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Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire: The Ultimate Fan Guide [Kindle] $0.99.
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Georgiana is the subject of the movie "The Duchess" (currently on Netflix) and a relative of the young Prince and Princess of Cambridge. Get the Ultimate Fan Guide -- with plot points, history, and what happened to the historical characters -- for only 99 cents!
Green Party Peace Sign Bumper Sticker
The Green Party has continually opposed entry into war and has consistently called for the immediate return of our troops, in stark contrast to the Democratic and Republican parties.
Today we march, tomorrow we vote Green Party.
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Reflections on Occupy Wall Street, with photos, fun, and good wishes for the future. eBook, Occupy Wall Street: What Just Happened? (Only $.99 !) In the eBook, the Occupy movement is explored through original reporting, photographs, cartoons, poetry, essays, and reviews.The collection of essays and blog posts records the unfolding of Occupy into the culture from September 2011 to the present. Authors Kimberly Wilder and Ian Wilder were early supporters of Occupy, using their internet platforms to communicate the changes being created by the American Autumn.
The eBook is currently available on Amazon for Kindle; Barnes & Noble Nook ; Smashwords independent eBook seller; and a Kobo for 99 cents and anyone can read it using their Kindle/Nook Reader, smart phone, or computer.
On March 20, 2010, The North Country Peace Group was joined by peace and justice activists from throughout Long Island, calling for an end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The group conducted a march and a rally, and then held a solemn vigil, reading the names of the Americans who have died in these wars.
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from The Health Care Hindenburg Has Landed by Chris Hedges
Change will come only by building movements that stand in fierce and uncompromising opposition to the Democrats and the Republicans. If they can herd Kucinich and John Conyers, the sponsors of House Resolution 676, a bill that would create a publicly funded National Health Program by eliminating private health insurers, onto the House floor to vote for this corporate theft, what is the point in pretending there is any room left for us in the party? And why should we waste our time with gutless liberal groups such as Moveon.org, which felt the need to collect more than $1 million to pressure House Democrats who had voted “no” on the original bill to recant? What was this purportedly anti-war group doing anyway serving as an obsequious recruiting arm of the Obama election campaign? The longer we tie ourselves to the Democrats and these bankrupt liberal organizations the more ridiculous and impotent we appear.
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SOPHIA GARDEN, a CSA (Community Supported Agricultural) farm located at The Motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Dominic, 555 Albany Avenue, Amityville, NY 11701 has shares available for the 2010 season. Shares entitle the member to partake in the bounty of a NOFA-NY LLC certified organic farm. Sophia Garden grows over 25 varieties of vegetables, herbs and flowers. Half shares $375 for pick-up every other week/$750 for pick-up every week from June through October. 15 hours (total) service required over the course of the season. For more information contact Elizabeth Keihm : homecomingearth@aol.com or call 631-842-6000 x307.
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Filed under: activism, Calendar, events, local, long island, Long Island Politics, News | Tagged: children, doctors without borders, food bank, Haiti | 4 Comments »
IW: So far the poll is in favor of us still carrying DN! stories. Guess Cynthia was right to sound the alram about incident civilians being killed in New Orleans.
from DemocracyNow.org
We get an update on the investigations into a spate of police shootings in New Orleans that took place in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In recent weeks, two former members of the New Orleans police have admitted to participating in a cover-up of the Danziger Bridge shootings of September 4, 2005, when police SWAT units opened fire on a group of unarmed civilians, killing two and wounding four. Meanwhile, federal investigators have widened their probe into the New Orleans Police Department and are now looking into the circumstances surrounding four other incidents that include three deaths and one non-fatal shooting.
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KW: Seems like some letters of complaint to the Press-Herald are in order.
from Ballot Access News, editor Richard Winger
Portland, Maine Press-Herald Thinks
Maine Ballot Access is Too Easy
March 20th, 2010
The Portland, Maine daily newspaper, the Portland Press Herald, has this editorial in its March 17 issue. The editorial says it is now too easy for an independent candidate to get on the November ballot.
This is ironic, because in 2008, Maine was one of only three states in which there were no minor party or independent candidates on the November ballot for any congressional race or any statewide state office race. The others were Alabama and Washington. Two independent candidates in Maine made serious attempts to get on the ballot for Congress in 2008, but one, Herb Hoffman, was challenged by the Democratic Party and removed from the ballot. The other, Laurie Dobson, was disqualified because even though she submitted her petitions by the legal deadline for handing them in to the town clerks, the town clerks were unable to check them in time. Read more »
Filed under: 3rd party, activism, Ballot issues, Election 2008, elections, grassroots democracy, media, News, politics, progressive politics, third party, US Politics | Tagged: ballot access, electoral activism, Herb Hoffman, independent candidates, Laurie Dobson, Maine, Maine Press-Herald, Portland, Portland newspaper, Press-Herald, third party candidates | Leave a Comment »
GP OH Guv Cand Dennis Spisak
Several Green candidates have launched campaigns in their states’ races for governor in 2010. The Green Party of California will have a contested primary election for the gubernatorial race, with Laura Wells and Deacon Alexander competing for the nomination, to be decided on June 8.
In recent years, gubernatorial races in some states have given Green Parties high enough percentages to achieve or maintain ballot status and determine the outcome of the election. In 2006, Rich Whitney and his fellow Greens overcame an attempt by Gov. Rod Blagojevich to keep the Green Party off the Illinois ballot. Gov. Blagojevich spent about $800,000 to block the Green Party. Mr. Whitney drew over 10% of the vote on Election Day 2006 and will be on the ballot in 2010.
| IW: 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. The May 15, 2010 State convention will choose the Green Party Governor candidate. Long Island Green Party members can meet the potential candidates at the May 5, 2010 Babylon Green party gathering at 7pmat the Unitarian Universalist Society of South Suffolk, 28 Brentwood Road, Bay Shore, Long Island, NY 11706. |
Some Green Party Governor candidates to watch: Read more »
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© Photograph by Bernard J. Kleina. Used with permission.
In celebration of Fair Housing Month (April) and our 40 years of service to Long Islanders, Long Island Housing Services Invites you to “Fair Housing’s Future in a Crisis Economy: A New Decade of Challenges”
Friday, April 30, 2010 ~ 11:30 am to 2:30 pm ~ Touro Law Center, Central Islip
Please join them to learn how your awareness and support will help to “Build a Long Island of Neighbors” in this new decade. 631.567.5111 info@lifairhousing.org
Filed under: Action Alert!, activism, Art, Calendar, events, housing, long island, Long Island Politics, News, Press Release, social & economic justice | Tagged: Bernard (Bernie) Kleina, Chicago Freedom Movement, Fair Housing Month, Jr., Long Island Housing Services, Martin Luther King, photography, Prof. Okianer Christian Dark, Touro Law | Leave a Comment »
Jeffrey Arthur
Social media release: http://pitch.pe/53142
Jeffrey Arthur spoke about at the January 2008 Babylon Green Party gathering about Ethical and Socially Responsible Investing based upon his prior experience as a stockbroker. He will now share another facet of his personality in challenging the audience to decide for themselves about the poetry of Charles Bukowski. As the proprietor of independent arts center Pisces Cafe, Arthur was known as both a supporter of poetry and for his ability to keep an audience enraptured. Read more »
Filed under: 3rd party, Calendar, events, green, Green Party, local, long island, Long Island Politics, News, poetry, politics, progressive politics, social & economic justice, third party | Tagged: Alcoholism, Bukowski, charles bukowski, Feminism, jeffrey arthur, Long Island events, Long Island Poetry, pisces cafe, sexism | 1 Comment »
IW: Kimberly thinks I need to write something about this. No news article link posted here because it’s not really news.
I knew Steve Levy would be at home in either corporate party since he first ran for Suffolk County Executive. That’s why we tried to run John Keenan on the Green Party line. John still woulda been a better county executive.
This is all just Rick Schaffer in reverse. The Suffolk Democratic chair had a policy of recruiting Republicans to run as Democrats. This is just the obverse. Which one is which again?
As Kimberly likes to quote, Nassau County Democratic Chair Jay Jacobs has said on the radio that the Republican Party is his second favorite party.
