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FL hospital deported patient: Will they get away with it?

Posted on July 23, 2009 by kwilder

(excerpt from) The Miami Herald
Fla. hospital accused of deporting patient
By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ / Associated Press Writers

STUART, Fla. — The guardian of a Guatemalan man [Luis Alberto Jimenez] with serious brain damage is suing a South Florida hospital, alleging that the facility illegally deported the uninsured patient to his native country…

The trial opened quietly this week in the sleepy coastal town of Stuart, but the six-member jury’s verdict could influence how hospitals across the U.S. handle long-term care for illegal immigrants…

On Thursday, [the family’s] attorney William King showed e-mails documenting Martin Memorial Medical Center officials’ plans for returning the patient during the summer of 2003… Read more »

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LI Green Sheets 7/22/09

Posted on July 23, 2009 by iwilder

Welcome to the LI Green Sheets
rev 7-22-09

The LI Green Sheets is a weekly “Green Events” email service about green events and activities in our region.  If your organization or company has an event, class, meeting, seminar or program that you want LI Green’s over 5000 environmental businesspeople, activists, educators email list to know about please fill out this web form or forward information to greensheets@ligreen.com.  Include  date, time, address, event description, web link and contact information.

We also offer sponsored listings and advertisement to businesses that provide sustainability products and services.  To learn more about this great opportunity please contact Chuck Schwartz at chuck@ligreen.com or 631-721-1908.  Thanks for your company’s support Click here to signup for the LI Green Email List.Please forward this email to anyone that you think might be interested in it.

Green Drinks – Green Drinks are monthly networking events for environmental professionals, educators and others held throughout Long Island

  • Green Drinks Open House –  With Whole Foods Jericho and Greener Country Store – Monday August 10th, 5-8 PM. Jericho Commons Shopping Center, 429 North Broadway, Jericho 11743. Click Here for Directions

  • Coming Soon – Watch for the dates – First annual Southampton Green Drinks “Beach Party” in Mid August,  Green Drinks Open House at the Wales Darby Energy Room,  Western Nassau County Green Drinks, Five Towns Green Drinks

Charitable Events

  • Ellen’s Run – Family Event to Benefit Breast Cancer Patient Support Services.  5K race/walk.  Sun August 16th.  9 am sharp. New Location: Southampton Hospital

Live and Learn

  • North Shore Land Alliance “Walks in the Woods”
    • July 31, 6 p.m. – This exploration of fields, ponds, and woodlands of the Farm at Oyster Bay, Oyster Bay Cove will be led by naturalist Peter Warny.
    • August 15, 10 a.m. – Be prepared to get your feet (and more?) wet inspecting trout habitat at Beaver Brook, Mill Pond, and Cold Spring Brook with Trout Unlimited’s Jeff Plackis.
    • September 13, noon – Come explore the fields and forest of Red Cote Preserve (the Pulling/Cutting/Schwab property) in Oyster Bay Cove with naturalist Dan Kriesberg.
    • October 10, 1 p.m. (date and time to be confirmed!) – Long Island Mycological Club’s Joel Horman will lead a hunt for mushrooms at Fox Hollow Preserve in Oyster Bay Cove. Read more »

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In Michigan: Court frees Green Party former candidate, rules on 1st Amendment

Posted on July 22, 2009 by kwilder

Oops! Ian and I have had such a strange summer, so we missed this story from July 17th, about a Green we had previously covered a lot. Found the story at Green Party Watch and Independent Political Report…

The Reverend Edward Pinkney, who had been a Green Party Congressional candidate for the 6th District in Michigan, had been ordered to jail based on criticizing a judge using biblical verses. An appeals court ruled that the Berrion County judge violated the 1st Amendment. An AP story noted that Pinkney had been under house arrest with an electronic tether since December.

Story from the Detroit Free Press at the jump…
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Joan Baez Benefit Concert & Vote Rev Billy Radio

Posted on July 21, 2009 by iwilder

Update: It’s the afternoon of the Joan Baez show! At 7pm, tonight, Mon. July 27th at the Highline Ballroom the show starts. There are still tickets available. $15 at the door.

