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Return to the Dream 4/16/10 & more

Posted on April 12, 2010 by iwilder

Folk Music Fans,

Return to the Dream (Diane Garisto, Tom Griffith, Martha Trachtenberg, & Andy Huenerberg) Our Times Coffeehouse Third Friday, April 16 Concert 8 pm; Doors 7:15 pm Save your seat and enjoy refreshments before the show! Our Times Coffeehouse, Ethical Humanist Society, 38 Old Country Road, Garden City, NY 2 miles West of Meadow Brook Parkway, Past Franklin (Mineola Blvd), South (Left) Side next to water tower. About ¼ mi East of end of Old Country Rd (turns North & becomes Herricks Rd & goes under the railroad, Rockaway Ave goes South) http://www.ourtimescoffeehouse.org 516 541 1066 Come and see and hear Return to the Dream. Admission $15 Seniors (65 & Up) & Students (w/school I.D.) $12; Children (under 12) $6; (very young children are free)

May Our Times Coffeehouse has Buskin & Batteau on the Third Friday May 21!

I have included other listings at the end of the Email. Thank you for your support of Long Island Folk Music, the Artists, Our Times Coffeehouse, and The Song Box.

Yours truly,

Richard de Bruin rdebruin@suffolk.lib.ny.us or rdebruin@optonline.net Read more »

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Bronx Green Party Call Charter Revision Effort “Power Grab”

Posted on April 12, 2010 by iwilder

Members of Bronx County Green Party are planning to demonstrate at Monday’s Charter Revision hearings being held at Hostos Community College. Calling the proposed changes to the City Charter (which calls for scaling back or eliminating local community Boards altogether) another power grab by Mayor Mike Bloomberg, BCGP Chair Carl Lundgren urged the public, community activists and community board members to speak out now before our voices are reduced to a whisper. Demonstrators will don green gags to represent the silencing of the public’s voice that would result from the changes.

BCGP is recommending that, instead of doing away with community boards, they be saved and strengthened. In addition, they call for community board members to be elected rather than appointed. John Reynolds, Green Party candidate for State Senate District 33 said:

It’s clear that community boards don’t function as well as they could, but the answer isn’t to eliminate them. Democracy requires that citizens have a forum in which to take their concerns, advocate for their neighborhoods and share in the responsibility of determining what’s best for them. Community boards serve that function and more. They’re our equivalent of the town hall or the village square. They’re the only places we in the city have for large numbers of our citizens to assemble peaceably to redress their government. It’s within our community boards that government and democracy at the most basic level are practiced.

“Community boards serve an important purpose in giving residents a say in the life of their neighborhoods” , said Lundgren, who has been attending community board and committee meetings on a regular basis. “This is also one of the few ways that an alternative party such as ours can participate in the political process in a meaningful way”, he added. “To even consider eliminating our community boards is nothing less than an assault on the democratic process and an affront to our citizens. It’s the continuation of a pattern of dismissiveness this Mayor has shown for the people of New York.”

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Big News on the NY Politics Front: Elizabeth Benjamin moves!

Posted on April 11, 2010 by kwilder

KW: As regular readers may have noticed, whenever there is a big story in state politics, my most likely sources are “Capitol Confidential” from the Albany Times Union AND/OR “Daily Politics” with Elizabeth Benjamin at the NY Daily News.

Well, Elizabeth Benjamin is leaving the NY Daily News. She is going on to what seems to be a bigger project — multi-dimensional, including TV — for a Time Warner Cable/YNN project called “Capital Tonight“. It will include a political blog, which is currently set up on the web-site, though with no posts yet. [Update: It’s Monday at 9am, and there are several posts up! Plus, you can comment without registering!] Read more »

Filed under: media, New York State Politics, News, politics | Tagged: Albany, Celeste Katz, Daily News, Daily Politics, Elizabeth Benjamin, Times Warner, YNN | Leave a Comment »

Walt Whitman Evening 4/14/10

Posted on April 11, 2010 by iwilder

Darryl Ford

On Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 7:00pm at Northport Public Library, 151 Laurel Ave, Northport, NY, Some of the premier poets of Long Island will be performing works of Walt Whitman, , including Andrea Rowen, George Wallace, Kempton Boone van Hoff, Michelle Whittaker, Tara Propper, Christina Rau, Will Steiglitz, Kerry Cowan, and Mankh…along with special guest Walt Whitman impersonator Darryl Ford. With music by Maria Fairchild.

