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12/13/2010: NY State Board of Regents Meeting

Posted on December 12, 2010 by kwilder

My trip to Albany

NY State Autism Meeting - parent initiated advocacy and action

The NY State Board of Regents recently took a vote that approved a lot of bad things for the disability community. What bothers me the most is that they took away a safeguard mandate that guaranteed students with autism a certain amount of speech and language classes. Read more »

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Washington Post: Per Capita Carbon Emissions Over Time Chart

Posted on December 12, 2010 by iwilder

via Climate talks continue, world emissions rise | The Washington Post.

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6 Companies That Haven’t Wussed Out of Working with WikiLeaks

Posted on December 12, 2010 by iwilder
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As more and more companies bend under government pressure, a few are standing up for the site.

Giants like PayPal, Amazon.com, Visa and MasterCard almost instantly crumbled under government (and p.r.) pressure to drop WikiLeaks, depriving the site of vital funding sources and online platforms. But other companies, some of them small, independent start-ups, have decided to risk the wrath of Joe Lieberman, the State Department, and their European counterparts and help keep WikiLeaks afloat by providing funding sources (yeah, you can now donate to WikiLeaks even if you only have Visa or MasterCard.) and hosting the site. Here’s a list of companies that have stood by WikiLeaks:

via 6 Companies That Haven’t Wussed Out of Working with WikiLeaks | Economy | AlterNet.

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Goodman: Cancun, Climate Change and WikiLeaks

Posted on December 12, 2010 by iwilder
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Critical negotiations are under way here in Cancun, under the auspices of the United Nations, to reverse human-induced global warming. This is the first major meeting since the failed Copenhagen summit last year, and it is happening at the end of the hottest decade on record. While the stakes are high, expectations are low, and, as we have just learned with the release of classified diplomatic cables from WikiLeaks, the United States, the largest polluter in the history of the planet, is engaged in what one journalist here called “a very, very dirty business.”

via Amy Goodman: Cancun, Climate Change and WikiLeaks | CommonDreams.org.

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The Filibuster That Never Was (via BuelahMan’s Revolt)

Posted on December 12, 2010 by iwilder

The Filibuster That Never Was I watched hours of his filibusterspeech and was impressed enough to share it with several people. They, too, were impressed with what one of the few "Independents" had to say. But allow me to clarify one thing, this was no filibuster. The filibuster (or "talking out a bill") is a tactic used to STOP (or delay) a vote (and generally attains that goal, as history notes). In this case, the vote is and was always scheduled for Monday, Dec 13, 2010. M … Read More

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“What’s On Your Plate” Book Signing & DVD Release (via Ecobeth)

Posted on December 12, 2010 by iwilder

"What's On Your Plate" Book Signing & DVD Release This week I got to meet the makers of one of my favorite movies– “What’s On Your Plate?” — at their book signing and DVD release! This beautiful film was made by Catherine Gund, and featured her daughter Sadie and Sadie's friend Safiyah. The film follows the two lovely young ladies as they learn about where their food comes from, and as the … Read More

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Amnty Intl Q&A: Wikileaks and Freedom of Expression

Posted on December 12, 2010 by iwilder
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Would interfering with payments to Wikileaks via online donation constitute an infringement on freedom of expression?

In the last few days, Paypal, Visa and Mastercard have removed their users’ ability to donate to Wikileaks online, asserting as grounds that Wikileaks engages or may engage in illegal activities.  There has been speculation that this restriction was due to US government pressure.

Amnesty International does not have information to confirm or refute that speculation, but emphasizes that governments cannot avoid their obligations to respect the right to freedom of expression by attempting to do indirectly what they would be forbidden from doing directly.  Businesses, too, should ensure that their own actions, at minimum, respect human rights.

via Q&A: Wikileaks and Freedom of Expression | Human Rights Now – Amnesty International USA Blog.

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Nigeria: Halliburton Plans Plea Bargain in Cheney Corruption Case

Posted on December 11, 2010 by iwilder
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Halliburton is planning to make a plea bargain in former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney‘s corruption case, Nigerian officials told GlobalPost.

Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency charged Cheney as the head of Halliburton when its engineering subsidiary, KBR, allegedly paid bribes totaling $180 million to secure contracts worth $6 billion.

KBR has admitted to bribing officials. Last year the company pleaded guilty in a U.S. federal court to paying the bribes to Nigerian officials prior to 2007, when it was a subsidiary of Halliburton. KBR, which is now independent from Halliburton, agreed to pay $597 million in fines, according to the Associated Press.

via Nigeria: Halliburton Plans Plea Bargain in Cheney Corruption Case.

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Johnny Cash tribute and culture, culture, everywhere…

Posted on December 11, 2010 by kwilder

With the holidays, partisan politics seems slow. Though, music abounds…Tonight, I know of three cool things going on: Sing-A-Long at Porto Fino in Northport, Folk Groovin Gathering with Jim Frazzitta and friends, and Gathering Time at the Eclectic Cafe in Bay Shore. All in one night!

