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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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Credo supports war-mongering, nuclear-loving politicians

I am furious that Credo is still sending out this peace-washing, green-washing propaganda.

CNN “drops” as US soldier discusses his wish for peace (and support for Ron Paul)

This is amazing…an amazing coincidence…

Green Party: US Budget Deal Dismantles Govt & Destroys Safety Net

Obama’s retreat from promises of change led to the Democrats’ sell-out and a battle to save Social Security, Medicare, collective bargaining, public broadcasting, the EPA, scientific research, and Planned Parenthood Green Party blasts Obama’s proposed $1 trillion cut in Medicare and Medicaid and the budget deal’s ‘tyrannical’ policies imposed on the District of Columbia, including [...]

Green Party join NY UnCut Protest against Guv Cuomo’s Tea Party Budget

“Wisconsin showed us that working people don’t have to roll over and just take the attacks on their living standards from the two major parties. In Wisconsin, the Republican Governor led the attacks. In NY, it has been a Democrat Governor, who began attacking public workers and their modest pensions months before he was elected. [...]

Gov Cuomo to NY Poor and Middle Class: Drop Dead | Mother Jones

In a deal this past weekend, the governor and legislative leaders agreed upon a $132.5 million budget that cuts state spending by 2 percent, largely on the backs of the poor and the sick, women, children, the elderly, and other beneficiaries of state services. It offers next to nothing to the struggling middle class. But [...]

Common Cause and Public Citizen support CT apartheid Public Financing Scheme

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, [...]

Gov. Cuomo Selling Out Injured Baby Rights by Ralph Nader (via Dandelion Salad)

New York State’s Governor Andrew Cuomo will be judged harshly by history if he doesn’t reverse his position supporting limiting the legal rights of brain damaged babies. Imagine a life-time $250,000 cap on pain and suffering and families having to endure a burdensome and humiliating struggle to get medical bills paid as they arise from [...]

From Tahrir to Wisconsin (via Politirature)

Dear activists, protesters & workers from Wisconsin, Ohio and other states, I was truly touched by your hundreds of thoughts and comments on my photos  from Tahrir holding that sign. I thank each and everyone of you, even those who  thought the photos were shopped, but I have few things to say. I’m an Egyptian ordinary [...]

End of the Democratic Leadership Committee follows its success over Democratic Party (via South Carolina Green Party)

Politco and other online political blogs reported Wednesday that the Democratic Leadership Committee, which swung the Democratic Party decisively into the center in the 80s, is closing it’s doors. The DLC led a move by Democrats to compete with the GOP for donations from big business.  The new tactic proved successful, as the Democrats succeeded [...]

Death by Superbug by Ralph Nader (via Dandelion Salad)

Reading a recent issue of Public Citizen’s excellent Health Letter titled “Know When Antibiotics Work,” I recalled the recent tragic loss of a healthy history professor who was rushed to a fine urban hospital, with a leading infectious disease specialist by his side. No antibiotics could treat his mysterious “superbug.” He died in 36 hours. [...]

Open Letter to President Obama: For justice and jobs by Ralph Nader (via Dandelion Salad)

Dear President Obama: The sentiments expressed in this letter may have more meaning more for you now that the results of the mid-term elections are clear. You have seen what can happen when a number of your supporters lose their enthusiasm and stay home or do not actively participate as volunteers. In your first two [...]

There’s One Huge State Budget Crisis That Everyone Is Refusing To Talk About

h/t M. Emperor So why haven’t we heard more about Texas, one of the most important economy’s in America? Well, it’s because it doesn’t fit the script. It’s a pro-business, lean-spending, no-union state. You can’t fit it into a nice storyline, so it’s ignored. via There’s One Huge State Budget Crisis That Everyone Is Refusing [...]

Democratic & Republican Governors Attack Unions & State Workers

In New York, the state’s new governor Andrew Cuomo is preparing to call for a one-year salary freeze for state workers. The moves by Jerry Brown and Andrew Cuomo are seen as part of a growing push across the country to limit the power of labor unions, particularly those representing government workers. from DN!: Union [...]

The “Nightmare Act” Is No Dream by Philip A. Farruggio (via Dandelion Salad)

Once again, the powerful and diabolical Military Industrial Complex , through its Pentagon and congressional lackeys, is on the verge of another con job. This time it’s the left of center Americans and the congressional Democrats who are being used for the long haul agenda. What am I referring to? They call it The Dream [...]