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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.
Occupy Wall Street: What Just Happened?
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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.
It’s the eternal question for a gift-giving activist:
How do I give a good present and at the same time do good?
There is always fair trade, organic chocolates or non-toxic toys.
This year we added a musical choice. Occupy This Album: a compilation of music by, for and inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement and the 99%. Lots of good stuff here. The album artists include: Ani DiFranco, Aeroplane Pageant, Crosby and Nash, Devo, Immortal Technique, Jackson Browne, Joseph Arthur, Lloyd Cole, Loudon Wainwright III, Lucinda Williams, Patti Smith, Stephan Said, Tao Rodriguez Seeger, The Guthrie Family, Third Eye Blind, Thievery Corporation, Tom Morello, Toots And The Maytals, Warren Haynes, Willie Nelson, Yoko Ono, Yo La Tengo & more.
From TribLive News…The headline: “Man claims State Police fired him because he used ‘Ebonics’ in his reports“. The quote: “[William C. Peake of Pennsylvania] claims in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday that the State Police fired him…because of his race and a false claim that he used “Ebonics” in his reports.”
A poem, written by Kimberly Wilder in 1998, revised in 2012, and now dedicated to William Peake…
More than 2,500 people have been killed by Obama’s drones, many of them civilians and bystanders, including American citizens, irrespective of the absence of any “imminent threat” to the United States…
The “kill lists” are the work of Obama and his advisors, led by John O. Brennan, and come straight from the White House, according to TheNew York Times. Apparently, the president spends a good deal of time being prosecutor, judge, jury, executioner and concealer. But he does so quietly; this is no dramatic “thumbs-down” emperor…
In Bangladesh, over 100 factory workers died in an unsafe clothing factory over the weekend.
These factories exist to make the clothes that we purchase here in America. One of the factories made clothes which were ultimately sold to Walmart (through a complicated supply chain)[ADN]. Other factories in Bangladesh make clothing for brands such as Tesco, JC Penney, H&M, Marks & Spencer, Kohl’s and Carrefour [CNN].
Today, Tuesday, 27th, there is a national day of mourning in Bangladesh. Clothing factories will also be closed. Let’s add our concern, thoughts, and prayers for the people of Bangladesh, and the people around the world who make the items we need, crave, and/or purchase.
For Thanksgiving: How about a Field Roast Stuffed Celebration Roast? It’s a turkey-free, plant-based alternative. (And, it’s yummy.)
Happy Thanksgiving!
Over at our Peace Couple website, we focus on kind shopping and sustainability, so we have some vegetarian posts and links there. For Thanksgiving, we wanted to share a few turkey alternatives here, too.
Just stumbled upon this interesting site from England with a lot of vegetarian recipes. Thought I would share it as inspiration for anyone who has to cook for a vegetarian today: The Vegetarian Experience
You do not need a pretend turkey to have a vegetarian Thanksgiving: You can think out of the box. There are plenty of delicious foods with protein, and plenty of side dishes to conjure up old memories and tradition. It’s easy to find vegetarian cranberry sauce (just skip the kind with gelatin.) Here are some websites with vegetarian recipes: VegWeb.com, PETA.org recipe page
Though, if you feel the need for a turkey-like dish, or, if you are cooking, and you know that your friends and family will expect “a turkey”, then there are suggestions, with ratings, in an article at Slate Magazine: here.
Slate used a rating system based on appearance, meatiness, and overall taste. I think it is useful to list the non-turkey options they reviewed. And, their ratings might be especially useful if you are serving to folks who are not vegetarians. Though, I have to say, I disagree a bit on the Slate summary of the “Field Roast Stuffed Celebration Roast” — it is one of my favorite meals. And, it looks pretty good if you rub some oil and spices on it!
List of “alternate turkey” choices from Slate Magazine:
LILCO Logo of the 80s and 90s (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Andrew Cuomo is the smartest Tea Party Governor in the nation. Cuomo wins this year’s Scott Walker false narrative award. Cuomo has done a much better job than Hostess Cakes in getting the media to adopt a false narrative. Hostess failed to get the public to believe that it was the union that caused the failure of the company’s investors and financial officers over a decade. Hostess failed to get the media to adopt its false narrative wholesale.
Cuomo, on the other hand, has been trying to privatize LIPA since he came into office while let the company decline through his negligence in not appointing a new CEO or new board members. Now when his neglect has created this disaster, he proposes the same solution of privatization.
