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Clever thinking about how we think (via the nef triple crunch blog)

Posted on June 18, 2010 by iwilder

Juliet Michaelson is a researcher at nef's centre for well-being. ‘ “Want to grab some lunch?” ask a couple of colleagues as they walk past your desk’. This is the unconventional opening of the excellent MINDSPACE report on influencing behaviour through public policy, here taking its own advice in making information seem relevant to the people at whom it is aimed (in this case, civil servants designing policy). Commissioned by the Cabinet Office … Read More

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LI Concert Notes #60 6/17/10

Posted on June 17, 2010 by iwilder

Here’s some great Live Music on Long Island. Venue addresses/phones/URLs at end of all listings. Please scroll down.***** NEW *****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

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Day Date Time Artist Venue

Fri 6/18 8:00 Dala Our Times Coffeehouse, Garden City

Fri 6/18 7:30 Lucky 13 Port Washington Library

Fri 6/18 7:30 Ceemara (Cecilia Kirtland, Maag Stanley,Ramona Spooney) Bistro M, Glen Head

Sat 6/19 2:00 Hank Stone & Todd Evans Martha Clara Vineyards, Riverhead

Sat 6/19 10:00 Tom Cavanaugh & Pete Sanchez Wild Hog, Melville

Sat 6/19 8:00 Mary Lamont Hennessy’s, Huntington Read more »

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A Boston Poet Tea Party 7/30/10

Posted on June 17, 2010 by iwilder

A Summer Poetry Marathon featuring 88 local and visiting poets reading for 8 minutes apiece
Friday 7/30, 7:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
Pierre Menard Gallery
10 Arrow St., Harvard Square, Cambridge

Saturday 7/31, 12 noon-10:00 p.m. Sunday 8/1, 12 noon-5:00 p.m.OUTPOST 186
186 1/2 Hampshire St., Inman Square, Cambridge

With readings from:

Seth Abramson, Kari Adelaide, Dena Barisano, Kish Song Bear, Jim Behrle, Ana Božičević, Oni Buchanan, Mairead Byrne, Macgregor Card, Mick Carr, Kate Colby, John Coletti, John Cotter, Amanda Cook, James Cook, Mike County, Amy D’Eath, Thom Donovan, Valerie Duff-Strauttman, Jim Dunn, Joe Elliot, Derek Fenner, Annie Finch, Greg Fuchs, Michael Franco, Elisa Gabbert, Michael Gizzi, Peter Gizzi, Kythe Heller, Mitch Highfill, Doug Holder, Fanny Howe, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Andrew Hughes, Geoff Huth, N. F. Huth, Brenda Iijima, Lauren Ireland, Boni Joi, Ellen Kennedy, Aaron Kiely, Jack Kimball, Amy King, David Kirschenbaum, Mark Lamoureux, Gerrit Lansing, Tanya Larkin, Dorothea Lasky, Ruth Lepson, Brendan Lorber, Lori Lubeski, Bridget Madden, Douglas Manson, Fred Marchant, Filip Marinovich, Chris Martin, Joseph Massey, Ben Mazur, Gillian McCain, Suzanne Mercury, Hannah K. Messler, Debrah Morkun, Jason Morris, John Mulrooney, Eileen Myles, Jess Mynes, Amanda Nadelberg, Urayoan Noel, Martha Oatis, Geoffrey Olsen, January O’Neil, Nathaniel Otting, Chad Parenteau, Kate Peebles, David Rivard, Chris Rizzo, Steve Roberts, Carlos Soto Roman, Douglas N. Rothschild, Lauren Russell, Kate Schapira, Alan Semerdijian, Minal Shekhawat, Nathaniel Siegel, Joel Sloman, Kimberly Ann Southwick, Chuck Stebleton, Aaron Tieger, Joe Torra, Dana Ward, Jacqueline Waters, Dustin Williamson, Elizabeth Willis, Rebecca Wolff, Angela Veronica Wong, Jon Woodward, and Elizabeth Marie Young.
Organized by Jim Behrle, Michael Carr, David Kirschenbaum, John Mulrooney, and Aaron Tieger
A complete schedule is available at http://www.bostonpoetteaparty.blogspot.com/
For more info contact: bostonpoetryfestival2010@gmail.com Read more »

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the way of the trumpet w/ Hagans & Josyph 7/10/10

Posted on June 17, 2010 by iwilder

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The Midwifery Modernization Act

Posted on June 17, 2010 by kwilder

Photo by eyeliam at Wikimedia.

