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Hey Demos, thanks for the free publicity

Posted on April 27, 2010 by iwilder

[Thanks to Zabby for the tip.]

ISW: Seems wanna-be congressional candidate Demos (NY1) is unhappy that his experience as part of the failed Security and Exchange Commission has not made him the fair-haired boy for the Republican/Conservative nomination.  Here’s the shot he took at his opponent for the nomination in a whiny open letter to the Conservative Party chairs:

In 2000, at the age of 30, Altschuler registered for the first time ever in Manhattan in the radical Green Party.  The Green Party promotes the radical Marxist ideologies of guaranteed employment, free national health care, and a ban on all fossil fuels.

Thanks for the free publicity for the Green Party.  It’s probably the only publicity that your campaign’s gonna get.  Reminds me of the radio ad attacking Suffolk DA candidate Spota for taking the Green Party line because we believe in decriminalization of marijuana.  By the way, Spota won.

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State Senator Kevin Parker calls out white privilege: Caught on video

Posted on April 27, 2010 by kwilder

The media is reporting this as an “anger problem” on behalf of African-American, NY State Senator Kevin Parker. I see the event as an example of absolute, cozy, white privilege, which hammered on the sentiments of one black man, until he rose up to speak on behalf of a brother.

Watch the video. (A good place to start is about 18 minutes in.) What do you think? Please consider watching it more than once, and thinking about exactly when the Chairman, State Senator Carl Krueger (D-Brooklyn), should have interrupted the speaker…

Start at 18 minutes in.

Kimberly’s analysis:
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Some Libertarian thinking on immigration

Posted on April 27, 2010 by kwilder

KW: I do not agree with every point of this missive. Though, I am excited to note the tolerance expressed. This was posted at Independent Political Report, where I am one of the bloggers.

Libertarian Party Monday Message: Don’t Blame Immigrants

April 26, 2010
Via email and LP blog:

Dear Friend of Liberty,

The recent legislation in Arizona has put immigration back in the news.

The Libertarian Party has a long history of defending immigration. Our website has an article discussing immigration. I think that if there’s a problem with massive illegal immigration, then one of the best solutions is to make legal immigration easier. Read more »

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Green Party New York Statewide Candidate Meeting 5/5/10

Posted on April 26, 2010 by iwilder

Statewide Candidate Meeting

On Wednesday, May 5, 2010 at 7pm, the Green Party of Suffolk will sponsor the opportunity for Long Island Green Party members to meet potential statewide candidates at the Babylon Green Party Gathering. The event will take place at the Unitarian Universalist Society of South Suffolk, 28 Brentwood Road, Bay Shore, Long Island, NY 11706. For directions to the Babylon Green Party Gathering, call 631-422-4702 or email ian.wilder@yahoo.com Children are welcome. All gatherings are free of charge, and open to the public. http://www.BabylonGreens.org

This gathering will feature the candidates seeking the Green Party nomination to be on its statewide ballot. These will include potential candidates for Governor, Lt. Governor, both US Senate seats, Comptroller, and New York Attorney General. This event will give the opportunity for grassroots Green Party members to meet those seeking these nominations. In addition to talking with local Green Party members, each potential candidate will be given the opportunity to make a 10-minute speech. All of the potential candidates have been invited including Howie Hawkins for governor, and Robert Gumbs and Jeff Peress for US Senate.

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.  Read more »

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Controversial candidate and campaign manager focus on Libertarian Party

Posted on April 26, 2010 by kwilder

Evidently, Republic political strategist  Roger Stone is helping Kristin Davis (former Madam for Eliot Spitzer) to run for Governor of NY.

The strategy being used is that the candidate skipped the official, Libertarian convention, but is pushing forward with an alternate (and controversial) route.

Kristen Davis may petition for Governor on the “Free Libertarian” name in New York, an old affiliate and old name for the now Libertarian Party. It is a brilliant strategy, because third party people like to argue over rules, affiliates, and who is the most worthy of a name. Read more »

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Chris Hedges: How the liberal intelligentsia in America failed the Working Class

Posted on April 25, 2010 by kwilder

Chris Hedges on April 10, 2010. A speech for the Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Very perceptive and hard-hitting. Among other things, it explains how academics and liberals have failed the Working Class by clinging to the Democrats passed NAFTA…

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Arizona Green Party on immigration: ‘The signing of Senate Bill 1070 has created an apartheid state’

Posted on April 25, 2010 by kwilder

Repost from Independent Political Report.

From the Arizona Green Party website:

The Green Party-US stands firmly for social justice for all those living in this country, regardless of their immigration status. Above all, policy and law must be humane. Anything less would be inconsistent with our Green Values, and with our nation’s values. The Green Party must consider immigration issues from an international viewpoint, taking into account international labor and environmental standards, and human rights. Undocumented immigrants who are already residing and working in the United States, and their families, should be granted a legal status which includes the chance to become U.S. citizens.

Arizona Senate Bill 1070 became law on Friday, April 23, 2010. The new legislation makes it a state crime to be in the United States illegally. It requires local law enforcement to determine an individual’s immigration status if an officer suspects that person is in the country illegally.

