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NYC Mayor election is an eight candidate race

Posted on October 11, 2009 by kwilder

from Ballot Access News
New York City Mayor Election Is an Eight-Candidate Race
[List of all Mayor, Comptroller, and Public Advocate candidates on the ballot]
October 11th, 2009

The November 3, 2009 New York city Mayoral ballot will include these eight candidates, in this ballot order: William C. Thompson (Dem., Working Families), Michael R. Bloomberg (Rep., Independence), Stephen Christopher (Conservative), Francisca “Frances” Villar (Party for Socialism and Liberation), Dan Fein (Socialist Workers), Billy Talen (Green), Jimmy McMillan (Rent is Too High), Joseph Dobrian (Libertarian). Read more »

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Cynthia McKinney’s thoughts on Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize

Posted on October 10, 2009 by iwilder

There were people there from all over Europe. A healthy contingent even took the bus or train from London. Many US ex pats came and heard Annie Machon tell of why she became a whistleblower at MI-5 (the British equivalent of our FBI); I spoke, and then after me, Giulietto Chiesa, former Member of Parliament, Italy, made a movie entitle “Zero,” which was played. Then Dr. Nils (I can’t remember his last name) who found the nanothermite material in the Ground Zero dust spoke about his research and that was totally fascinating. We are definitely hooked up with the right people in Europe and as a result, our coalition will be strong, diverse, and global.

Here are my remarks made tonight/this afternoon U.S. time:

Cynthia McKinney
Vers La Verité
Paris
October 10, 2009

President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize was not the only news yesterday. And in my opinion, it’s not even the biggest news. It’s not even the saddest news. But it does provide us with some critical information as we move forward. The three-part question for us, tonight however, is “What are we moving forward TO; is that the place we want to go; and if not, what do we do about it?

In other words, “What is our vision for the future and how do we define success?” Read more »

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For NYC elections: List of candidate contributions from “doing business” donors

Posted on October 10, 2009 by kwilder

Thanks to Elizabeth Benjamin at The Daily Politics for the link.

From the NYC Campaign Finance Board website. Link with details: here. The chart lists candidates for Mayor, Comptroller, Public Advocate and Boro President, and how much money they took (and refunded) from entities doing business with the city government. Read more »

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Mandatory vaccines: Lawsuit News & Activist Research

Posted on October 10, 2009 by kwilder

(excerpt from) Newsday
Rockland attorney sues to halt mandated flu shots

…On behalf of Suzanne Field, a registered nurse in Dutchess County, and 60,000 health care workers in the state, [attorney Patricia] Finn filed for a temporary restraining order Tuesday in State Supreme Court in Manhattan against Health Commissioner Dr. Richard Daines and Jeffrey Kraut…

A hearing is set for Wednesday before State Supreme Court Justice Marylin Diamond…

The suit charges Daines and Kraut exceeded the scope of their power and are “arbitrarily and capriciously restraining health care workers from freedom of contract between employers and employees.” [when the state required health care workers to get the H1N1 flu or lose their jobs.]…

My friend Steven Schmidt put together this informal primer on mandatory vaccines and information about Swine Flu (H1N1):

Swine flu:

1.  Cases & Deaths of H1N1 were under-reported back in May because it wasn’t
usually tested for.  Don’t know how much this has changed.  But the rapid
test that was put out doesn’t work well:
http://www.medpagetoday.com/InfectiousDisease/URItheFlu/16122

* So a lot of conclusions about the disease are quite uncertain, like this one:
http://www.medpagetoday.com/InfectiousDisease/Vaccines/16137
In unpublished data, Canadian researchers have suggested that seasonal flu
vaccination may increase the risk of catching the H1N1 pandemic strain, but
such a pattern has not been found in the U.S., the CDC said. Read more »

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Two articles on spanking: Spanking lowers IQ; Research from Sweden

Posted on October 10, 2009 by kwilder

KW: Our readers had a vibrant conversation about spanking when I posted an article about spanking being permitted at schools in Missouri. That post, with 23 comments, is: here.

