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IL Green Party Slams Cullerton on Campaign Finance Reform

Posted on February 19, 2009 by iwilder

Green Party leaders in Illinois ripped Senate President John Cullerton’s comments opposing campaign finance reform in Illinois. According to Joseph Ryan of the Daily Herald, Cullerton told the newspaper’s editorial board that “he thinks Illinois’ wide-open campaign system is just fine” and that disclosure is all that is necessary. (Ryan’s blog entry is at http://blogs.dailyherald.com/node/1447.) […]

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Lots of news about Al-Zeidi: appeared in court, strategy set, adjourned date set

Posted on February 19, 2009 by kwilder

“What made me do it was the humiliation Iraq has been subjected to due to the U.S. occupation and the murder of innocent people,” al-Zeidi said. “I wanted to restore the pride of the Iraqis in any way possible, apart from using weapons.” Summary from the AP story: 1.Al-Zeidi appeared in court, with no signs […]

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Obama Orders 17,000 Troops to Afghanistan

Posted on February 18, 2009 by iwilder

from DemocracyNow.org In his most significant military decision to date, President Obama has ordered an additional 17,000 US troops to Afghanistan. The move fulfills a campaign pledge to increase the size of the US occupation. The new deployments will take effect in May, increasing the US occupation force to 55,000—a 50 percent rise. Another 32,000 […]

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Trial for journalist/shoe tosser Muntadhar Al-Zeidi is tomorrow – Thursday

Posted on February 18, 2009 by kwilder

Iraqi journalist Muntadhar Al-Zeidi will face trial tomorrow, Thursday, February 19, 2009. Update is: here

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Injustice in West Virginia:

Posted on February 18, 2009 by kwilder

(excerpt from) Ballot Access News West Virginia Legislators Introduce Clearly Unconstitutional Election Law Bills February 17th, 2009 Recently, two election law bills have been introduced in the West Virginia legislature that are clearly unconstitutional. Senators Robert Williams (D-Bridgeport) and Robert Plymale (D-Ceredo) have introduced SB 271, to require declared write-in candidates to pay a filing […]

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Poem for Muntadhar Al-Zeidi, the eloquent shoe-tosser

Posted on February 18, 2009 by kwilder

I found this poem in a chapbook, on a table at the Poetry Project New Year’s Marathon Reading. I was startled with the resonance an old poem had with a new situation. And, I purchased the book. I thought it was a beautiful tribute and reflection on that moment when Iraqi journalist Muntadhar Al-Zeidi met […]

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Obama “Roves” Into Bush Territory

Posted on February 18, 2009 by kwilder

(excerpt from) Common Man News Obama Seeks Delay in Deciding on Rove Subpoena By Marisa Taylor and Margaret Talev / Tuesday, February 17, 2009 The Obama administration is asking for two more weeks to weigh in on whether former Bush White House officials must testify before Congress about the firings of nine U.S. attorneys. The […]

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Nader files against Democratic National Committee

Posted on February 17, 2009 by kwilder

Ralph Nader is filing his final appeal in a lawsuit asking for justice with the Democratic National Committee, who unfairly challenged his petitions.

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Illinois Green Party Congressional Candidate Forum: Good news, slight change…

Posted on February 15, 2009 by iwilder

Found this news and the letter at Green Party Watch: On Wednesday, February 18th in Chicago, Illinois, Green Party candidates will be part of a multi-partisan debate.  (Changed from older plans to have a greens-only debate.) Letter from an Illinois Green: Its with mixed emotions I have to cancel the Greens-only 5th Congressional District Candidate […]

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Jolting Congress – The Nader Page

Posted on February 14, 2009 by iwilder

Jolting Congress – The Nader Page Posted using ShareThis Some staffers in Congress privately assert that the Democrats are not acting like a majority party. It is worse than that. They are not acting—period.

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President Obama and Muntadhar Al-Zeidi

Posted on February 12, 2009 by kwilder

from World War Four Report Obama urged to halt military detention of journalists Submitted by WW4 Report on Thu, 02/12/2009 – 19:55. The Committee to Protect Journalists called on the Barack Obama administration Feb. 10 to end the indefinite detention of journalists by the US military overseas. The organization cited 14 cases in which US […]

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GP-US: Stimulus bill falls short as a real stimulus, as compromises sacrifice public works creation of new jobs

Posted on February 12, 2009 by iwilder

Green Party leaders said today that the $789 billion compromise stimulus bill falls drastically short of providing what’s needed to end the deepening recession, and urged the Obama Administration to renegotiate the bill to restore and expand funding to create jobs and to provide a real safety net for every American. The US economy needs […]

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Obama funding “bellicose, expensive and useless” Bush missile program

Posted on February 9, 2009 by iwilder

from DemocracyNow.org Biden: US Will Continue Bush Missile Program, But Open to Compromise Vice President Joe Biden has announced the US will pursue the Bush administration’s controversial missile defense shield in eastern Europe. Speaking in Germany this weekend, Biden said the US would continue to develop missile defenses to counter what he called “a growing […]

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Stop Obama from Nuking the U.S.

Posted on February 9, 2009 by iwilder

CONTACT YOUR HOUSE MEMBER: LET’S STOP THE $50 BILLION NUCLEAR/COAL BAILOUT! February 9, 2009 Dear Friend, We have now confirmed that the “compromise” Senate stimulus bill still contains the $50 Billion pre-emptive bailout for the dangerous and dirty nuclear power and coal industries. But as we’ve noted before, the version passed by the House of […]

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