And the media all believe Cuomo’s false narrative that LIPA alone, not the Governor, is at fault. Even worse they are going to the Governor for the solution, privatization, which he was proposing years before this crisis. As the 2008 Green Party presidential candidate said about the failed economy, “The people who got us into this mess are not the ones to get us out of it. ” Read more »
The below statement was posted at The Fellowship of Reconciliation. Ian and Kimberly Wilder have borrowed it, to reflect our position on the current wave of violence in the Middle East:
As [people] committed to nonviolence, [we] oppose all armed conflict and especially attacks on civilians.* We mourn the deaths of civilians in Gaza and Israel, and pray for their families and those who have been injured in attacks. We believe that an immediate cessation of hostilities can best be achieved through a negotiated ceasefire that evolves into a sustained commitment to peaceful co-existence. We oppose policies of occupation, torture, targeted assassination, drone warfare, firing of rockets on civilians and ground invasions. Read more »
Black Friday for some people means lining up for bargains at the doors of big corporations. Though, people who want our country to be more sustainable, and less dependent on war money, have often asked people to “Buy Nothing” on the day after Thanksgiving.
This year, there are several ways to celebrate the empowerment that is Buy-Nothing-Day:
-Make sure you do not buy anything on Friday, November 23, 2012
-On all the other shopping days leading to Christmas and Chanukah…shop local, union, Fair Trade, organic, natural, and/or sustainably when possible. [See our Peace Couple website for Kind Shopping ideas.]
-Join Occupy Wall Street in your area, as they protest at Walmart, in support of striking Walmart workers.
To follow updates today:
On Twitter, follow: #walmartstrikers @ForRespect @ChangeWalmart
Info for the Occupy Long Island Black Friday Demo at Walmart:
Occupy Black Friday
Centereach Mall Walmart
Suffolk County, Long Island, New York
Fri. November 23rd
12 noon to 2:00 pm peace
Suffolk Peace Network and Occupy groups will gather in front of Walmart, which is located 2.7 miles east of the Smithhaven Mall on Middle Country Rd. Occupy will be having a Free Market – 100% Free for the 99%. We will be supporting the nationwide Walmart Workers Strike as well as delivering a message connecting the bad economy and lack of jobs to the wars and defense spending. peace
Signs to include: Money for Jobs, Not War. Bring Our War $$ Home. (please bring your own.)Meet at 12:00 noon. Carpooling encouraged.Photos (and signs) from last year’s Occupy Black Friday demo at our Flickr: here.
Green party anti-war poster (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
• Green solution for the deficit: Reduce the bloated military budget, end the wars, eliminate Bush’s tax cuts for the rich
Green Party leaders called on President Obama to resist any kind of ‘Grand Bargain’ with Republicans in Congress that involves cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, or other safety-net programs.
The President has signaled that he is ready to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid and by $650 billion and raise the eligibility age for Medicare and Social Security in a deal with the GOP in order to avoid the ‘fiscal cliff’.
“Americans need more protection during a recession instead of less protection. Democrats in the 1930s understood this and passed the Social Security Act in 1937 during the Depression,” said Starlene Rankin, co-chair of the Green Party’s Lavender Caucus.
“Instead of carving up these programs, President Obama should reduce or eliminate the things that caused the deficit — the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy, the bloated military budget, and borrowing to pay for the wars of the last decade. He should let the tax cuts expire, bring the troops home from the wars, and cut military spending. President Obama is already willing to end Bush’s tax cuts for the rich. He should announce that Wall Street caused the economic crisis, therefore Wall Street should suffer ‘austerity’ instead of working and poor Americans,” said Ms. Rankin. Read more »
Fog on the roads today, on Long Island. As if the post Hurricane Sandy cleanup and weather wasn’t enough for us all to deal with. At least the odd/even gas rules have made getting gas a little bit easier.
Deer Park Ave: Monday, Nov 12 around 5:45am
It’s 7:04am, and still very foggy outside.
Also, foggy, are the memories of environmentalists. Al Gore is making maneuvers on Climate Change with a Twitter hashtag of #dirtyweather and a movie “24 Hours of Reality”… Read more »
David Petreaus suddenly resigned from his post, days before he was to testify before Congress.
The country must stay focused on what it was he was testifying about. And, what other secrets he may have wanted to hide about himself and the CIA.
We should ignore the (admittedly titillating and entertaining) narrative given about why he quit suddenly. It is so foolish, foolhardy, and irresponsible to let oneself be distracted away from the truly important issue of the CIA having to answer (or not) to our elected representatives in Congress.
David Petreaus was supposed to testify to a Congressional Committee about the CIA response in the attack on our embassy in Benghazi, Libya and the death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens. Read more »
If peace had been a focal point for either of the major party Presidential candidates, one might expect the Daily Peace Culture Index for the US to climb in the days surrounding the election. The Peace Index measures how much discussion there is in the United States relating to peace and nonviolence. Instead, the DPCIUS/PAXi numbers have been slowly sinking. For today — the day after the election — the index fell one point, to 153.
Here are some Peace Index figures:
Nov 1, 2012 PAXi: 177
Nov 2, 2012 PAXi: 161
Nov 3, 2012 PAXi: 155
Nov 4, 2012 PAXi: 154
Nov 5, 2012 PAXi: 154
Nov 6, 2012 PAXi: 154 [Election Day for USA]
Nov 7, 2012 PAXi: 153
Nov 8, 2012 PAXi: 154 Read more »
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It’s the eternal question for a gift-giving activist:
