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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.
KW: Keith Romaine, age 36, passed away suddenly this week. Keith was a Brookhaven Town Councilman. His father is Ed Romaine, Suffolk County Legislator. Here are the memorial events for Keith Romaine as posted at Brookhaven.org. I also heard these arrangements, and the request for donations to the food pantry on Zabby’s radio show on WUSB.
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John Lennon and Yoko Ono were guests hosts on the Mike Douglas Show in the early 1970s for an entire week. Here they interview Ralph Nader.
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These stats are great research for third parties to see who the competition might be for statewide office, and what voters are thinking about their NY government. There is a link to a detailed Siena poll with a long list of candidates. At the bottom of this post, I listed all the names-only of the public figures that the Siena Poll asked about. (I don’t think any of them third party, sigh…). Also, two stories by Elizabeth Benjamin at the NY Daily News interpreting the stats.
(excerpt from) The Daily Politics
Siena On The 2010 Horserace: Gubernatorial Edition
Today’s Siena poll found Paterson’s favorable/unfavorable ratings have improved slightly over the past month, creeping up from 27-61 in October to 33-56 today. His job performance is virtually unchanged, hovering at 21-79.
The governor continues to trail far behind his likely primary opponent, AG Andrew Cuomo, who is now ahead by 59 percentage points (16-75), compared to 50 last month (20-70). Read more »
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Update April 2010: Video of flash of light (said to be meteor) that appeared in Midwest Sky on the night of April 14, 2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR2uNajroOM&feature=player_embedded#!
November 2009: Yes, you are supposed to be able to see the Leonid Meteor Shower from Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.
Strong Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Early Tuesday Morning
By Robert Roy Britt, November 16, 2009
One of the best annual meteor showers will peak in the pre-dawn hours Tuesday, and for some skywatchers the show could be quite impressive.
The best seats are in Asia, but North American observers should be treated to an above average performance of the Leonid meteor shower, weather permitting. The trick for all observers is to head outside in the wee hours of the morning – between 1 a.m. and dawn – regardless where you live…
Filed under: Environment, local, long island, News | Tagged: astronomy, Leonid, long island, meteor shower, meteors, midwest, North America, Suffolk County, video | 2 Comments »
Green Party leaders today called the Stupak Amendment in the recently passed US House bill on health care reform a disaster for women’s reproductive rights and a betrayal of the Democrats’ stated support for women’s rights and well-being.
Many Greens foresee growing anger among Democratic voters, especially women, and possible defections from the Democratic Party over the amendment.
The Stupak Amendment to HR 3962 states that any health care plan purchased with any federal subsidy cannot cover abortion services, even with private funds, and prohibits the public plan from covering abortion care. The amendment will make it more difficult and expensive for anyone to purchase a plan with abortion coverage and discourages insurers and employers who provide health care benefits from affording such coverage.
The Green Party has criticized the Democrats’ health care proposal because it leaves the insurance and pharmaceutical industries in control of health care and fails to provide universal coverage: see “Greens urge defeat of the Democrats’ ‘insurance industry life-support’ bill in the US Senate and call for a rally of efforts to enact Single-Payer/Medicare For All,” press release, November 10.
The Green Party supports full reproductive rights, including uncompromised access to abortion services for women (http://www.gp.org/platform/2004/socjustice.html#998980 / http://www.gp.org/platform/2004/socjustice.html#1012830).
Candace Caveny
Candace Caveny, Green candidate for the US House in Michigan’s 10th District (http://www.candacecaveny.org) in 2010 said,
Michigan Greens targeted Bart Stupak’s District One seat in Congress with the candidacy of Jean Treacy, who challenged his opposition to women’s rights, including the freedom to choose. The Stupak Amendment is the sharpest blow against poor women and their rights since the Hyde Amendment. It was proposed by a Democrat and passed by a Democratic Congress. We challenge feminists, feminist and progressive organizations, and all Americans who support rights and equality for women to stop supporting candidates who retreat from these principles, and to vote Green instead.
