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    The Green Party of New York State regained automatic ballot status by getting over 50,000 votes for their Governor candidate in 2010. Look for us soon on your voter registration form and your ballot.

    Gaining ballot status enables the Green Party to run more peace candidates, more single-payer candidates, more anti-fracking candidates, and more sustainable energy candidates.

    The last time that the Green Party of New York State had ballot status it set the record for running the most Green candidates of any state.

    The Green Party is an alternative party to the Democrats and Republicans. The four pillars of the Green Party are: Nonviolence/Peace; Grassroots Democracy; Social and Economic Justice; and Ecological Wisdom.

    If you are interested in getting involved in the Green Party of Suffolk,you can call 631-351-5763 or email info@gpsuffolk.org

    You can enroll in the Green Party by checking the box marked "Green Party" on the voter registration form and writing in the word "Green" on the line next to it. Click here to find a voter registration form.

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Article: Who are the Occupy Wall Street protesters? (including political breakdown)

Posted on October 29, 2011 by kwilder

There is an article in the NY Times that reveals a Fordham professor’s survey of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators. Thanks to Independent Political Report for the story. Summary of question about political party identification. Of 301 adults who responded: 39% said they did not identify with any political party 24% said they were Democrats 11% [...]

Filed under: 3rd party, activism, afghanistan, Anti-War, Barack Obama, congress, democrat, Election 2012, green, Green Party, Iraq, local, new york, New York State Politics, News, Peace, president, presidential race, progressive politics, social & economic justice, third party, US Politics | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

Oct 23: Poets for Renewable Energy and Peace event in NYC

Posted on October 12, 2011 by kwilder

Featuring: Anne Waldman, Eliot Katz, Sahar Muradi, Zohra Saed, The Mast (featuring Haale Gafori and Matt Kilmer), Sara Goudarzi, Bob Rosenthal, Papoleto Melendez, Yusuf Misdaq, Tahani Salah, Jackie Sheeler, Chris Brandt, David Henderson, and surprise special guests. 10/22/2011 update: New additions to the evening’s celebrations: -Plus! Guest speaker, the author and investigative reporter, Greg Palast [...]

Filed under: activism, Anti-War, Ecology, energy, Environment, events, green, international politics, Iraq, local, News, Peace, poetry, politics, progressive politics, Recommended Poetry, Solar, sustainability, sustainable, US Politics, war | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment »

Occupy #AfghanistanTuesday | Peace Couple

Posted on October 4, 2011 by wilderside

  October 6, 2011 are the protests on the 10th anniversary of the Afghanistan War.  In the blog post The hour is approaching: Make a commitment!, we are asked to focus this week’s tweets on organizing for that day: via Occupy #AfghanistanTuesday | Peace Couple.

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Ten Years of War in Afghanistan | Peace and Justice Online

Posted on October 3, 2011 by wilderside

It’s been ten terrible years of war in Afghanistan.  Nearly two thousand U.S. soldiers have been killed in this war.  Tens of thousands of Afghans have been killed.  We have spent nearly $500 Billion fighting this war.  The war in Afghanistan should never have begun.  The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan was immoral and in clear [...]

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Green Party US endorses October 2011 protest against Afghanistan and Iraq wars and 2012 austerity budget

Posted on September 27, 2011 by wilderside

• Greens call for an end to the Bush-Obama post-9/11 decade of wars without end, bloated military budgets, skyrocketing hate crimes against Muslims in the US, torture and other abuses of power The Green Party of the United States has endorsed the “October 2011″ protests and other events marking the tenth anniversary of the invasion [...]

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Join the #AfghanistanTuesday 10 Club | Peace Couple

Posted on September 27, 2011 by wilderside

We are adding the 10 Club to our original requests for #AfghanistanTuesday.  (No, this has nothing to do with the Pearl Jam fan club, but we would love if they join.)  The 10 Club includes anyone who who tweets to 10 of their friends to join #AfghanistanTuesday.  Now we are asking you to do this [...]

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What I did on #AfghanistanTuesday | Peace Couple

Posted on September 20, 2011 by wilderside

If you have been following along on this thread, then you know that #AfghanistanTuesday is a social media based weekly vigil to quickly end the costly Afghanistan War.  It is primarily to protest the inaction to Congresspeople, but it also protests the inaction of US Senators and the President.  It is designed to use Twitter as [...]

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Has Your #Peace Group Joined #AfghanistanTuesday ? | Peace Couple

Posted on September 6, 2011 by wilderside

Duke Augustus believes #AfghanistanTuesday is an effective way for your Peace Group to bring attention to the 10- year war the US is conducting in Afghanistan. The US corporate media ignores any protests against the war, and even ignores that a war is going on. The best way to stop the war is to bring [...]

Filed under: Action Alert!, activism, afghanistan, Anti-War, grassroots democracy, international politics, News, war | Tagged: , , , , | 2 Comments »

Nader: 10 painful lessons of 9/11

Posted on September 3, 2011 by wilderside

Here are some suggestions: 1. Do not exaggerate our adversaries’ strength in order to produce a climate of hysteria that results in repression of civil liberties, embodied in the overwrought USA Patriot Act, and immense long-term damage to our economy. Consider the massive diversion of trillions of dollars from domestic civilian needs because of the [...]

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@BarackObama End the #Afghanistan War #AfghanistanTuesday | Peace Couple

Posted on August 30, 2011 by wilderside

What is #Afghanistan Tuesday?  The blog post Making an Impact on #AfghanistanTuesday describes it best: October 6, 2011, marks ten years of U.S. war against Afghanistan. Ordinary Americans are saying, “Enough is enough!” One of the ways they are showing how they feel is by making time every week to remember what’s happening in Afghanistan and push for [...]

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Making an Impact on #AfghanistanTuesday

Posted on August 26, 2011 by wilderside

IW: This gives lots of good suggestions on what to tweet for #AfghanistanTuesday. October 6, 2011, marks ten years of U.S. war against Afghanistan. Ordinary Americans are saying, “Enough is enough!” One of the ways they are showing how they feel is by making time every week to remember what’s happening in Afghanistan and push [...]

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Bring Peace to your Town

Posted on August 16, 2011 by wilderside

The Bring the War $$ Home resolution passed by the US Conference of Mayors on June 20, 2011 is sparking a grassroots movement to end the wars in the Middle East and Africa and re-direct the funds to domestic priorities.  The resolution uses cautious language, stating a “drawdown of troops should be done in a measured way…” [...]

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Obama Speaking on Economy & Deaths Now

Posted on August 8, 2011 by wilderside

IW:   Just got a call that Obama is making a speech about the economy (and maybe the 30 Americans who died in Afghanistan.)  He is singing the same song.  He continually refuses to address that our economy is going down the toilet because he has expanded the bad wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to [...]

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Obama: Declaration of Thingamajig

Posted on July 21, 2011 by wilderside

Barack Obama holds forth on the legality of various conflicty thingamajigs. Take a closer look at Libya, Yemen and Pakistan after the president delivers his address on Afghanistan and Iraq. A Mark Fiore political animation.

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