KW: From a colleague I met two times on life’s journey: Once as a faraway member of a group I belonged to, another time as a hostess when we visited cohousing communities in upstate New York:

Hi all,

I’m contacting all my friends and family and acquaintances who live in New York or know others in New York about some midwifery legislation that is on the verge of a vote. Have you heard about the Midwifery Modernization Act? Long story short, passage of this bill will make midwifery care more widely available to women across New York State. Current legislation requires midwives to get a written practice agreement from a doctor. The problem with this is that those doctors who are supportive of midwives and happy to work with them are frequently pressured by their malpractice insurers not to take on additional liability for patients they’ll likely never see.
here

The end result? People like me travel 3 hours round trip to get midwifery care. For Dmitri’s birth, I had care locally. After my midwife moved, other mothers and I organized in an attempt to get a written practice agreement for another local midwife who wanted to come out of retirement. No dice. Those things are hard to get, and the difficulty in securing them has little or nothing to do with the quality of a midwife’s care. Many doctors don’t want to support what they see as their competition, and for the ones who are supportive, there are often others (insurers) standing between them and their support of midwives. For Susanna’s birth, I traveled 1.5 hours each way to and from the midwife.

Midwives are already regulated by a rigorous licensing process in NY. In fifteen other states, they practice successfully without a written practice agreement requirement. It’s time for New York to come out of the dark ages to make midwifery care widely available.
here

Here’s where you come in. Can you make three phone calls in support of this legislation and pass this email on to others in New York? Legislators have been turned into supporters after hearing from as few as two constituents, so your calls make a real difference.
here

Instructions here:

http://freeourmidwives.org/thursday-is-friends-and-family-day/
here

If you want me to make it really easy for you, just reply to me with your street address, and I’ll personally send you the phone numbers and phone script.
here

Please forward this widely if it feels right to you. You can also post this email along with my contact information (julesmiel@gmail.com) on discussion lists, in a forum, or on Facebook. I’m happy to personalize the calling information for anyone at all who lives in New York. Thanks for your help!
here
here

Julie Boerst
here

P.S. For fun, you can see a photo of Mitri & Sue in the Free Our Midwives gallery here:

http://freeourmidwives.org/the-photography-project/free-our-midwives-gallery/?nggpage=6

Click on the photo in the third row, second from left.

Filed under: Action Alert!, health, health care, New York State Politics, News, politics | Tagged: holistic medicine, Midwifery Modernization, midwives, New York midwives, NY health care | Leave a Comment »

Green Earth Grocery in Riverhead NY (via Part Time Vegan)

Posted on June 16, 2010 by iwilder

Ki & I love this place. The owner is a wonderful soul, and the place is full of delights. We usually stop here on our rare trips to the North Fork.

Taking CE classes for Real Estate isn't the MOST enjoyable 7.5 hour day, especially when it was 90 degrees outside like yesterday. However, with the one hour lunch break, I decided to journey to the town of Riverhead for a vegan lunch. I admit I thought the mission would prove unsuccessful. However, I happened upon the Green Earth Gro … Read More

via Part Time Vegan

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State Senate cand John Reynolds (G-NY33) Bronx Vision

Posted on June 16, 2010 by iwilder

h/t to Green Party Watch

At the South Bronx Community Congress held at Hostos Community College on Saturday, June 5, 2010, John H. Reynolds, the Green Party candidate for NY State Senate in the 33rd SD in the Bronx, spoke out forcefully and unequivocally on behalf of labor and workers rights; and on the need for empowering communities of color and immigrant communities in the Bronx.

