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NYCLU: State Ban on Prison-Based Gerrymandering Helps Ensure Equal Representation

Posted on April 8, 2011 by iwilder

IW: The use of prisoners for a body count for election districts in which they are imprisoned while they did not have the right to vote always reminded me of the 3/5 person count of slaves  in the Constitution. Nine Republican state senators are among plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed this week challenging New York […]

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Green Party of Florida Joins Legal Challenge to Contest Westinghouse AP1000 Nuclear Reactor Design Approval

Posted on April 7, 2011 by iwilder

IW:  Now if we can figure out how to get rid of Indian Point and Millstone.  Oh heck, let’s close them all.   have you heard Tom Ryan‘s new song, “A Dangerous Way to Boil Water”? The Green Party of Florida and eleven other groups, known collectively as the AP1000 Oversight Group, have filed a legal challenge […]

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In NYC Education: Stakeholders finally win a round (Cathie Black to resign)

Posted on April 7, 2011 by kwilder

Kimberly writes: Cathleen Black was appointed by arrogant, NYC Mayor Bloomberg. She needed and received a waiver from the NY Regents, because she did not have any education background or credentials. Now that she is gone, let’s get rid of the Regents that voted YES for her. And, let’s demand an open process to hire […]

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NY Tea Party hates Democracy 4/7/11

Posted on April 6, 2011 by iwilder

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 […]

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NY State Senate Homeland Security Committee Hearing Must Focus on Legitimate Public Safety Concerns, not Fear-Mongering Directed at Muslims

Posted on April 6, 2011 by iwilder

A State Senate committee hearing scheduled on Friday to purportedly examine homeland security issues must not be used as a forum to attack and demonize Muslim and immigrant New Yorkers, New York Neighbors for American Values, a coalition of more than 100 civic, labor and religious organizations, urged today in a letter to state Sen. Gregory R. […]

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Timely: School bus concerns in NY

Posted on April 6, 2011 by kwilder

*Update with some perspective: This threat was made on April 1st – several days ago, with no incidents in the meantime. In addition, a story at Long Island Press notes that state officials are considering the possibility it was just a really irresponsible April Fool’s joke. Story at Long Island Press: here. KW writes: If […]

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SALT book: Vulnerable Populations, Economic Realities

Posted on April 6, 2011 by iwilder

Carolina Academic Press is about to publish VULNERABLE POPULATIONS AND TRANSFORMATIVE LAW TEACHING: A CRITICAL READER, a collaboration between SALT and Golden Gate University School of Law.  Publication is anticipated in mid-March. The essays included in this volume began as presentations at the March 19–20, 2010, “Vulnerable Populations, Economic Realities” teaching conference organized and hosted […]

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Babylon STOP & Spring Cleanup Day 4/9/11

Posted on April 5, 2011 by iwilder

IW: My mother was on the original Suffolk County committee that named and instituted STOP days. Date:     4/9/2011 Time:     7:30 AM – 2:30 PM Location:     Residential Recycling Center, Field Street, West Babylon Contact Info:     Residential Recycling Center  49-9346 The Town of Babylon will hold a free Spring Cleanup Day on Saturday, […]

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Judicial Hearing on Whether New York State Must Investigate Gitmo Psychologist

Posted on April 5, 2011 by iwilder

First Court in the U.S. to Consider Whether State Ethics Board Must Investigate Claim that Alleged Participation in Torture of Gitmo Detainees was Unethical On Wednesday in Manhattan, a hearing will be held before Justice Sally Ann Scarpula of the New York State Supreme Court to consider whether the state must investigate an ethics complaint […]

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Obama Administration to Prosecute 9/11 Suspects in Broken Military Commissions System

Posted on April 5, 2011 by iwilder

In a move that undermines civil liberties and the rule of law, the Obama administration today announced that it will prosecute the suspects accused of planning the 9/11 attacks in the Guantanamo military commissions system. In one of the first acts of his new presidency, Obama called a halt to the military commissions.  A joint […]

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Wendell Berry Presses Coal Protest, Wins Honors

Posted on April 3, 2011 by iwilder

Berry made a less ballyhooed but more personally agonizing stand against the coal industry last summer when he severed a lifelong relationship with the University of Kentucky over a corporate sponsorship deal. The writer was horrified by UK’s decision to accept $7 million for a new basketball dormitory from a group of donors organized by […]

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Obama’s March Madness – The Nader Page

Posted on April 3, 2011 by iwilder

What Mr. Obama should realize is that Japan’s human and economic catastrophe was a gigantic wakeup call to stop playing Russian roulette with the lives of millions of Americans and swing into action. First, he should shut down any plants near large population centers where untested evacuation plans are tragic farces. That means San Onofre […]

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Doubts raised on OCC foreclosure estimate | Reuters

Posted on April 3, 2011 by iwilder

A Reuters analysis raises doubts about a widely cited statement by U.S. Comptroller of the Currency John Walsh that only a “small number” of wrongful foreclosure sales have occurred despite widespread misdeeds by banks that are the leading mortgage loan servicers. via Analysis: Doubts raised on OCC foreclosure estimate | Reuters.

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Miranda is Obama’s latest victim – Glenn Greenwald

Posted on April 2, 2011 by iwilder

The number of instances in which Obama has violently breached his own alleged principles when it comes to the War on Terror and the rule of law are too numerous to chronicle in one place. Suffice to say, it is no longer provocative or controversial when someone like Yale Law Professor Jack Balkin writes, as […]

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