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“Audit The Federal Reserve” supported by Bernie Sanders and Ron Paul

Posted on May 11, 2010 by kwilder

from Independent Political Report
Bernie Sanders and Ron Paul come together on “audit the Fed” amendment in Senate

Independent Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders (who is also closely associated with the Vermont Progressive Party, used to be a member of various third parties, and calls himself a democratic socialist) has been working with Republican Representative Ron Paul, who ran as a Libertarian for president in 1988 and endorsed Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin in 2008, to pass some sort of amendment to a financial regulation bill to “audit the fed” [Federal Reserve].  At first, Paul criticized the compromise Sanders had worked out, but now Paul is saying that it’s worth voting for, meaning that two men who are perhaps the most third-party-friendly out of all of Congress are working together.  More information on this, and other related amendments, can be found here [at the Huffington Post].

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From Cynthia McKinney: Wanted: Bike4Peace Riders and Hosts

Posted on May 11, 2010 by iwilder

Cynthia McKinney

For a little way or all of the way!!!!  Do something different:  join me on a cross country bike ride!!!!  Please study this route and let me know ASAP if you’re interested in participating all of the way or just a part of the way.  Either way, we’d LOVE to have you along for the ride.  Here’s the link for the map:

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=106454352652415594542.00047596dcee9c0ed3f74&ll=38.68551,-99.667969&spn=33.484376,75.498047&t=h&z=4

We’re scheduled to start on July 24, 2010 at the House of Common Sense in Oakland and we’ll end up at the White House, that needs some common sense!!!

Please let me know if you’re interested in joining us.  You don’t have to be a pro biker–I’m not!!!  But I have a lot of enthusiasm and a desire to change the world and to change myself.  I’ll be a better person at the end of this ride because I’ll have time for introspection, time for hearing new points of view from fellow riders, time for hearing from people in towns I’ve never visited before.  This will truly be for me, an adventure of a lifetime.  And in the process, we’ll spread a message of truth, justice, peace, and dignity.  At a time of seeming global chaos, join us and find tranquility (and probably some new leg muscles) out on the open roads of America. Read more »

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Questions about Bob Dylan and Gary Ivan…

Posted on May 11, 2010 by kwilder

Where can you find celebrations of Bob Dylan’s childhood, favorite poetry, and childhood English teacher?

At Dylan Days, in Hibbing Minnesota, May 27-30th, 2010.

Where can you find Long Island musician, visual artist, favorite MC, and Man-About-Town, Gary Ivan?

At Dylan Days, in Hibbing Minnesota, May 27-30th, 2010.

Hey, if you see Gary, ask him if he needs a ride.

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An adult’s reflections on the Connetquot School situation

Posted on May 10, 2010 by kwilder

KW writes: Patricia Burkhart is a friend of ours, and an activist and community leader from Long Island, New York. I sent her my thoughts on why Connetquot Schools should respond to the current crisis (two young people had planned a shooting attack on the school) with healing and a move towards smaller schools. Here is Patricia’s response:

Here is my story:

I grew up dirt poor in a Queens row house, by the railroad tracks.  My family sent me to Catholic School — which I rebelled against almost from day one.  Read more »

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Howard Zinn: The People Speak Trailer and Showing 6/9/10

Posted on May 10, 2010 by iwilder

To live now, as human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
– Howard Zinn (1922-2010)


“THE PEOPLE SPEAK” | one night only!
A film by Chris Moore, Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove

Screening and Q&A Event
New York City
June 9th 2010 – 7:00 – 10:00p.m.
LGBT Center – 208 W. 13th St. Read more »

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Father Roy of SOA-Watch 5/13/10

Posted on May 10, 2010 by iwilder

FATHER ROY BOURGEOIS, M. M.
Founder of the School of Americas Watch

Thursday, May 13 at 7:30 p.m.
Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock, 48 Shelter Rock Road, Manhasset, in the Social Hall
$5 suggested donation

Father Bourgeois will speak on Obama’s Latin American Policy and report on his recent trip to El Salvador and the surrounding regions.

In 1980, Fr. Roy became involved in issues surrounding US policy in El Salvador after four US churchwomen–two of them his friends–were raped and killed by Salvadoran soldiers. He became an outspoken critic of US foreign policy in Latin America . Since then, he has spent over four years in US federal prisons for nonviolent protests against the training of Latin American soldiers at Ft. Benning , Georgia . In 1990, Fr. Roy founded the School of Americas Watch , an office that does research on the US Army School of the Americas (SOA). Each year the school trains hundreds of soldiers from Latin America in combat skills – all paid for by U.S. taxpayers. Read more »

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Lena Horne, civil rights activist and jazz vocalist, dies at age 92

Posted on May 10, 2010 by kwilder

Excerpt from the Guardian UK: here.

Lena Horne, black singer and activist, dies

Actor and singer who broke down racial barriers in film and music industries dies, aged 92

Lena Horne, the singer and actor best known for her rendition of Stormy Weather and as Hollywood’s first black sex symbol, has died. She was 92.

In a 60-year career, Horne broke down numerous racial barriers. In the 1940s, she was one of the first black singers with a major white band, the first to perform at the famous Copacabana nightclub, and the first to sign a long-term Hollywood contract.

She later became an active campaigner for civil rights and was a powerful voice of the movement…

Her 1981 one-woman Broadway show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, won a special Tony award. Read more »

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Mon, May 10th: Richard Winger debate about “Top-Two” in California

Posted on May 9, 2010 by kwilder

from Independent Political Report
Richard Winger to Debate California Lt. Gov. Maldonado on Proposition 14

Richard Winger, the nation’s leading ballot access expert, will participate in an hour-long debate with Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado, author of California’s Proposition 14, the “top-two” ballot measure, on Monday, May 10, at [12 noon EST] 9am Pacific Time.

