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Spring video: Let me see what Spring is like on Jupiter and Mars

Posted on April 4, 2010 by kwilder

KW: Feelings spring in my heart, and wanted to share some jazzy, Spring music. What I found were a whole bunch of versions of Fly Me To The Moon on youtube.

Fly Me To The Moon: (Only watch if you can vibe on Spring fever…)
This is quite silly and fun.
“Fly Me To The Moon” performed by Frank Sinatra and Astrud Gilberto from “Down With Love”

Fly Me To The Moon: For everyone else Read more »

Filed under: Art, music | Tagged: Astrud Gilberto, Diana Krall, Fly Me To The Moon, Frank Sinatra, Jazz, seasons, Spring | Leave a Comment »

Can Male Hatters be feminists?: Kimberly’s review of Alice in Wonderland 2010

Posted on April 3, 2010 by kwilder

Can Male Hatters be feminists?

Five things that critics got wrong about Alice in Wonderland,
and one critic who is on the right track.

This piece is actually a critique of the critiques of the movie Alice in Wonderland, book by Lewis Carroll, screenplay by Linda Woolverton, and direction by Tim Burton. Overall, I thought the movie was enjoyable, imaginative and enlightening. I was also surprised to find some moments of heartfelt feminism.

In looking over the reviews of the movie on line, I found a surprising lack of understanding, and some dismissive negativity, about the movie. Much—but not all—of the response was related to the issue of feminism in the film.

Here are five things that most critics got wrong about the Linda Woolverton and Tim Burton version of Alice in Wonderland: (Note, this piece is heavy on plot-spoilers. Don’t read it if you want to watch the movie and be surprised.)

1. The litmus test for feminism is not the female star. Read more »

Filed under: activism, Art, Books, film, media, News, nonviolence, personal, politics, progressive politics, rants, social & economic justice | Tagged: Alice in Wonderland, Bandersnatch, bell hooks, class struggle, classism, Disney, Erin Rickard, Feminism, feminist men, feminist theory, film, girl power, Global Feminist Blog, John Tenniel, Johnny Depp, Lewis Carroll, Linda Woolverton, Mad Hatter, Mia Wasikowski, movie critics, movie review, movie reviews, Movies, patriarchy, revolution, Tim Burton, women's issues | Leave a Comment »

PeaceSmiths Coffeehouse 4/9/10

Posted on April 2, 2010 by iwilder

The real start time is 8pm! Oops! Can’t change the pdf now, but some of us will know, and the coffee will be ready! – KW

Filed under: Calendar, events, long island, Long Island Music, Long Island Politics, music, open mic, original music, Peace, poetry | Tagged: choral groups, Dawn Zahra, Long Island events, Long Island Music, Richard Barnhardt, Willow | Leave a Comment »

Happy Spring! Happy Easter! Happy Passover! and new beginnings…

Posted on April 2, 2010 by iwilder

Over at our Peace Couple website:
10 Ways to Foster Peace for Easter and Passover: here.
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Yesterday [April 1, 2010], it was so beautiful out, Ian and I went for a walk over at Southards Pond (Babylon Town Park). We only had the cellphone camera with us. Though, see if you can understand how things were mostly brown and wintery…though, with little bushels of Spring popping up in medium green shoots here and there…

Spring has come to Long Island… Read more »

Filed under: Ecology, Environment, green, local, long island, News, personal, Photos | Tagged: babylon, easter, long island, plants, seasons, Southards Pond, Spring | Leave a Comment »

“We Made a Devil’s Bargain”: Fmr. President Clinton Apologizes for Trade Policies that Destroyed Haitian Rice Farming

Posted on April 2, 2010 by iwilder

IW: Hallelujah! It’s ironic that Clinton had an epiphany over trade. The last straw that made me leave the Democratic Party was seeing his VP, Al Gore, on television defending NAFTA against Ross Perot. Yeah, that Al Gore. The one and the same. And as usual, the corporate media painted Perot, the former 3rd party candidate, as “crazy”. And I gotta mention that one of the best radio interviews ever was Clinton was when an unwitting Prez Clinton was calling radio programs to support his wife’s US Senate run, and didn’t realize they had dialed Democracy Now.

from DemocracyNow.org

President Bill Clinton, now the UN Special Envoy to Haiti, publicly apologized last month for forcing Haiti to drop tariffs on imported, subsidized US rice during his time in office. The policy wiped out Haitian rice farming and seriously damaged Haiti’s ability to be self-sufficient. On Wednesday, journalist Kim Ives of Haiti Liberté questioned Clinton about his change of heart and his stance on the return of ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Filed under: Food, international politics, media, News, politics, president, radio, US Politics | 1 Comment »

vote for beat radio today in march music madness finals!

