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Guv cand Hawkins (G-NY): Overhaul Criminal Justice System, End Drug War, Help Solve Budget Deficit

Posted on July 16, 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.

Howie Hawkins for GPNYS Guv by Shawna ColeUrges Legislature to Ensure that Inmates Counted as Residents of their Home Communities

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party of New York State candidate for Governor, said that overhauling the state’s criminal justice system by ending the war on drugs would help reduce the state’s budget deficit while helping to rebuild communities of color. Hawkins also urged state legislators to adopt legislation to count prison inmates for census purposes as living in their home communities rather than their places of incarceration.

Hawkins said:

“Our criminal justice system has become our new Jim Crow system, discriminating against and oppressing people of color. The War on Drugs, our policy of mass incarceration, the Prison Industrial Complex, the loss of industrial jobs, globalization, and racism have come together to form the perfect storm – trapping Black males in a caste system that disenfranchises the Black community politically and economically in ways quite similar to Jim Crow America in the early 20th Century. Few are recognizing the cumulative effect of mass incarceration and poor education on the lives of those caught up in the criminal justice system, their families, and their communities. “

Hawkins said that the war on drugs has been used to support the growing prison industrial complex in America, now by far the largest in the world. State Republicans have pushed for more prisons in upstate New York as economic development; both Democratic Governors Cuomo and Paterson have been willing to trade prisons for other budget concessions. Read more »

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Help Beat Radio with our first ever Vinyl release!

Posted on July 15, 2010 by iwilder

Hey guys,

Hope everyone is enjoying the summer so far!

We’re got lots of great things to tell you about.  We’ve been moving along with our 2010 singles collection.  This month we posted 2 cover songs – a version of Best Coast’s “When I’m With You”

and our take on Bob Dylan’s “If You See Her, Say Hello.”

We’ve also added an original tune called “Evangeline”.  You can stream and download all the new tracks at our bandcamp page.

We’re also super excited to announce that we’re working on putting together our very first vinyl release!  We’re hoping to have the Golden Age 10” EP out this September.

We just launched a Kickstarter campaign to help raise funds for the vinyl manufacturing.  Kickstarter is a great way for creative projects to get funded in a grassroots way, through word of mouth and fan support.

We’ve got the best fans ever.  We’d love it if you could help us with this project in any way you can.  You can pre-order the record for $10, and we’ve also got some fun gifts we’re offering for those who can help.  You can find all the info here:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/648896607/beat-radio-golden-age-10-vinyl-release.

Please pass along!

Our next show is on Saturday, August 7th at a great new place in Park Slope Brooklyn called the Rock Shop.  It sounds like the kind of place that we should play at.  More details soon.

Lastly, I started a new tumblr blog that you can find here: http://wearebeatradio.tumblr.com/

This one’s actually about stuff besides just my own music (mostly.)

I have too many websites, but you know, whatever, it’s fun.

Okay, hope to see you guys soon!

Love Bri

brian@beatradio.org
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Sad news: Former State Rep passes away

Posted on July 15, 2010 by kwilder

Former State Rep. Billy McKinney (L). Archival footage: Cynthia McKiney's parents at 2008 Green Party Presidential Convention

Former State Rep. Billy McKinney, the father of former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, has died.


http://www.ajc.com/news/dekalb/former-state-lawmaker-billy-571216.html

Former State Rep. Billy McKinney, the father of former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, has died.

Rep. Tyone Brooks (D-Atl.), a longtime friend of McKinney, confirmed the death.

On Common Ground News reported on its Web site Thursday that McKinney, a Democrat who served 30 years as a state legislator, died among family and friends Thursday at his home in southwest Atlanta, according to sources who were with his wife, Leola.

The newspaper said McKinney had been ill for a while and that he died surrounded by people who were close to him, some of them holding his hand.

“One of Georgia’s tallest pine trees has fallen. My prayers are with his family,” former DeKalb CEO Vernon Jones told On Common Ground News.

Jones is a candidate for Georgia’s Fourth Congressional District seat, once held by Cynthia McKinney.

The McKinneys became the first father-daughter duo to serve simultaneously in the Georgia House when Cynthia McKinney was first elected in 1992.

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Fair: PBS, George Shultz and Funny Funding

Posted on July 14, 2010 by iwilder

Do PBS’s conflict of interest rules apply?

Many PBS stations around the country will begin airing a three-part, three-hour documentary tonight (7/12/10) about Reagan-era Secretary of State George Shultz. According to the New York Times (7/12/10), the unusually lengthy, completely uncritical tribute is partially sponsored by corporations linked to Shultz’s corporate career.

The special, Turmoil and Triumph, was funded by the Stephen Bechtel Fund and Charles Schwab. Shultz was a board member at both companies, and was president of the Bechtel Corporation from 1975 to 1982.

According to reviews, the documentary takes an overwhelmingly positive, even gushing stance. The Times’ Alessandra Stanley points out, “There is no mention that Mr. Shultz was a cheerleader for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while still on the board of Bechtel, a construction and engineering firm that won huge contracts that were later criticized by the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction.” Read more »

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BACCA Song Swap 7/18/10

Posted on July 14, 2010 by iwilder
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Rant and request for help: Mercenary marketing

Posted on July 14, 2010 by kwilder

I just realized that one of the organizations I work for is misrepresented, and appears with a wrong address, at Yahoo Local and Merchant Circle. They are factually incorrect on the address, and I just want it changed or removed.

