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Guv cand Hawkins (G-NY) and Statewide Slate on Ballot for Green New Deal

Posted on August 22, 2010 by iwilder
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.

Challenge the Two Corporate Parties to Debate the Issues

The Green Party qualified its statewide candidates today, headed by Howie Hawkins for Governor, by filing 27,500 signatures, with more than 100 signatures coming from 26 out of the 29 Congressional Districts.

Also qualifying were four women for statewide office: Gloria Mattera for
Lt. Governor, Julia Willebrand for State Comptroller, Colia Clark for US
Senate (full term); and Cecile Lawrence for US Senate (Special term).

Key issues for the Green Party this fall include support for a state and
national New Green Deal to provide for living wage jobs for all New Yorkers:

  • massive investments in renewable energy;
  • bringing American troops home from war and slashing the military budget;
  • a single payer Medicare for All universal health program at the state and national level
  • a ban on the proposed hydrofracking for natural gas
  • the end to the corruption that dominates all levels of the American government;
  • full funding for education, including college;
  • strong action to reduce climate change;
  • an end to the war on drugs and the prison industrial complex; and,
  • support for immigrant rights and same sex marriage.

Hawkins said: Read more »

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Anti hydro-fracking activists speak out against Andrew Cuomo

Posted on August 21, 2010 by kwilder
Tower for drilling horizontally into the Marce...

Tower for drilling horizontally into the Marcellus Shale Formation for natural gas, from Pennsylvania

(excerpt from) IthacaJournal.com
Fracking foes target Cuomo visit
Gubernatorial candidate to campaign in Ithaca, Montour Falls Thursday
by Stacey Shackford / August 16, 2010

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is scheduled to visit Tompkins County on Thursday as part of a statewide tour to support his campaign for governor.

The Democrat will be appearing at the Women’s Community Building, at 100 W. Seneca St. in Ithaca, at 11 a.m. before moving on to Montour Falls for a 12:30 p.m. visit to Montour House.

He will likely be greeted by local anti-gas drilling activists, who are organizing a rally outside of the building starting at 10:15 a.m.

Walter Hang, president of Toxics Targeting, led a gathering of dozens of hydrofracturing opponents during a Cuomo campaign stop in Binghamton earlier this month, and he hopes an even larger crowd will assemble in Ithaca this week.

“Andrew Cuomo needs our votes to get elected governor, but he has taken a pro Marcellus Shale horizontal hydrofracking position that is shockingly weak on environmental and public health protection,” Hang said. “He must be hounded into supporting withdrawal of the draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (dSGEIS).”

Reporter Stacey Shackford can be reached at: sshackford at gannett dot com

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Appalachia Rising: On September 27th, A Resounding “No!” to Mountaintop Removal (via Chrisy58’s Weblog)

Posted on August 21, 2010 by iwilder

Published on Saturday, August 21, 2010 by CommonDreams.org Appalachia Rising: On September 27th, A Resounding “No!” to Mountaintop Removal by Bo Webb Goldman prize-winner and fellow Appalachian Maria Gunnoe has said: "Go to the most peaceful, beautiful place in the word that you can imagine. And then watch somebody drop a bomb on it. That's, basically, what's happening right here" – here, in Central Appalachia. The "bomb" is mountaintop removal s … Read More

via Chrisy58's Weblog

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Guv cand Whitney (G-IL) with Move to Amend 8/23/10

Posted on August 21, 2010 by iwilder
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Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney will hold two events this Monday, August 23rd, with representatives from the organization Move to Amend in Springfield. Move to Amend is a consortium of over fifty organizations that are rallying against the creation of the classification of corporate personhood.

The day will begin with a meet and greet with supporters from Noon to 1 PM at the Trout Lily Café. During the event, Mr. Whitney will address the crowd regarding the current campaign and touch on such topics as campaign finance reform and the Blagojevich trial. Mr. Whitney will be joined by Laird and Robin Monahan. They are two brothers who are walking across the United States to raise awareness about the need for a constitutional amendment to abolish corporate personhood. Mr. Whitney will then hold a joint press conference with members of Move to Amend from 1:30 PM to 2 PM in the Blue Room at the Illinois State Capitol.

“I am delighted to be able to participate in these two events with the Monahan brothers” Mr. Whitney explained. “This presents a great opportunity for my campaign to highlight the fact that we don’t accept corporate campaign contributions in any form. This is especially timely given the recent attention on the issues facing Illinois politics that were highlighted by the Rod Blagojevich trial. Move to Amend is helping to shed light on the dangers of too much corporate power in the political arena and I am happy to be able to hold these two events with them.” Read more »

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Fall 2010 Song Box & Our Times Coffeehouse as well Sat Aug 21 Blue Grass Festival, Tanner Park, Copiague and the Fall venues

Posted on August 21, 2010 by iwilder
Folk Music Fans,
Here is the Fall 2010 Schedule for the Song Box and Our Times Coffeehouse as well Saturday’s Blue Grass Festival and the Fall lineup of venues.
Thank you for your support of Long Island Folk Music, the Artists, Our Times Coffeehouse, and The Song Box.
Yours truly,
Richard de Bruin
The Song Box In Seaford Eleventh Season!

Fourth Sat Sept 25
“The Folk Goddesses:”
Judith Zweiman, Martha Trachtenberg; & Hillary Foxsong Read more »

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Sweden Withdraws Bogus Charges Against Wikileaks Founder

Posted on August 21, 2010 by iwilder
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By KARL RITTER (AP)

Swedish prosecutors withdrew an arrest warrant for the founder of WikiLeaks on Saturday, saying less than a day after the document was issued that it was based on an unfounded accusation of rape.