(excerpt from)
Emax Health
Spanking Can Lower
Children’s Intelligence
by Denise Reynolds RD / Sep 25, 2009

Two new studies suggest that children who are spanked have lower IQ’s than those who are not. Both studies were conducted by University of New Hampshire sociologist Murray Straus and will be presented at the International Conference on Violence, Abuse and Trauma. [One study is linked: here.]

In the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, parents of approximately 1500 US children between the ages of 2 and 9 were asked about the use of spanking as a form of discipline. Straus and his partner Mallie Paschall of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation analyzed the intelligence scores of those same children four years later. They found that the IQ’s of the younger children in the study who received spanking as discipline was an average of 5 points lower. In the older children, the IQ was almost 3 points lower… Read more »

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Green Party urges widespread antiwar protests on the day President Obama accepts his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo

Posted on October 9, 2009 by iwilder
Cindy Sheehan should have won the Peace Prize

Cindy Sheehan should have won the Peace Prize

Green Party leaders expressed puzzlement and outrage over the decision to award President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize, and urged widespread demonstrations against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to take place in Oslo, Washington, and other cities on the day Mr. Obama picks up his prize in Oslo.

“The chief difference between President Obama and President Bush on war policy is one of salesmanship.  The international cooperation that the Nobel Committee praises means only that Mr. Obama has had more success in selling aggressive war policies — maintaining the Afghanistan and Iraq occupations, with plans to increase troop levels in Afghanistan,” said the Treasurer of the Green Party of the United States.

“We hope that those who support the Nobel Committee’s decision and are proud of President Obama will join antiwar protests and urge Mr. Obama to honor the Peace Prize by ending the occupations.”

The Green Party supports peace rallies and other antiwar events planned for the rest of October (http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=251).

Greens asserted that President Obama’s willingness to sit down and talk with other leaders around the world, including those from Muslim nations, was not enough to merit the Peace Prize, only that the Obama White House was behaving more like administrations before George W. Bush became president.

“Created a ‘new climate in international politics’?  This means that the Nobel Prize committee is giving President Obama an award for not being George W. Bush,” said Craig Thorsen, national co-chair of the Green Party (and a Norwegian-American).  “Mr. Obama should turn down the prize, or risk comparison to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.  Mr. Kissinger accepted the Peace Prize in 1973 after his criminal actions with President Nixon to expand the Vietnam War into Cambodia and Laos — just as Mr. Obama has moved the Afghanistan War into Pakistan.”

Greens listed some details the Nobel Committee should have considered before awarding President Obama the Peace Prize: Read more »

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GP NYC Mayor Cand Rev Billy Talen cited in Wellstone Action Blog Post on Twitter

Posted on October 9, 2009 by iwilder

If you don’t have time, assign a staff person to monitor and respond to items – just make sure they’re clear that they’re your staff person, and not you. For example, NYC mayoral candidate Reverend Billy Talen has a personal account, as well as his campaign staff’s group account. If your staff person uses your account, ask them to note that they’re a staffer.

Read entire post on Twitter for Candidates

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Cindy Sheehan: If any American “politician” got the NPP, it should have been Cynthia McKinney

Posted on October 9, 2009 by iwilder

Wilderside co-editor Kimberly & GP Prez cand Cynthia McKinney

Cindy Sheehan from Facebook:

I wonder if the Nobel Committee looked at the videos of the G20 protests in Pittsburgh a couple of weeks ago when the US stormtroopers were hunting down protesters like dogs and beating them and teargassing grandmas (me) without provocation. If any American “politician” got the NPP [ed: Nobel Peace Prize], it should have been Cynthia McKinney

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GP NYC Mayor Cand Rev Billy Talen on the Obama Peace Prize

Posted on October 9, 2009 by iwilder

Now we have to change all our words around.

