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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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Fukushima Radioactive Release is a Warning, Green Party Demands Obama cancel Nuke Support

Posted on March 13, 2011 by iwilder

“We are horrified, but not at all surprised by this latest nuclear accident,” said Denice Traina, a health-care worker residing in Augusta Georgia and former co-chair of the Georgia Green Party.  “Fukushima has now joined Chernobyl and Three Mile Island as beacons to the human folly of boiling water with nuclear fission.” News agencies from […]

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Heartless Idiot of the Decade Award goes to…

Posted on March 10, 2011 by kwilder

This quote is from a Newsday story about Peter King’s Congressional Hearings to investigate Muslim-Americans: …Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, a Scottsdale, Ariz., physician who in 2003 founded the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, like Bihi, blamed established American Muslim advocacy groups for a perceived lack of cooperation between Muslim civic leaders and law enforcement. “Too […]

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An NPR resignation: And, about a possible NPR slant

Posted on March 9, 2011 by kwilder

Today, Wednesday, March 9, 2001, Vivian Schiller, the head of US National Public Radio (NPR) has resigned, in the midst of controversial, anti-conservative comments, made by another NPR executive and captured on undercover video. The breaking story at BBC is here. As BBC and others have noted, conservatives complain that NPR has a bias. I […]

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Green Party: No US/NATO military intervention in Libya

Posted on March 8, 2011 by iwilder

Green Party leaders strongly urged the White House not to launch a military intervention in Libya, saying that democracy must be achieved by Libyans without meddling by the US or NATO. Greens insisted that the US and NATO honor the request of human rights lawyer Abdel-Hafidh Ghoga, spokesman for the new Libyan National Transitional Council, […]

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Common Cause and Public Citizen support CT apartheid Public Financing Scheme

Posted on March 8, 2011 by iwilder

IW: The Green and Libertarian Parties of Cennecticut have sued to overturn this discriminatory law.  Will Nader take to task Public citizen, which he founded? Bizarrely – or some would say intentionally – Connecticut passed a law that substantially favors major party candidates over minor party or independent candidates. How? Well, to gain public funding, […]

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Can gas drilling cause earthquakes?: Case study happening in Arkansas

Posted on March 8, 2011 by kwilder

(excerpt from) Daily Mail UK via Common Dreams (progressive, international news) Drilling Companies Agree to Suspend Operations After Work at Wells in Arkansas Linked to Causing Earthquakes March 8, 2011 Two gas drilling companies have agreed to suspend specific operations at wells near Arkansas after their work was linked to nearby earthquakes… Arkansas geologists are […]

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AI: Prez Obama brings back Military Commission Hearings that Candidate Obama called “an Enormous Failure”

Posted on March 8, 2011 by iwilder

With a stroke of his pen, President Obama today extinguished any last lingering hopes that his administration would eventually do the right thing on Guantanamo and restore due process rights to all the detainees held there. In an Executive Order and accompanying fact sheet and press release, the White House formally announced the resumption of […]

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How Wisconsin Can Turn Austerity into Prosperity – Own a Bank by Ellen Brown (via Dandelion Salad)

Posted on March 7, 2011 by iwilder

Public sector man sitting in a bar: “They’re trying to take away our pensions.” Private sector man: “What’s a pension?” – Cartoon in the Houston Chronicle As states struggle to meet their budgets, public pensions are on the chopping block, but they needn’t be. States can keep their pension funds intact while leveraging them into many […]

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Ron Thomson: 1/17/1943 to 2/20/2011

Posted on March 2, 2011 by kwilder

Ron Thomson: Jan 17, 1943 – Feb 20, 2011 Ron Thomson was a beloved member of the PeaceSmiths community. Ron passed away on February 20, 2011. This Friday, PeaceSmiths will be dedicating its coffeehouse to Ron. The evening will include music by George Mann, and a tribute to Ron from Veterans for Peace Long Island. […]

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How Koch Industries Makes Billions by Demanding Bailouts and Taxpayer Subsidies Part 1

Posted on March 1, 2011 by iwilder

– Koch Industries won massive government contracts using their close relationship with the Bush administration. The Bush administration, in a deal even conservatives alleged was a quid pro quo because of Koch’s campaign donations, handed Koch Industries a lucrative contract to supply the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve with 8 million barrels of crude oil. The […]

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Walker administration blocking access to government: ACLU says it’s unconstitutional

Posted on March 1, 2011 by kwilder

Evening 3/1/2011: Speech links at bottom (excerpt from) WTAQ news State Capitol Access Limited Again Tuesday Tuesday March 1, 2011 MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) – The public’s access to the State Capitol will be limited again Tuesday, when Governor Scott Walker speaks to the Legislature about his next state budget… Police only let a few in […]

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PeaceSmiths March Coffeehouse 3/4/2011 (via PeaceSmiths)

Posted on February 28, 2011 by iwilder

Friday, March 4, 2011 at 8pm, PeaceSmiths Coffeehouse: The music of George Mann www.georgemannmusic.com Memorial tribute to visual artist, veteran, and PeaceSmiths volunteer Ron Thomson 1943-2011 with a presentation by Camillo Mac Bica of Veterans for Peace Long Island Read More via PeaceSmiths

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Wisconsin Would Be The First Domino – We Are All Wisconsinites (via Peace and Justice Online)

Posted on February 28, 2011 by iwilder

The crisis in Wisconsin has the potential to drastically diminish the rights, salaries, and working conditions of Americans throughout the country.  Whether they are public employees, private sector employees, union members, or non-union workers, America’s working families will suffer if the conservative efforts in Wisconsin are successful. Public-sector employees are entitled to collective bargaining rights, […]

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Wisconsin union files unfair labor practices charge against Walker (+ link to full complaint)

Posted on February 28, 2011 by kwilder

See bottom of this post for link to live stream of Governor Scott Walker’s Tuesday speech to legislature… (excerpt from) Journal Sentinel on-line WSEU files unfair labor practice charge against Walker by Don Walker of the Journal Sentinel / Feb. 28, 2011 12:43 p.m The Wisconsin State Employees Union on Monday filed an unfair labor […]

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