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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.

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Trump on the Ocean is Ended!!!

Posted on December 26, 2012 by wilderside

For all the tragedy Hurricane Sandy caused in so many people’s lives, it did bring the NY State Parks Department and — even more amazingly — Donald Trump to their senses.

Filed under: activism, Environment, Global Warming, governor, long island, Long Island news, Long Island Politics, nature, new york, New York State Politics, News, Occupy Wall Street, safety, social & economic justice, sustainability, US Politics | Tagged: , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

NY’s Tea Party Guv Gives 1% a Tax Cut

Posted on December 9, 2011 by wilderside

IW: I figured it was the media swallowing NY Guv Cuomo’s PR wholesale when they were reporting he was hiking taxes on the wealthy.  Cuomo got elected with contributions from the Koch Bros.  Cuomo stated before taking office that the rich are taxed too much already.  Cuomo refused to ever discuss repealing the rebate of the stock transfer [...]

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Sloppy Transcript: Chris Hedges speaks to Occupy Wall Street

Posted on September 25, 2011 by kwilder

Link to a youtube of the Chris Hedges interview: here. (An interview on Sunday Morning 9/25/2011. Ended at about 12:15pm) Chris Hedges stopped by the Occupy Wall Street encampment, and after a slow start, they fed him excellent questions. Great stuff. Sorry for the sloppy notes, typing in real time! Most of these are quotes [...]

Filed under: activism, News, nonviolence, Peace, progressive politics | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments »

Int’l Business Times “article” on the Fed: Important info (hold the opinion)

Posted on August 22, 2011 by kwilder

KW writes: A fascinating piece at IBTimes. New information shows that in addition to the TARP funds and bank bailout that Americans know about, there were secret loans from the Federal Reserve to private banks. And, did you know that our US Federal Reserve secretly loaned money to foreign banks? What is that about? My [...]

Filed under: 3rd party, cynthia mckinney, Election 2008, Green Party, News, politics, presidential race, progressive politics, Ralph Nader, third party, US Politics, video | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

Credo lies about Funding Pro-War Politicians

Posted on August 13, 2011 by wilderside

Credo mobile, the cell phone company has a brochure out that says they don’t back pro-war politicians.  That’s a lie.  They back Obama. they back Clinton.  they back Pelosi. All of them are just as much, if not more, pro-war than the picture of Michelle Bachman they put on the cover of the brochure. Credo [...]

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

Posted on April 11, 2011 by wilderside

“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. [...]

Filed under: Action Alert!, activism, grassroots democracy, Green Party, local, new york, New York State Politics, News, politics, US Politics | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

NY Tea Party hates Democracy 4/7/11

Posted on April 6, 2011 by wilderside

IW: The Tea Party seems no different than the Democratic and Republican Parties that also exclude Green Party candidates. “With all of their talk of the Constitution and Democracy,” he said, “you would not expect them to be as hypocritical as they are.” “It’s bull—- that they didn’t invite me. It says right on the [...]

Filed under: 3rd party, congress, election, elections, grassroots democracy, Green Party, new york, New York State Politics, News, progressive politics, third party, US Politics | Tagged: , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments »

Will Guv-elect Cuomo Promised Tea Party Education Cuts Cause Protests In NY Like London?

Posted on November 12, 2010 by wilderside

New York Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo has has moved forward with his Tea Party austerity budget.  Cuomo announced that he will balance the state budget on the back of working families instead of rescinding the the rebate of the stock transfer tax as Green Party Guv cand Howie Hawkins demanded.  According to the Wall Street Journal, [...]

Filed under: Education, election, Election 2010, elections, Green Party, howie hawkins, new york, New York State Politics, News | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

Election Outcomes: How the 2010 elections made history, affected the political landscape, and shaped my world

Posted on November 4, 2010 by kwilder

The facts and figures in this piece are largely from two places: “Twenty ways the 2010 election made history“, (posted at San Francisco Chronicle) and posts and links from “Endgame” daily roundup) and other articles at the Daily Politics blog. Kimberly writes: Yesterday, I discovered that the overall affect that this election had on me [...]

Filed under: 3rd party, afghanistan, Anti-War, Election 2010, elections, governor, green, Green Party, health care, Healthcare, international politics, Iraq, kimberly wilder, local, new york, New York State Politics, News, Peace, politics, progressive politics, third party, US Politics, war | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments »

Eliot Katz: Ginsberg and the NY Times article on the Beats & the Tea Party

Posted on October 23, 2010 by wilderside

Dear Friends (who were also friends of Allen’s): In the October 10th New York Times Book Review, there was an article by Lee Siegel comparing the views of Beat Generation writers, including Allen’s, to the right-wing Tea Party movement. I wrote a letter to the Book Review editor in response because I thought it was [...]

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Great video: Nader and Hawkins

Posted on October 21, 2010 by wilderside

Ralph Nader and Green Party of New York Governor candidate Howie Hawkins talk to the State of Politics.  Great discussion of the issues facing New York like the deficit, stock transfer tax, mortgage foreclosure, the tea party, the need for competitive democracy, and voting for what you want.  We need more of this in the media. Related [...]

Filed under: 3rd party, election, Election 2010, elections, governor, grassroots democracy, Green Party, howie hawkins, new york, New York State Politics, politics, Ralph Nader, third party, US Politics, video | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments »

NY State Elections 2010: Ballot info posted at NYS BOE website

Posted on October 1, 2010 by kwilder

Update: You can see the NYS ballot pdf at Ballot Access News: here. New York voters can see the candidates and parties who made the NY State election ballot for Tuesday, November 2, 2010: here. (link is finnicky as of 10/26)

Filed under: 3rd party, green, Green Party, new york, New York State Politics, News, politics, third party | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments »

Green Party New York: Hawkins Challenges Cuomo to Embrace Democracy and Agree to Open Debates

Posted on September 30, 2010 by wilderside

“After the primary, Andy Cuomo told the media that he has the same Tea Party agenda as Paladino but he would be more effective than ‘Crazy Carl’ by cutting public spending without offensive remarks. How is it that in one of the most liberal states in the country the media wants to pretend that only [...]

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Green Party New York » Howie Hawkins: Voters Want Something Other than Just Tea Partiers

Posted on September 24, 2010 by wilderside

Hawkins Demands Inclusion in Gubernatorial Debates, Calls for Cleanup of PCBs from Hudson, Shut Down on Indian Point (Poughkeepsie) Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, called today for Andrew Cuomo to agree to open debate in the Gubernatorial election. Republican Carl Paladino supports including all Gubernatorial candidates. Since the primary, Cuomo has argued [...]

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