Last night we had a blast. Justine and Jeff from Pisces (now closed, boo hoo) got a whole entourage together to see their friend Tom Cavanagh do a Johnny Cash tribute at Dix Hills Performing Arts Center/Five Towns College. Video and photos below!

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A Flood of Drone Strikes

Posted on December 11, 2010 by iwilder

Barack Obama ordered his first drone strike against Pakistan just 72 hours after being sworn in as president. It seems a suitably macabre fact that, according to a U.N. report on “targeted killings” (that is, assassinations) published in 2010, George W. Bush employed drone strikes 45 times in his eight years as President. In Obama’s first year in office, the drones were sent in 53 times. In the six years that drone strikes have been used in the fight against Pakistan, researchers at the New America Foundation estimate that between 1,283 and 1,971 people have been killed.

While the dead are regularly identified as “militants” or “suspected militants” in newspaper stories and on the TV news, they almost never have names, nor are their identities confirmed or faces shown. Their histories are always vague. The Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC) took a careful look at nine drone strikes from the last two years and concluded that they had resulted in the deaths of 30 civilians, including 14 women and children. (Perhaps, of course, superior American military intelligence classified them as “militants in training.”) Based on this study, an average rate of error can be calculated: 3.33 civilians mistakenly killed in each drone attack. The dead, Pakistanis will assure you, are largely unnamed, faceless, unindicted, and un-convicted civilians.

via A Flood of Drone Strikes.

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Take personal action for Wikileaks and Free Speech

Posted on December 11, 2010 by kwilder

Supporting Wikileaks, Freedom of the Press, Whistleblowers, and Julian Assange

Just heard about a way to support Wikileaks that is proactive, legal, and easy. Anyone on-line can be part of this grassroots, group energy for Wikileaks and journalist Julian Assange.

People who believe in Wikileaks and Free Speech are supposed to help get the words of the Wikileaks out to the regular world, and, help keep the leaked documents visible.

So, wherever you can type on line — message boards, your blog, comments on newspaper articles — quote passages from the Wikileaks documents AND where you can “tag” or “classify” or “subject-line” the documents, tag them with odd words and titles. With this strategy, it will be hard for the authorities to find and clean up all the references to the documents. And, it will be easy for regular Americans to stumble upon the content of them. Read more »

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Jeremy Scahill Testifies Before Congress on America’s Secret Wars | The Nation

Posted on December 11, 2010 by iwilder

They are covered in the media and are subject to Congressional review. Despite the perception that we know what is happening in Afghanistan, what is rarely discussed in any depth in Congress or the media is the vast number of innocent Afghan civilians that are being killed on a regular basis in US night raids and the heavy bombing that has been reinstated by General David Petraeus. I saw the impact of these civilian deaths first-hand and I can say that in some cases our own actions are helping to increase the strength and expand the size of the Taliban and the broader insurgency in Afghanistan.

As the war rages on in Afghanistan and–despite spin to the contrary–in Iraq as well, US Special Operations Forces and the Central Intelligence Agency are engaged in parallel, covert, shadow wars that are waged in near total darkness and largely away from effective or meaningful Congressional oversight or journalistic scrutiny. The actions and consequences of these wars is seldom discussed in public or investigated by the Congress.

The current US strategy can be summed up as follows: We are trying to kill our way to peace. And the killing fields are growing in number.

via Jeremy Scahill Testifies Before Congress on America’s Secret Wars | The Nation.

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WikiLeaks Is Democracy

Posted on December 11, 2010 by iwilder

Journalists should not be made into criminals for publishing materials critical of the government. Therefore, we reject any efforts to extradite Julian Assange to the United States or allied client states in relation to these matters. We condemn and reject every incitement to murder, incarcerate or in any way harm Mr. Assange. We encourage all those with information on corruption and violations of law to take courage from the example of Mr. Assange and WikiLeaks by acting to expose all such information into the light of public and judicial review.

via WikiLeaks Is Democracy.

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An Open Letter to the Left Establishment

Posted on December 11, 2010 by iwilder

This letter is a call for active support of protest to Michael Moore, Norman Solomon, Katrina van den Heuvel, Michael Eric Dyson, Barbara Ehrenreich, Thomas Frank, Tom Hayden, Bill Fletcher Jr., Jesse Jackson Jr., and other high profile progressive supporters of the Obama electoral campaign.

With the Obama administration beginning its third year, it is by now painfully obvious that the predictions of even the most sober Obama supporters were overly optimistic. Rather than an ally, the administration has shown itself to be an implacable enemy of reform.

It has advanced repeated assaults on the New Deal safety net (including the previously sacrosanct Social Security trust fund), jettisoned any hope for substantive health care reform, attacked civil rights and environmental protections, and expanded a massive bailout further enriching an already bloated financial services and insurance industry. It has continued the occupation of Iraq and expanded the war in Afghanistan as well as our government’s covert and overt wars in South Asia and around the globe.

via An Open Letter to the Left Establishment.

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