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Great video: Nader and Hawkins

Posted on October 21, 2010 by iwilder

Ralph Nader and Green Party of New York Governor candidate Howie Hawkins talk to the State of Politics.  Great discussion of the issues facing New York like the deficit, stock transfer tax, mortgage foreclosure, the tea party, the need for competitive democracy, and voting for what you want.  We need more of this in the media.

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Guv cand Whitney (G-IL) ad to Air on comedy Central and MSNBC

Posted on October 21, 2010 by iwilder

Rich Whitney announced on Thursday that his campaign has released a television advertisement that will be airing on MSBNC and Comedy Central. In the ad, Whitney emphasizes his desire to be included in all gubernatorial debates. The spot can also be viewed at his websitehttp://www.whitneyforgov.org/.

Rich Whitney is a 55-year-old civil rights and employment lawyer from Carbondale. As a lawyer, he has fought for working people who have lost their jobs or had their rights violated. A founder of the Illinois Green Party, he has long been politically active in support of the labor, health-care reform, environmental, civil rights, and peace movements. In 2006, he served as the Green Party’s first candidate for Governor, winning over 360,000 votes and making it possible for Illinois voters to have a third choice on the ballot statewide.

 

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Homeland Security tracks anti-fracking groups in Pa. | Centre Daily Times – State College, PA | Penn State, Nittany Lions, weather, news, jobs, homes, apartments, real estate

Posted on October 21, 2010 by iwilder

According to recently leaked documents, the Pennsylvania Office of Homeland Security has been tracking anti-gas drilling groups and their meetings — including a public screening of the film “Gasland,” a documentary about the environmental hazards of natural gas drilling.

The office has included the information in its weekly intelligence bulletins sent to law enforcement agencies.

The bulletins are also sent to gas companies drilling in the Marcellus Shale.

Activists and environmental groups have responded with outrage and some alarm.

via Documents show Homeland Security tracks anti-drill groups in Pa. – Local | Centre Daily Times – State College, PA | Penn State, Nittany Lions, weather, news, jobs, homes, apartments, real estate.

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NYCLU Settlement Ends Restriction on Photography Outside Federal Courthouses

Posted on October 21, 2010 by iwilder
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In settling a lawsuit filed by the New York Civil Liberties Union, the federal government today recognized the public’s right to take photographs and record videos in public spaces outside federal courthouses throughout the nation.

The settlement comes after the NYCLU sued the federal government in April on behalf of a Libertarian activist who was unlawfully arrested by federal officers after exercising his First Amendment right to record digital video outside of a federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan.

via NYCLU Settlement Ends Restriction on Photography Outside Federal Courthouses | New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) – American Civil Liberties Union of New York State.

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NY adopts tougher foreclosure court rules (via NYS Coalition for Excellence in Homeownership Education)

Posted on October 21, 2010 by iwilder

From the 10-21 Times Union: State adopts new foreclosure rule By DAVID B. CARUSO Associated Press Published: 12:00 a.m., Thursday, October 21, 2010 NEW YORK — The chief judge of New York's courts implemented a new rule Wednesday requiring every lawyer handling a foreclosure to sign a form verifying that all paperwork in the case is accurate. The move comes amid an uproar over accusations that mortgage lenders nationwide cut corners on paperwork … Read More

via NYS Coalition for Excellence in Homeownership Education

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Prop 23: The Skinny on a Big, Fat Scam (via Autonomie Project’s Blog)

Posted on October 21, 2010 by iwilder

Prop 23: The Skinny on a Big, Fat Scam Further, and further, proof that California politics is a dazzlingly misleading house of horrifying mirrors: Proposition 23, which suspends State Law AB 32 (requiring greenhouse gas emissions to be reduced to 1990 levels by 2020) until California's unemployment drops to 5.5% or less for four consecutive years, is hardly a California Proposition.  When the vast majority of financial backers supporting a proposition are out-of-state corporations, i … Read More

via Autonomie Project's Blog

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Opportunity embraced: Howie Hawkins, center stage | syracuse.com

Posted on October 21, 2010 by iwilder

For the most part, his role in the debate seemed to leave a good impression. The New York Times spoke of Hawkins’ “earnest pleas” and described him as a candidate who offered “substance.” Former Republican gubernatorial candidate John Faso was not so kind; when a post-debate caller to YNN offered praise for Hawkins, Faso used the word “lunacy” in speaking of some Green Party ideas.That’s fine with Hawkins, as long as Faso’s insult inspires voters to study his platform. Political coverage, Hawkins said, is too often akin to the judging on “American Idol.” He needs 50,000 votes to give the Green Party an automatic line on the ballot, and he’d like to think the easy laughs from the audience at Hofstra will give way to consideration of deeper points.

via Opportunity embraced: Howie Hawkins, center stage | syracuse.com.

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Green Party New York: Cuomo the Second Tea Party Candidate

Posted on October 21, 2010 by iwilder

Last night Andrew Cuomo confirmed every fear that progressive and independent voters have about his run for governor. Most thought it a silly joke when, in mid-September, the Democrat Party candidate claimed that he, and not the Republican Carl Paladino, was the real Tea Party candidate. Any doubts about this claim were dashed at the Hofstra debate last night. Cuomo means what he says – his administration will slash publicly funded programs across the board and will cut taxes for the rich and corporations.

via Green Party New York » Blog Archive » Cuomo the Second Tea Party Candidate.

