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New Alliance Party

The New Alliance Party (NAP) was an American

International Workers Party
, were active in grassroots politics in New York City.

The NAP's first chairperson was then-South Bronx City Councilman Gilberto Gerena-Valentin, a veteran political activist from Puerto Rico.[1] The party is notable for getting African-American psychologist Lenora Fulani on the ballot in all 50 states during her first presidential campaign in 1988, making her both the first African-American and woman to do so.

Background and ideas

From 1974 to 1979,

socialist
". The party supported the PLO and was antagonistic to the state of Israel; it also worked with Nation of Islam.[2]

Electoral politics

The New Alliance Party's first impact on New York City politics was its participation in the early stages of the "Dump Koch" movement, which focused on then-Mayor

Edward I. Koch, a former liberal Congressman who had moved steadily toward the right.[3][4][5][6]

1984 presidential election

During the

union
activist who would later leave the NAP alleging questionable methods used by Newman and others. Serrette's running mate was Nancy Ross, a NAP leader who had served on a community school board on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

In 1985, the NAP began an unusual political relationship with

Joseph Mobutu in Zaire and Prosper Avril in Haiti
. When asked about his political relationship with Fulani in the press, Jackson claimed that there was no relationship at all. The Rainbow Lobby continued its lobbying activities into the early 1990s while Fulani repeatedly rebuked Jackson for his support of the Democratic Party.

1988 presidential election

The

vice president if she won, Fulani answered: "If elected, [they would] figure it out."[10] Fulani's vote total throughout the country was 217,221, or 0.2% of the vote, coming in fourth place. She was the second-most successful third-party presidential candidate that year, behind Libertarian Ron Paul. Also in the 1988 election, the NAP ran candidates for other offices, including US Senate candidates in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Nebraska. Though the party had its strongest roots in the east coast, the best result for the NAP was in Nebraska, where independent state senator Ernie Chambers
received 1.6% of the vote.

In 1990, Fulani ran unsuccessfully for governor of New York. She was endorsed by

antisemitic, as well as Jackson's gaffe wherein he called New York City "Hymietown". Fulani and Newman embraced Farrakhan, eliciting the anger of the Anti-Defamation League. In the wake of this criticism, Fulani moderated a historic conference on Black–Jewish relations, featuring the Jewish Marxist Newman conversing with African-American activist Reverend Al Sharpton
.

1992 presidential election

During the

governor in California on Peace and Freedom Party tickets. Fulani lost the party's nomination to Ron Daniels of Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition. Fulani also entered the New Hampshire primary for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 1992, gaining some press coverage for her frequent heckling of Bill Clinton's campaign appearances after she was excluded from the New Hampshire Democratic debates. In 1992, the NAP also ran some candidates in other races, including US Senate candidates in Arizona, Illinois, Indiana, and New York
. The best-performing NAP Senate presidential candidate was Mohammad T. Mehdi in New York, who came in fourth place with 0.8% of the vote.

Disbanding

By the mid-1990s, the NAP and its weekly newspaper The National Alliance had been disbanded. In 1994, Fulani and Newman joined the Patriot Party for a period, one of many groups which competed for control over

Jacqueline Salit formed the Committee for a Unified Independent Party, an organization dedicated to bringing various independent groups together to challenge the bipartisan nature of American politics. The Fulani and Newman operatives later became associated with the Independence Party of New York
.

Presidential tickets

New Alliance Party candidates for president and vice president
Year President Vice President Votes Percent
1984
Dennis L. Serrette
Nancy Ross		 46,853 0.05%
1988
Lenora Fulani		 6 running mates in
different states including
Joyce Dattner, Wynonia Burke,
and Harold F. Moore		 217,221 0.24%
1992
Lenora Fulani		 Maria Elizabeth Muñoz 73,622 0.07%

See also

References

  1. ^ "Puerto Rican Imprint on the Voting Rights Act of 1965" (PDF). 10 November 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 November 2006. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  2. ISBN 978-1-4128-2343-2
    .
  3. ^ "Ed Koch's Legacy". Gotham Gazette. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  4. ^ "Unpopular Partnerships" (PDF). 10 November 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 November 2006. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  5. ^ "Koch Heckled at Event for Gay Pride Month". The New York Times. 2 June 1989. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  6. ^ Carmody, Deirdre (6 September 1985). "City Hall Steps: A Political Battlefield". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  7. ^ "Independent Voting". 20 February 2007. Archived from the original on 20 February 2007. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  8. ^ Gessen, Masha (August 31 – September 6, 1988). "Radical Social Protest: NAP and the Gay Community". Next Magazine. Archived from the original on January 5, 2005. Retrieved March 22, 2006.
  9. ^ Fulani, Lenora (1992). The Making of a Fringe Candidate 1992, p. 127
  10. ^ [1][permanent dead link]

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