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Foreclosure by Race and Ethnicity: Demographics of a Man-Made Disaster

Posted on October 10, 2010 by iwilder

Among the report’s findings:

  • An estimated 2.5 million foreclosures were completed from 2007 – 2009 and an estimated 5.7 additional ones are imminent. (Independent estimates have suggested that up to 13 million homes will be lost through 2014.)
  • On completed foreclosures, most on mortgages made between 2005 and 2008, we estimate that 56% involved a white family.  But African American and Hispanic families have received a disproportionate share, even when accounting for income: Nearly 8% of both groups have already lost a home, compared to 4.5% of white borrowers.
  • The great majority of homes lost were owner occupied, as are those at imminent risk of being lost.

via Demographics of a Man-Made Disaster.

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School garden raided: Unmarked cops find tomatoes (via Food Freedom)

Posted on October 10, 2010 by iwilder

“We’re sitting here as a teaching staff, always short on money, and we’re thinking, ‘Gosh, all the money it takes to fly that helicopter and hire all those people, it would be great to have this for education.’ “

School garden raided: Unmarked cops find tomatoes FILED UNDER: Has more money than common sense. By Tom Sharpe Santa Fe New Mexican Police last month raided an Española-area school looking for marijuana growing in a greenhouse, but all they found there were tomatoes. Patricia Pantano, education director of the Camino de Paz Montessori School and Farm in Cuarteles, between Española and Chimayó on N.M. 76, said the raid occurred Sept. 21 during the lunch hour. "We were all as a group eating outsid … Read More

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Evangelical push for GM foods: USDA’s NIFA chief calls opponents ‘ignorant’ (via Food Freedom)

Posted on October 10, 2010 by iwilder

The BBC also does not mention that Beachy is now working for the US government. In September 2009, President Obama put Beachy in charge of a USDA agency, the National Institutes of Food and Agriculture, that will fund R & D in agricultural “technological innovations”. So don’t expect a lot of research dollars for badly needed agro-ecological approaches.
http://www.grist.org/article/usda-research-chief-concerned-about-safety-of-organic-food

Evangelical push for GM foods: USDA's NIFA chief calls opponents 'ignorant' USDA chief of National Institute of Food and Agriculture calls GM food opponents ignorant By GM Watch This October 7th programme, part of the BBC World Service's One Planet series on the environment, interviews genetic engineer Dr Roger Beachy. Beachy's interview appears to be part of a new evangelical push on the part of the U.S. government, hyping GM crops as the solution to world hunger. In the BBC interview, Beachy claims GM is being demonize … Read More

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Guv cand Hawkins (G-NY) support for 350.org 10/10/10 Day of Action

Posted on October 10, 2010 by iwilder
10-10-10 is an international day of action on climate change. Howie partcipated in a world hoop event at Syracuse University. Below is information about Howie’s Climate Change Plan.
Darling Wind Farm

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On 10-10-10, Hawkins Says NY Must Put more Wind Into Climate Action

Green New Deal would Invest in Renewable Energy for Jobs, Economic Recovery, and Climate Stability

Condemns the Proposal for 20 New Nukes in NY’s Climate Action Plan

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, released his Climate Action position paper as part of the 10-10-10 worldwide day of action (350.org) against global warming. Hawkins is participating in the (Hula) Hoop Day of Action for the climate in Syracuse.

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Want the Green Party to run for Local Office? Vote Hawkins for Guv

Posted on October 10, 2010 by iwilder

 

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Sunday is World Hoop Day! Come Hoop for Howie! – Permaculture and Homesteading Guild (Syracuse, NY) 10/10/10

Posted on October 10, 2010 by iwilder

Sunday October 10th, 10/10/10 is World Hoop Day (that’s right, HULA HOOPs!)  10/10/10 is also Global Work Day to raise climate awareness and to work to reduce carbon emissions (350.org) to 350 ppm.  What does hooping have to do with carbon emissions you ask?!

