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  • Vote Green, Peace, Flower by Shawna Cole

    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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Help save Brontë’s 1830 version of “Mad Magazine” for the public

KW writes: For all of us Jane Eyre and Charlotte Bronte fans, this tiny book is a rare find! Written when Bronte was only 14 years old, it is a brilliant piece of satire. Bronte created this tiny work in the format of a men’s magazine. It includes a witty ad (see below), which observes [...]

Immanuel Kant: Standing Armies Should Be Totally Abolished

3. “Standing Armies (miles perpetuus) Shall in Time Be Totally Abolished” For they incessantly menace other states by their readiness to appear at all times prepared for war; they incite them to compete with each other in the number of armed men, and there is no limit to this. For this reason, the cost of [...]

Climbing Up Blair Mountain Again (via Autonomie Project’s Blog)

We all know the history of the American Civil War, but did you know about the second largest armed uprising within the United States? I am probably the biggest history nerd I know and I only recently read about the Battle of Blair Mountain . Sure, I know about the struggles of the early 20th [...]

Martin Luther King, Egypt, and the Fellowship of Reconciliation

________________________________________ MLK Day 2012: Worldwide MLK Candlelight Vigil for Unity on Sunday, January 15th at 7pm each time zone. More info: here. __________________________ The untold story of how an FOR comic book helped inspire Egyptian revolutionaries. In the midst of this week’s remarkable and inspirational revolution in Egypt have been the voices of a community of [...]

Green Presidents, Before They Were on the Bills (via Autonomie Project’s Blog)

It’s President’s Day! And what’s a better way to celebrate than to honor two of our most remembered Presidents: George Washington and Abraham Lincoln than to highlight some of their green achievements. You may think that going “green” is a relatively new movement, but some people have been watching out for our Earth for centuries. [...]

Mubarak Ousted! Two Down, Twenty To Go . . . (via The War Resisters League Blog)

“The people have brought down the regime!” was a cry heard around the world when on Friday, February 11th, 18 days of unrelenting non-violent protest finally forced the end of Hosni Mubarak’s 30 year, US backed rule over Egypt. Ecstatic jubilation filled Cairo’s Midan al-Tahrir (Liberation Square), which had become one of the central sites [...]

African American History Month Film Fest 2/21, 2/23/ & 3/1/11

February 21 and 23 and March 1 2011 Celebrate African American History Month at Cinema Arts Centre’s Film Fest, screening four films- Haiti: One Day, One Destiny, Freedom Riders, Night Catches Us with Filmmakers in person or live via Skype, and culminating with a screening of Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls. Each film $10/Public, $6/Members / Tickets [...]

Why Black MisLeadership Won’t Sign the Anti-War Petition by Glen Ford (via Dandelion Salad)

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Black Agenda Radio Commentaries 26 January 2011 “We vow not to support President Barack Obama for renomination for another term in office, and to actively seek to impede his war policies unless and until he reverses them,” says a petition signed by hundreds of social activists. [...]

Diet Kong releases Beautiful Blackout

Keith Gladysz and Jenn Penn, the now married singer/guitarist and singer/visualist of Diet Kong, grew up in Dix Hills. They didn’t reconnect until grad school at NYU, and formed Diet Kong in 2004, at which point Pulse writer Alan Semerdjian also played guitar and co-wrote some of the songs. In 2009, Keith and Jenn grew [...]

I Forgive You, Ronald Reagan 1/27/11

The Bare Bones Repertory Company will present its first reading of  2011 at 8:00 PM on Thursday, January 27th with “I Forgive You, Ronald Reagan“, a controversial new play by John Asastasi. It’s the story of Ray De Luso, a highly decorated Vietnam vet who – retired  from military service-has built a career as a passionately committed air traffic controller. [...]

Nonviolence, Peace, and War- In the Words and Voices of Martin Luther King, Dave Dellinger, Dorothy Day, and Others (via Peace and Justice Online)

Eighty-two years old.  That is how old Martin Luther King, Jr. would be, if he were still here with us today.  I’m sure that his words and deeds would still be inspiring us, today.  Dr. King understood the power of words.  He employed his wonderful eloquence to teach the importance of peace and nonviolence.  He [...]

Amy Goodman: John le Carré: Calling Out the Traitors – Truthdig

John le Carré, the former British spy turned spy novelist, has some grave words for Tony Blair. More than seven years after the invasion of Iraq, the former British prime minister, now out of office and touring the world pushing his political memoir, is encountering serious protests at his book signings. “I can’t understand that [...]

PressTV – ‘Deficit spending, wars destroying America’

Foote:Well the problem that Obama and the Democrats have is that they have been elected to office for many years and the game of progressive taxes for individuals and taxes for corporations and we have a large percentage of Americans who don’t pay any taxes at all… how can he go back to his voters [...]

Boog City 64: Gay Pride Issue 2010

The print edition of Boog City 64 is available. You can read the pdf version now at: http://welcometoboogcity.com/boogpdfs/bc64.pdf Thanks, David——————– Boog City 64: Gay Pride Issue 2010 A quick thanks to all of our editors and their contributors for acting so quickly and to alter their sections on a dime to enable us to get [...]