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    Reflections on Occupy Wall Street, with photos, fun, and good wishes for the future. eBook, Occupy Wall Street: What Just Happened? (Only $.99 !) In the eBook, the Occupy movement is explored through original reporting, photographs, cartoons, poetry, essays, and reviews.The collection of essays and blog posts records the unfolding of Occupy into the culture from September 2011 to the present.  Authors Kimberly Wilder and Ian Wilder were early supporters of Occupy, using their internet platforms to communicate the changes being created by the American Autumn.

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Scientists See the Southwest as First Major U.S. Climate Change Victim – NYTimes.com

Posted on December 15, 2010 by iwilder

A 60-year drought that scorched the Southwest during the 12th century may be a harbinger of things to come as greenhouse gases warm the Earth, according to research published yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. via Scientists See the Southwest as First Major U.S. Climate Change Victim – NYTimes.com.

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Vermont Yankee No Nuke Die-hards Haven’t Given Up the Fight (via Perambulations & Ruminations)

Posted on December 15, 2010 by iwilder

An excellent article in today’s Burlington Free Press clearly describes the battle lines being drawn over the re-licensing of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant. The 39-year-old facility in Vernon, Ct., in the southwest corner of the state near New Hampshire and Massachusetts, has had a troubled history with one problem after another, most recently […]

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Green Party: NY Guv. Paterson Fracking Moratorium Inadequate, Need Fracking Ban

Posted on December 14, 2010 by iwilder

NY Green Party Says Paterson’s Executive Order on Hydrofracking of Natural  Gas Doesn’t Provide Adequate Protection for Public Health and the Environment Urge Governor-elect Cuomo to Support a Permanent Ban The Green Party of New York State said today that Governor Paterson‘s veto of legislation to create a moratorium on hydrofracking for natural gas and subsequent issuance of […]

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An Open Letter to the Left Establishment

Posted on December 11, 2010 by iwilder

This letter is a call for active support of protest to Michael Moore, Norman Solomon, Katrina van den Heuvel, Michael Eric Dyson, Barbara Ehrenreich, Thomas Frank, Tom Hayden, Bill Fletcher Jr., Jesse Jackson Jr., and other high profile progressive supporters of the Obama electoral campaign. With the Obama administration beginning its third year, it is […]

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Just got off the phone with my bank…supporting Julian Assange and free speech

Posted on December 9, 2010 by kwilder

Kimberly writes: Thought I would share this exhilarating, though shaky, feeling, while it is still fresh. I just got off the phone with my local bank. I am so shocked, angered, and aggravated that Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, and other bank/money companies have stopped allowing donations to Wikileaks. How dare they pile on arbitrarily to a […]

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Best speech made in the Senate in a long time…Bernie Sanders says no to Obama tax compromise

Posted on December 9, 2010 by kwilder

David McReynolds sent this youtube link around with the notation, “For one of the best speeches made in the Senate in a long time, check this out.”: (If the video does not appear above, go to youtube link: here.) Transcript of beginning of speech

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Nader: Letter to President Obama On Extending Bush Tax Cuts

Posted on December 8, 2010 by iwilder

It may be that you believe that trading off $120 billion in retained income for the Rich is worth persuading the Republicans to support $18 billion for an extension of unemployment benefits to people out of work. With your Party controlling both the White House and the Congress until January 1, 2011, that is a […]

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When Government Fails: Greed and the Degradation of Academia

Posted on December 7, 2010 by iwilder

Inside Job is the new documentary by Charles Ferguson that examines the financial crisis that erupted in 2008… Ferguson, with his Ph.D. from MIT, had extraordinary access to influential people…There is an extraordinary conversation between Ferguson and former Bush adviser Glenn Hubbard, who just so happens to be the current dean of Columbia Business School.  […]

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Green Party leaders from the US and around the world attend COP16 global warming meeting in Cancun, urge world leaders to “reverse the failure of Copenhagen”

Posted on December 6, 2010 by iwilder

Green Party leaders from the US have joined Green Party  elected officials and leaders from countries throughout Latin America and Europe in Cancun, Mexico, to participate in the 16th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 16) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (http://www.cc2010.mx/en/index.php). Greens are calling on the world’s […]

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Nader: Where Left and Right Converge

Posted on December 2, 2010 by iwilder

Earlier this year, Barney Frank and Ron Paul convened the Sustainable Defense Task Force, consisting of experts “spanning the ideological spectrum.” They recommended a 10-year, $1 trillion reduction in Pentagon spending that disturbed some in the military-industrial complex. Other members of Congress were surprised by this improbable combination of lawmakers taking on such a taboo […]

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McKinney: GM’s LBO, government-style

Posted on November 28, 2010 by iwilder

  By Cynthia McKinney, Green Party 2008 Presidential candidate Since 2008, both the Bush and Obama Administrations spent hundreds of billions – by some estimates, up to TRILLIONS – of dollars bailing out Wall Street investors, banks and industrial firms. Much was said about the need to provide a stimulus to the economy, with the […]

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Nader and Associates Letter to President Obama on GM’s IPO – The Nader Page

Posted on November 12, 2010 by iwilder

The U.S. government bailout of, and acquisition of a majority share in, General Motors was an exceptional action, taken in response to exceptional circumstances. The U.S. stake in GM obviously poses novel managerial challenges to the government. The appropriate response to those challenges, however, is not to run from the responsibility through passive ownership and […]

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Concerns with bond rating and finances in Nassau County

Posted on November 6, 2010 by kwilder

On one level, this bond downgrading and any financial problems in Nassau County will become a blame-game between the new, Republican County Executive and the Democratic leaders there. Though, there is more to it than a major party,”he said-she said”. And, even though I am apathetic to political problems and political landscapes where there is […]

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MTA raises tolls on bridges and tunnels, makes cuts to service for disabled

Posted on October 28, 2010 by kwilder

(excerpt from) from DNAInfo MTA Raises Tolls on Bridges and Tunnels / October 27, 2010 Drivers as well as bus and subway riders will all be paying more for their commutes beginning on Dec. 30. By Jill Colvin MIDTOWN — Straphangers aren’t the only ones who will have to shell out more cash to commute […]

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