Reynolds said:

Poor and working class communities throughout the Bronx are under siege, and we urgently need to put aside narrow partisan and personal agendas to build coalitions across long-standing racial, ethnic, and geographic divides in this borough so as to build a people’s movement that is capable of fighting back against devastating cuts in jobs and services.

Cuts in the MTA budget have already resulted in hundreds of layoffs which will directly affect the safety of the riding public, and the availability of free student Metrocards. These issues are not merely about labor and workers’ rights, essential as those rights are. This is about people’s rights! These cuts hit us not only where we work and shop and go to school—they hit us where we live! And, needless to say, these cuts will be disproportionately devastating to communities of color.

Reynolds referred to the recent layoffs and firings of nurses, and on the lack of sufficient summer jobs for students as additional examples of the need for a fight-back strategy in which Greens can be, and ought to be, active participants and partners in building grassroots labor-oriented community organizations.

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Commack – Save the farm update: Vote no! on school board’s plan to sell out, come see community’s plan

Posted on June 16, 2010 by kwilder

Update: Hurrah! The community won this battle. The sale was postponed. The community voted NO on the school board’s plan to sell to a developer.

More information at the community group’s web-site: here.

“Let’s all go out and vote on [Thursday],
June 24^th and vote NO.

The Commack School District “CSD” is putting forth a referendum to sell the Marion Carll Farm to the Holiday Corporation, the owners of the Hamlet Golf Community that the farm abuts on 3 sides. They plan on building 30 homes, restoring the Marion Carll Farmhouse and selling that as a private residence. They are brokering this deal because once the CSD tries to sell it, it reverts back to the heirs who are then selling it to Holiday . The CSD is getting a mere $750,000 for approximately 9 acres of prime real estate in Commack , a landmark to boot! The lawyer for the CSD said, in a meeting of the BOE last Thursday evening, that the property was appraised at $100.

This was not widely publicized within the community, and only placed on the website last month. The general public did NOT know about the deal until the Board of Education mailing the Commack residents received the week of June 7th. Why did it take the Board of Education so long to notify the public about a contract of sale signed between the Board of Education and the Holiday Corporation on April 24, 2009? Read more »

Filed under: Action Alert!, children, Education, local, long island, Long Island Politics, Long Island schools, News, politics | Tagged: Commack, Commack BOE, Commack community, Commack Community Association, Commack School board, Commack School District, Commack School vote, CSD, farm preservation, Hamlet Golf, Holiday Corporation, land preservation, Long Island history, Long Island news, Long Island preservation, Long Island schools, Marion Carll Farm, school district accountability, transparency | 2 Comments »

Hawkins Says Democrats Stealing Money from Poor New Yorkers

Posted on June 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, the Green Party nominee for Governor, today accused state Democratic leaders of stealing federal dollars intended to help poor people.

The federal government is providing an extra $638 million in federal dollars in the current state budget to help low-income New Yorkers by providing them with employment opportunities; one-time payments; or to deal with increasing caseloads. Instead State lawmakers have agreed to slash funding from last year’s funding levels for job programs and other critical anti-poverty programs, diverting hundreds of millions of these targeted welfare (i.e., Temporary Assistance to Needy Families or TANF) dollars to other parts of the state budget.

Hawkins asked:

New York Democrats are stealing jobs from poor New Yorkers while protecting Wall Street and wealthy New Yorkers from paying their fair share of taxes. Low-income Americans are experiencing unemployment rates in excess of 30%, much higher than the average Americans. That is why Congress decided to give New York more than a billion dollars over the last two years to provide jobs for low-income New Yorkers and to put more money into their pockets, both to help their families and to stimulate the economy. Why isn’t Andrew Cuomo, the leader of the State Democrats, insisting that these funds be spent to lift up our most vulnerable residents?

