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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.
Occupy Wall Street: What Just Happened?
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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.
By Charles Margulis Generation Green There's been much recent news about Monsanto paying farmers to use its competitors' herbicides, in what many see as a last ditch effort to address the spread of superweeds created by the company's "Roundup Ready" (RR) GMO crops. Environmental scientists warned even before Monsanto's "herbicide tolerant" GMO crops were approved that they would hasten the evolution of resistant weeds. For these scientists, the i … Read More
Energy magnate David Koch left his spot on a National Cancer Institute (NCI) advisory board last month, but green advocates are taking aim at the conservative mega-donor nonetheless by calling for a review of federal ethics policies that allowed him to sit on the panel despite a potential conflict of interest.
Koch Industries Inc., the privately held company run by Koch and his brother Charles, burst onto the political scene this year thanks to multimillion-dollar contributions the duo steered to right-leaning groups that help fuel the tea party movement. But David Koch’s membership on the National Cancer Advisory Board, which advises NCI, became a flashpoint of its own after The New Yorker magazine last month reported that a Koch-owned company lobbied against designating formaldehyde as a known human carcinogen while he sat on the panel.
Open Mics? Jam Sessions? Song Circles? If you attend any recurring open mics, jam sessions or song circles in Nassau or Suffolk (at restaurants, bars, churches, arts centers, libraries, private homes, etc.) and want to publicize these “open to the public” events, please send me the information and I will start a new section of LI Concert Notes just for these events. If you want to start up a new open mic, jam session, or song circle, that’s OK too. Be sure to include day, date, time, location, description of event, frequency of recurrence, electric or acoustic, genre of music, and contact information (phone or email). 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.
Fri 10/29 9:00 Cecilia Kirtland, Ramona Spooney & Frank Walker Jessie’s Roadhouse, Merrick
Fri 10/29 9:00 The Kathy Fleischmann Band Lulu’s Village Pub, Port Jefferson
Sat 10/30 9:30 AM Denise Romas Amityville Village Growers’ Market, Rt 110 Sat 10/30 8:00 “The Grateful Shed Halloween Show” Bob Westcott, Turtlehead, Alan Short, Jim Frazzitta (with Paul Matthews & J. Williams) Wear a Costume! Conklin Barn, Huntington Village
Sun 10/31 4:00 Grand Folk Railroad Village Lanterne, Lindenhurst
Tue 11/2 9:30 Buddy Merriam & Back Roads Checkmate Inn, Setauket
Thu 11/4 7:30 Joni Mitchel Tribute: Gathering Time, Rough Folk w/Susan Cohen, Claudia Jacobs, Maria Fairchild, Katie Pearlman, The Point with Pauline Salotti and Cindy Lopez, Tom Groney’s Woodstock Jam, Joseph & Friends, Leah Kay, Jessie Haynes, Jennett Russell, Rorie Kelly, Suzanne Ernst, Dave March Patchogue Theatre, Patchogue
Thu 11/4 7:00 Gail Storm Black and Blue, Huntington
Fri 11/5 7:30 Joni Mitchell Tribute – Caroline Doctorow, Hillary Foxsong, Denise Romas Port Washington Library, Port Washington Fri 11/5 8:00 Grand Folk Railroad Peacesmiths, Amityville Read more »
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MTA Raises Tolls on Bridges and Tunnels / October 27, 2010
Drivers as well as bus and subway riders will all be paying more for their commutes beginning on Dec. 30.
By Jill Colvin
MIDTOWN — Straphangers aren’t the only ones who will have to shell out more cash to commute in the new year.
The Metropolitan Transit Authority voted Wednesday to increase tolls on bridges and tunnels, following last month’s unpopular hike in subway and bus fares, which drew outrage across the city… Read more »
Roping in the Stock Transfer Tax. Howie Hawkins, Green Party New York governorl candidate talks about the Stock Transfer Tax and the state economy along with Gloria Mattera, Lt. Gov. candidate.
Howie Hawkins Challenges Cuomo’s Silence on Halting NY’s $16 Billion Annual Rebate to Wall Street
Lassoes the Wall Street Bull to Wrangle Back the Rebates
Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, challenged Andy Cuomo to come clean today about why he is refusing to talk about the rebate of the state’s Stock Transfer Tax.
