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Sat March 24, 2012: Long Island peace, justice, occupy event

Posted on March 13, 2012 by kwilder

Update: The event was a success. Photos from the rally afterwards are at Flickr:here.
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A March and Vigil
for
Peace and Economic Justice

On this 9th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, we mourn and resist the ravages of war.

We stand in solidarity with the Occupy Movement as we call for an end to the growing corporate take-over of our Democracy.

Join us as we peacefully assemble and march.

Port Jefferson, Long Island, New York
Saturday, March 24, 2012
12:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Rain or Shine

12:15 p.m. Assemble at intersection of Rt. 112 (Main St.) and Rt. 25A (blinking light, across from ferry) in Port Jefferson Village (NOTE new location) Read more »

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Human Color poetry anthology call-out

Posted on March 11, 2012 by iwilder

The Human Colorfrom The Human Color

The Human Color is calling on you to speak out and submit your poetry to its first edition of Heritage, a poetry anthology about issues of race, identity, culture, and humanity.

We are honored to have our first inaugural edition of Heritage be edited by three very talented and prolific poets: Ms. Mahogany Browne, Mr. Regie Cabico, and Ms. Karen Jaime.

We are launching Heritage with The Human Color itself as the creative prompt. What is “The Human Color,” and what does it mean to you? What kind of world does it represent and how is this world similar or different to our present? What are some hopeful signs that we are moving toward such a future, or what are some present problems that indicate that such a move is necessary and important? How do notions of race affect the way we view and treat one another, and how can a universal symbol like The Human Color help change it for the better? Please feel free to address some or all of these questions and use them as an inspirational springboard to define The Human Color for yourself and for all of us. Also, please try to avoid using the actual phrase “The Human Color” in your poem.

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Prez cand Stein (G): Obama’s own Iran statements are “loose talk of war”

Posted on March 7, 2012 by iwilder

Jill SteinGreen Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein  said today she opposes the escalating efforts by President Obama and some members of Congress to push the United States toward war against Iran. Dr. Stein said that Obama is engaged in the same kind of “loose talk of war,” if not quite as extreme, as ultranationalist Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.

“A hallmark of a Stein administration will be respect for international law and a rejection of the Bush doctrine of preemptive war that Obama and his party have come to embrace. The interests of the American people are not served by illegal attacks on other nations based on hypothetical future transgressions. Yet President Obama is threatening Iran with attack by saying that ‘all options are on the table’. It’s a terrible replay of Bush’s run-up to the invasion of Iraq over the mythical weapons of mass destruction, ” noted Stein.

Thirty two members of the U.S. Senate have introduced a resolution encouraging military action against Iran for merely having the “capability” to produce a nuclear weapon. Iran, however is in general compliance with the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, including the required inspections, and has not shown intentions of violating the treaty. And a recent NY Times story reported that the consensus view of America’s sixteen intelligence agencies is that “there is no hard evidence that Iran has decided to build a nuclear bomb.”  Read more »

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G8 Retreats in the face of global protests

Posted on March 6, 2012 by kwilder

Summary: Part of the May NATO/G8 event is moved to Camp David. Some folks will still protest in Chicago. Some are considering what to do about Camp David. See Twitter hashtags at the bottom of this article.

(excerpt from) OccupyWallSt.org
Facing Global Protest, G8 Retreats
March 6, 2012, 4:48 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt

The Group of 8 Summit, a meeting of the governments of the world’s eight largest economies, was supposed to convene in Chicago this May. For months, Occupy Chicago, international anti-war groups, Anonymous, and hundreds of allies have publicly planned to shut it down. Now, only two months before the meeting is scheduled to begin, U.S. President Barack Obama is moving the assembly of over 7,000 leaders from the world’s wealthiest governments to the Camp David presidential compound, located in rural Maryland near Washington, DC, one of the most secure facilities in the world. The Chicago Tribune reports that summit organizers are “stunned” by the news.

Occupiers and allies celebrated the decision with a victory party last night. The Coalition Against NATO/G8 War & Poverty Agenda (CANG8) and Occupy Chicago issued the following statement:

The G8 moving to Camp David represents a major victory for the people of Chicago. The leaders of the 1% are moving because of the overwhelming resistance to the NATO/G8 war and poverty agenda in Chicago… Read more »

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Green Party Urges Supreme Court to Support Single Payer by Striking Down Obama/Romney-care

Posted on March 5, 2012 by iwilder

The Green Party urges the Supreme Court to strike down the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance mandates, sees a chance for Medicare For All

Mayor David Doonan

Mayor David Doonan

Candidates and leaders of the Green Party of the United States expressed hope that the Supreme Court will strike down the ‘individual mandate‘ section of the Affordable Care Act(ACA) when the court issues a ruling on its constitutionality in late March.

Greens, who support single-payer national health care (Medicare For All), have called the passage of the ACA in 2010 a defeat for meaningful health care reform.

