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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.
The eBook is currently available on Amazon for Kindle; Barnes & Noble Nook ; Smashwords independent eBook seller; and a Kobo for 99 cents and anyone can read it using their Kindle/Nook Reader, smart phone, or computer.
The last earthquake in memory on Long Island was 30 years ago. The earthquake [today] made buildings shake for less than a minute throughout central Long Island.– IW Update for Tuesday evening: More earthquake reaction video and comments from onthewilderside: here.
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Following the dismissal of charges today against a news cameraman who was unlawfully arrested after filming the aftermath of a car chase in Bohemia last month, the New York Civil Liberties Union is calling on the Suffolk County Police Department to ensure that its officers understand and respect people’s constitutional right to videotape police interactions with civilians […]
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The Welcome to Boog City festival continues tonight and tomorrow night. The full schedule can be found on this pdf. You can find the facebook event here. This is a video of Ian Wilder reading his poem thinking of Jane standing on the edge of the woods. As a bonus there is his Steve Earle poem at […]
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IW: The Obama administration has been pushing a return to nuclear energy, despite its obvious failure. Watch for them to intervene on Indian Point. But we do know that American officials have told citizens of the United States to stay at least 50 miles away from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan as the nuclear […]
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IW: I check for the dates of town board meetings regularly on the Babylon Town site to post on this site. I checked this month and there were no town board meeting listed for the future. This is not surprising since the town has a habit of not wanting citizens to attend these meetings. The […]
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Poets in Port is the 4th Friday of Every month: 07/22 Friday 7:30pm Poets in Port, featuring Milind Padki plus open reading Caffé Portofino, 249 Main St., Northport, opposite the theater.http://northportarts.org/ 08/26 Friday 7:30pm Poets in Port, featuring Ed Luhrs plus open reading Caffé Portofino, 249 Main St., Northport, opposite the theater.http://northportarts.org/ 09/23 Friday 7:30pm […]
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IW: . . . . Harry’s second most famous song is “Taxi”. It contained the painful audience participation that adorns the other t-shirt in Sandy’ shop. The phrase ends an encounter between Harry the taxi-driver and a now-married ex-girlfriend, neither of whom seem happy with their life choices:
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Dear Folk Music Fans, + Sat July 16 Harry Chapin tribute concerts. Entitled “Harry Chapin: A Celebration in Song” features Tom Chapin, Jen Chapin (Harry’s daughter), The Chapin Sisters (Tom’s daughters) and members of Harry’s band 8:30pm and co-presented by theFolk Music Society of Huntington, the Huntington Arts Council, Long Island Cares and the Town of Huntingtonbring food donation, perhaps money donation 46th Huntington Summer Arts Festival: Huntington Arts Councilwww.HuntingtonArts.org Chapin Rainbow […]
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Jim Frazzitta, Annie Mark, and Scott James played the 7/9/11 Folk Groovin’ Cafe, along with an opening mic at the Conklin Barn, Huntington, NY Bonus video:
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IW: Anyone willing to chip in for the “Don’t blame me , I voted Green Party” bumper stickers. 1. Andrew Cuomo, New York. I know, I know, he just passed marriage equality, right? Well, hes taking a bit too much credit for that, since the Republican-dominated state legislature wound up bringing up and passing the bill […]
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Jim Frazzitta, Annie Mark, and Scott James played the 7/9/11 Folk Groovin’ Cafe, along with an opening mic at the Conklin Barn, Huntington, NY Related articles Folk-groovin’ Café 7/9/11 (www.onthewilderside.com) LI Concert Notes #74 4/28/11 (www.onthewilderside.com) LI Concert Notes #75 5/5/11 (www.onthewilderside.com)
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Update: Some photos from 2011 Boogfest are at Ian’s Flickr: here. IW: Ian will be reading on Sun. Aug. 7, at 12:20 p.m. for 10 minutes at Unnameable Books (600 Vanderbilt Ave., bet. Prospect Pl./St. Marks Ave., Brooklyn) Hi, One month from now, from Fri., Aug. 5 through Tues. Aug. 9, we’ll be celebrating Boog’s 20th anniversary by putting […]
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During last year’s election, anti-fracking activists wasted time protesting Andrew Cuomo. He could care less. All he cared about was money and votes, and they did not get in the way of either. Fracking activists ignored calls to raise funds for and get votes for fracking-ban governor candidates like the Green Party’s Howie Hawkins. Now […]
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