Few people know that gubernatorial Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins once worked on Wyoming Senator Clifford Hansen’s ranch. “Back then I was baling hay. Now we’re talking about bailing out the people.”
“But the people of New York need to round up these state revenue rustlers on Wall Street!” thundered Hawkins, as he lassoed the Wall Street Bull this morning as part of the Green Party’s Rootin’ Tootin’ Wall Street Rodeo to Wrangle Runaway Stock Transfer Tax Revenue From Corporate Rustlers.
New York State presently collects a very small tax on each stock transfer, but then rebates the tax, now in excess of $16 billion annually, back to Wall Street speculators. The tax is hardly noticeable for anyone who invests in Wall Street, primarily hitting those who treat the Stock Market as a casino, making hundreds of trades daily.
“Why is Mr. Cuomo, the anointed front runner, hiding the Stock Transfer Tax from the public when it is an obvious way to bridge the state budget deficit? Why does he rule out higher taxes on the rich when they have more money than ever? Why he won’t make them pay their fair share? They’ll still be rich after paying their fair share. All the politicians in Albany act like we’re out of money and debate over what services to cut, all the while refusing to tell New Yorkers about the $16 billion they hand back to Wall Street speculators,” said Hawkins, a member of the Teamsters Union who unload trucks for UPS in Syracuse.
“The Stock Transfer Tax doesn’t impact upon people making serious long term investments. It makes those who manipulate stocks for short term bets pay a price for doing so. Democrats had no problems bailing out bankers and Wall Street financiers for all the damage they did with their speculative games to our economy, but they don’t want to bail out average New Yorkers or those who saw their retirement funds collapse due to Wall Street’s misdeeds,” said Hawkins.
Colia L. Liddell LaFayette Clark is the Green Party candidate for U.S. Senator from NYS in 2010.
“As US Senator, I will work tirelessly to address the failing economy, failing schools, criminal injustice system, failing infrastructure, crisis in energy, health care, food production and other areas of the USA socio-political economy.”
[Update on this story, including stats, in another Newsday article at bottom.]
(excerpt from) Newsday
Deer Park man convicted of murder hangs himself in jail
By ANN GIVENS ann.givens at newsday dot com / October 27, 2010
[Police and corrections officials said:] About nine hours after being convicted of first-degree murder and facing possible life in prison, Herve Jeannot hanged himself Tuesday night in his cell at the Nassau County jail…
…Jeannot’s suicide is the third this year in Nassau, officials said.
In the last five years, four inmates killed themselves in Nassau and five in Suffolk, according to the state Commission of Correction, which investigates inmate deaths…
The Governor’s race is in a separate category from the Senate races, because no matter how many votes the Green Party candidates get for their Senate candidates, it will not give them a ballot line. But if Hawkins and Mattera can rack up 50,000 votes, then New Yorkers will have a real “party of the left” on the ballot. It would be good for New York if we had a real third party – and, God bless them, the Working Families Party isn’t it. We
need a party which is independent of the corporate structure, and that is the Green Party.
On issues which I think matter – ending the drug war, equal marriage rights for gays and lesbians, cradle to grave medicare for all, public banks, etc. – the Greens offer a real choice. Check them out by going to their web site: www.gpnys.com and for full information on Howie Hawkins, visit www.howiehawkins.org.
PeaceSmiths Coffeehouse TONIGHT! Friday, November 5, 2010!
The PeaceSmiths, Topical, A-Typical, Folk Music, Poetry and Whatever Coffeehouse for November will be: Friday, November 5th at 8pm Music by Grand Folk Railroad Musicians: Mike Christian, Susan Cohen, Frank Doris, Bill Resvanis and Poetry by David Kirschenbaum Editor and publisher of Boog City, a New York City-based small press and community newspaper now in its 20th year 1st United Methodist Church in Amityville $7 suggested donation More if poss … Read More
The report, released tomorrow, used information on the Open Secrets.org database to track what it called a co-ordinated attempt by some of Europe’s biggest polluters to influence the US midterms. It said: “The European companies are funding almost exclusively Senate candidates who have been outspoken in their opposition to comprehensive climate policy in the US and candidates who actively deny the scientific consensus that climate change is happening and is caused by people.”