The first five minutes of the program will include remarks from Professor Eric McGhee, author of last February’s report on the top-two open primary for the Public Policy Institute of California. The second half of the debate is expected to include questions from callers, as well as inquiries submitted by e-mail.

The debate will be aired live from the studio of KQED 88.5 FM, the public radio station in San Francisco.

Here’s the link to listen live:
http://www.kqed.org/radio/listen/

KW writes: I have great respect for Richard Winger of Ballot Access News, and agree with him on nearly all election issues, including this one. Richard Winger thinks that Top-Two is a bad idea, and that it will hurt third parties.

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Mother’s Day Proclamation

Posted on May 9, 2010 by iwilder
Julia Ward Howe

Julia Ward Howe

by Julia Ward Howe

Arise, then, women of this day!

Arise, all women who have hearts,
Whether our baptism be of water or of tears!

Say firmly:
“We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.”

From the bosom of the devastated Earth a voice goes up with our own.
It says: “Disarm! Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice.”
Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil at the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel. Read more »

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US Greens congratulate Caroline Lucas, the UK’s first Green Party member of Parliament, on her election victory

Posted on May 9, 2010 by iwilder

• Colombian Green presidential candidate Antanas Mockus holds a strong lead in polls, may become the first Green Party head of a national government

Caroline Lucas MP

Caroline Lucas MP

The Green Party of the United States congratulates Caroline Lucas and British Greens on Ms. Lucas’ election to the House of Commons on May 6.  Ms. Lucas, the first Green member of Parliament, will represent Brighton Pavilion.

Cynthia McKinney, the Green Party’s 2008 nominee for President of the United States and former member of the US House of Representatives from Georgia said:

The election of the first Green to the British House of Commons is cause for celebration among Greens in the US and for everyone who wants to see a new direction in politics and an end to the stranglehold of the pro-war pro-corporate old parties. If Greens can win a seat in the UK, we can win one or more seats in Congress here in America.

While Ms. Lucas is the only Green Member of Parliament, the Scottish Green Party holds two seats in the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood and there are two Green members in the London Assembly.  13 Green city councillors serve in Brighton and Hove.

Caroline’s victory was not achieved by watering down the Green message, but by standing for it firmly by advocating economic fairness, social justice, and environmental well-being, showing that voters will support a truly Green alternative when presented with the option.  With this in mind, we support Caroline’s call for a referendum on enacting proportional representation for the UK, so that the Green Party’s true level of support can be realized. Read more »

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Help needed for Connetquot School District

Posted on May 9, 2010 by kwilder

What the regular news will tell you is that, at Connequot High School on Long Island, New York,  a 17-year-old former student, and a 16-year-old current student were involved in a plot to do shootings at the school. Then, the AP story and the regular news will go on and on with details of their plot and descriptions to make you dislike these two young people.

What most news stories are ignoring or skipping over, is that Connetquot School District had a similar incident in 2007. That time it was two, current students, both young men, age 15 and 17, with a bomb scare.

[Update/Correction on 5/10/2010] : The news is now reporting that the young man from this planned attack, is the same young man who was part of the 2007 planned attack (the 15 years old). Which still leaves one additional young man, and one young woman who were willing to consider such an attack.

It appears that it is time for someone at Connetquot School District to drop what they are doing, and drop what they are focusing on, and get to the bottom line mission of every school: Keep the students safe.

In this case, it is clear, that doing that means: Create a sense of community in the school. Address feelings of isolation and anger that the adolescents there feel. Make an environment  where students are doing productive and happy things, so that they would never dream of creating a bad scene or doing violence to the community. (Imagine a place where THREE teenagers would be inspired to such a level of violence? What kind of a place would that happen? ) Read more »

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Video: Wind on Long Island

Posted on May 9, 2010 by kwilder

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Green is for Go in Colombia

Posted on May 8, 2010 by iwilder
Antanas Mockus by Julián Ortega Martínez / equinoXio (cropped version)

Antanas Mockus by Julián Ortega Martínez

from the Council on Hemispheric Affairs

An extraordinary event may be reflected in Colombia’s electoral polling: conceivably the politics of thuggery, corruption and Bogotá-inspired violence under the ruling Uribe administration, is being successfully challenged by Mockus’ Green Party.

The amazing rise of Antanas Mockus and his Green Party in Colombia belies the stereotype, common even among Latin America specialists, of a country irredeemably plagued by violence and appropriately known for its “faux democracy.” Mockus and the Greens prove that Colombian democracy can be real enough, though admittedly conflicted. The sudden surge of Mockus is not completely surprising. It is, rather, a new chapter in an old struggle between two powerful political currents in Colombia’s societal evolution, where controversial movements of popular mobilization and democratic optimism have repeatedly had to face presidential administrations, now embodied in the Álvaro Uribe administration, one that is no stranger to violence and intimidation. What is at stake is not just how Uribe will go down in history, but whether the harsh realities of the Uribe presidency will allow the White House to reverse itself and back the pending U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (which it seems to want to do) that President Obama opposed while he was a member of the Senate.

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Green party celebrates as Caroline Lucas becomes its first MP | Politics | guardian.co.uk

Posted on May 7, 2010 by iwilder

The Green party was today hailing a historic general election performance, after Caroline Lucas became the party’s first-ever MP by winning the Brighton Pavilion seat.

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