Greens called the Stupak Amendment a direct consequence of a public debate on health care reform that has been mostly limited to Republican ‘no reform’ versus Democratic ‘faux reform.’ Read more »
Filed under: Action Alert!, activism, election, elections, grassroots democracy, health care, News, Press Release, progressive politics, social & economic justice | Tagged: Candace Caveny, reproductive freedom, reproductive rights, women's issues, women's rights | 1 Comment »
Linked at Elizabeth Benjamin’s “Daily Politics” blog at the same newspaper…
(excerpt from) The Daily News
Joe Bruno, Albany sleaze: His trial has already convicted Capitol’s squalid doings/ Editorials / 11-14-2009
Whatever its outcome, the trial of former Senate boss Joe Bruno has torn the lid off the cesspool that is Albany.
Testimony elicited by prosecutors may or may not prove Bruno guilty of a crime. But the evidence reveals how business gets done, and money changes hands, in the Capitol’s infamous back rooms.
It shows that Albany is a place: Read more »
Filed under: New York State Politics, News, politics, reform | Tagged: Albany, Joe Bruno, Joseph Bruno, Labor, lobbyists, NY State Assembly, NY State Senate, State Senate | Leave a Comment »
KW: Wow! It’s funny. Hillary Clinton just said in an interview that she wanted to quash rumors that keep coming up that she may run for Governor in NY in 2010. I follow these things pretty closely, and, I don’t remember hearing that rumor.
Oh, well. It’s not like we like to mention Democrats around here. But, the Governor’s race matters a lot for third parties in New York. So, we better keep an eye on who the other candidates will be.
Hillary Clinton says it won’t be her.
Story at Politico: here.
Filed under: 3rd party, New York State Politics, News, politics, progressive politics, third party, US Politics | Tagged: 2010, Governor, hillary clinton | 1 Comment »
I don’t think that the activist community in Suffolk County realized our police had tasers. People should try to stop the use of this weapon. It has a history of abuse and suffering. Police think it is non-lethal, so they overuse it, which creates consequences like the death of a man in Coram. There are some examples of taser horror stories at John Turley’s Constitutional law blog: here.
(excerpt from) Long Island Press
Coram Man Dead After Struggle With Cops
High on cocaine, man locked himself in house before cops arrived
A 43-year-old Coram man died early this morning after struggling with Suffolk cops.
Police from the Sixth Precinct were called to 6 Petersburg Ct. in Coram at 2:46 a.m. after a man called 911 and reported his brother, Daryl Bain, was high on cocaine and had locked him out of his house…
A Taser was used, but Bain did not stop resisting. Eventually, the cops were able to subdue and handcuff Bain.
Shortly after, Bain stopped breathing. CPR was performed and Bain was taken to John T. Mather Memorial Hospital in Port Jefferson, where he died a short time later.
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Alan Semerdjian & Tom Karcher
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Dear Folk Music Fans, I had a computer crash, so this Email is being sent out to an older list. If you asked to be removed, you may have to ask again. Additions my have to ask again to be added. RdeBruin@OptonLine.net .
Greg Greenway @ Our Times Coffeehouse on Third Friday, November 20
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 Admission $15 Seniors (65 & Up) & Students (w/school I.D.) $12; Children (under 12) $6; (very young children are free) January Our Times Coffeehouse has Bill Staines on the Third Friday January 15, 2010 .
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
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Homeowners in New London, Connecticut took on the city’s leaders after they announced plans to condemn all of the homes in one neighborhood to make way for a private development project for pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. The city said it would bring in thousands of jobs. After a 2005 Supreme Court ruling against the homeowners, the entire neighborhood was bulldozed. This week Pfizer announced it is shutting down its research center.
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Quote: “I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank. …”
Wish this guy had been elcted president. ;)
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KW: Recently re-elected Brookhaven Councilperson Keith Romaine died this morning. It is sad on a variety of levels…he was young; he had just worked hard in a campaign; and his dad is Ed Romaine, a Republican lawmaker who has been very cordial and listening to local greens.
Information about Keith Romaine’s funeral is: here.
Story: here. Read more »
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