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    Reflections on Occupy Wall Street, with photos, fun, and good wishes for the future. eBook, Occupy Wall Street: What Just Happened? (Only $.99 !) In the eBook, the Occupy movement is explored through original reporting, photographs, cartoons, poetry, essays, and reviews.The collection of essays and blog posts records the unfolding of Occupy into the culture from September 2011 to the present.  Authors Kimberly Wilder and Ian Wilder were early supporters of Occupy, using their internet platforms to communicate the changes being created by the American Autumn.

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Flood of Foreclosures Expected Just as Funding to Help Homeowners Dries Up

Posted on March 11, 2011 by iwilder

Foreclosure Tsunami Will Hit New York Soon – Just as State’s Foreclosure Prevention Funding Runs Out New analysis of data from the Federal Reserve of New York shows that the foreclosure crisis in New York is far from over – and without legislative action to provide funding for the state’s “Foreclosure Prevention Services Program,” thousands […]

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Stop Big Oil. Strengthen Our Democracy. End the Wars. Create Jobs. Save the Planet. (via Peace and Justice Online)

Posted on March 10, 2011 by iwilder

Power Without Petroleum (PWP) is an important campaign, launched by the Brave New Foundation.  As you might know, this is the organization that brought us the excellent Rethink Afghanistan campaign and film. There are two outstanding short videos that I want to share with you, created by the PWP campaign.  The first video is called, […]

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Heartless Idiot of the Decade Award goes to…

Posted on March 10, 2011 by kwilder

This quote is from a Newsday story about Peter King’s Congressional Hearings to investigate Muslim-Americans: …Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, a Scottsdale, Ariz., physician who in 2003 founded the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, like Bihi, blamed established American Muslim advocacy groups for a perceived lack of cooperation between Muslim civic leaders and law enforcement. “Too […]

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Towaway Zone by Jim Frazzitta

Posted on March 10, 2011 by iwilder

Jim Frazzitta and members of Nylon & Steel perform “Towaway Zone“, a song off his upcoming 2nd solo album, at the Grateful Shed Halloween Party in October 2010.  Frazzitta (guitar, harmonica, and vocals) is accompanied by Paul Cama (drums), J Williams (vocals), and Ian Wilder (vocals).  The video was recorded by Kimberly Wilder.  More information […]

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Fair Trade Your St. Patrick’s Day! (via Fair Trade Trends)

Posted on March 10, 2011 by iwilder

Here at Fair Trade Trends, we strive to bring the Fair Trade love to our holiday celebrations (check out our complete guides to Fair Trading your Valentine’s Day and Halloween).  Which is why we’re super psyched to present our newest collection of fabulous Fair Trade finds that will bring you a little Luck o’ the […]

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Suffolk County Exec Levy Just Making Stuff Up

Posted on March 9, 2011 by iwilder

On October 30, 2006, Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy launched into a detailed rant about the undocumented mothers of US-citizen children, calling them “anchor babies” and fabricating a story about the closure of the maternity ward at Southampton Hospital. Here is the first audio clip in a series drawn from that speech. Statistics: –David Sperling, […]

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An NPR resignation: And, about a possible NPR slant

Posted on March 9, 2011 by kwilder

Today, Wednesday, March 9, 2001, Vivian Schiller, the head of US National Public Radio (NPR) has resigned, in the midst of controversial, anti-conservative comments, made by another NPR executive and captured on undercover video. The breaking story at BBC is here. As BBC and others have noted, conservatives complain that NPR has a bias. I […]

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Green Party: No US/NATO military intervention in Libya

Posted on March 8, 2011 by iwilder

Green Party leaders strongly urged the White House not to launch a military intervention in Libya, saying that democracy must be achieved by Libyans without meddling by the US or NATO. Greens insisted that the US and NATO honor the request of human rights lawyer Abdel-Hafidh Ghoga, spokesman for the new Libyan National Transitional Council, […]

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Common Cause and Public Citizen support CT apartheid Public Financing Scheme

Posted on March 8, 2011 by iwilder

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, […]

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Can gas drilling cause earthquakes?: Case study happening in Arkansas

Posted on March 8, 2011 by kwilder

(excerpt from) Daily Mail UK via Common Dreams (progressive, international news) Drilling Companies Agree to Suspend Operations After Work at Wells in Arkansas Linked to Causing Earthquakes March 8, 2011 Two gas drilling companies have agreed to suspend specific operations at wells near Arkansas after their work was linked to nearby earthquakes… Arkansas geologists are […]

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AI: Prez Obama brings back Military Commission Hearings that Candidate Obama called “an Enormous Failure”

Posted on March 8, 2011 by iwilder

With a stroke of his pen, President Obama today extinguished any last lingering hopes that his administration would eventually do the right thing on Guantanamo and restore due process rights to all the detainees held there. In an Executive Order and accompanying fact sheet and press release, the White House formally announced the resumption of […]

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How Wisconsin Can Turn Austerity into Prosperity – Own a Bank by Ellen Brown (via Dandelion Salad)

Posted on March 7, 2011 by iwilder

Public sector man sitting in a bar: “They’re trying to take away our pensions.” Private sector man: “What’s a pension?” – Cartoon in the Houston Chronicle As states struggle to meet their budgets, public pensions are on the chopping block, but they needn’t be. States can keep their pension funds intact while leveraging them into many […]

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Sweet Lazy Day Queen by Phil Jimenez video

Posted on March 7, 2011 by iwilder

Phil Jimenez played this Easy Anthems song at the 2/23/11 LI Pulse singer-songwriter series at the Cinema Arts Center.    The co-feature was Brian Sendrowitz. The series is curated by Alan Semerdjian. Related Articles Lullaby by Phil Jimenez (www.onthewilderside.com) Why go see Sendrowitz & Jimenez on 2/23/11? (www.onthewilderside.com) Fearful by Brian Sendrowitz w/ Phil Jimenez video Sunday […]

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Save teaching jobs: Forget hike for consultants

Posted on March 7, 2011 by kwilder

KW writes: While politicians whine about school budgets: The proposal to stop hikes for consultants (or, maybe even let go some consultants) is a great idea, proposed in NYC, that could apply elsewhere. Some folks might also remember the school attorney scandal in NY. Some of the largess of school systems goes to overpaid consultants, […]

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