Here is some local and national media coverage on this issue:
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MOGP Senate cand Midge Potts Ends Walk Across Missouri Due to Injury

Posted on April 24, 2010 by iwilder
Midge Potts

Midge Potts

Midge Potts, Progressive/Green Party Candidate for US Senate, who began walking from Missouri ‘s only nuclear power reactor in Callaway County on April 10th, announced on Monday that she had to end her trek early because of a pulled tendon she suffered during her attempt to reach the Honeywell nuke bomb parts factory in Kansas City. She had intended to conclude her walk on May 1st, the anniversary of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The Springfield native pulled a tendon in her right leg on the 5th day, then decided to stop walking on Thursday evening because  her injury was growing worse with each step. Her walk came to a conclusion about a third of the way to Kansas City , near the spot where I-70 crosses the Missouri River .

Midge Potts said:

I walked 65 miles in 6 days, and I talked to lots of folks in central Missouri about converting the $50 billion America spends annually on maintaining a nuclear weapons arsenal to retool factories for the production of green technologies. From my point of view, this walk was a success; not trying would have been the failure.

Potts is now at home recuperating. She said she plans to continue “walking for Senate” throughout her campaign to dramatize many of the issues listed on her website at electmidge.com. Read more »

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Free Fair Housing Month Forum: April 30 Freedom Exhibit: April 30 – May 7

Posted on April 24, 2010 by iwilder
© Photograph by Bernard J. Kleina. Used with permission.

© Photograph by Bernard J. Kleina. Used with permission.

Long Island Housing Services Invites you to “Fair Housing’s Future in a Crisis Economy: A New Decade of Challenges”
April 30, 2010 – 11:30 am – 1 pm @ Touro Law Center – Central Islip
Nationally Renowned Speakers: Bernie Kleina & Prof. Okianer Christian Dark
Special Civil Rights Photo Exhibit: “The Chicago Freedom Movement”

The Chicago Freedom Movement exhibit is a collection of more than 50 color photographs taken by Bernard J. Kleina in Chicago in 1965-1966. The photographs are a priceless historical treasure and are the only candid color photographs of Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights activists taken in Chicago at that time.
The exhibit reminds us that we still have a long way to go before we achieve what Dr. King fought for and what we are fighting for now – open and fair housing and an end to racial and ethnic segregation.

Speakers: Read more »

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Just for Fun: Ian’s Jacket

Posted on April 23, 2010 by iwilder

KW writes: I always tell my husband that his coat makes him look like Grizzly Adams. We live in Long Island, New York, where a fringe jacket is just not acceptable (unless you are at Elwoodstock or a Folk Groovin’ Gathering.) Though, when we stayed on Bent Mountain and visited Floyd, Virginia, he finally found his fashion niche. The music is from the Sunday Musicians at The Floyd Country Store. (Come to think of it, no one there was wearing such a hideous jacket, either…)

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GPTX digital Earth Day: Free the Ballot Line Online

Posted on April 23, 2010 by iwilder

Despite overly restrictive ballot access hurdles, the Green Party intends to be on the Texas General Election ballot this Fall.  In the face of these restrictions, the Green Party of Texas has launched a controversial digital petition drive to reach eligible voters and draw attention to the absurdity and unconstitutionality of these laws that restrict voter choice and reasonable access to the ballot.

Texans can support ballot access and reforms by participating in the Green Party’s month-long Texas Digital Earth Day event online at txgreens.org/earthday through May 23, 2010.  Read more »

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We Were Green Before Green Was Cool

Posted on April 23, 2010 by iwilder

It’s the 40th Earth Day, and while the Green Party of the United States recognizes this historic event, we have no special celebration planned.  Every day is Earth Day for us, so we continue today to do what we do all the time – support candidates who work for sustainable governments, educate elected officials on Green Party values, and work in our communities to promote our message of ecological wisdom.

  • Every day a new Green Party candidate declares their run for Congress (49 so far!) is Earth Day for us. Read more »

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Green Party says that US threatened by 3 fossils: Coal, Oil & Democratic/Republican Parties

Posted on April 23, 2010 by iwilder
IW: In light of the frightening article, “MAINSTREAM GREENS CAVE IN ON CLIMATE: Dangerously Allow Industry to Set Agenda” by Gary Houser and Cory Morningstar, support of the Green Party in opposing Global Warming is more urgent.
  • Greens demand an end to mountaintop removal mining, poisoning of water, lethal worker safety violations, and industry corruption and control over government policy
  • Obama’s offshore drilling plans threaten Alaska and the Atlantic coast with public health disasters and devastations of natural habitats

photo taken by: de:User:Thomas Ihle;On Earth Day 2010, Green Party candidates and leaders said that coal and offshore drilling for oil represented two severe threats to America’s public and environmental well-being, and urged President Obama and Congress to reverse course on both.

Martin Zehr, co-chair of the Green Party’s EcoAction Committee (http://www.gp.org/committees/ecoaction/index.php) said:

There are millions of jobs waiting to be created in conservation, retrofitting, new and clean energy sources, expansion of public transportation, and environmental clean-up, President Obama promised many such jobs, declaring correctly that they would help jump-start the economy.  Instead, we’re seeing no cessation of mountaintop removal mining, continued promotion of the ‘clean coal’ myth, and a new White House plan to open up 167 million acres of ocean along America’s pristine Alaskan and Atlantic coasts for offshore oil and gas drilling.

It’s not a matter of only reducing foreign oil imports.  The century of global climate change demands that we drastically reduce fossil fuel consumption and replace it with alternative kinds of energy.   Read more »

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In honor of Earth Day 2010: Drawing of the last tree

Posted on April 22, 2010 by kwilder

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The Last Tree

Drawing copyright Ashleigh Landau. Used with permission.

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