Posted on April 1, 2010 by iwilder

hey guys,

hope all is well!

some of you have been following this–we’ve been battling it out at The Round Table‘s March Music Madness over the last couple weeks.

We really appreciate everyone voting for us, defeating Broken Social Scene, Dave Matthews Band, Vampire Weekend, and perhaps most amazingly, Justin Bieber.

Today is the finals, and we’ve definitely got some tough competition in Ashley Arrison. She’s a singer songwriter from the west coast, with a pretty dedicated fan base.

So anyway, please take a second and vote for Beat Radio here:

http://www.theroundtableonline.com/2010/04/trt-music-madness-finals-beat-radio-vs-ashley-arrison/

Pass along to your friends! Hoping we can get out the vote and make a come from behind victory.

We’ve got some more fun stuff to share in the next few days. The next 2 tracks for the 2010 singles series are done, and they’ll be coming out very soon as a special exclusive “digital 7” over at the Ampeater Review. One of the songs rocks harder than anything we’ve done in a while, the other is a pretty, dreamy track called “High Time.” Stay tuned.

also, here are some pretty rad posts on our song “golden age” Read more »

Filed under: Ballot issues, local, long island, Long Island Music, music | Leave a Comment »

IL Green Party criticizes Secret Plan to Convert State Capitol into Simpson’s Theme Park

Posted on April 1, 2010 by iwilder

Green Party leaders sharply criticized a secret plan by the state’s Democratic lawmakers to convert the state capital of Springfield into a citywide theme park modeled after popular television show, the Simpson’s.

“With our state’s current fiscal crisis, we cannot afford to bet everything on a wacky scheme to attract tourists,” said A.J. Segneri, ILGP Membership Steward and Whiteside County Chair.

Segneri said that the plan is being quietly implemented through a series of seemingly unrelated actions. A bill that recently passed the Senate, for instance, will lift the moratorium on new nuclear power plant construction, allowing the state to build a working replica of Homer Simpson‘s fictional employer.

In another move, Rep. David Miller (D) pushed a tire burning amendment in the House that would allow theme park planners to create a perpetually burning tire fire in downtown Springfield, mimicking a Simpson’s landmark. Mass layoffs of public school teachers are intended to recreate deplorable conditions of the fictional Springfield Elementary School. And river crews have been hard at work for weeks searching for three-eyed Asian carp to serve in the theme park’s food court.

This park’s construction is being financed with $680 billion in state bonds, along with across the board fee and sales tax hikes. License plate sticker fees will be raised to $12,000 per year, for instance, and taxes on everything from candy and gum to shampoo and toilet paper will increase to nearly 800% the suggested retail price. Read more »

Filed under: News | Tagged: april fool, homer simpson, Illinois, nuclear power, simpsons, springfield, three-eyed carp, tire burning | 1 Comment »

IL Green Party Slams Repeal of Nuclear Moratorium & Tire Burning Bill; Calls for Stronger Renewable Energy Portfolio

Posted on March 31, 2010 by iwilder

George Ochsenfeld

Green Party leaders and candidates have expressed outrage at a recent State Senate vote to repeal the Illinois moratorium against new nuclear production. Senate Bill 3388 passed the Senate 40-1 on March 15, in an unexpected move after similar bills in previous years failed to move beyond the floor of either chamber. SB3388 would delete the provision in state law prohibiting the construction of new nuclear facilities until the nuclear waste storage issue is resolved.

The problems with nuclear expansion have been thoroughly chronicled. One such study is “The Nuclear Illusion“, written by Amory Lovins and Imran Sheikh for Rocky Mountain Institute.

George Ochsenfeld, Green Party candidate for 79th State Representative (Peotone, Kankakee areas) said:

Nuclear power is bad for the economy, bad for the environment, and bad for the people of Illinois. The idea that nuclear is a solution for any of our current problems is pure fantasy. It is completely irresponsible for legislators to champion it.

Citing the work of the Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS), Greens pointed to numerous problems associated with the expansion of nuclear facilities in Illinois. These include:

the increasing likelihood that Illinois will become a “temporary” regional high-level dump state,
involving the import of tons of radioactive waste into the state; and
the enabling of the GE Corporation to construct environmental reactors at its Morris facility to test the controversial reactor fuel reprocessing method which has been discredited as expensive, polluting, and leading to nuclear weapons proliferation.

Filed under: 3rd party, Action Alert!, activism, Ecology, energy, Environment, grassroots democracy, Green Party, News | Tagged: Illinois, nuclear power | Leave a Comment »

GPNYS Guv Cand hopeful Hawkins Says State Budget Should Focus on Making Wall Street Bail Out Main Street

Posted on March 30, 2010 by iwilder

Faults Lawmakers for Delay in Passing State Budget

Howie Hawkins, who has started collecting signatures from Greens to win the Green Party nomination for Governor, criticized state lawmakers today for supporting deep cuts to education, health care, and human
services while it continues to support tens of billions of dollars in giveaways to Wall Street and wealthy New Yorkers.