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The Grateful Shed Halloween Show 10/30/10

Posted on October 21, 2010 by iwilder

10-30 Conklin BarnFeaturing : Alan Short, Bob Westcott, Turtlehead, and Jim Frazzitta (with Paul Matthews & Lotek J. Williams).

Hosted by Jim Frazzitta.

Celebrate Halloween.  Wear a costume, sing, dance, and add a little GROOVE to your coffee!

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30 – 8pm.

Admission – $10 (includes light refreshments).

The CONKLIN BARN
corner of NY Ave (Rt. 110) and High Street in Huntington Village.

Hotline – 631-368-1920.

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Photo and article about Hula Hoop Hawkins for Guv from syracuse.com

Posted on October 21, 2010 by iwilder

Hawkins has held news conferences all over the state on such topics as shutting down nuclear power plants and banning the planting of genetically modified crops. But his message is rarely broadcast beyond the audience in front of him.

His schedule includes stops such as a peace vigil in Saratoga, the Troy farmers market, a discussion on climate change at Cornell University and the picket line outside Mott’s apple-processing plant in Wayne County.

Last Sunday, he tried out a Hula Hoop at World Hoop Day at the Westcott Theater, where he knew there would be college students interested in his talk about climate change.

via Syracuse’s political also-ran Howie Hawkins gets his moment tonight in debate of governor candidates | syracuse.com.

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Third parties in Pennsylvania team up for ballot access lawsuit

Posted on October 21, 2010 by kwilder

from Ballot Access News
Pennsylvania Minor Parties File Brief in 3rd Circuit
October 20th, 2010

On October 20, the Constitution, Green and Libertarian Parties of Pennsylvania filed this 39-page brief in the Third Circuit.  The case is Constitution Party of Pennsylvania v Cortes, 10-3205.  The issues are the Pennsylvania challenge system that subjects minor parties and independent candidates to the risk of paying up to $100,000 if they submit a petition that is insufficient; Pennsylvania’s abysmal record of counting and tallying write-ins; and the state’s threshold for a party to be ballot-qualified without petitioning.  That threshold is that it have registration membership of 15% of the state total, a hurdle so high that if the same law existed in Utah, the Democratic Party would not be on the ballot; and if it existed in the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, or Rhode Island, the Republican Party would not be ballot-qualified.

The U.S. District Court had refused to adjudicate the lawsuit on the grounds that the plaintiffs lack standing or their claims are not ripe.

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L mag: Who is Howie Hawkins and Why Is He Debating Paladino and Cuomo Tonight?

Posted on October 21, 2010 by iwilder

This is a couple of days late, but it is an interesting article.

A vote for Cuomo is a vote for his conservative economic program. If you’re a progressive, a Cuomo vote is a wasted vote. It gives away your power. Cuomo will take you for granted, because what are you going to do, vote for a Republican like Paladino?

No! You’re going to vote for Howie Hawkins and the Green Party. That vote will send a clear message to the people, the politicians, and the media of support for the Green New Deal: full employment, universal single-payer health care, fully funded public schools, tuition-free SUNY and CUNY, building a carbon-free clean energy system—all paid for by restoring progressive tax rates on Wall Street and the rich. A big Green vote will put Green policies on the public agenda. If we don’t vote for what we want, we will never get it.

via Who is Howie Hawkins and Why Is He Debating Paladino and Cuomo Tonight? | The Measure.

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La Pietra Working with County Clerks to Prepare for Analysis of Voting Conditions

Posted on October 21, 2010 by iwilder
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Gathering Information on Precincts, Polling Places, Voter Counts to Be Ready When Citizens Send in Survey Responses After Election

Will Follow Up Early Next Week, Then Publicize Status of Counties’ Responses

Next, Will Ask for Lists of Official Write-In Candidates, Post on Website After Oct. 22 Filing Deadline to Make Elections Fairer, Better for Them and Voters

John Anthony La Pietra — the Green Party of Michigan’s candidate for
Secretary of State — has been sending out the news of his
voting-conditions survey for months to people across the state.  Last week, he focused on 83 people in every part of Michigan:  the county clerks.

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Barlow:Our Commons Future Is Already Here

Posted on October 20, 2010 by iwilder
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Maude Barlow

I deeply believe it is time for us to extend these powerful new movements, which fuse the analysis and hard work of the environmental community with the vision and commitment of the justice community, into a whole new form of governance that not only challenges the current model of unlimited growth and economic globalization but promotes an alternative that will allow us and the Earth to survive. Quite simply, human-centred governance systems are not working and we need new economic, development, and environmental policies as well as new laws that articulate an entirely different point of view from that which underpins most governance systems today. At the centre of this new paradigm is the need to protect natural ecosystems and to ensure the equitable and just sharing of their bounty. It also means the recovery of an old concept called the Commons.

via Our Commons Future Is Already Here by Maude Barlow | CommonDreams.org.

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