I never thought of Peace as a word that was moveable. All our words have been shifted by Consumerism and Militarism. Democracy is gone, America and Freedom are gone. Peace always stayed there in one place.

Peace patiently waited for us to notice the best things about ourselves. Peace always stayed with us. Peace was ignored by the governments and the powerful but it was still there – the monument that is made of the sky and the wind, our memories of a face and our loving touch. But now we have to change our words around. They have taken the word Peace and we’ll have to make up a new word, a secret signal.

Predator drones will be released tonight destroying the word we always depended on. The flying bomb will go out over the villages, sailing over the sleeping children and prayers and friends stopping for a laugh. The bombs will float and hesitate and change direction from computers in Florida and Missouri and the soldiers at the computers will know that Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. And so they will be consumers of a war that is now being marketed as a product named Peace.

So – it has come to this. War has finally captured Peace.

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Fri. Oct 9th: Illinois Governor debate with third parties included!

Posted on October 8, 2009 by kwilder

from a Free and Equal Press release:

Illinois Gubernatorial Debate for 2010 Candidates to be Held Friday

Event to be Streamed LIVE @ FreeAndEqual.org

The Free & Equal Elections Foundation will hold a Gubernatorial Debate for 2010 Candidates in Du Quoin, IL this FRIDAY,October 9th, 2009 at the Du Quoin State Fairgrounds. Read more »

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Suffolk Police To Undergo Federal Probe on Hate Crimes

Posted on October 8, 2009 by iwilder
In late September, Long Island Wins interviewed Francisco Hernandez, who claimed that he was discouraged from speaking publicly about several incidents that he thought were hate crimes. Hernandez said that he was told not to talk about the crimes by Mel Guadalupe, Suffolk County’s director of minority affairs. Guadalupe, for his part, denied the allegations, but Hernandez stood by his story.
Beyond that, Hernandez claimed that Suffolk County police officers mishandled the incidents that he reported, classifying them as “criminal mischief” when they should have been referred to as hate crimes.
In light of these serious allegations, and a recent report by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which chronicles a decade’s worth of violence against Latino immigrants in Suffolk County, it’s clear that an authoritative investigation of Suffolk law enforcement is long overdue.
The wait may be over.
This weekend, Long Island Wins broke the story that the U.S. Department of Justice will be launching an official investigation into “discriminatory policing” by the Suffolk County Police Department, looking at how officers have responded to reports of crimes against Latinos, and whether any officers have violated the Constitution or federal law in their police work.

Federal investigations of this caliber aren’t launched every day. In fact, there are typically just two or three initiated in a year. That means that the Department of Justice recognizes that there are allegations worth examining in Suffolk County. While some may say the decision is overdue, it’s still an important step forward. Read more »

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Saturday, Oct. 10th: Peace Poetry in Long Island

Posted on October 8, 2009 by kwilder

As part of the World March for Peace and Nonviolence…
Poetry Reading by Local Poets

Saturday, October 10th
2pm to 5pm
in Farmingdale
at the Ellsworth Allen Park Community Meeting Room
Motor Ave, Farmingdale

Contact: Eleanor at (516) 694-2016

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Emergency medical treatment needed for political prisoner

Posted on October 7, 2009 by kwilder

Please consider this urgent request that I received from Elaine Brown and Diane White.  Please help fax a letter to get medical care for this man…

Emergency Medical Treatment Needed for Chip Fitzgerald
Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:24:43 -0400

My dear friends,

Centinela State Prison is denying Chip Fitzgerald proper medical care! This is not only a violation of his human rights, but it is in blatant disregard of the federal court order that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation provide constitutionally adequate medical care to inmates—of which order the CDCR continues to be in violation. Read more »

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October 2009 Babylon Green Gathering on World Peace March Photos

Posted on October 7, 2009 by iwilder


More info:

World March for Peace and Nonviolence 10/7/09 7p

Read more »

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