CleanHeart HoopTroop is hosting a Hoop Day event at the Westcott Theatre,  Sunday, 10/10/10  7pm – 10pm. At 9 pm, Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for NY Governor, will speak about his plan to reduce carbon emissions in NY state.  Come Hoop for Howie! A sustainable economy requires political will, and Howie’s got it! Howie Hawkins is also the only gubernatorial candidate demanding a BAN on hydrofracking.

On Nov. 2nd, Howie Hawkins needs 50,000 votes for the Green Party to win back a ballot line in NY state.  With a ballot line, Greens will be able to run for office at any level of NY state and represent the will of those who believe that NY is overdue for a sustainable economy based on peace, social justice and respect for the environment.

via Sunday is World Hoop Day! Come Hoop for Howie! – Permaculture and Homesteading Guild (Syracuse, NY) – Meetup.

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NYCLU to Teach New York City Youth about their Rights During ‘Week of Action’

Posted on October 10, 2010 by iwilder

NEW PUBLICATION: Palm Card: Know Your Rights When Facing a Suspension (2010) (280.43 KB)

On Tuesday10/12/10  through Friday10/15/10  next week, the New York Civil Liberties Union and its volunteers will visit public high schools in each New York City borough to inform students of their rights when confronted by police or military recruiters at school, and their right to confidential sexual health care services.

The Week of Action, an annual event, encompasses all of the NYCLU’s youth advocacy work: school safety, aggressive military recruitment and teen health and reproductive rights.  Schools will be targeted for one of the three issues. Volunteers will visit selected campuses either before first bell or when school lets out to distribute information to students.

On Tuesday, volunteers will visit schools that are heavily targeted by military recruiters. They will distribute the NYCLU’s No Student Left Unrecruited palm card, which answers questions about students’ rights regarding military recruitment.

On Wednesday, volunteers will visit schools located in neighborhoods with high teen pregnancy rates. They will distribute the NYCLU’s Your Rights to Sexual Health Services palm card and other materials that explain students’ health care rights and their legal rights if they become pregnant or have children.

On Thursday and Friday, volunteers will visit schools that have permanent metal detectors, high suspension rates and a heavy police presence. They will hand out the NYCLU’s Know Your Rights with Police in Schools palm card, which provides information on students’ rights when reacting with NYPD personnel in the public schools.

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The clean can campaign (via Leave Only Footprints)

Posted on October 10, 2010 by iwilder

The clean can campaign     A month ago I emailed a lot of people about plastic lined tin cans. Why? Because increasing numbers of people are worried about the potential health risks of Bisphenol A (BPA) leaching from the liner into the food.  I suggested my friends  might want to check whether the food they were eating came from plastic lined cans – and then tell me the res … Read More

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12 Questions for Using Permaculture to Discover Food Freedom (via Food Freedom)

Posted on October 10, 2010 by iwilder

1. Why do (we need) permaculture?

Because we need its natural growing living systems, awareness, healthy organic living in balance at home. Engaging in permaculture helps us understand and love our bioregion, weather and watershed flowing into local fertility that’s constantly changing. We need to reduce stress, consumption, traveling, waste, and competing to survive and succeed. We need simple low-tech home systems to grow fresh food to eat, we use by instincts and STOP polluting ourselves. Millions of people traditionally do PC daily at home, plus our new trend of homesteading. PC is growing our cooperative network of whole systems we connect with each other and nature. We also need PC to restore the vast deforested, poisoned and eroded (denatured) lands to repair organic fertility.

12 Questions for Using Permaculture to Discover Food Freedom By Micheal Sunanda Activist Post Permaculture (PC) is the embodiment of sustainable food growing at home. It's the ancient art and science of homesteading, constantly evolving with nature. Bill Mollison defined PC in 1970s Australia to mean an organic design process; the concept quickly spread throughout the 80s and 90s, and can now be found prominently in over 40 countries. Permaculture is the ultimate natural back-to-the-land family settlement … Read More

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Metroland: If a Third-Party Candidate Says Something in the Forest . . .