Or as Ralph Nader put it there is not a dime’s worth of difference between the two corporate parties. “The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That’s the only difference. ” Both corporate parties support the wars and oppose single payer. The American public doesn’t. When are we gonna be free of the corporate media charade that Democratic and Republican Parties are on different sides?
Filed under: 3rd party, democrat, election, Election 2010, elections, grassroots democracy, Green Party, local, long island, Long Island Politics, New York State Politics, News, politics, third party | Tagged: Governor, Green Party of Suffolk, Jay Jacobs, John Keenan, Nassau County, NY Governor, Richard Schaffer, steve levy, suffolk, Suffolk County, Suffolk County Democratic Committee, Suffolk County Executive | 6 Comments »
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Ewe Sheep by George Gastin
IW: While faux progressive sites like Daily Kos and MoveOn have threatened Kucinich for not voting for the toothless health insurance bill, independent media site like Black Agenda Report and Democracy Now! have lobbed softballs his way. Even Nader refused to directly criticize Kucinich in his roll in mollifying a potential break away of progressives from the Democratic party over the Afghanistan/Iraq Wars and Health Care Reform. We need leaders who not afraid to speak truth to power, even when it’s their friends. We need a political party that is willing to stand up for the best interests of the voter, not defense contractors and insurance companies. And where is a real voice that is not afraid to speak truth to power like Cynthia McKinney? Is leaving her out part of Democracy Now’s continual policy of marginalizing the Green Party?
Black Agenda Report came to the only conclusion possible:
And it was a defining moment for those who believe there is anything politically worthwhile that can be accomplished within the structures of the Democratic Party, now firmly controlled by its corporate wing. There is nothing for a true progressive to do in Obama’s Democratic Party, but shut up, and roll over.
But hasn’t that really been true for a long while. Hasn’t the so-called progressive wing of the Democratic Party just been “sound and fury signifying nothing”. Where were they during the last Democratic convention? Where were the calls for ending the wars and single-payer healthcare to be put in the Democratic Party platform? Not a people was heard from these so-called progressives. Where have the the calls for the Congressional Budget Office to run the numbers on single-payer healthcare so we could all see how it would save our economy money? Not one of these so-called Pregressive Democratic Congressmen dared cross that line? Read more »
Filed under: 3rd party, Action Alert!, activism, Anti-War, cynthia mckinney, elections, grassroots democracy, Green Party, health care, Healthcare, News, politics, US Politics | Tagged: Democracy Now, Rep. Dennis Kucinich | 2 Comments »
ISS Night at the Hard Luck Café
Saturday, March 20, 2010 The showcase begins at 8:30 PM. Open mike begins at 7:30 PM.
$10 general admission / $7 for FMSH members Folk Music Society of Huntington website
Congregational Church of Huntington (Wheelchair Accessible)
30 Washington Drive, Centerport, NY Read more »
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Tom Cleland
KW: This is a great, hands-on story about the nuances of party politics, and why the strategies, characters, and motivations often turn things topsy turvy. Note that in Minnesota, the local Democratic Party is the “Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party” or DFL.
From the blog Tom Stream (and sent as an e-mail announcement):
Subject: I hereby resign from the DFL
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 4:35 AM
On Sunday I participated in my SD44 DFL [Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party] convention, seeing for myself once again that the Democratic Party is where progressive politics goes to die.
This year I caucused DFL as explained on my blog Feb. 2. At the time, the Greens did not have a strong candidate for Governor. After hearing all the callers to radio shows, disappointed with Obama, I thought it might be a good time to check back in with the Dems to see how they were coming along. Read more »
Filed under: 3rd party, elections, Green Party, News, politics, progressive politics, third party, US Politics | Tagged: Al Flowers, Al Franken, cam gordon, caucus, Corporations, Dave Bicking, Democrat-Farmer-Labor, democratic party, DFL, Eric Margolis, Farheen Hakeem, Green Party, John Marty, Ken Pentel, Lena Katharine Gardner, Margaret Anderson Kelliher, Marty Subcaucus, Matt Entenza, Mayor Rybak, MPD Chief Dolan, Noam Freshman, Obama, Paul Thissen, police brutality, President Obama, RT Rybak, Ten Key Values, Tom Cleland, United Health Care, UnitedHealthcare | 2 Comments »
