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Announcement: PeaceSmiths Jan 2011 Coffeehouse canceled due to weather

Posted on January 7, 2011 by kwilder

PeaceSmiths, Inc. is a nonprofit community group that does events and organizing around the issues of peace/nonviolence, justice, and the environment. PeaceSmiths holds a coffeehouse on the first Friday of the month from October through June. The January 2011 PeaceSmiths Coffeehouse has just been canceled due to the snow. For info, leave a message at […]

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PeaceSmiths January Coffeehouse: Hildegard and Turtlehead

Posted on January 4, 2011 by kwilder

Update: (As of about 1pm), This event was canceled due to the weather. No PeaceSmiths Coffeehouse for January! Please come next month…Friday, February 4, 2011 The PeaceSmiths, Topical, A-Typical, Folk Music, Poetry and Whatever Coffeehouse for January will be… Is canceled! Friday, January 7, 2011 at 8pm _______________ Charlotte Koons presents “A Hildegard Homily” a […]

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Gov Paterson commutes sentence of John White

Posted on December 23, 2010 by kwilder

Full story at Newsday: here. There is a news conference planned for this afternoon. John White, convicted of fatally shooting a Selden teenager outside his home in Miller Place in 2006* in what became a racially charged case, was released from prison Thursday morning after Gov. David A. Paterson commuted his sentence. Paterson did not […]

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Green Party (NY) Urges a Full Hand Count of Ballots in 7th Senate District

Posted on December 18, 2010 by iwilder

The Green Party of New York said today that it supported a full recount of the votes in the contested race for New York State Senate District 7. Jeff Peress, a Nassau County State Committee representative to the Green Party of New York State, stated that though he “did not care for any of the […]

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LI, NY, 1st District Congressional Race: Bishop wins (Altschuler concedes)

Posted on December 8, 2010 by kwilder

(excerpt from) YNN Altschuler Concedes In NY-1 Republican Randy Altschuler has just sent out a press release announcing that he has conceded the race for New York’s 1st Congressional District to incumbent Democrat Tim Bishop. It was the last undecided race in the country… ___________________________ Related Post at onthewilderside: Why is it such a close […]

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PS Coffeehouse: December 3rd, with Left on Red, Tom Stock and Max Wheat (via PeaceSmiths)

Posted on December 1, 2010 by iwilder

The PeaceSmiths, Topical, A-Typical, Folk Music, Poetry and Whatever Coffeehouse for December will be… Friday, December 3, 2010 at 8pm _______________ A special presentation of art and poetry on the subject of war and peace with Tom Stock and Maxwell Corydon Wheat, Jr. and Music by the duo: Left on Red – Liah Alonso and […]

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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 iwilder

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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Esther S. Pank, Peace Activist (via In Memoriam, Esther Pank)

Posted on November 23, 2010 by iwilder

The full memorial piece is: here. Esther S. Pank, 75, longtime peace activist and organizer died November ­­20 of pancreatic cancer at her home in Reston, Virginia. The daughter of Clarence and Audrey Sylar of Lake County California, she attended UCLA­ Berkley briefly before enlisting in the Army at the age of 18. She was […]

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The Three Sisters: A Chekhov play on Long Island, this weekend and next weekend

Posted on November 12, 2010 by kwilder

North Fork Community Theatre, in Mattituck, Long Island, will be showing Anton Chekhov’s The Three Sisters for two more weekends: November 12-14 and November 19-21, 2010. The Friday and Saturday evening shows begin at 8pm. The Sunday matinees are at 2:30pm. You can get tickets at: www.nfct.com. I went last weekend, and found it to […]

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All the ballots in Suffolk must be counted by hand…

Posted on November 10, 2010 by kwilder

KW: I am with Newsday columnist Joye Brown, who asserts we need a full, hand recount in Suffolk County. The reason you have paper ballots is in case things go wrong. Things went wrong. I want to be assured that the new system accurately counts the results of this first general election, where things got […]

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Monday, Nov 8th: My day at the Suffolk County Board of Elections

Posted on November 8, 2010 by kwilder

    Today I spent a few hours at the Suffolk County Board of Elections. I am a registered “blank”, who supports the rights of all third parties. I went with a pollwatching certificate from the Libertarian Party. And, I worked with Audrey Capozzi, who is the Vice Chair of the LPNY (state Libertarian Party) […]

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Bishop & Alessi’s Chickens Come Home to Roost

Posted on November 7, 2010 by iwilder

Congressman Tim Bishop (CD-1) and New York State Assemblyman Marc Alessi (AD-1)have recently been de-elected  when it turned out that their election night vote counts were off by several thousand in their opponent’s favor in very close races. I have no sympathy for Congressman Bishop.  Congress shoved the awful “Helping America (not be able to) […]

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Link to PeaceSmiths photos and mini-report…

Posted on November 6, 2010 by kwilder

If you were there, come relive the moment. If you missed it: Wanna see how much fun we had? ;) Post at the PeaceSmiths website: here

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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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