Letter from the Revered Billy Talen for Mayor campaign:

Friend,

Thank you for your dedicated work!  We are running to put forth a radical agenda of common sense based on economic, social and environmental justice.  We need your help to keep our fight alive.  I know its a lot in these hard times, but for the price of 2 movie tickets you get to see the legendary Joan Baez, meet like minded activists and help make our voices heard.  Buy a ticket for yourself, buy a ticket for a friend, or get someone you know to buy a ticket! Tickets are going fast for our ELECT-A-LUJAH!  Vote Rev Billy Fundraiser at the Highline Ballroom, Monday July 27th at 7pm, with the Rev and Life After Shopping Gospel Choir, Joan Baez, Jollyship the Whiz-Bang, Greta Gaines, the New York Street Vendors Chorus, Yetta Kurland and NYC Green Party Candidates!!

Tickets on Sale Now: http://www.voterevbilly.org/events/elect-a-lujah-07-27 Read more »

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Suffolk County Beach Closings for July 21/22

Posted on July 21, 2009 by kwilder

Long Island beach closings: Suffolk County beaches

(excerpt from) Newsday
After heavy rain, Suffolk advisory targets 59 beaches
By Zachary R. Dowdy / 8:43 PM EDT, July 21, 2009

Citing heavy rain that could increase the bacterial content in area waters to unsafe levels, Suffolk officials announced Tuesday that they are issuing an advisory against bathing in 59 beaches in the county until at least 24 hours after the rain stops…

The advisory will remain in effect until Wednesday unless officials find elevated bacterial levels in the waters.

The affected beaches are: Read more »

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A chink in the Prison-Industrial Complex

Posted on July 21, 2009 by kwilder

KW: Wow! I keep realizing that between the economic crisis bringing down the luxury culture, and Bernie Madoff having taught rich people to think more carefully about get-richer-quick schemes, things should eventually get better for the middle class, working class, and the oppressed. Everything is becoming more down-to-earth.

Now, the California budget crisis has caused California to release prisoners early! Jesus would be so happy–the camel and the needle thing, and releasing the prisoners, you know.

(excerpt from) The Los Angeles Times
State budget deal reduces prison inmates by 27,000
By Michael Rothfeld / July 21, 2009

Reporting from Sacramento — The state budget deal negotiated by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders would reduce the population of California prisons by nearly 27,000 inmates in the current fiscal year.

That would be done with a combination of new measures, including allowing some inmates to finish their sentences on home detention, creating new incentives for completion of rehabilitation programs and scaling back parole supervision for the least serious offenders…

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Despite Pledge to Cut Military Ties to Coup Regime, Obama Continues to Train Honduran Soldiers at School of Americas

Posted on July 21, 2009 by iwilder

Despite Pledge to Cut Military Ties to Coup Regime, US Continues to Train Honduran Soldiers at School of Americas

While the European Union cut off aid to the coup regime in Honduras, the United States continues the money flow, and while the US says it has cut military ties, the National Catholic Reporter reveals Honduran army officers are still receiving military training at the notorious School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia.

Also from Democracy Now!:

While the European Union cut off aid to the coup regime in Honduras, the United States continues the money flow, and while the US says it has cut military ties, the National Catholic Reporter reveals Honduran army officers are still receiving military training at the notorious School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia.

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Oppose Hate Crimes and the Death Penalty

Posted on July 21, 2009 by iwilder

It is necessary to take extra steps to get law enforcement officials to prosecute hate crimes.  Often existing laws are not used to prosecute hate crimes because of bias against those in the LBGT community, but imposing the death penalty does nothing to lessen that bias.   – IW

New Yorkers For Alternatives to the Death Penalty
info@nyadp.org 518 453 6797

!!Urgent Action!!

Dear Abolitionists,

Yesterday (7/20/09) the U.S. Senate passed the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act, with an amendment making hate crimes punishable by death. Please contact your members of congress (House and Senate) to urge them to remove the death penalty provision when it goes to conference.  Read more »

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Intrigue in Minneapolis with major party/third party elected officials

Posted on July 21, 2009 by kwilder

The city of Minneapolis will have elections for Mayor in November 2009. One of the candidates will be RT Ryback, the incumbent Mayor, who is a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and an officer in the National Conference of Democratic Mayors. In the last election cycle, Mayor Ryback’s campaign published a piece of literature stating that the Green Party City Council member had endorsed Ryback for that election.

