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    The Green Party of New York State regained automatic ballot status by getting over 50,000 votes for their Governor candidate in 2010. Look for us soon on your voter registration form and your ballot.

    Gaining ballot status enables the Green Party to run more peace candidates, more single-payer candidates, more anti-fracking candidates, and more sustainable energy candidates.

    The last time that the Green Party of New York State had ballot status it set the record for running the most Green candidates of any state.

    The Green Party is an alternative party to the Democrats and Republicans. The four pillars of the Green Party are: Nonviolence/Peace; Grassroots Democracy; Social and Economic Justice; and Ecological Wisdom.

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Death of The Nation | Dissident Voice

Posted on November 30, 2010 by wilderside

Then came 2006 when the Dems promised impeachment hearings against Bush for his wars should they win control of the House. The Nation urged us to vote Democratic, and when the hearings did not materialize silence on the issue fell over The Nation. John Conyers was the Democrat’s poster boy for the promise of impeachment, [...]

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A Very Green Hanukkah (via Autonomie Project’s Blog)

Posted on November 30, 2010 by wilderside

At the blog Autonomie Project, there is a great article about green ways to celebrate Hanukkah. The article includes information and links related to: sustainable decorations, recycled menorahs, organic candles, organic and vegan foods, and responsible gifts… Starting tomorrow at Sunset, the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah begins. Holidays are a time to spend with family, [...]

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EdgeLeft: the Mystery of North Korea by David McReynolds

Posted on November 30, 2010 by wilderside

(EdgeLeft is an occasional column which can be reprinted and distributed without further permission) Earlier this month Doug Hostetter sent me an invitation to a slide show and report at the Church Mission to the UN on his recent trip to North Korea (the DPRK – Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea). Doug, as some of [...]

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Wikileaks: State Dept. wants intel on African acceptance of GMOs | Grist

Posted on November 30, 2010 by wilderside

Tom Philpott has reported on the State Department’s biotech-loving science adviser Nina Federoff and her industry ties — and certainly USDA Chief Tom Vilsack believes that genetically modified foods are an answer to world hunger. So this revelation hardly counts as a surprise. But it’s still a shame to see that our spymasters are actively [...]

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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 November 30, 2010 by wilderside

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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BNL Denies Maniscalco’s Request for Shinnecock Ceremony for 15k Trees to Be Cut Down

Posted on November 30, 2010 by wilderside

h/t Shinnecock Indian Nation In that spirit, the higher-ups at Brookhaven National Laboratory have denied a request from Peter Maniscalco of Renew Community Earth to let the Shinnecock Indian Nation perform a spiritual ceremony of reverence for the 15,000 trees that are about to be cleared from 200 acres of lab property in order to [...]

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Green Party Rejects Obama’s “Catfood” Commission Cuts to Social Security & Medicare

Posted on November 29, 2010 by wilderside

h/t Owen Broadhurst Green Party urges rejection of proposal by Obama’s Fiscal Responsibility Commission to scale back Social Security and Medicare Green Party: Commission’s linking of Social Security and the budget deficit is deceptive; deficit crisis can solved by withdrawal of all troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, cutting the military budget, and canceling tax breaks [...]

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Missing the Mark on Deficits by Ralph Nader (via Dandelion Salad)

Posted on November 29, 2010 by wilderside

Who are on these deficit commissions? Nader says: “There are self-styled centrists, moderates, conservatives and liberals. There are no paradigm-busters, few challengers of assumptions, no backgrounds from unorganized labor, elderly or youth activists. Even Trade Unions advocates are rare…” …It is true that both panels do include very modest cuts in the vast bloated military [...]

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DN! New report: Due to #climatechange 1 billion may lose home & 3 billion lose access to clean #water by 2100

Posted on November 29, 2010 by wilderside

U.N. Cancun Climate Change Conference Opens Thousands of delegates, scientists and activists are gathering in Cancun, Mexico, for the start of a two-week United Nations Climate Change Conference. A new scientific report being issued today reveals that up to a billion people could lose their homes in the next 90 years due to climate change. [...]

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6 ways to solve the ‘renter’s dilemma’ for home energy | Grist

Posted on November 29, 2010 by wilderside

Watching a skillful home-energy inspector explore a leaky house last week left me with a distinct sensation: envy. As the inspector went through the process, showing the homeowner how insulation, foam sealing, and other improvements would save money on heating bills, I realized I want some of that sweet weatherstripping action for my house. But [...]

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35 Gifts Your Children Will Never Forget | Becoming Minimalist

Posted on November 29, 2010 by wilderside

h/t @pacificgreens Very few childhood memories actually include the gifts that I received. I distinctly remember the year that I got a blue dirt bike, the evening my brother and I received a Nintendo, and opening socks every year from my grandparents. But other than that, my gift-receiving memories are pretty sparse. Which got me thinking… [...]

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Secondhand Smoke Kills More Than 600,000 A Year : TreeHugger

Posted on November 28, 2010 by wilderside

I sat outside a Starbucks in Houston, Texas the other day, trying to enjoy my soy latte but I was surrounded by smokers. I didn’t ask them to stop–it was a smoking-allowed area–but perhaps I should have anyway, and I could have told them about a new study, published yesterday in The Lancet, which finds [...]

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SOA Abolitionists Omondi and Vitale Sentenced to Six Months

Posted on November 28, 2010 by wilderside

Four human rights activists were in court on Tuesday, November 23 after being arrested and charged with federal trespassing at Ft. Benning, Georgia on November 20 and 21. During their arraignment before U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Hyles, Nancy Smith and Christopher Spicer pled not guilty. Their trial is set for January 5. Franciscan priest Fr. [...]

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4 Green Party Women Leaders in Foreign Policy Top 100 Global Thinkers

Posted on November 28, 2010 by wilderside

h/t Global Greens Green Party leaders | France, Belgium, Germany, Brazil A funny thing happened after the world’s failure to agree on a climate-change plan at the 2009 Copenhagen summit: 2010 became the year of the Greens — and more specifically, of the Green women. Cécile Duflot, head of France’s third-most powerful party, is being [...]

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