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GP’s Rev. Billy Talen for NYC Mayor: Rainforest In New York 10/29 (Thurs)

Posted on October 26, 2009 by iwilder

Update from an e-mail:

We are delaying today’s rainforest action in Washington Square Park…so we hope to see you this Thursday Oct 29th at 5:30 pm between the arch and the fountain.

More information at:

http://voterevbilly.org/events/rainforest
www.rainforestsofnewyork.net
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Did you know NYC is the largest single buyer of Rainforest Wood in the USA?

This Tuesday Oct 27th Thursday, October 29th Reverend Billy joins with RainForest Relief, NYC Climate Action Group and Friends of Brad Will for a parade through Washington Square Park to draw attention to continued and unnecessary use of tropical rain forest timber for our benches and boardwalks.

Animals from the rainforest will be attendance. Mike Bloomberg has not responded to requests that he come and answer directly to the animals whose lives have been destroyed by clearcuts, slag heaps and fire. Read more »

Filed under: 3rd party, Action Alert!, activism, Ecology, Environment, grassroots democracy, Green Party | Tagged: Billy Talen, Brad Will, Green Party, Oaxaca, Reverend Billy | Leave a Comment »

Lisa Votino-Tarrant: Upcoming Events You Want to Know About

Posted on October 26, 2009 by iwilder

Wednesday, October 28^th, 7:00pm, Southampton High School Auditorium – “Why We Migrate: Stories of Mexico’s Displaced” An Evening With Ana Maria Garcia. Ana Maria is an activist from Oaxaca, Mexico. She works with family farmers and indigenous communities to confront the root problem of migration. She co-founded the non-profit EDUCA to defend the rights the rights of the marginalized in Oaxaca. She has acted as a consultant for the U.N. on development programs in indigenous communities (a cause near and dear to my heart). Find out why millions make the unlikely decision to leave their communities to live in a country with increasing anti-immigrant hostility and why the number of Mexicans who made this decision more than doubled after the implementation of NAFTA. This special evening is part of a speaking tour organized by Witness For Peace. It is sponsored locally by OLA of Eastern Long Island, Eastern Long Island NAACP and Shinnecock Tribal Council. This is a great event for people are unsure about their feelings on immigration. Ana Maria will share her first-hand experience and provide information that most people are unaware of or know little about. Read more »

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CA GP urges cut in corporate water use, as Schwarzenegger stumbles

Posted on October 26, 2009 by iwilder

While Governor stumbles, California water woes continue; Green Party suggests a ‘rational’ plan that would cut corporate water use in favor of more conservation

Recent heavy rains may solve home gardening dilemmas, but it won’t fix California’s water problems, and it won’t help Gov. Schwarzenegger understand the state’s deep-seated water troubles, the Green Party of California said in response to the governor’s call for a special session to deal with the water mess. A session that never materialized this week.

California’s most progressive political party approved, at its recent state convention, a new Water Planning Plank that would be “rational (and) workable.” Read more »

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In New Jersey: Twelve candidates for Governor

Posted on October 26, 2009 by kwilder

from Ballot Access News
New Jersey Newspaper Feature Story on All Gubernatorial Candidates
October 26th, 2009

The Morristown, New Jersey Daily Record has this [see link below] very long and complete story about the nine candidates for New Jersey Governor who have not been getting much publicity. The story, of course, features the Libertarian Party candidate and the Socialist Party candidate, and also the seven independent candidates other than Chris Daggett.

(excerpt from) The Daily Record on-line
Three choices for governor not enough? Here are another nine Read more »

Filed under: 3rd party, Election 2009, News, politics, progressive politics, third party | Tagged: Alvin Lindsay, Chris Christie, Chris Daggett, David Meiswinkle, Gary Steele, Gary Stein, Governor, Gregory Pason, Jason Cullen, Jon Corzine, Joshua Leinsdorf, Kenneth Kaplan, Kostas Petris, libertarian, new jersey, Socialist Party USA | 1 Comment »

GP’s Rev. Billy Talen for NYC Mayor: Rise Against the Demon Monoculture

Posted on October 25, 2009 by iwilder

Preaching a message of anti-consumerism and a return to the bygone days of New York City, is the Reverend Billy (a.k.a. Bill Talen).

The reverend and his activist performance group The Church of Stop Shopping, have a history of activism. He has railed and thumped outside the Disney Store in Times Square. He was involved with the Morgan Spurlock-produced documentary “What Would Jesus Buy.” He has a 35-member choir and an eight-piece band. Since the late 90’s the Reverend Billy has positioned himself as a Savonarola against the retail renaissance, pitching hellfire and damnation at the somnambulant mall culture creeping into our vibrant city. Exorcising demons directly from cash registers at Victoria’s Secret. Laying healing hands upon ATM machines. Exhorting midtown tourists not to spend another dime, hallelujah. He is the rev with the big hair. The hipster’s Billy Graham. An icon of New York street life of our times.