The Green Party’s Howie Hawkins, a Teamster, is the only union member running for statewide office.
“Cuomo is … threatening to cut pay and jobs for public employees and cut essential services to close the budget deficit while the Wall Street and the wealthy pay lower rates of state and local taxes than working people.”
(Previous Hawkins statements on supporting workers.) Hawkins, the only union member running for statewide office, criticized Democrats Cuomo and Duffy for their attacks on unions. Hawkins said he would be a strong proponent of organized labor as Governor and would seek to raise the state minimum wage, unemployment benefits and pension protections. Hawkins noted that more than 800,000 New Yorkers are out of work yet the Democratic state legislators failed to pass legislation to raise either the maximum or average unemployment benefits.
For GPDs disgusted and disheartened, I am empathetic. The vile theater of health care reform caused me to look for a political party that is fundamentally dedicated to the same things I am politically committed to, and thus I became a Green. Though my views on same-sex marriage and “don’t ask, don’t tell” are, shall we say, more nuanced, as a queer man, it’s much easier to get on board with the Greens’ positions on LGBTIQ issues than the Democrats’ visionless statements. Moreover, I do not wish to wait for the Democratic Party to catch up with my concerns. I’d rather go the more difficult route and work to empower Greens to represent my liberal politics in local, state, and federal governments.
Green Party candidates and officials stated today a recent audit of state voting system showed a “broken election system” that needs reform, upgrades to ballot security, and transparency. Greens were shocked that ballots to be audited were left unsecured, left under desks and had differences in the ballot count, according to the audit report.
In one case, the Secretary of the State office had reviewed districts, and yet apparently did not notice these large differences until it was pointed out by the coalition who monitored the audit recount! (The report stated)
Green Party candidate for Secretary of the State Mike DeRosa said, “Election after election, problems occur in every cycle and the public should be outraged that votes are not counted correctly and we pay big bucks to people who are not doing the job they are being paid to do! In 2008, hundreds of votes for registered write-in candidates were not counted, and voting officials told voters that write-in candidates were not allowed or did not count, and the Libertarian Party petitions were “lost” by Registrars of Voters, for example.
DeRosa said, “Everyone who cares about Democracy in this state, MUST read this audit report and be outraged!
He added, “The other candidates are not even discussing these issues and we are not even having debates! I challenge the other candidates to debate these issues about reforming election process.”
Okay, I am not sure if you should vote for Rent Is Too Damn High candidate Jimmy McMillan. Though, you sure have to give him credit! He has gotten his message across. He has launched a message and a slogan that is at three million plus views and counting.
As of 5:19pm on Monday, October 25th, the main, Daily Beast video, with a montage of Jimmy McMillan’s comments at the Hofstra NY Governor’s debate, is up to 3,418,925 views. (Three million, four hundred thousand, nine hundred and twenty five views!) If you want to watch the view count, you can keep checking in at Youtube, or check here. I am becoming thoroughly entertained by checking on these stats a few times a day.
Now, with all these views, and all this attention, Jimmy McMillan is getting quite confident. He has told The NY Magazine that with the Youtube hits, and the bump from the Saturday Night Live spoof, “‘Election over. Jimmy gonna win it,’…’That put me over the top. It’s over. This election is over.'”
What? You don’t think so? Is Jimmy McMillan really going to win for Governor of New York State?
If you say “No”, then I say: Prove it! Read more »
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By Charles Margulis Generation Green There's been much recent news about Monsanto paying farmers to use its competitors' herbicides, in what many see as a last ditch effort to address the spread of superweeds created by the company's "Roundup Ready" (RR) GMO crops. Environmental scientists warned even before Monsanto's "herbicide tolerant" GMO crops were approved that they would hasten the evolution of resistant weeds. For these scientists, the i … Read More
Green Party candidates and officials stated today a recent audit of state voting system showed a “broken election system” that needs reform, upgrades to ballot security, and transparency. Greens were shocked that ballots to be audited were left unsecured, left under desks and had differences in the ballot count, according to the audit report.