Hawkins said as Governor he would tax the rich to increase funding for local schools, parks, affordable housing, safety net programs, and especially jobs:

The Democrats and Republicans are shielding their Wall Street paymasters from taxes and balancing the budget by taking education from school children, jobs from workers, health care from sick people, and food and shelter from poor people. Read more »

Filed under: 3rd party, activism, economy, Election 2010, grassroots democracy, Green Party, New York State Politics | 1 Comment »

Will you be my Grohlfriend?: Band in Nassau needs drummer

Posted on March 28, 2010 by kwilder

While running around Nassau, we stopped in a music store. On the bulletin board was this cool sign. I looked up the info on Myspace and Facebook, and they look interesting. www.myspace.com/deadfmrocks and www.myspace.com/thespheres. If you really want to apply for the drummer position, you can contact them at: deadfmrocks at gmail dot com.

Filed under: News | Leave a Comment »

Fri. April 9th: Play about Marcelo Lucero, at Adelphi University

Posted on March 28, 2010 by kwilder

An actual immigration rights support rights rally in LI in 2008

based on a press release from Adelphi University

“What Killed Marcelo Lucero?” A play about immigration and hate convenes activists at Adelphi University on Friday, April 9, 2010 at 6:30pm.

Garden City, NY / Adelphi University’s Center for Social Innovation and Levermore Global Scholars Program are co-sponsoring the interactive theater piece, “What Killed Marcelo Lucero?”, by the Brentwood-based theater group Teatro Experimental Yerbabruja, directed by Margarita Espada.

The play will be performed on Friday, April 9, 2010, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Ruth S. Harley University Center, Room 313.

After attracting the attention of national media last fall, such as the New York Times, a new dimension was added to include audience participation. After the performance, there will be a panel discussion to focus on the issue of immigration and hate on Long Island and alternative strategies that can be implemented to address immigration tensions in communities. Read more »

Filed under: activism, Art, immigration, local, long island, Long Island Politics, News, nonviolence, Peace, politics, progressive politics, social & economic justice | Tagged: Adelphi, Deborah Little, immigration, long island, Long Island theatre, Luis Valenzuela, Marcelo Lucero, Margarita Espada, Teatro Exprimental Yerbaruja | 1 Comment »

Flood in coal mine in China traps 123 miners

Posted on March 28, 2010 by kwilder

(excerpt from) Reuters
Flood in new China coal mine traps 123 miners

(Reuters) – Rescuers were searching for more than 120 coal miners trapped when a pit under construction in north China’s Shanxi province flooded on Sunday, the official Xinhua news agency reported…

KW: Sending good thoughts and hope to the miners, their families, and rescue workers.

Filed under: international politics, News | Tagged: China, coal mine | 1 Comment »

The only route to single payer runs through the Green Party

Posted on March 24, 2010 by iwilder

IW: I found this press release to be too genteel. The Democrats and Republicans put on a show that they fighting over reform while they were just fighting over how big a gift to give the Drug and Insurance companies. While Obama pretended to be the feminist that Ms./NOW/NARAL claimed he was by shutting down Stupak, while cutting back room deals to cut the right-to-choose out of private insurance policies.

Now it’s time to work for health care reform — Medicare For All, says Green Party

Green candidates and party leaders said today that the passage of the Democratic health care bill, with its increased financial burdens on millions of Americans, should not slow the movement for Medicare For All (single-payer national health care). Physicians for a National Health Program said in a statement on Monday, “Instead of eliminating the root of the problem — the profit-driven, private health insurance industry — this costly new legislation will enrich and further entrench these firms. The bill would require millions of Americans to buy private insurers’ defective products, and turn over to them vast amounts of public money.”

Rich Whitney, Green Party candidate for Governor of Illinois:

The real story of health care reform over the past year is how the insurance and other health lobbies sent millions of dollars in campaign checks to both Democrats and Republicans to make sure their interests came first. We’ll get real health care reform when Americans get angry enough to stop voting for Democratic and Republican candidates who are addicted to corporate contributions, and elect Greens, who call health care a basic human right.” (Visit the web site of the Center for Responsive Politics to learn how much these corporations donate to each Congress member: http://www.opensecrets.org)

Dennis Spisak, Green Party candidate for Governor of Ohio: Read more »

Filed under: 3rd party, Action Alert!, activism, Election 2010, grassroots democracy, Green Party, health, health care, News | Tagged: candidates, Governor | Leave a Comment »

Caroline Doctorow 3/26/10

Posted on March 24, 2010 by iwilder

Filed under: Calendar, events, local, long island, Long Island Music, music, News, original music, Press Release | Leave a Comment »

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