The article below is about how a present Green Party member, David Bicking, filed a lawsuit to hold the Mayor accountable. The story is written by a former Green Party member, Michael Cavlan, who concludes that the Mayor was very wrong, but that the elected Green Party City Council Member may have been less than independent and forthright. The story sheds interesting light on the interactions among a major party elected official, a third party elected official, and the respective third party constituents.

The information is based largely on testimony of the Mayor, speaking under oath.

The full political commentary piece by former Green Party member Michael Cavlan, sent via e-mail on July 21, 2009:

Mayor Rybak Takes The Stand
by Michael Cavlan

You may have missed it but something interesting happened last week.

July 7th, 9:30 a.m. Minneapolis Mayor RT Rybak held his hand up, swore an oath to a panel of three judges and swore to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Read more »

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Charges to be dropped against Harvard professor

Posted on July 21, 2009 by kwilder

Dear Reader: Thanks for any energy/prayers/phonecalls/e-mails you added to the mix to help support this positive outcome! – KW

(excerpt from) The Boston Globe
Charges to be dropped against Harvard professor
By Tracy Jan and Andrew Ryan / July 21, 2009 12:42 PM

The Middlesex district attorney’s office plans to drop criminal charges against Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., who was accused of disorderly conduct on Thursday and arrested at his Cambridge home.

The story with analysis and implications is: here.

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The Democrats’ Selective Amnesia on Assassination: Clinton Did It and Obama Does It Too | CommonDreams.org

Posted on July 21, 2009 by iwilder

The Democrats’ Selective Amnesia on Assassination: Clinton Did It and Obama Does It Too | CommonDreams.org

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Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. wrongly arrested at his home

Posted on July 21, 2009 by kwilder

Update! Tuesday afternoon: Charges dropped.*

Note from KW: On studying the story in various news reports, it appears that when the police officer arrived, Professor Gates was inside his home already. But, the policeman was demanding that Professor Gates come outside his home, which I believe was the beginning of the heightened conflict in this matter.

(excerpt from) Daily News
Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. arrested outside his home, calls Cambridge police ‘racist’
by Beverly Ford  and Bill Hutchinson / July 20th 2009

A distinguished black Harvard University professor was handcuffed and dragged off his porch to jail after Massachusetts cops mistook him for a burglar.

Henry Louis Gates Jr., one of the nation’s most renowned scholars of African-American history, was busted when he repeatedly accused a cop of racism for confronting him, police said… Read more »

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Long Island Newsday story about Frank McCourt

Posted on July 21, 2009 by kwilder

I had my brief brush with the happy life and person of Frank McCourt when I worked on his brother Malachy McCourt’s 2006 Governor campaign. Also, my mother-in-law read Frank McCourt’s book “Teacher Man” and kept telling me that I would love it. Suppose it is time to pick it up.

Frank McCourt passed away on Sunday, July 19, 2009. He was 78 years old.

Turns out that Frank McCourt had a wonderful visit in Long Island years ago. Joye Browne wrote a great story about it in Newsday…

(excerpt from) Newsday
Lessons from Frank McCourt learned well in Bay Shore
by Joye Brown

The auditorium of Bay Shore High School was standing room only…

It was April 9, 1997 and “Angela’s Ashes” author Frank McCourt was waiting to address the school’s fifth annual Ethnic Pen student writing conference…

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Where is Today’s Walter Cronkite Speaking Out Against Iraq & Afghanistan?

Posted on July 20, 2009 by iwilder

Walter Cronkite (1916-2009): Legendary CBS Anchorman Was Critical of Media Consolidation, Wars in Vietnam and Iraq

The legendary CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite died at the age of ninety-two at his home in New York on Friday. For nearly twenty years, Cronkite’s broadcast was a nightly staple in millions of American homes from 1962 until he left CBS Evening News in 1981. Praise for Cronkite’s work and legacy is all over the news, but few in the mainstream media have mentioned what many consider Cronkite’s most important news moment. In February 1968, soon after he returned from a trip to Vietnam, Cronkite cast doubt on the war and helped turn the tide of American public opinion against it.

What news anchor today will speak out against Obama’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?

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