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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.
Mark Yodice http://www.myspace.com/markyodice plays his song “Past Blossom” at the PeaceSmiths 2009 Dinner/Concert. http://www.peacesmiths.org The event was hosted by Sonny Meadows. Video by Wilderside Media (Ian and Kimberly Wilder) http://www.onthewilderside.com
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Published In New Masses (Dec. 1930)Filed under: activism, Anti-War, Holidays, poetry, politics, US Politics | Tagged: langston hughes, merry christmas | Leave a Comment »
Another fun holiday post here.
Ralph Nader
This is the golden age of muckraking books and documentaries but some of them may have escaped your attention because reviews and promotions cannot keep up with the sheer volume of material.
Here are my recommendations for your Holiday and later reading time:
1. Achieving the Impossible by Lois Marie Gibbs; Published by the Center for Health, Environment and Justice (www.chej.org) is an inspiring collection of short stories about how ordinary people have risen to meet the challenges of toxic pollution confronting their families and communities. The author herself rose from the Love Canal controversy in Niagara Falls, New York to lead a grand national grass roots organization.
2. Europe’s Promise: Why the European Way is the Best Hope In An Insecure Age by Steven Hill (University of California Press, 2010.) His thesis is that Western Europe treats its people better in many ways than the United States does its people, and not just in social insurance and services. Read, wonder and galvanize!
3. Grand Illusion: The Myth of Voter Choice in A Two-Party Tyranny by Theresa Amato (New Press, 2009.) My former campaign manager weighs in with an indictment of the two-party barriers to a competitive electoral system, candidate ballot access and voter choice. Partly personal memoir of her battles in 2000 and 2004, part history about the decades long ago when third parties could get on the ballot easier and make a difference and part a series of reforms that only an outraged public can make happen.
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Mark Yodice http://www.myspace.com/markyodice played 3 songs at the Easy Anthems http://www.easyanthems.org special 2008 holiday show at the Conklin Barn. If you weren’t there, you missed some of the best music Ive ever heard on LI, anytime. Not only Easy Anthems, but a few songs from Brendan B. Brown, Micky Jimenez, Mark Yodice, Paul Loren, and Brian Sendrowitz.
Easy Anthems performing “Silent Night” with Micky Jimenez
Paul Loren sang Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle solo, accompanied by Easy Anthems bandmates Brian Ver Straten (Drums) and Philip A. Jimenez (Guitar) at the Easy Anthems http://www.easyanthems.org special 2008 holiday show at the Conklin Barn.
Bonus: Easy Anthems performs “Go Tell It On the Mountain]
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A State Supreme Court judge has ordered the NYPD to turn over to the New York Civil Liberties Union data concerning the race of all people who were shot at by police officers between 1997 and 2006.The NYCLU launched a concerted effort to obtain information on police shootings after NYPD officers shot and killed an unarmed Sean Bell in November 2006. In October 2007, it filed a FOIL request seeking access to the NYPD’s annual statistical reports on police shootings from 1996 through 2006 as well as data about the race of civilians shot at by police.
NYCLU Associate Legal Director Christopher Dunn, lead counsel in the case said:
The court’s decision makes clear that the NYPD had no basis for withholding this data, which is necessary to conduct a complete study of the role race plays in police shootings. This is a victory for the principle of open government and accountability to the public.
In an opinion dated Dec. 15, 2009, Supreme Court Judge Joan A. Madden ruled that the NYPD had not met its burden under the state’s Freedom of Information Law to withhold the data. To read the full decision and order, visit http://www.nyclu.org/news/nypd-must-give-nyclu-data-race-of-people-shot-police. Read more »
Filed under: New York State Politics, News, social & economic justice | Tagged: Criminal Justice, police | Leave a Comment »
KW writes: The Green Party of Suffolk supported council districts, as a measure that would bring a little more grassroots democracy to the current way Huntington elects council district members. However, on the bright side of this election, with at-large districts, it is easier to implement IRV [Instant Runoff Voting] and proportional representation measures which might be an even stronger way to allow minority viewpoints to be expressed in town elections. Read more »
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Green Party members across the United States still demand single-payer, universal health care, which is the most efficient and proven plan to cover all citizens. The plan on the table in the US Senate has had even the most basic “public option” removed for the benefit of the insurance companies and the “Blue Dog” Democrats, with the complicity of so-called progressive Senators like Russ Feingold and Bernie Sanders. Sen. Benjamin Nelson managed to extort a compromise that sacrificed women’s rights as well and privileges for Nebraska in terms of Medicaid payments that no other state will receive.
Mayor David Doonan
David Doonan, Green Party mayor of Greenwich, NY said:
What’s America’s breaking point? The Congressional Democratic proposals were bad for health care reform from the start because they sought to expand the role of private insurance companies when our present system of insurance is the reason why we pay so much money for the worst health care system among the world’s industrial countries. The Senate bill became so bad that even mainstream Democratic groups and individuals such as Moveon.org, Howard Dean and the AFL-CIO could no longer go along with the fraud. Rather than mandating that everyone buy health insurance, we need to eliminate health insurance companies from our health care system. We need a program that saves money while guaranteeing quality health care to every American. Read more »
Filed under: 3rd party, activism, Corporations, health, health care, News, politics, US Politics | 1 Comment »
New Year’s Day @ 12 Noon Until 4:00 P.M.
