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Church works with Verizon to thwart neighbors

Posted on August 13, 2009 by iwilder
Children of Holbrook Against Residential Cell Antennae

CHARCA: Children of Holbrook Against Residential Cell Antennae

In Holbrook, Long Island, New York, a Catholic Church is trying to install a cell tower at their location in the heart of a residential neighborhood. The church was slow in informing the neighbors and the parish members. The community has expressed its frustration through: comments at an information meeting called by the church, with a petition campaign, and with at letter-writing campaign to leaders of the Catholic Church.

The church that is considering installing the cell tower, so that it can get a lease and income stream from the Verizon company, is Church of the Good Shepherd in Holbrook. The church property is on Grundy Avenue, between Trumpet Lane and Coates Avenue. The pastor is Rev. Msgr. Thomas L. Spadaro, known as Father Tom. Read more »

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Jack Bauer wants Single-Payer Universal Healthcare

Posted on August 13, 2009 by iwilder

from Health Care Reform Needs an Action Hero by Amy Goodman

America 2009. Eighteen thousand people have died in one year, an average of almost 50 a day. Who’s taking them out? . . . It’s lack of adequate health care. So maybe the president’s solution isn’t Jack Bauer, but rather the actor who plays him. . . .Sutherland is the grandson of the late Tommy Douglas, the pioneering Canadian politician who is credited with creating the modern Canadian health care system. . . .

At a protest in 2000 against efforts to roll back the Medicare system in the province of Alberta, Kiefer Sutherland defended Canada’s public, single-payer system:

“Private health care does not work. America is trying to change their system. It’s too expensive to get comprehensive medical care in the U.S. Why on earth are we going to follow their system here? I consider it a humanitarian issue. This is an issue about what is right and wrong, what is decent and what is not.”

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Obama Reverses Campaign Pledge to Renegotiate NAFTA

Posted on August 12, 2009 by iwilder

from DemocracyNow.org

President Obama has wrapped up a two-day visit to Mexico for talks with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The three leaders met in Guadalajara to discuss issues including immigration reform, trade, Mexico’s drug war, the crisis in Honduras, and the swine flu outbreak. It was Obama’s first official summit under the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA. On the campaign trail, Obama had promised to open up NAFTA to renegotiations. But he’s backed off that pledge since taking office, blaming the global economic meltdown.

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Scenes from Yardstock

Posted on August 12, 2009 by kwilder

For photos of Yardstock, including: PC Cama, J. Williams, Lynne, Tom, Paul, Jim Frazzitta and many other former members of Nylon and Steel; Oh! — Troy and his daughter; Kimberly and Ian; Pops Westcott and many others…go to Kimberly’s Flickr collection: here.

And, a great video of Yardstock performer Alan Short, performing “Ranzo”, an acappella, maritime song, below:

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LI Concert Notes #46 8/11/09

Posted on August 12, 2009 by iwilder

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

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Day Date Time Artist Venue

Wed 8/12 6:30 James O’Malley Harborside Park, Port Jefferson Village Ctr

Wed 8/12 7:00 Homegrown String Band North Merrick Public Library, North Merrick

Wed 8/12 8:00 Jacqueline Stem Acoustic LI, Deepwells Mansion, St. James

Thu 8/13 5:30 Mary Lamont Band Venetian Shores, Lindenhurst

Thu 8/13 8:00 The Last Internationale Lefty’s Candlelight Bar, Lindenhurst

Thu 8/13 9:00 Cecilia Kirtland Jessie’s Roadhouse, Merrick

Fri 8/14 8:00 Grand Folk Railroad The Cup, Wantagh

Fri 8/14 8:00 Caroline Doctorow Grounds & Sounds, UUF of Stony Brook

Fri 8/14 7:00 Homegrown String Band Hauppauge Public Library, Hauppauge

Fri 8/14 10:00 Gail Storm Bobbique, Patchogue

Fri 8/14 7:30 JazzBone Freeport Library, 144 West Merrick Rd, Freeport

Sat 8/15 Noon LI Bluegrass Festival Tanner Pak, Copiague

Sat 8/15 2:00 Homegrown String Band Longwood Public Library, Middle Island

Sat 8/15 8:00 Otan Vargas,The Reinharts,Terrence Escalera Lefty’s Candlelight Bar, Lindenhurst

Sat 8/15 9:00 Rhythm Kings Grey Horse Tavern, Bayport

Sat 8/15 7:30 Cecilia Kirtland and Maag Stanley w/Leslie Zimei Bistro M, Glen Head

Sat 8/15 2:00 JazzBone at “Winestock” Vineyard 48, Rt 48, Cutchogue

Sat 8/15 8:00 Chili Djurhuss Custer Observatory, Southold

Sun 8/16 5:00 Rhythm Kings Harbor Crab Co, Patchogue

Sun 8/16 3:00 Gail Storm w/Shenole Latimer Dockside Café, West Babylon Read more »

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No clear line between Corporation and Working Families Party

Posted on August 12, 2009 by iwilder

Kevin Finnegan Admits No Clear Line Between WFP And DFS

In WNYC interview, lawyer who set up secretive company admits “there’s no firewalls” between party and for-profit

Kevin Finnegan, the lawyer who set up the secretive company called Data and Field Services which is owned by the Working Families Party, appeared on WNYC Tuesday to respond to City Hall’s extensive investigative report about the depth of connections between the non-profit party and for-profit company, admitting during the interview that as for the line between WFP and DFS, “there’s no firewalls.”

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David Pechefsky for New York City Council in District 39

Posted on August 12, 2009 by iwilder

David Pechefsky is a Green Party candidate with 12 years direct experience in New York City government. He has concrete ideas for structural change that can be accomplished and he will be a catalyst for a truly democratic City Council, eco-friendly living, and the sensible use of our resources.  http://pechefskyforcitycouncil.com

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In Minnesota, a fight to review ballots

Posted on August 11, 2009 by kwilder

(excerpt from) Ballot Access News / Aug 10
Minnesota TV Stations Sue County Over Access to 2008 Absentee Ballots

On August 10, five television stations in Minnesota filed a lawsuit in state court, against Ramsey County election officials. Those officials refuse to let the TV stations examine last year’s general election absentee ballots. The TV stations want to analyze why several hundred absentee ballots were rejected by the county. The lawsuit is KSTP-TV v Ramsey County, 2nd judicial district, case number not yet assigned.

After the disputed 2000 presidential election, news media were able to examine all the Florida ballots. A consortium of news organizations spent almost a year recounting them all.

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Rove gets nabbed…wanna help expose him?

Posted on August 11, 2009 by kwilder

KW: I have to hand it to the Huffington Post. They really took the correct angle on the story about the release of documents showing Karl Rove’s participation in the US Attorney firings. The HP is sending their readers straight to the documents (here) and asking people to review the material, and posts excerpts and commentary. Talk about participatory democracy.

Below are three versions of the Karl Rove Story: The Washington Post, which is the most straight-newsy. (Although they seem miffed that Rove told them a different story last month.) The Hill, which tends to be a rather status quo, two-party web-site, and actually allows for some Republican-apologist comments. And, the Huffington Post, where I expected to find a left-wing slant, and was elated to find the even better, read-and-review project.

(excerpt from) The Washington Post
Documents Detail Campaign to Oust U.S. Attorney
By Carrie Johnson / Tuesday, August 11, 2009; 4:56 PM Read more »

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Ralph Nader on Wall Street’s Overpaid Failures

Posted on August 11, 2009 by iwilder

Faulty Forecasting

Companies that specialize in stock market forecasting and trading—such as Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan Chase—pay very high salaries to their employee-vendors. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo just released data showing that these and other large banks are giving each of their 5000 trader-forecasters bonuses of at least one million dollars.
In return, these fat cats are very frequently wrong in their recommendations and decidedly unprofessional in their fiduciary relationships with the clueless, trusting clients who rely on them. Win or lose, they get their fees.

These firms and brokers are making money largely from other people’s money—pensions, savings and investments. Overall many produce little more than gambling tips. When these moneyboys try to justify their doings as providing liquidity, hedging against risk, assembling capital for productive investment, listeners are permitted to robustly laugh. This is especially so now during Wall Street’s massive, self-inflicted financial collapse. The economy, and taxpayers, are paying for this reckless speculation.

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Tonight, Aug. 11th: Big meteor shower may appear

Posted on August 11, 2009 by kwilder

from a National Geographic article: here.

The Perseid meteor shower will have to fight it out with a bright moon for visibility this year, but astronomers are still predicting a dazzling show tonight.

From any vantage point in the world, you might see more than 80 meteors an hour streak across the sky during the best viewing time, when the moon’s glare will be weakest—late tonight and into the wee hours of tomorrow, local cloud and lighting conditions permitting.

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Irish Green Party election broadcast 2009

Posted on August 11, 2009 by iwilder

Irish Green Party Election Broadcast 2009. On June 5th Deirdre de Burca and Dan Boyle ran to create thousands of new green jobs. Think big, vote Green. http://vote.greenparty.ie. Follow them  on twitter: http://twitter.com/greenparty_ie

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Eunice Kennedy Shriver dies at age 88: Founded Special Olympics

Posted on August 11, 2009 by kwilder

First: An excellent and hard-hitting post about Eunice Kennedy Shriver and her sister Rosemary Kennedy: here.

At the bottom of this post is a beautiful message to the Special Olympics community by Eunice’s son. Also, a wonderful web-site devoted to remembrances of Eunice Kennedy Shriver at www.eunicekennedyshriver.org/

(excerpt from) Reuters
Eunice Kennedy Shriver dies at age 88

BOSTON (Reuters) – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who emerged from a powerful male-dominated political family to found the Special Olympics and become a leading advocate of the mentally disabled, died on Tuesday at the age of 88… Read more »

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Think Again, Vote Green

Posted on August 10, 2009 by iwilder

Vote for the Green Party in the upcoming European Election on 4th June.

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