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Thank you to Elizabeth Hashagen who interviewed me for this Go Green with 12 segment! Link to video clip that just aired today! : ) http://www.news12.com/news/article.jsp?articleId=232879 … Read More via Ecobeth
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NOAA: Warming Arctic Unlikely to Return to How it Was (via Chrisy58’s Weblog)
Posted on October 23, 2010 by iwilder
Published on Friday, October 22, 2010 by McClatchy Newspapers NOAA: Warming Arctic Unlikely to Return to How it Was by Renee Schoof WASHINGTON — New observations this year about snow, ice and temperatures support the conclusion that the Arctic is unlikely to return to the conditions known in the 20th century — and that's likely […]
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Voting machine Information Site for NY (via Two Barbers)
Posted on October 23, 2010 by iwilder
Link for all counties: http://www.vote-ny.com/english/index.php Voter Education Here's a link to a page on vote-ny.com with information about the type of ballots and machine that will be used in 6 counties. Albany County Erie County Nassau County New York City Rockland County Schenectady County If none of these are your county, look for it on this website. […]
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Green Party New York: American onThe Great Debate
Posted on October 23, 2010 by iwilder
Howie Hawkins of the “Green Party” looked and sounded the most like a legitimate major party candidate – if that party was a major Progressive party. He had knowledge of all the issues and realistic answers to all the questions. His positions on eliminating special interest money from public business by public finance of campaigns […]
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Wayne County, MI Board of Elections leaves Green Party candidates off ballot
Posted on October 23, 2010 by iwilder
Voters denied opportunity to hear Green program for jobs Wayne County Board of Elections did not place Green Party candidates Dianne Feeley for County Commissioner, 5th district and Louis Novak, County Commissioner 6th district on ballots already distributed to absentee voters. The Green Party of Michigan will hold a press conference, Monday, 11 am, in […]
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DN!: Does Opposing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Bolster US Militarism? A Debate with Lt. Dan Choi and Queer Activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Posted on October 23, 2010 by iwilder
We host a debate on whether the queer rights movement should be focused on repealing the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell law between Lt. Dan Choi and queer antiwar activist and writer Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. Celebrating the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Sycamore says, only makes progressive movements in the US complicit with American wars […]
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Ten Questions for Tea Partiers – The Nader Page
Posted on October 23, 2010 by iwilder
1. Can you be against Big Government and not press for reductions in the vast military budgets, fraught with bureaucratic and large contractors’ waste, fraud and abuse? Military spending now takes up half of the federal government’s operating budgets. The libertarian Cato Institute believes that to cut deficits, we have to also cut the defense […]
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Green Party New York: We Finally Get Told There’s a Better Way – NY Gubernatorial Debate
Posted on October 23, 2010 by iwilder
After Monday night’s seven-candidate gubernatorial debate, I had the same question as everyone else: Did we really need those other five people? The real value in the debate turned out to be the two candidates who reminded us that there is another way: Green Partyer Howie Hawkins and Freedom Partyer Charles Barron. But since they […]
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Hawkins: Volunteer Calls, fundraise, naked butts Halloween
Posted on October 22, 2010 by iwilder
Dear Green Supporters: Please help build support for the Green Party in the remaining ten days before the November 2nd Election. 1. Help Call Enrolled Greens Every Green, or Green-friendly person who reads this is asked to take at least 200 phone numbers of Green registrants throughout NYS, and call them before TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, […]
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Guv cand Whitney (G-IL) on CNN 10/23/10 9:30AM CST
Posted on October 22, 2010 by iwilder
Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney will appear on CNN tomorrow at approximately 9:30 AM central time. Mr. Whitney will be on the show CNN Newsroom hosted by Suzanne Malveaux and TJ Holmes. The candidate will discuss the “Whiteygate” ballot scandal and his campaign in general. Saturday, October 23 Who: Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney What: […]
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Sen cand Clements (G-SC) releases magical new web video
Posted on October 22, 2010 by iwilder
Republican Senator Jim DeMint’s PAC the Senate Conservatives fund has funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars into Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell’s magical quest for the Senate while South Carolinians have heard next to nothing from their junior Senator this election year. Today, the Clements for Senate campaign has released a web video challenging […]
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Council cand Schwartzman (G-DC) demands restoration of Addiction Prevention and Recovery Administration
Posted on October 22, 2010 by iwilder
• “A modest tax hike on the top 5% bracket could deliver over $100 million in additional revenue while still providing tax relief to working class residents and others in need” • Schwartzman proposes solutions to DC’s economic woes: creation of Green jobs; establishment of a DC Municipal Bank; required ‘payments in lieu of taxes’ […]
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MIKVA CHALLENGE STUDENTS TO CALL ON WTTW TO “DO THE RIGHT THING” ON WHITNEY (G-IL) DEBATE
Posted on October 22, 2010 by iwilder
A number of Chicago area high school students will picket outside the studios of WTTW on Friday afternoon. The students will be protesting the exclusion of Green Party candidate Rich Whitney from the WTTW gubernatorial forum scheduled for October 28th. WTTW has only invited Democrat Pat Quinn and Republican Bill Brady to participate in the […]
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Commodity Futures Trading Commission judge says colleague biased against complainants
Posted on October 22, 2010 by iwilder
As George H. Painter was preparing to retire recently as one of two administrative law judges presiding over investor complaints at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, he issued an extraordinary request: In a notice recently released by the CFTC, Painter said Judge Bruce Levine, his longtime colleague, had a secret agreement with a former Republican […]
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