Marathon Poetry Reading, Potluck & Music Event
The North Sea Poetry Scene Is Hosting An Open Reading , 50/50 raffle, potluck, Granny’s Attic, etc.
Bring Your Poems To Read & Your Books To Sell
Start the New Year the right way with Poetry.
Walt Whitman Birthplace, 246 Old Walt Whitman Rd, South Huntington (Across road from the Walt Whitman Mall)
Phone: (631) 427-5240 / Fax: (631) 427-5247
Those Interested In Reading, Please Email:
Thenorthseapoetryscene@hotmail.com
Or Call: 631-413-7702. Please Bring a potluck dish to share.
There will be a $7 donation requested , which includes food and beverages .
www.waltwhitman.org
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A new study on healthcare lobbying published in the Chicago Tribune has found that healthcare companies have spent $635 million on lobbying over the past two years. At least 166 former congressional aides involved in shaping healthcare legislation have registered to lobby for healthcare companies. This includes at least fourteen former aides to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and at least thirteen former aides to Montana Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, the chair of the Finance Committee.
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Greens have been especially critical of:
Cynthia McKinney
Cynthia McKinney, 2008 Green Party candidate for President of the United States said:
The ‘Copenhagen Accord’ announced on the final day of the summit is a sham. It was not adopted by UN delegates and carries no force. The US is trying to invalidate the UN’s efforts by pressuring developing countries to sign on to the Copenhagen Accord, threatening to withhold their share of the $100 billion in wealthy countries’ compensation from developing countries that refuse to sign. The compensation money is meant to help offset the economic effects of measures against climate change and the dire consequences of climate change that many developing nations will suffer. This is blackmail of the worst kind, placing billions of lives in danger. Unless a real and binding accord can be reached during next year’s meeting in Mexico, the Copenhagen failure risks a breakdown in global security, when the increasing effects of global warming lead to global conflicts over dwindling resources. Read more »
Filed under: Action Alert!, activism, cynthia mckinney, Ecology, Election 2008, Environment, grassroots democracy, Green Party, international politics, News, presidential race, Press Release, sustainability, sustainable, third party | Tagged: Copenhagen | 2 Comments »
Asa Gordon
Update 1/13/2010: In what could perhaps be movement in the case, or response to publicity, the court has canceled oral arguments set for January, and decided to rule on documents only.
Green Party calls Asa Gordon’s action a demand for fair elections, voters’ rights, and racial justice
A major voting rights civil action filed by Green Party leader Asa Gordon is scheduled for oral argument in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (No. 09-5142) on Thursday, January 14, 2010. [This date was canceled.]
The civil action seeks enforcement of the US Constitution’s ‘Mal-Apportionment Penalty’ (14th Amendment, Section 2), which mandates a reduction of a state’s presidential electors and congressional representatives (“the basis of representation therein shall be reduced”) if “the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States… is denied… or in any way abridged.”
Cynthia McKinney, the Green Party’s 2008 nominee for President of the United States said:
Asa Gordon’s civil action is a demand for fair elections, for the right of every voter to have his or her vote counted in a national election, and for racial justice Read more »
Filed under: 3rd party, activism, Ballot issues, cynthia mckinney, election, Election 2008, elections, grassroots democracy, Green Party | Tagged: Asa Gordon, electoral college | 4 Comments »
The Wilderside’s “We Want More Than Bipartisanship Contest”
Political blogger Elizabeth Benjamin caught a great line from an editorial that NY State Senate Majority Leader John Sampson (D) wrote: “Bipartisanship is the only tool that will help fix New York’s problems.”
Bipartisanship. Harumph. Why is the word “bipartisanship” such a pet peeve of mine? Because, I am a third party activist. And, I am someone who also values the right of independent citizens to run for office. So, it galls me that someone would use a word that pretends to stand for some kind of “unity” and “all-inclusiveness”, when the word actually stands for the two most powerful groups teaming-up against everyone else and smothering the political process. I do not call that “bipartisanship.” I call it the gentleman’s agreement that keeps powerful people in power, and keeps ordinary citizens out of the smoke-filled back room, and out of any meaningful input into the political process. Read more »
Filed under: 3rd party, long island, Long Island Politics, New York State Politics, News, politics, progressive politics, rants, third party | Tagged: Albany, bipartisan, bipartisanship, contest, Jay Jacobs, John Sampson, NY State Senate, third parties | 8 Comments »
Yes, that a Bic Pen tucked into the fretboard. Mark Yodice http://www.myspace.com/markyodice plays his song “Middlepond” at the PeaceSmiths 2009 Dinner/Concert. http://www.peacesmiths.org The event was hosted by Sonny Meadows. Video by Wilderside Media (Ian and Kimberly Wilder) http://www.onthewilderside.com
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Nemo 2013: A few photos from Long Island during the Nemo snowstorm are at our Flickr: here.
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Update: Friday February 26, 2010 at 12:35PM. You found our old post from an old snow. But yes, it’s snowing again on LI. Still snowing. Pretty cold too. The car doors have frozen up. We’re tired of making snow videos. Please enjoy the old ones. Snow closings for LI are here: http://events.longisland.com/schools/index.php
Will post updates at this same post. (Don’t want to twitter too much.)
As of the early morning, North Babylon had 19 inches of snow. So, guessing we got at least 20 inches in total. The snow has stopped and neighbors are shoveling out their cars. My mom in Holbrook decided to cancel her Cookie Exchange Party for this evening.
Here are some updates as of Sunday at 3:19pm: Read more »
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