sylvester, the party will focus on pushing congressional officials into supporting a floor vote for Medicare for All. [23] In September 2021, the People's Party gained ballot access in Florida, the first state where it has done so.
The People's Party, usually known as the Populist Party or simply the Populists, was an agrarian populist [2] political party in the United States in the late 19th century. . The Populist Party emerged in the early 1890s as an important force in the Southern and Western United States, but declined rapidly after the 1896 United States presidential election in which most of its natural ...
The Murder of Fred Hampton is a 1971 American documentary film about the short life and death of Fred Hampton, a young African-American civil rights activist in Chicago and leader of the Illinois Black Panther Party.