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The Green Party has continually opposed entry into war and has consistently called for the immediate return of our troops, in stark contrast to the Democratic and Republican parties.
Today we march, tomorrow we vote Green Party.
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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.
The eBook is currently available on Amazon for Kindle; Barnes & Noble Nook ; Smashwords independent eBook seller; and a Kobo for 99 cents and anyone can read it using their Kindle/Nook Reader, smart phone, or computer.
From April through September, 48% of the 4,054 people stopped and questioned by the NYPD were either issued a summons or arrested. Nearly 80% of those hit with charges got the lower level summons.
via East Harlem strollers beware — Most of those stopped and frisked in 23rd Precinct are arrested.
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While noting that quotas are illegal and denying that the department indulges in them or penalizes cops for not making them, a November 2010 Legal Bureau memo nonetheless says that it’s alright to punish cops for not producing as much as other officers.
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Green Party leaders from the US have joined Green Party elected officials and leaders from countries throughout Latin America and Europe in Cancun, Mexico, to participate in the 16th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 16) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (http://www.cc2010.mx/en/index.php).
Greens are calling on the world’s leaders attending COP16 to “to reverse the failure of Copenhagen and create the conditions for a strong legally binding global climate agreement” on steps to avert catastrophic climate change in the next century, according to a statement issued by the Global Greens Coordination. The statement is appended below.
The Global Greens Coordination (http://www.globalgreens.org/ggc/ggc_homepage) is a committee established to oversee Global Greens affairs, including issuing Global Greens statements and organizing Global Greens congresses.
In the US, Greens are challenging the White House, Congress, and state and municipal governments to take action, by conversion to safe and clean energy, drastic reduction of fossil fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions, more public transportation and less car traffic, carbon taxes, creation of millions of living-wage green jobs in conservation and retrofitting of homes and buildings, protection for publicly-owned fresh water resources, and by leading the world in forums like COP16 in calling for expansion of the Kyoto Protocols.
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Latest advice to students of the international program is to YES study Wikileaks.
Full story: here.
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Here’s some great Live Music on Long Island. Venue addresses/phones/URLs at end of all listings. Please scroll down. The Folk Music Society of Huntington (FMSH) is posting this list on: www.fmshny.org/LI-ConcertNotes.htm or go to www.fmshny.org and click on “LI Concert Notes” Corrections and Comments are welcome. Support Live Music on Long Island.
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Mon 12/6 7:00 Music From the Hive – Barbara Brunette-Erich Glaubitz-Janet Leto-Todd Wolfe Mirelle’s, Westbury
Fri 12/10 8:00 Phil Ochs Tribute. Pat Wictor, Joe Jencks, Kim/Reggie Harris, John Flynn, Magpie Garden Stage (UUCCN), Garden City
Fri 12/10 7:30 Grammy Award Winner Larry Mitchell BACCA, Lindenhurst
Fri 12/10 9:00 Gail Storm, Joe Vicino, Shenole Latimer Jessie’s Road House, Merrick
Fri 12/10 6:00 Patricia Shih – 1st Show Old Westbury Gardens, Old Westbury
Fri 12/10 7:15 Patricia Shih – 2nd Show Old Westbury Gardens, Old Westbury
Sat 12/11 7:30 Gathering Time Eclectic Café, Bayshore
Sat 12/11 8:00 Gail Storm Jack Halyards, Oyster Bay
Sat 12/11 8:00 Jim Frazzitta,Alan Short,Michael Wells Folk-Groovin’ Café, Dix Hills
Sat 12/11 7:00 Electric Dudes Dockside Café, West Babylon
Sun 12/12 2:00 David Francey University Café, Stony Brook Read more »
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Earn the Peace Prize or send it back! Bring’em home from Iraq, Afganistan and Pakistan. Close the THOUSAND useless military bases we have around the world.
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(excerpt from) Selma Times Journal
Annie Lee Cooper, civil rights legend, dies
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Annie Lee Cooper, a civil rights hero, died Wednesday afternoon at Vaughan Regional Medical Center. She was 100 years old.
Cooper became known worldwide in 1965 for a confrontation with Sheriff James G. Clark.
Historian David J. Garrow tells the story in his book, “Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Voting Rights Act of 1965,” which was released in the 1970s by Yale University Press…
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Hat tip to IPR for the story.
Vermont Progressive incumbent legislator prevails over Republican challenger by just four votes
December 2nd, 2010
A Progressive Party lawmaker will return to the Vermont House after a judge rejected a challenge to a recount that showed her winning.
A recount Friday confirmed earlier election results showing Rep. Susan Hatch Davis ahead of Republican challenger Rodney Graham, of Williamstown, by four votes. Republicans challenged that recount result. But an Orange County Superior Court judge rejected that challenge… -Vermont Public Radio
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In NY State, a party must receive 50,000 votes for Governor in order to gain automatic ballot status (and have its party name appear on the voter registration form.) News that the NYC vote tally is 17% higher than first reported, bodes well for the Libertarians, whose candidate, Warren Redlich, was close to the 50,000 mark.
from Ballot Access News
New York City Final Official Vote Count is 17% Higher than Election Night Tally
December 2nd, 2010
New York state is still tallying the official results for the November 2, 2010. However, the New York city Board of Elections has just finished its tally. According to this story, its final official count of the number of votes cast is 17% higher than the total reported a few days after the election. Read more »
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The Global Greens call on the leaders of the world’s industrialised countries at Cancun to reverse the failure of Copenhagen and create the conditions for a strong legally binding global climate agreement to avoid dangerous climate change and facilitate adaptation.COP 16 at Cancun Mexico, from 29 November to 10 December, is the sixteenth meeting of parties to the UN Framework on Climate Convention since it was negotiated at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. Green parties from around a dozen countries will be represented.
via Climate change – time for transformation | Global Greens.
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In its first months in office, the Obama administration sought to protect Bush administration officials facing criminal investigation overseas for their involvement in establishing policies the that governed interrogations of detained terrorist suspects. A “confidential” April 17, 2009, cable sent from the US embassy in Madrid to the State Department—one of the 251,287 cables obtained by WikiLeaks—details how the Obama administration, working with Republicans, leaned on Spain to derail this potential prosecution.
via Obama and GOPers Worked Together to Kill Bush Torture Probe | Mother Jones.
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