Settings of Whitman’s “A Clear Midnight” and “Song of the Open Road” by composer and pianist Jane Leslie, sung by tenor Bruce Solomon.
The Northport Arts Coalition in cooperation with the Northport /East Northport Library celebrates NAC’s dozen years of “making Northport a vibrant hub of the arts and humanities”.

Party fare and socializing afterwards. http://northportarts.org/events.html

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Bukowski reading 4/7/10 photos

Posted on April 10, 2010 by iwilder

On Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 7pm, the Babylon Green Party Gathering featured Pisces Cafe former co-owner Jeffrey Arthur reading the poetry of Charles Bukowski. For the April 2010 gathering, the Babylon Green Party met 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. Click here for more information. Read more »

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Green Party: President Obama must press Israel to end East Jerusalem settlements

Posted on April 10, 2010 by iwilder

Derek Grisby

Green Party urges divestment as Israeli outrages mount

President Obama must put pressure on Israel immediately to stop the construction of settlements and displacement of Palestinians in East Jerusalem, Green Party leaders and candidates said today.

Derek Grigsby, Green candidate for State Representative in Michigan, District 7 said:

While the international community has been unable to deal with Israel’s violations after decades of UN resolutions, civil society has increasingly
endorsed BDS (boycott, divestment, sanctions) as a powerful nonviolent strategy to pressure Israel into ending the Palestinian occupation and guaranteeing equality for all in Israel-Palestine. In 2005, the Green Party endorsed a BDS resolution comparable to the one passed by the Senate of the Associated Students of UC Berkeley in March.

The Berkeley students’ bill calls on the university to divest its assets from two General Electric and United Technologies for “materially and militarily supporting the Israeli government’s occupation of the Palestinian territories” and to advocate that the UC, with about $135 million invested in companies that profit from Israel’s illegal actions in the Occupied Territories. Read more »

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Video and report from a visit to the whale…

Posted on April 8, 2010 by kwilder

Update Friday morning: The whale has died. The Atlanta Journal Constitution and other outlets report that the whale died overnight: story here. (Update/Note Friday evening: There were a few wrong reports out, so the whale was reported to have died too soon. Though, as of a Friday, April 9th at 4:00pm press conference, the whale was definitely pronounced dead, sometime late Friday morning.)

A visit to the whale, beached on Long Island

KW: You have probably heard the story that a young, humpback whale has stranded itself on Main Beach in East Hampton, Long Island. The decision of the scientific community was that it was sick and could not be saved. So, they have been trying to put it to sleep.

I felt very sad for the whale. And, I felt like this was a momentous occasion. So, after work today [Thursday], I drove from North Babylon to East Hampton (Google Maps says one hour and twenty minutes) to go be near the whale. I wanted to meditate for it to suffer less. And, I brought my famous flute in case it seemed right to play a song.

Here is the important update about the whale. As of about 8:30pm tonight (Thursday, April 8), the sedatives were not working well. I saw a few spurts of water go up from its blowhole. I saw its tail flip up in the air a few times. There was a biologist standing inside the roped off area of beach where the whale was. He said that they were having trouble sedating the whale, and that they were going to try to drag it up on the beach (I think again) to try to get the correct angle to get the sedatives into it (and/or to euthanize it, without getting dangerous chemicals into the water.) Read more »

Filed under: Ecology, Environment, local, long island, nature, News, video | Tagged: animal rescue, beached whale, ceremony for whale, dying whale, East Hampton, East Hampton beach, humpback whale, long island, Long Island beach, Long Island whale, Main Beach, Shinnecock, video, vigil, vigil for whale, whale | 3 Comments »

LI Concert Notes #57 4/8/10

Posted on April 8, 2010 by iwilder

Friends, Fans and Folkies,

If you would like to receive this list of live music on Long Island, please send an email to LIConcertNotes@optonline.net

Here’s some great Live Music on Long Island. Venue addresses/phones/URLs at end of all listings. Please scroll down. orrections and Comments are welcome. Support Live Music on Long Island. For more information about great live music on LI and elsewhere Please also visit Michael Kornfeld’s excellent website www.acousticmusicscene.com

Gary Schoenberger

Concerts

Day Date Time Artist Venue

Fri 4/9 8:00 Lucky 13 Garden Stage (UUCCN), Garden City

Fri 4/9 7:30 Grand Folk Railroad The Spoon, Lindenhurst

Fri 4/9 8:00 Richard Barnhardt + Willow Peacesmiths, Amityville

Fri 4/9 7:30 James O’Malley Grounds & Sounds Café, Stony Brook

Fri 4/9 8:00 Cemaara & Frank Walker Bistro M, Glen Head

Fri 4/9 7:00 Phil Minissale w/Anthony daCosta 6th St Studios, St. James

Sat 4/10 noon Cecilia Kirtland Strawberry’s Bakery Bar, Huntington

Sat 4/10 7:30 Joe Jencks Eclectic Café, Bay Shore

Sat 4/10 8:00 Holmes Brothers Landmark on Main St, Port Washington

Sat 4/10 8:00 Last Charge of the Light Horse, Tony Tedeschi, Kevin Burke, Cy & Lynn Homegrown Music Café, Port Jefferson Sta

Sun 4/11 2:00 Help for Haiti – Family Concert Cinema Arts Centre, Huntington

Sun 4/11 6:00 Help for Haiti – Adult Concert – John Platt(MC), Arlon Bennett, Stuart Markus & Hillary Foxsong, Tom Griffith & Martha Trachtenberg, Ray Korona, M Train, Kira & Breanna Metcalf-Oshinsky, Andrew & Rebecca Perea, Linda Ray’s Huntington Cabaret, Judith Zweiman, special guest Toby Walker Cinema Arts Centre, Huntington

Sun 4/11 8:00 Help for Haiti – Dance – Squeaky Clean, Jumpers Orchestra Cinema Arts Centre, Huntington

Sun 4/11 2:30 Mary Lamont Band Patchogue-Medford Library, Patchogue Read more »

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Stony Brook University announces drastic cuts to Southampton campus/program

Posted on April 7, 2010 by kwilder

A conference held at Stony Brook Southampton campus

(excerpt from)
The Southampton Press
Stony Brook University will announce drastic cuts to Stony Brook Southampton
by Will James / Apr 6, 10 7:11 PM

Stony Brook University officials are proposing to slash spending on Stony Brook Southampton, effectively reducing operations at the 81-acre Shinnecock Hills campus to two buildings and pulling the plug on most of the programs offered there, in order to save money, according to local politicians.

The proposal comes just four years after Stony Brook University purchased the campus for $35 million from Long Island University, and invested tens of millions of dollars in an effort to transform it into a center for sustainability and environmental studies. Read more »

Filed under: Ecology, Environment, local, long island, Long Island Politics, nature, News, politics, progressive politics, sustainability | Tagged: college life, Dr. Samuel Stanley, Fred Thiele, higher education, Kenneth LaValle, Long Island news, Samuel Stanley, Shinnecock Hills, Southampton, Stony Brook University, Stonybrook University, sustainability studies, Tim Bishop, university | Leave a Comment »

Thursday, April 8: Walt Whitman Birthplace/Wilderness event with Max Wheat

Posted on April 6, 2010 by kwilder

Book discussion at Walt Whitman Birthplace
“Reading Between the Lines Into the American Wilderness,”
with Maxwell Wheat, Jr. as facilitator
Thursday, April 8, 2010 at 7pm
at the
Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site and Interpretive Center
246 Old Walt Whitman Rd., Dix Hills
(631 427-5240)
Free Event
(there may be a requested donation to enter Birthplace)

Are Salt Marshes Wilderness?
Read more »

Filed under: Ecology, Environment, local, long island, nature, News, sustainability | Tagged: Edward Abbey, Long Island Book Clubs, Long Island environment, Long Island Poetry, Long Island wilderness, Max Wheat, Maxwell Wheat, Monkey Wrench Gang, Pine Barrens, Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman Birthplace, wilderness | Leave a Comment »

Secrets of Gender-Blind Casting

Posted on April 5, 2010 by iwilder

Pre-performance interview with actress Beth Gwara and Director, Dr. Kathy Curtiss of Macbeth. Includes discussion of: feminism; gender blind casting; color blind casting; and Cate Blanchett’s performance as Bob Dylan in “I’m Not There”.