And now, the Reverend Billy is running for mayor of New York City on the Green Party ticket. No small honor in this town. In a recent phone interview, the reverend spoke to WG about handing the reins of the city back to its communities.

Read entire article.

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LI Concert Notes #50 10/23/09

Posted on October 24, 2009 by iwilder

LI Concert Notes #50

“Music is a basic need of human survival. Music is one of the ways we make sense of our lives, one of the ways in which we express feelings when we have no words, a way for us to understand things with our hearts when we can’t with our minds.” -The Power of Music, By Dr. Karl Paulnack, Director of the Music Division of Boston Conservatory, Here’s some great Live Music on Long Island.

Venue addresses/phones/URLs at end of all listings. Please scroll down. Corrections and Comments are welcome. Support Live Music on Long Island. For more information about great live music on LI and elsewhere Please also visit Michael Kornfeld and Glen Roethel’s excellent website www.acousticmusicscene.com

Gary Schoenberger

Gigs

Day Date Time Artist Venue

Fri 10/23 8:00 Grand Folk Railroad The Cup, Wantagh

Fri 10/23 9:00 Gail Storm Jessie’s Roadhouse, Merrick

Return to the Dream

Sat 10/24 8:00 Caroline Doctorow and Russ Seeger Song Box, Seaford

Sat 10/24 9:00 Bennett Harris Trio Jessie’s Roadhouse, Merrick

Sat 10/24 7:00 Return To The Dream Last Licks Coffeehouse, Huntington

Sat 10/24 8:00 Sheri Miller (opening Ryan Parise, Jordan Hope, Rick Bonilla w/ Bob Krummenacker) Homegrown Music Café, Port Jefferson Station

Sat 10/24 8:00 Open Mic Night Soul Growth, 50 W Montauk Hwy, Lindenhurst

Sun 10/25 2:30 Gail Storm Dockside Café, West Babylon

Sun 10/25 11:00AM Cecilia Kirtland & Friends Bethpage Street Fair, Bethpage LIRR Parking Lot Read more »

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Don’t Waste Your Vote: Vote for Rev. Billy Talen for NYC Mayor

Posted on October 23, 2009 by iwilder

from Don’t Waste Your Vote: Vote Green

Those voters who support things like a sustained campaign to rid New York City of sweatshops, reduce pollution and waste, a living wage, solutions to homelessness other than shipping them off to other cities, and a long list of other actually progressive positions, should vote for the Reverend Billy Talen. To do otherwise, in fact, would simply be wasting your vote.

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Pechefsky Campaign: Controversy, Debates and MORE!

Posted on October 23, 2009 by iwilder

We need YOUR help this weekend to pass out David’s campaign literature!

This coming Saturday and Sunday we need volunteers for a lit drop from 11am to 5pm in Carroll Gardens. We will meet at Carroll Park, just across from the Carroll Street Station on the F/G lines. Please note: the trains are terminating at either Jay St/Boro Hall or Church Avenue (depending on which direction you’re travelling) where you will catch a shuttle bus to Carroll Street. You can come at any time and stay as long as you can, but let me know that you are planning to help by responding to this e-blast.

Debates and Controversy
David didn’t pull his punches at Monday night’s Candidate Debate sponsored by the Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association as he, Democrat Brad Lander and Republican Joe Nardiello answered questions from Carroll Gardens residents on everything from city budgeting to universal health care. Although the mood was congenial, when Lander stated that not only was it inappropriate for a candidate to take a stand on the issue of voting for a Council Speaker, but that refusing to compromise on such an issue would make one an outsider and even a liability, David countered that a candidate who refused to compromise his principles was not a liability but someone you want to have in office. Read more »

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Poets in Port Fall/Winter 2009

Posted on October 23, 2009 by iwilder

Poets in Port will feature John Williams at 7:30 pm on Friday, October 30, 2009 at Caffé Portofino, 249 Main St., Northport, opposite the theatre. There will also be an Open Reading — Bring your poems and music and participate.
http://persistentfool.blogspot.com/2009/10/poets-in-port-october-30-2009.html

Upcoming Readings:
Nov 27 Open Reading – Read your own poems or some of your favorites by others.
December – no reading
2010:
Jan 22 Kelly Powell
Feb 26 To be announced
Mar 26 George Held
Apr 23 Cliff Bleidner
(4th Friday of every month)
http://persistentfool.blogspot.com/2007/10/poets-in-port.html

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FL GP opposes PSC approval of Nuclear Cost Recovery for Utilities, Call it “A License to Steal”

Posted on October 22, 2009 by iwilder

The Green Party of Florida (GPF) denounces the October 16 decision by the Public Service Commission allowing Progress Energy and Florida Power & Light to raise utility rates paid by their customers in order to collect hundreds of millions of dollars in so-called “nuclear cost recovery” funds.