“A Supreme Court decision gutting the ACA’s individual insurance mandate can bring us closer to real universal health care, because we already know that Social Security and Medicare are constitutional. Medicare For All is based on the same model as these successful programs,” said Mayor David Doonan (Green) of Greenwich, New York. Read more »

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Prez Cand Stein (G) Pushes for End to Student Debt

Posted on March 3, 2012 by iwilder

Eliminate tuition, student debt, says Stein as campus protests spread nationally

Jill SteinAs tens of thousands of students, faculty, and staff protest today across the country (http://www.occupyed org/) against the corporatization of higher education, Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein renewed her call for “generational justice” achieved in part by forgiving student debt and ending tuition at public colleges and universities. Stein has promised a Green New Deal for America if elected, including an Economic Bill of Rights that ends “indentured servitude” for college students.

One Milwaukee student leader, Jacob Anikulapo, expressed similar sentiments, stating that, “Student loan debt is out of control, and is expected to exceed $1 trillion this year, while our administrators are still giving each other pay raises, cutting faculty, and raising tuition. We are building a massive student movement for education rights with the belief that education should be free for all, not a privilege for those who can afford it.”

Leland Pan, a student activist who is running for the Dane County (http://panforpeople .com/) , Wisconsin Board of Supervisors, expressed appreciation for Dr. Stein and her campaign, saying that, “in today’s politics, we have two parties that have come together to defund higher education institutions, cut the Pell Grant, bust teachers’ unions, and privatize K-12 schools. If we believe higher education is a right, if we believe teachers deserve decent workplace conditions and the right to collectively bargain, and if we believe that K-12 schools are a service to be provided to all, then the only just thing to do is to support the Green Party in the Presidential race.”  Read more »

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Maryland Green Party to Defend Ballot Access Petition in State’s High Court

Posted on March 2, 2012 by iwilder

Vote Green PartyMaryland Green Party members will be in attendance at the Maryland Court of Appeals in Annapolis on Friday, March 2, 2012 as their ballot access lawsuit goes before the state’s high court. The case of Libertarian Party of Maryland and Maryland Green Party v. State Board of Elections will be heard by the court that morning.

The Green Party filed suit in conjunction with the Libertarian Party in March 2011 after the State Board of Elections rejected thousands of signatures intended to extend the party’s status as a recognized political party. An Anne Arundel Circuit Court judge decided in favor of the parties in June 2011 and ordered them placed on the ballot. The Court of Appeals will hear the Board of Elections’ appeal next Friday.

Green Party members are prepared to begin circulating new petitions to meet the 10,000 signature requirement to extend the party’s ballot status. The Green Party is currently ballot-qualified but will have to collect approximately four thousand new valid signatures if the Court of Appeals rules against the two parties. Read more »

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Healthier, more holistic lifestyle at Homecoming Farm

Posted on March 2, 2012 by iwilder

If you are seeking a healthier, more holistic lifestyle, then consider joining Homecoming Farm. We are beginning our 16th season as a certified organic CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) project located on the grounds of the Sisters of St. Dominic in Amityville.  

Working with the farmer, members share responsibility for the success of Homecoming Farm, growing organic vegetables, flowers and herbs. A half share allows you to pick up approximately 10-15 pounds of vegetables every other week from June through October.

Members also attend farm events including pot luck suppers, fundraising dances, craft fairs, seasonal celebrations and more! Cost is $475. Your membership includes a $100 tax deduction to support us in growing food for The INN. Be a part of growing food together: for yourself, your family, other members and the hungry in our community. A sponsored ministry of the Sisters of St. Dominic of Amityville. For more information, please call: Sister Jeanne Clark at 631-842-6000, Ext 333 or email Homecomingearth@aol.com.

Homecoming, founded in 1992, is a non-profit committed to the belief that the human and natural world is one community of life. This belief finds expression in our two principal projects: Homecoming Farm, a NOFA-certified organic farm & Sophia Learning Center, which offers programs for children and adults. 

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Rupert Murdoch’s son: Resigns one thing; stays on at company; moves to New York!

Posted on February 29, 2012 by kwilder

Lucky us! [sarcasm]

(excerpt from) The Seattle PI
James Murdoch resigns as News Intl executive chair
Cassandra Vinograd, AP / Feb 29, 2012
LONDON (AP) — James Murdoch, the executive at the epicenter of the phone hacking scandal at his father’s British newspapers, is stepping down as executive chairman of News Corp.’s U.K. newspaper arm, the company announced Wednesday. Read more »

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Wed. Feb 29th Occupy actions: 70 Cities Nationwide Stand up to Corporate Greed and ALEC (plus Long Island area events)

Posted on February 28, 2012 by kwilder

Listing for Occupy Long Island events in Shirley and Huntington on Friday afternoon are posted: here and below.

Informative (and amusing) update about NYPD preparations for the occupy event in NYC today (Feb 29): here.