Posted on October 10, 2010 by iwilder

Looking at the campaign platforms of Andrew Cuomo (D) and Carl Paladino (R), it may seem that implementing spending cuts and hiring freezes and withholding grant money are the only options available to close the state’s yawning budget gap.

Nearly every candidate running for governor has put forth their version of an “austerity plan,” emphasizing statewide belt-tightening and massive reductions to social services.

Enter Howie Hawkins, Green Party gubernatorial candidate, longtime political organizer and perennial political hopeful .Hawkins says he has a “prosperity plan” to reinvigorate the state’s economy. According to Hawkins, this plan would serve to even the playing field between economic classes, resolve the state budget crisis, promote ecological sustainability and create jobs for hundreds of thousands of unemployed New Yorkers. He believes that many of the issues important to progressive voters today—civil rights, ecological sustainability, improved social services and government oversight of big business practices—have long been paid insincere lip service by leaders of the Democratic Party, especially here in New York. With liberal votes in their “back pockets,” contends Hawkins, these politicians have gone on to make decisions based purely on the influence of corporate interests.

via Metroland Online – Feature.

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Mortgage Bankers Association Strategic Default

Posted on October 10, 2010 by iwilder

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Call the Attorney General to Stop “Trump on the Ocean”

Posted on October 10, 2010 by iwilder

 

Jones Beach Toll Plaza located on Wantagh Parkway.

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Friends of Jones Beach,
You may be aware that a recent opinion of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York has given a victory to Donald Trump in his attempt to build his huge complex (restaurant, catering hall, souvenir shop) along the boardwalk of Jones Beach. Nevertheless, the Attorney General, can appeal this latest ruling, and stop this project  of Trump’s from going forward. “Trump on the Ocean,” is just too big for what is needed at Jones Beach–a simple boardwalk restaurant that can be enjoyed by all the people, not just the wealthy clientele that Mr. Trump is courting. Mr. Trump has not proven that a smaller, public-friendly restaurant would not be economically viable, and the original Review Board (including an architect, a businessman, fire  prevention expert and Building Code expert) that denied his variance application was acting with the best interests of the public in mind.

I urge everyone who wants to preserve our beautiful and publicly owned Jones Beach to call the Attorney General’s Long Island office at 516-248-3302 or 516-248-3300. Urge Andrew Cuomo to appeal this most recent decision. Our State Park at Jones Beach was created for all of us, not just for the wealthy few!

Jim Brown

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Guv cand Hawkins (G-NY) House Party 10/16/10

Posted on October 9, 2010 by iwilder

From Jeff Peress:

You are invited to an exciting house party for Howie Hawkins; Jeff will be cooking some of his culinary delights and yes you can bring food and drinks preferably non-alcoholic drinks.I will be serving non-meat but yes there will be some dairy products. Come meet and greet Howie Hawkins for governor.

House Party for Howie Hawkins.
Where: 16 Douglas Drive
Glen Cove, NY 11542-2607
When:  Saturday,October 16th, 2010
Time: 7:30pm – until everyone is tired.
Contact: Jeff Peress *82 (516)759-9282
R.S.V.P. I would like to get a count on how many are attending.
We also need help that day at the Oyster Fest distributing leaflets for Howie and the rest of the team.
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CCE Report: Open Space Preservation

Posted on October 9, 2010 by iwilder

The report found that parks and open space provide billions in annual economic benefits for Nassau and Suffolk Counties.  Key points include:

  • Preserving land reduces government services.
  • Close proximity to parks increases the value of residential property.
  • $288 million is spent each year at LI farms.
  • $33.3 million is spent each year directly at wineries.
  • Conservation of parks is eight times less costly than new residential development.
  • Land and foliage in open space act as natural filters as they slow down runoff and capture precipitation, reducing stormwater management costs by $23.9 million annually.
  • The trees and shrubs found in parks and protected open space remove air pollutants naturally, reducing pollution control costs by $18.9 million per year.
  • Open space also contributes to public health benefits; over 600,000 Long Islanders take part in physical activity at the parks, generating health benefits of $164 million per year.

Read the full report

via New Report: Open Space Preservation.

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