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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.
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Saturday, September 11th at 7:30pm
DHPAC at Five Towns College in Dix Hills, LI, NY
Tickets and info: here.
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Howie Hawkins, the Green Party’s candidate, echoed this complaint, and said it was particularly important because he has far fewer financial resources available to him than other candidates.
“The mainstream media focuses on the horse race, and financially I’m not in the same league as the Democrats and the Republicans,” he said. “It’s one factor of 10 to get into (Rick) Lazio’s league and a thousand to get to (Andrew) Cuomo’s league.”
Hawkins said that the lack of a primary challenger to Cuomo, the Democratic candidate who leads the field in polls and fundraising, has allowed him to tack away from the traditional Democratic base. Cuomo has explained his platform is necessitated by a tough economic climate, but Hawkins isn’t buying.
“Cuomo’s a ‘New Democrat,’ not a New Deal Democrat, and the New Democrats are like the old Republicans,” he complained, referring to the state party’s current catchphrase. “Government has to step in with spending, and instead he wants to take a fiscal austerity line and refuses to raise taxes on the rich or on Wall Street.”
Hawkins also said he would stop rebating a tax on stock transfers. The extra money, he said, could be used to fund a government work corps to build green infrastructure. There would be enough left over to create a single-payer health system in the state, he believes.
via Rebels with causes use ideas to fuel bids – Times Union.
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from The Fight Against Fracking: New York Senate Passes Moratorium on Hydraulic Fracturing.
The incoming governor will be the focus of attention post-election. Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins has called for a total ban on the practice. Democrat Andrew Cuomo and Republican Rick Lazio say they are in favor of “safe” drilling. Activists are already showing up at Cuomo’s statewide rallies to let him know that fracking isn’t safe.
You’re kidding!! Yes! magazine identifies a candidate, Hawkins, who supports a fracking ban. So, of course, they then encourage all the fracking ban activists to spend all their time raising funds for Hawkins, and campaigning for him.
Instead Yes! magazine encourages people to do what? Spend their time yelling at the fringes of the guy who opposes your position?
When is Yes! magazine going to stop kissing up to Democratic/Republicans candidates? Democratic/Republican politicians don’t care about your rallies, marches, emails or letters.
As Kimberly said:
There is only one thing Democratic/Republican candidates care about: money and votes.
If you start taking money and votes away, then the Democratic/Republican candidates will pay attention.
Wanna get Cuomo’s attention?
And while your at it tell Yes! magazine you are tired of their fronting for the Democratic/Republican corporate parties. Write them a letter to the editor. Let them know that you got fooled by Obama pretending to be with you while he campaigned against you. You remember that candidate Obama said he was for “safe” nuclear energy, and now Obama is the first president in decades to fund new nuclear power plants. You are gonna take politicians at their word from now on. Cuomo says he’s gonna frack you over, and you know he means it.
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Nylon & Steel performing Heartland Girl at Yardstock 2010. Jim Frazzitta, Ian Wilder, Jay Williams, Lin Giliberti, and Tom Brzezinski
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President Obama said that it is “time to turn the page” on the occupation of Iraq. The Green Party has been working for years to end this destructive war and looks forward to the day when all our troops have left. But we know that we cannot simply “turn the page” and turn attention elsewhere. We have read some books, and we know that when you turn a page – although the scene changes slightly – the story stays the same.
Turn the page of the latest teen saga and the scene shifts from a coffee shop to the high school cafeteria, but the story stays the same. Turn the page from Iraq to Afghanistan and the story – occupation to protect U.S. interests – stays the same.
Can you help us take out a new book about a real end of U.S. occupations?
Turn the page of the latest mystery thriller and the characters shift from computer hackers to police detectives, but the story stays the same. Turn the page from “combat troops” to non-combat “advisors” and the story – destabilization and attacks precipitated by foreign forces – stays the same. Read more »
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Howie Hawkins spills the beans on Wallstreet Hedge Funds investing and ripping off our Charter Schools. The only way out of this financial mess is to elect Howie to implement “The Green New Deal”.
The only way that the Green Party can regain ballot status in NY is to get 50,000 votes for their Governor candidate in 2010. This opportunity comes only once every four years, and it only applies to the Governor’s race. Gaining ballot status will enable the Green Party to run more peace candidates, more single-payer candidates, more anti-fracking candidates, and more sustainable energy candidates. The last time that the Green Party of New York State had ballot status it set the record for running the most Green candidates of any state.
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A state-funded jobs program could boost the state’s economy and put thousands of unemployed New Yorkers back to work, said Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for governor.
“Private jobs are great, but public jobs are necessary,” Hawkins said at a Wednesday news conference in front of the State Office Building on Genesee Street. “We need to get the economy moving again.”
via Green Party gubernatorial candidate speaks in Utica – Utica, NY – The Observer-Dispatch.
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“…I have always believed art is the conscience of the human soul and that artists have the responsibility not only to show life as it is but to show life as it should be. … Sweet Honey In The Rock has withstood the onslaught. She has been unprovoked by the 30 pieces of silver. Her songs lead us to the well of truth that nourishes the will and courage to stand strong. She is the keeper of the flame.” …Harry Belafonte, artist and activist
On April 23, 2010, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed what The New York Times described as “the nation’s toughest bill on illegal immigration…reigniting the divisive battle over immigration reform nationally.” In response to SB-1070 being enacted, the acclaimed women’s a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey In The Rock, decided to take action and lift her collective voice through song against 
the bill. The song, ARE WE A NATION?, will be released by Sweet Honey’s independent record label SHE-ROCKS 5 on via CD Baby (www.cdbaby.com), and should be available on all major online music sites such as iTunes and Amazon.com . The song’s music video was directed and produced by James Lester. A portion of the funds from the sales of ARE WE A NATION? will go to the Center for Community Change.
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Green Party governor candidate Rich Whitney blasted the latest proposal by his Republican challenger State Senator Bill Brady. In one of the few times that he has given any insight into his budget plan, Brady suggested that if elected governor, he would press for greater tax cuts for businesses.
Whitney commented:
Brady is now trying to bring back ‘Reaganomics‘ at the state level, forgetting that Ronald Reagan gave us the highest federal deficits in our nation’s history at the time,” “We can’t afford any of Bill Brady’s fuzzy math and a new experiment in ‘trickle down economics’ when we know that doesn’t work. We need real solutions to the budget crisis.
One problem is that Brady will be destroying even more public sector jobs due to the higher deficit and his proposed spending cuts, which will have a spillover effect on private sector retailers, causing even more job losses. There is no reason to believe that the plan will create more jobs than it will destroy.
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“Given all this, the attack on her was both ironic and disquieting.
It’s ironic because Cuomo is guilty of every “conflict” for which Schneiderman is now being accused.
It’s disquieting in that it’s another reminder of how far Cuomo can stray from the decent and honorable “happy warrior” persona to which we hoped he aspired. “
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