LiveStream of events in Spain: here (Please watch if you can, action all over Spain. And, at Wed 10am EST, police are confronting demonstrators)

70 Cities Nationwide Stand up to Corporate Greed and ALEC

National Day of Action to Resist the Selling Out of the 99%
A press release from Occupy Wall Street, NYC and Occupy Portland and Shutdownthecorporations.org

On February 29th, concerned citizens, students, and occupiers in over seventy cities across the nation, including Occupy Wall Street (NYC), are standing up to the corporations and legislators involved in American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The biggest corporations in America, including ExxonMobil, Bank of America, BP, Monsanto, Pfizer, and Wal-Mart use ALEC to buy off legislators and craft legislation that puts corporate profit over the well-being of ordinary people. Responding to a national call from Occupy Portland, this will be the Occupy Movement’s largest coordinated action this year and will confront ALEC corporations in the cities in which they do business throughout the nation.

“ALEC, a registered nonprofit with a board of trustees that reads like a Fortune 500 list, allows corporate lobbyists to push legislation representing corporate interests,” said Dana Balicki of Occupy Wall Street. “Essentially, this is legislation laundering.” Read more »

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ACLU & NYCLU Call for Federal Probe Into Obama Funding NYPD Religious Profiling

Posted on February 28, 2012 by iwilder
American Civil Liberties Union

The American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union today called for a federal investigation into the reported use of White House funds by the NYPD for its religious and racial profiling activities. Today the Associated Press reported that the NYPD used federal funds to support its surveillance of Muslim communities with no suspicion of wrongdoing.

“This new report about the use of federal money to spy on Muslim communities with no suspicion of wrongdoing raises significant new questions about White House oversight of how its funds were used by the NYPD, for what purposes and whether those uses comply with the law,” said Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU’s National Security Project. “We are deeply concerned that federal resources may have been used and spying information stored in violation of federal regulations that protect Americans’ privacy and constitutional rights against law enforcement overreach. It’s not just Mayor Bloomberg who needs to investigate the NYPD’s improper activities, it’s now the federal government as well.”

According to today’s report, the NYPD’s surveillance activities using this federal money were left out of the annual reports to Congress on the federal program involved.  Read more »

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ACLU is still asking the wrong questions about Citizens United

Posted on February 25, 2012 by iwilder
Public views of the Citizens United v. Federal...

With the influx of tens of millions of undisclosed dollars into this year’s presidential race, the ACLU is publicly re-examining its support of the Citizens United Supreme Court case which removes all controls over corporate spending in politics.  The ACLU is questioning whether it underestimated the effect of these super-sized contributions in balancing the right of the highest form of free speech — political speech.  The ACLU is asking the wrong question.  Corporations do not have political rights.  Only humans do.  And by allowing corporations to enter the political sphere, all human political rights are lessened.

I understand and accept that the ACLU must make difficult — and sometimes very unpopular — choices  in order to protect the civil rights of all humans.  The ACLU argues that in a strict constitutional sense corporations have political rights under the US Constitution. I could not disagree more.  The Constitution addresses the political rights of human only. Not orangutans, and not corporations.

After writing much of this essay, I went to Justice Stevens’ dissenting opinion in Citizens United to see if he addressed this fallacy of corporate personhood.   I found that he had succinctly addressed my point of only humans having political rights. Justice Stevens points out that corporations are not members of society:  “They cannot vote or run for office.” (Nor can an orangutan).  Unfortunately, Stevens did not expand on his point about corporate existence to puncture the fallacy of corporate personhood.  Read more »

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Long Island Occupy Events: Join your neighbors on Feb 29th to Occupy The Banks

Posted on February 23, 2012 by kwilder

Here are two Long Island Occupy events and one NYC event I know of that coincide with the 2/29/12 National Day of Action: Shut Down The Corporations called for by Occupy Oakland.

Shirley February 29th
Meet at Chase Bank, 645 William Floyd Pkwy, Shirley,NY 11967

Wednesday, February 29, 2012
4:45pm – 5:45pm

JP Morgan Chase – one of the largest recipients of TARP funds – has foreclosed on thousands of homes in Suffolk County since being bailed out with our tax dollars and still refuses to re-finance many mortgages so our neighbors can stay in their homes. Come join us for an hour to protest the collusion of Wall St, the banks and our government, which ruined our economy!

For info on Shirley event, you can contact Terri at (631) 591-1945 home OR (631) 624-4938

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Huntington Village
Meet at Bank of America, 250 Main Street

Wednesday, February 29, 2012
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Read more »

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Mon, Feb 27th: Occupy Our Food Supply

Posted on February 23, 2012 by kwilder

Occupy Our Food Supply is a global day of action, with an event in NYC. There is a listing for it at occupywallst.org: here.

Monday, February 27, 2012

Occupy Our Food Supply

In NYC: Seed Exchange at the NY Stock Exchange
11:30AM – Assemble at the Stock Exchange 12:00PM – Seed Exchange at Liberty Square

Seed Ball Bike Ride 2:00PM – Bike ride leaves from Liberty Square for seed bombing and an Lower East Side Community Garden tour Read more »

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