Under an ill-conceived law approved by the Florida legislature in 2006 in Florida, private utility companies are allowed to collect funds, in the form of rate increases to their customers, to pay the advance costs for nuclear power plant construction. These funds can be collected even if the nuclear projects have not yet been licensed and approved by state and federal regulatory agencies, and if the projects are not approved. If the nuclear plants are canceled by the utilities for any reason, the corporations can pocket the millions they have fleeced from their customers, all with permission from the state.

“Granting FPL and Progress Energy permission to raise utility rates to pay for risky and unnecessary nuclear plants is like giving them a license to steal,” said Michael Canney, GPF spokesperson and representative in a Petition to Intervene in the federal licensing process for the Levy County nuclear plant. “Nuclear cost recovery is a form of corporate welfare designed to “fast track” nuclear power development and guarantee industry profits at the expense of the public interest. The PSC has become a rubber stamp for the nuclear power industry.”

Panagioti Tsolkas, Green Party member and co-chair of Palm Beach County Environmental Coalition said “This is the sort of collaboration between industry and government that spawns the corruption we are seeing surface across Florida. This vote is evidence that the ethics problems in the Public Service Commission (PSC) go much deeper than a few benign Blackberry messages or private jets. The PSC is putting the entire State in grave economic and environmental danger, and Governor Crist is encouraging it.” Read more »

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Earthquake: More bad news for Afghanistan and Pakistan

Posted on October 22, 2009 by kwilder

Isn’t it interesting that while the American government continues to pummel Afghanistan, mother nature can shake up the folks on all sides?

Meditations, prayer, and good thinking towards the people affected. The AP reports that buildings in Afghanistan and Pakistan were shaken by an earthquake today.

An article from India is: here. It says the earthquake was “moderate” and was 6.3 on the Richter scale.

Filed under: afghanistan, Anti-War, News, Peace, progressive politics, US Politics | Tagged: afghanistan, disaster, earthquake, nature, Pakistan | Leave a Comment »

Green Party Alert: Bring Medicare for All Back to the Table

Posted on October 22, 2009 by iwilder

ACTION ALERT for Single Payer

Write Your Representative Today!

It’s time to take action for SINGLE-PAYER NATIONAL HEALTH CARE!

The media are focusing on the debate between Democrats promoting Obamacare and ‘Tea Party’ activists who are determined to block any health care reform at all. Whether Obamacare gets passed in Congress or Republicans succeed in defeating reform legislation, the for-profit health insurance companies will win and the rest of us will lose.

These are the worst economic times since the Great Depression and we need healthcare that is cost-effective for ALL. Single-Payer will reduce health care costs by as much as a third and reduce ‘rationing’ — no more for-profit insurance company overhead, administrative costs, and skyrocketing CEO salaries. Single-Payer will allow everyone to choose their physicians and hospitals, and no American will ever again face financial ruin over an illness or injury.

Filed under: Action Alert!, activism, grassroots democracy, Green Party, Healthcare | 2 Comments »

Newsday has cut you off!

Posted on October 22, 2009 by kwilder

KW: On a splash page at Newsday.com it announces that their content will be pay-only as of October 28th. After that day, in order to read Newsday on line, you will have to subscribe, or be an Optimum on-line customer with them and register with them.

A story at Editor and Publisher here puts it in perspective: “The move makes the Long Island, N.Y., paper the biggest general-interest daily to charge for access to its digital information.” There is an overly cheery story at Reuters: here. The Reuters story describes the limited access that non-paying citizens will have.

I think that there are implications for media companies that make their content so exclusive. After all, our elected officials and government often give special attention and/or special privileges to journalists and media companies, thinking they are helping get the word out to “the public.” Read more »

Filed under: local, long island, Long Island Politics, media, News, politics | Tagged: Cablevision, daily newspaper, general-interest daily, journalism, long island, Long Island Press, Newsday, newspaper | Leave a Comment »

Sat. Oct. 24: Celebrate Dennis Urlaub and SOA Watch

Posted on October 22, 2009 by kwilder

After a day of great activities for peace and justice, come eat and relax and raise funds for a great cause and pay tribute to a great guy!

Fundraiser for 2009 SOA Watch in Columbus Georgia

In Honor of DENNIS URLAUB for his tireless work for Peace & Justice

Saturday, October 24th
6:00-10:00 PM
(with program 8:00-10:00 PM)
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Bellport
51 Browns Lane (blinking light off S. Country Road) Read more »

Filed under: local, long island, Long Island Music, Long Island Politics, music, News, Peace, progressive politics | Tagged: Jack's Waterfall, Michael Bonti | Leave a Comment »

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