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MLK to O: We Must End Our Violence Abroad and At-Home

Posted on January 8, 2011 by iwilder

Ian writes: Today’s shooting in Arizona of Congresswoman Giffords is an awful reminder of why violence is not the answer to political disagreements.  Dr. King was widely criticized, including on the editorial pages of the New York Times, for broadening his speeches from only violence at home to include  violence abroad. In a famous speech, […]

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Nassau County: 4th suicide spurs call for new jail scrutiny

Posted on January 8, 2011 by kwilder

(excerpt from) Newsday 4th suicide spurs call for new jail scrutiny January 7, 2011 The fourth suicide of a Nassau County inmate in the last 12 months has triggered the alarm of a key state lawmaker and inmate advocates… On Monday, Darryl Woody, 44, of Westbury, hanged himself at the medical center, which handles the […]

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Green Party Opposes Cuomo Recycling Failed Fiscal Policies

Posted on January 7, 2011 by iwilder

The Green Party blasted the Emergency Fiscal Plan outlined by Andrew Cuomo in his State of the State Message as a continuation of the failed policies of previous administrations of the Democratic and Republican Parties. Andrew Cuomo is reading from the same 30-year old major party script, which says the bad economy and fiscal problems are the fault […]

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Mexico says US border agent killed boy

Posted on January 6, 2011 by kwilder

(excerpt from) TVNZ Mexico says US border agent killed boy Published: 4:53PM Thursday January 06, 2011 Source: Reuters A US Border Patrol agent was involved in a shooting on the Arizona border with Mexico on Wednesday that resulted in the death of a 17-year-old boy trying to illegally scale the border fence, Mexican police said. […]

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Rent Is Too Damn High candidate to run for President

Posted on December 24, 2010 by kwilder

KW writes: Thanks to my IPR community for the tip on this story… From The New York Observer/PolitickerNY: Jimmy McMillan Says He Will Challenge Obama in ’12 (Story with video) By David Freedlander / December 23, 2010 Perhaps the whole country now will hear the baby’s stomach growl. Rent Is Too Damn High gubernatorial candidate […]

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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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Georgia Green Party Urges Negotiated Response to Georgia’s Inmate Sitdown Strike

Posted on December 10, 2010 by iwilder

Georgia Green Party leadership today are urging that calls of concern be placed to the Georgia Department of Corrections urging negotiations with, not retribution against peaceful strikers in six Georgia prisons. In a call to action published at: http://www.georgiagreenparty.org/ and a blog post, at: http://www.georgiagreenparty.org/blogs the Party publishes the demands of striking prisoners and urges a humanitarian […]

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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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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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NYCLU Sues Over GPS Tracking of State Employee’s Personal Car

Posted on December 6, 2010 by iwilder

The New York Civil Liberties Union today filed a lawsuit in state court challenging the New York State Department of Labor’s warrantless planting of a GPS tracking device on an employee’s personal car. The device, planted as part of an investigation into workplace misconduct, tracked the whereabouts of 30-year Department of Labor employee Michael Cunningham […]

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Civil Rights/Voting Rights hero Annie Lee Cooper dies at age 100

Posted on December 3, 2010 by kwilder

Thanks to Ballot Access News for the tip. (excerpt from) Selma Times Journal Annie Lee Cooper, civil rights legend, dies Wednesday, November 24, 2010 Annie Lee Cooper, a civil rights hero, died Wednesday afternoon at Vaughan Regional Medical Center. She was 100 years old. Cooper became known worldwide in 1965 for a confrontation with Sheriff […]

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AI: New Order, Same Abuses: Unlawful Detentions and Torture in Iraq

Posted on November 27, 2010 by iwilder

Amnesty Internationals new report “New Order, Same Abuses: Unlawful Detentions and Torture in Iraq” highlights individual case studies of people detained without charges or trial for long periods of time; others tortured or ill-treated by Iraqi security forces, as well as cases of enforced disappearances. Read the report(pdf): “New Order, Same Abuses: Unlawful Detentions and Torture in […]

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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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The Audacity to Vote — Green | News | The Advocate

Posted on October 26, 2010 by iwilder

For GPDs disgusted and disheartened, I am empathetic. The vile theater of health care reform caused me to look for a political party that is fundamentally dedicated to the same things I am politically committed to, and thus I became a Green. Though my views on same-sex marriage and “don’t ask, don’t tell” are, shall […]

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