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Call for Work: Boog Fest’s Poets’ Theater Deadline: 7/18/10

Posted on June 16, 2010 by iwilder

Event: Sun. Sept. 26, 2010
Deadline Thurs. July 18, 2010.
Curated by Gary Sullivan
on Day 3 of the 4th annual Welcome to Boog City Festival
Zinc Bar, 82 W. 3rd St., New York City

Open reading period for submissions of plays.
New playwrights encouraged, all welcome.
Pieces should be no more than 10 minutes long (up to 7 pages long).
Be sure to put title, your name, address, phone, and email on cover sheet.
email plays (as attachments) and inquiries to:
garypsullivan@gmail.com

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Gulf Oil Disaster: An 11-year-old helps by selling paintings, and links for you…

Posted on June 16, 2010 by kwilder

Brown Pelican. Photo by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.

For lots of background and research on the Gulf Coast ecosystem, and for action items, you can go to The National Audubon Society’s how-to-help page: here.

(excerpt from) Newsday
Gulf birds get help from Islip’s Olivia Bouler, 11
by Jennifer Maloney

…Olivia’s family was gathered in their Islip home three days after the April 20 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, as her grandfather, on the phone from Alabama, described the gushing well and the ecological disaster. Listening, Olivia sobbed.

That night, she wrote to the National Audubon Society. “I am a decent drawer, and I was wondering if I could sell some bird paintings and give the profits to your organization,” she wrote. Beside a hand-painted cardinal, she signed the letter: “Olivia Bouler, 11 years old and willing to help.” Read more »

Filed under: Action Alert!, Art, Ecology, energy, Environment, local, long island, nature, News, progressive politics | Tagged: bird paintings, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf Birds, Gulf Coast art, Gulf Coast fundraising, Gulf Coast Oil Disaster, Gulf Coast oil spill, oil dependence | 1 Comment »

Jeremy Scahill: Minerals, WikiLeaks, and Blackwater for Sale (via Dandelion Salad)

Posted on June 15, 2010 by iwilder

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ videonation June 15, 2010 — In the wake of a rumor that WikiLeaks may soon publish a number of secret State Department cables, some are saying that the Pentagon is on the hunt for the whistleblowing organization’s founder Julian Assange. On GRITtv with Laura Flanders, Nation writer and blogger Jeremy Scahill says that while Assange may not exactly be on t … Read More

via Dandelion Salad

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Cong cand Hank Bardel (G-NY13) Calls for All-Out Government Renewable Energy Research.

Posted on June 15, 2010 by iwilder

Hank Bardel is running on the Green Party line for Congress in the 13rd District, covering Staten Island and the Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights and Gravesend neighborhoods of Brooklyn. In the wake of the disasters of the blowing up of the the deep water oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers, polluting the Gulf, the estuaries, the beaches and the coal mine disaster in West Virginia that killed 29 coal miners, Bardel calls for the Federal Government to spend billions of dollars into research of renewable energy.

Bardel stated:

Our society has been dragging its feet on this issue because of the policies of the Democrats and Republicans and we keep having one disaster after another along with environmental destruction. We need to spend this money on the renewable, non polluting energies of wind power, solar power, geothermal energy, biomass power, hydro power, hydrogen power and ocean energy.

If I’m elected to Congress I will introduce bills into Congress that will provide billions of dollars for renewable energy research. Don’t rely on Democrats and Republicans to do this they are too wedded to gas, oil, coal and nuclear energy. I plan to get this money by having a progressive tax increase on people making over $250,000.00 a year.

Filed under: 3rd party, activism, election, Election 2010, elections, energy, Environment, Global Warming, grassroots democracy, Green Party, New York State Politics, News, Press Release, progressive politics, US Politics | Tagged: 13, 13th District, brooklyn, congress, Hank Bardel, kings, richmond, Staten Island | 1 Comment »

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