Filed under: activism, Art, film, media, News, social & economic justice | Tagged: Beth Gwara, casting, Cate Blanchett, Dr. Kathy Curtiss, gender, gender blind, Shakespeare, theatre | Leave a Comment »

Canada apologizes for Taser death

Posted on April 5, 2010 by kwilder

RCMP apologizes to Dziekanski’s mother

The mother of Robert Dziekanski, who died in October 2007 after RCMP subdued him with a Taser, says now that the police force has apologized, she might finally be able to sleep at night. The mother of Polish visitor Robert Dziekanski, who died in October 2007 after RCMP subdued him with a Taser, says now that the police force has apologized, she might finally be able to sleep at night.

Read entire article.
Green Party of Canada called for a Taser Moratorium in response to the Death Read more »

Filed under: Action Alert!, activism, debate, grassroots democracy, Green Party, international politics, News | Tagged: canada, police, Suffolk County, Taser | 1 Comment »

Can oil drilling create or magnify earthquakes? Info on Santa Barbara region…

Posted on April 5, 2010 by kwilder

2011 update: A commission in Arkansas, studying a series of earthquakes, believes that gas drilling is connected to increased earthquake activity in Arkansas. Story at the Daily Mail UK: here.

KW: These are comments from Chris Landau (see bio at bottom) in an e-mail of Monday, April 5, 2010 4:14 AM. Landau had an April 2nd article about drilling on the Santa Barbara fault-line which I discovered in researching the April 4th earthquake. So, I sent an e-mail to get comments…

The Santa Barbara region, as my article suggests is on a gigantic east-west fault line running out to across the Pacific Ocean for 3000 miles….My concern is that fault zones slip smoothly though the presence of water and oil in these zones…If these lubricating fluids are removed, larger scale earthquakes will occur with time. – Chris Landau

Thank you for taking an interest in my article and providing a link to this article. There are 3 links here to the USGS (United States Geological Survey Maps)

http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/

The first one is a real time link to earthquakes occurring in California. Read more »

Filed under: Ecology, Environment, green, nature, News, politics, progressive politics, public health | Tagged: Chris Landau, earthquake, fault lines, fault zones, Geological Survey Maps, LA County, mining, oil mines, Pacific Ocean, San Andreas fault, Santa Barbara, USGS, Ventura, Why all these earthquakes | 4 Comments »

Is oil drilling slated for area near Easter Earthquake in California?

Posted on April 4, 2010 by kwilder

KW: In my research about what was happening with the 4/4/2010 earthquake, I found a 4/2/2010 article discussing why possible oil drilling near the Santa Barbara fault line could exacerbate earthquakes in that area. The author is Chris Landau. Landau just sent me over detailed comments on the sometimes connection between drilling, mining and earthquakes: here. Very detailed background on the fault lines involved in the recent, Pacific area quake on Easter 2010. Full story with Landau’s detailed info: here.

Myself and so many other people are wondering why we are having all these earthquakes. We have another story with a good link on that topic: here.

An article of April 2, 2010:
Do not drill into the 3000 mile Santa Barbara fault line. We do not need Haiti-like quakes here.

An August 2009 article about proposed drilling in the Santa Barbara area:
Gov. Schwarzenegger Calls for Drilling off Santa Barbara Coast

An ABC article from today, April 4, 2010, describing the Easter Earthquake:
“Magnitude 7.2 Earthquake Hits Mexicali and Shakes Southern California…ABC news reports that the quake was felt as far north as Santa Barbara, Calif. and as far east as Las Vegas, Nevada.”

Filed under: Ecology, Environment, News | Tagged: california, earthquake, oil drilling, reasons for earthquakes, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara coast, West Coast, Why all these earthquakes | Leave a Comment »

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