But…it is a game. You cannot contact them to complain, unless you:

For Merchant Circle register AND

For Yahoo Local, even if you are a yahoo user, you are required to give them information like your phone number just to be allowed to contact them. Read more »

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Obama’s Health Care Bill Is Enough to Make You Sick by Chris Hedges (via Dandelion Salad)

Posted on July 13, 2010 by iwilder

Obama’s Health Care Bill Is Enough to Make You Sick by Chris Hedges http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1111640 by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig July 12, 2010 A close reading of the new health care legislation, which will conveniently take effect in 2014 after the next presidential election, is deeply depressing. The legislation not only mocks the lofty promises made by President Barack Obama, exposing most as lies, but sadly reconfirms that our nation is hostage to unchecked corporate g … Read More

via Dandelion Salad

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Once Again, It’s Art vs. the Bureaucrats (via Perambulations & Ruminations)

Posted on July 13, 2010 by iwilder

IW: What would they have made of Thoreau’s shack, built for pieces of a railroad shed?

Last month, Boston city officials took aim at a whimsical lean-to a local artist had spent two years building from the detritus people had left behind in Franklin Park. Today the scene shifts to Post Mills, Vt., where officials apparently have nothing better to do than worry about a sculpture made from scrap wood. “Vermontasaurus,” as one observer called it, is 25 feet high and 102 feet long. Brian Boland, 61, who operates the Post Mills Airport … Read More

via Perambulations & Ruminations

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Your Own Revolution: Poetry, Publishing & the Internet (via amy king’s alias)

Posted on July 13, 2010 by iwilder

Your Own Revolution: Poetry, Publishing & the Internet What Would Woolf and Whitman Do? (A Practical Primer) “This is the beauty of the new media.  There is no way to control it.” –Srdja Popovic What would Woolf, Whitman, Stein, Eliot, Pound, and countless other self-published writers do in the face of the monolithic publishing industry today?  Which new and contemporary writers should consider “alternative” means to get their books into the world? Virginia Woolf and Walt Whitman published, stomped … Read More

via amy king’s alias

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Sad news: Two losses in the community of art, music, and poetry

Posted on July 12, 2010 by kwilder

David McReynolds sent out the news on his e-mail lists…

From: Arieh Lebowitz
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 9:43 PM
Subject: With sadness – both Harvey Pekar and Tuli Kupferberg have just passed away.

It’s with an overwhelming sadness that I share the news of the passing of both Harvey Pekar and Tuli Kupferberg.

May their memory, and their creativity in diverse media, be a blessing to us all, and future generations.

>> Arieh

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Meet the Real Death Panels: The Truth About Age-Based Health Care Rationing (via Unsilent Generation)

Posted on July 12, 2010 by iwilder

Meet the Real Death Panels: The Truth About Age-Based Health Care Rationing The latest issue of Mother Jones includes an article by me about the controversy over age-based health care rationing, which got transformed by the right into government "death panels." Unfortunately, liberals have fallen into a different trap, because they refuse to take on the real enemies of affordable health care for all: the insurance companies, drug manufacturers, and other profiteers of our private health care system. As a result, old peop … Read More

via Unsilent Generation

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Cong cand Bardel (G-NY13) on Primary and Secondary Education

Posted on July 12, 2010 by iwilder
Hank Bardel (Green-NY13)

Hank Bardel (Green-NY13)

Hank Bardel said:

Education in the United States is a highly contested issue, but as a candidate for congress I’d like to change the nature of the debate. By addressing the pressing economic issues of families, by properly staffing public schools, and by offering real alternatives for gathering revenue, we as a nation can make education much better.

One of the first things that has to be taken care of is the poverty that many school children live in. How can we expect our children to do well in school if they don’t get enough to eat? If they don’t have adequate clothes? Or if one or both parents suffer from some type of substance abuse and cannot supervise their child properly? We must mandate for each working person a minimum working income of at least $45,000.00 per year and we must make available to every parent free childcare services. Read more »

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Warning! Big danger for public education (NY State universities)

Posted on July 11, 2010 by kwilder

KW: Wow! This is a huge problem. A rich person – a hedge fund manager of all things – wants use a donation as a kind of political bribe, to change the NY State University system to his liking. Egads! More comments after story. This is a huge problem which progressives, leftists, and people who understand democracy and systems must stop!

(excerpt from) Long Island Press
Stony Brook Donor Will Only Give If Legislature Meets His Demands
By Associated Press on Jul 10th, 2010

NEW YORK (AP) — A hedge fund manager [James Simons] is offering to make a large donation to the public college where he once worked as a math professor, but only if New York lawmakers agree to relinquish some control over the state university system…

He wants to give much more — maybe up to $150 million — but only if the Legislature agrees to let each of New York’s state universities set its own tuition.

The plan is backed by Gov. David Paterson…

Some initial thoughts (and a Bernie Madoff connection): Read more »

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everything follows video by beat radio

Posted on July 10, 2010 by iwilder

everything follows | jfisfoxfur: This song was written by my friend….

IW: This is via Brian Sendrowitz’ new blog re-post of his video for his song “everything follows” which was posted on the blog jfisfoxfur.  If you browse through this blog, it will be quickly apparant that senrowitz’ band beat radio is one of my very favorites.  And the bumperstickers on his guitar case don’t hurt either: Read more »

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