The accusation had been labeled a dirty trick by Julian Assange and his group, who are preparing to release a fresh batch of classified U.S. documents from the Afghan war.

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Truthout: Why Wikileaks must be protected

Posted on August 21, 2010 by kwilder

(excerpt from) Truthout
Why WikiLeaks Must Be Protected
Friday 20 August 2010
by: John Pilger, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

On 26 July, WikiLeaks released thousands of secret US military files on the war in Afghanistan. Cover-ups, a secret assassination unit and the killing of civilians are documented. In file after file, the brutalities echo the colonial past. From Malaya and Vietnam to Bloody Sunday and Basra, little has changed. The difference is that, today, there is an extraordinary way of knowing how faraway societies are routinely ravaged in our name. WikiLeaks has acquired records of six years of civilian killing for both Afghanistan and Iraq, of which those published in the Guardian, Der Spiegel and The New York Times are but a fraction. Read more »

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LI Concert Notes #61 8/20/10

Posted on August 21, 2010 by iwilder

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  linked from FMSH’s “Upcoming Concerts Schedule” page. Corrections and Comments are welcome.   Support Live Music on Long Island.

Gary Schoenberger

Concerts

Day Date Time Artist Venue

Gail Storm

Gail Storm

Sat 8/21 Noon-8 LI Bluegrass Festival Tanner Park, Copiague

Sat 8/21 9:30 The Other Shoe The Stone Turtle, Island Park

Sat 8/21 6:00 Rhythm Kings Duo Fatfish, Bay Shore

Sun 8/22 2:00 Gail Storm Trio Bayard Cutting Arboretum, Oakdale

Sun 8/22 4:00 Rhythm Kings Popei’s, Coram Read more »

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Boston IS Officially a FAIR TRADE CITY!! (via Autonomie Project’s Blog)

Posted on August 20, 2010 by iwilder

Boston IS Officially a FAIR TRADE CITY!! Yes, it is official! We can finally say it!! BOSTON IS AN OFFICIAL FAIR TRADE CITY! The Autonomie Project team has been committee members and incredibly active in the Fair Trade Boston organization since its inception a few years ago. You may all remember our excitement and volunteer work surrounding the Kick Off Event last year and the signing of the Fair Trade Resolution back in May, but now we have completed the ultimate goal of declaring the … Read More

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‘What Happens if We Stay in Afghanistan’: A Response to TIME Magazine (via The War Resisters League Blog)

Posted on August 20, 2010 by iwilder

WRL has recently endorsed the response to the TIME Magazine article “What Happens if We Stay in Afghanistan” written by South Asia Solidarity Initiative. The TIME article, featuring a front-page cover of a disfigured Afghani woman, tells the story of a woman’s life under the Taliban, concluding that the US war in Afghanistan is beneficial to the Afghan society, and thus necessary. Please read the necessary response to this disturbing article here … Read More

via The War Resisters League Blog

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Terror Threat Level Elevated … Due to Methodists (via NT2: Nec Temere, Nec Timide)

Posted on August 20, 2010 by iwilder

Early last month, when the mosque controversy was first emerging, we posted a commentary that warned about “The Return of the Wedge Issue.”  We’re not prescient. In fact, we’ve been quite surprised at the way this matter has morphed into a national controversy.  With so many more pressing matters, it seems absurd that construction of place to worship would generate such debate.  The latest development involves some prominent people’s attempt to q … Read More

via NT2: Nec Temere, Nec Timide

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East End Report: “The Young People Speak: Coast to Coast” 8/22/10

Posted on August 20, 2010 by iwilder

East End Report: “The Young People Speak: Coast to Coast” Sunday August 22.

The Hot 8 Brass Band from New Orleans will be featured at a Musical Rally,

“The Young People Speak: Coast to Coast”

at the Hayground School, 151 Mitchell Lane in Bridgehampton
on Sunday ,  August 22 from 3 to 7 pm. Read more »

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NO BALLOT ACCESS FOR STATEWIDE THIRD-PARTY CANDIDATES (via “No Party” Party of Pennsylvania)

Posted on August 19, 2010 by iwilder

NO BALLOT ACCESS FOR STATEWIDE THIRD-PARTY CANDIDATES On August 2, five third-party candidates filed sufficient signatures for access to November’s ballot.  All of their nominating petitions were challenged by Republicans except Green Party candidate Mel Packer, who defended his signatures against Democrat Joe Sestak.  And one by one each of them dropped their bids for office. Libertarians Douglas Jamison, Kat Valleley and Marakay Rogers withdrew their court defense on Wednesday due to insurmountabl … Read More

via "No Party" Party of Pennsylvania

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Homeowners’ Rebellion: Could 62 Million Homes Be Foreclosure-Proof? by Dr. Ellen Brown (via Dandelion Salad)

Posted on August 19, 2010 by iwilder

Homeowners' Rebellion: Could 62 Million Homes Be Foreclosure-Proof? by Dr. Ellen Brown by Dr. Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com Aug 18, 2010 Over 62 million mortgages are now held in the name of MERS, an electronic recording system devised by and for the convenience of the mortgage industry. A California bankruptcy court, following landmark cases in other jurisdictions, recently held that this electronic shortcut m … Read More

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