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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.
The eBook is currently available on Amazon for Kindle; Barnes & Noble Nook ; Smashwords independent eBook seller; and a Kobo for 99 cents and anyone can read it using their Kindle/Nook Reader, smart phone, or computer.
Ki writes:
For my birthday (which was a few weeks ago) Ian bought us tickets to the front row at the Dan Bern concert, for last night at The Boulton Center in Bay Shore. It was a great show. I will probably do a more profound write-up, but for now, here are some stray thoughts: Read more »
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I just heard about this now!
It looks interesting. Maybe someone who reads this will be compelled to head to the beach now to make a stand against oil drilling!
Hands Across the Sand
http://www.handsacrossthesand.com/
(I haven’t heard of a Long Island action. Though, maybe if you turn up at the beach, other people will be there?! Hope they do this again with more notice and publicity!)
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Today is the day to get out and vote to stop the sale of The Marion Carll Farm to a gated community. The polls are open from 6 am – 9pm, Commack HS (Scholar Lane) if you live north of Jericho Tpke. Commack Middle School (Vanderbilt Pkwy.) if you live south of Jericho Tpke. Please take the time to vote “NO” today.
Bruce Ettenberg, President
Commack Community Association
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The print edition of Boog City 64 is available. You can read the pdf version now at:
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Boog City 64: Gay Pride Issue 2010
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| 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. |
On Tuesday night, President Obama addressed the nation in regards to the disaster that continues to pour oil from a damaged BP deep water well into the Gulf of Mexico. The Green Party urges all its supporters to continue to contribute, volunteer, and support Green Party candidates on the local, state, and federal level as they put pressure on the United States Congress and Obama administration to respond quickly and effectively to the continuing crisis.
Green Party leaders and candidates have been responded to this crisis since the initial explosion on April 20th that killed eleven workers and caused the massive oil leak that has yet to be stopped. The President announced that he will require BP to establish a relief fund to help cover clean-up expenses.
Howie Hawkins, Green Party candidate for Governor of New York, noted:
It is imperative that the US government seize BP’s assets to insure they are used to pay for damages and clean-up from the oil blowout before BP’s executives and owners cash out and leave the taxpayers holding the bag. It is equally imperative that the trustees of the fund to administer the use of BP’s seized assets represent the people affected and include Gulf Coast representatives of the workers, unions, and small businesses of the fishing, shrimping, crabbing, tourism, and recreation industries, local elected officials, and independent scientists and environmentalists. Read more »
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| 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. |
On Wednesday, June 30, 2010 Green Party U.S. Senate Candidate, Cecile Lawrence, and Governor Candidate, Howie Hawkins will visit Broome County. There will be 6pm speaking event at the Vestal Public Library, 320 Vestal Parkway East, Vestal, NY 13850. Light refreshments will be served.
Dr. Cecile Lawrence has been active in health care reform for over 15 years. She’s published on the topic of racism in medical research and health care. She has a PhD in Philosophy, Interpretation & Culture from Binghamton University (S.U.N.Y.) and is a graduate of the University at Buffalo (S.U.N.Y.) Law School. A resident of Tioga County, she’s been a board member of local civic organizations such as the YWCA and the Southern Tier Independence Center, and is currently a member of Tioga Peace and Justice. She has worked in college administration and in non-profit administration.
Lawrence said, “We need to end the U.S. occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan now and return the troops home in early 2011. The U.S. must cease its drive for empire and domination of the planet including the embeddedness of its military forces with corporations whose drive for access to the resources of other countries lead to the destruction of their environmental and socio-economic health. Corporations must be stripped of the artificial personhood granted them by an accident of the U.S. Supreme Court, resulting not in human personhood but in god-like status, since they never get sick, and can never die. Reform Wall Street, getting rid of the practices that led to the idea of ‘too big to fail.”
Howie Hawkins has been active in movements for peace, justice, and the environment since the late 1960s. He co-founded the U.S. Green Party in 1984. After attending Dartmouth College, Hawkins has worked as a carpenter, a developer of cooperative businesses, and a truck unloader. He is a member of Teamsters Local 317 and lives in Syracuse. He received 55,469 votes for US Senate in the November 2006 election.
“The people of New York need someone in Albany who will stand up for Main Street and Martin Luther King Blvd., rather than someone bought and controlled by Wall Street. A million New Yorkers need living wage jobs now. My campaign will show how we can fast track their creation,” said Hawkins.
At the national level, the Green Party has opposed from the start the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and supports the immediate withdrawal of American troops. It advocates for a massive cut in the military budget to free up funds to help local and state governments resolve their budget crisis, and to invest in domestic programs such as child nutrition, renewable energy, education, affordable housing and job creation.
The Greens opposed the recent Democratic health insurance mandate bill as a huge public subsidy for private health insurance companies and continue to call to make health care a right through a ‘single payer expanded and improved Medicare for All type program.’ The Greens have long called for an end to the war on drugs and to curtail the prison industrial complex that now imprisons more than 2 million Americas, overwhelmingly low-income individuals and people of color.
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This undated file photo provided by the Port Chester, N.Y., village clerk shows the ballot for the election of six village trustees in Port Chester, N.Y.
In Port Chester, trustees had been elected two at a time every two years, with conventional at-large voting. Most voters were white, and there were always six white trustees even though Hispanics made up half the population and nearly a quarter of the voters. Judge Stephen Robinson concluded the system violated U.S. law by diluting Hispanics’ votes.
The standard remedy was to break a municipality into districts, with one district including many from the minority, thereby increasing the chances for a candidate backed by the minority group. The Justice Department proposed that solution for Port Chester.
But the village of about 30,000 objected to districts. It suggested instead a system called cumulative voting. All six trustees would be elected at once and the voters could apportion their six votes as they wished — all six to one candidate, one each to six candidates or any combination.
The system, which has been used in Alabama, Illinois, South Dakota and Texas, allows a political minority to gain representation if it organizes behind specific candidates. Judge Robinson went for it, and cumulative voting was used for the first time in a New York municipality.
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The Green Party supports a change to more proportional systems of voting including cumulative voting.
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Schumer, speaking last week at an Orthodox Union event in Washington, D.C. said he supported the blockade out of the need to “to strangle them economically until they see that’s not the way to go” makes sense.
Clark said:
How can it be that a US Senator is calling for economic genocide against the People of Gaza and Palestine when he states that the besieged and endangered people of Gaza should be, strangled economically? Its urgent that the people of New York stand up to Senator Schumer for his violent speech. Senator Schumer must be sent a clear message that New York State is not in favor of any form of violence against those who seek to lift the weight of oppression from their backs. The people of New York abhor genocide through naked violence or economic genocide.
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| 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, the Green Party of New York State candidate for Governor, called upon state lawmakers to reject the proposed $1.4 billion cut in education funding proposed by Gov. Paterson for the state’s public school system, instead fully funding education and complying with the recent court decision in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE) lawsuit. Hawkins has also strongly advocated increased funding for the SUNY and CUNY system.
Hawkins said:
The state should fulfill its state constitutional obligation to provide a basic education to all New York children. As Governor, I will push for the state to pick up an increasing share of the cost of running our schools, reducing the burden on local property taxes. Our Green US Senate candidate, Colia Clark and Cecile Lawrence, will also push to cut our bloated military budget and divert the funding to key domestic needs such as our schools.
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