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Are democracy ideas creeping into the national Republican Party?????: Texas delegation considers floor fight

Posted on August 27, 2012 by kwilder

Republican stalwarts threatening mutiny if their grassroots rights are not respected? This sounds like democracy and empowerment creeping up on party discipline. It also sounds like the kind of fights that green and leftist organizations must also put up with. I like this! -KW

(excerpt from) Yahoo News
Texas delegates planning floor mutiny over RNC rules changes

TAMPA–On Monday morning, at a meeting of more than 100 Texan delegates and alternates at the Saddlebrook Resort 20 miles north of Tampa, one topic got the crowd more fired up than any other. Delegate Melinda Fredricks read aloud a letter condemning recent changes to the national Republican party’s rules that would allow the GOP presidential candidate to veto and replace state delegates. Read more »

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Republican National Convention: What’s happening in Tampa right now?

Posted on August 26, 2012 by kwilder

CODEPINK at the RNCOccupy Tampa UStream:
Thursday afternoon 8/30:
Earth First at Power Plant
Chants of “Dirty Money — Dirty Coal”

On Twitter, find: @OccupyTampa or #OccupyTampa or #owsRNC

Another Occupy Live Stream
from Tampa:here

Ongoing protest:
“Romneyville” story at Democracy Now!

Video (Strong language, including the F Bomb): here
Police encountering protesters and
an anarchist dance in the rain on Mon 8/27/12

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What’s happening in Tampa now?

A great photo summary is: here. I think it updates occasionally.
(Thanks to Shannone from LI for linking to it.)

Some updates culled from the above and from my brief study of news sites today (Sunday, 8/26):

1. There are activists on the ground in Tampa now, holding demonstrations and making statements.

2. There are a lot of police watching the activists. There is a photo of a Tampa Police vehicle that is essentially a tan — but, it claims to be “Rescue 2”.

3. The Republican National Committee has said, in deference to oncoming Storm Isaac, they are cutting the convention to three days.

4. So, I think the demonstrators will be doing more than the Republican delegates.

5. There was a big Ron Paul this afternoon. Great attendance. Some into at The Albany Times Union: here.

6. Code Pink activists dressed like hot pink vaginas, to tell the RNC to keep their hands off women’s bodies. Great photos at the CodePink Flickr: here. Read more »

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Save the date – Occupy one year anniversary events: Monday, Sept. 17, 2012 and more…

Posted on August 26, 2012 by kwilder

#S17: 3 Days of Education, Celebration & Resistance

The folks at Occupy Wall Street in New York City have been making plans to celebrate their September 17th for weeks now. Our friend Walter has been involved in some of the grassroots planning sessions.

Currently, there are only hints on-line of what will happen. There is a big push to register (which I am not keen on). Though, the main point is this: Please leave Monday, September 17th open, to go to events in New York City, or your locale. There will be three days worth of events: Saturday, Sept 15th; Sunday, Sept 16th; and Monday, Sept 17th.

On Monday, 9/17, it seems like there will be early morning demonstrations on Wall Street, and a noon start to other actions. I also found a very cool event listing for Monday evening: The Fannie Lou Hamer S17 City-Wide Community and Action Assembly at Liberty Plaza (Zuccotti Park).

The main focus of #S17 at this point seems to be on the economic justice issues. I am hoping that more peace activists will insert themselves, and remind folks to feature an “anti-war” message, too. It is so easy in an election year to allow Democratic politicians and Democratic apologists to steer folks away from the anti-war message. Yet, Occupy Wall Street’s energy and mission includes de-militarizing our democracy. So, those issues should stay front and center, too.

Some good places to stay up-to-date are:

The New York City General Assembly website: here

OccupyWallSt.org: here Read more »

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President 2012: New York Presidential Ballot Info (and national links)

Posted on August 25, 2012 by iwilder

Polling place info for NYC, Nassau, Suffolk, is at onthewilderside post: here.

Voting

11/2/12 Updates

Suffolk County, NY Absentee Ballot Hours Extended & Changed Polling Places (pdf) h/t Suffolk NYCLU

Receipt date of NY Absentee Ballots extended

10/5/12 update:

NYS Presidential Ballot:
(as finalized for Nov 2012) 

DEMOCRATIC:
Barack Obama

REPUBLICAN:
Mitt Romney

CONSERVATIVE:
Mitt Romney

WORKING FAMILIES:
Barack Obama

GREEN:
Jill Stein

PSL-SOCIALISM AND LIB:
Peta Lindsay

LBT-LIBERTARIAN:
Gary Johnson

CST-CONSTITUTION:
Virgil Goode

Note: The INDEPENDENCE PARTY of NY is not running a Presidential Candidate.

PDFs of Ballots can be found at the NYS Board of Elections here:

Nationwide 2012 Presidential Campaigns and Ballot info: Read more »

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Hey @gallupnews! Don’t be so biased! Include @JillStein2012 in your #Election2012 polling!

Posted on August 23, 2012 by iwilder
Dr. Jill Stein

Dr. Jill Stein

Perhaps you’ve noticed that not only is much of the corporate media failing the public by ignoring independent party candidates, but the major polling organizations are too. Unfortunately, the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) – created and controlled by the Republicans and Democrats – requires 15% support among five public opinion polls in order for a candidate to be included in the debates. But, they don’t name which polls or even when they’ll gather such evidence.

One thing we do know is that the Gallup Organization is the only official advisor on polling to the CPD.

So, let’s make some noise and tell Gallup to take 3 important actions:

  • Include  Jill Stein in ALL Gallup polling. (The last mention of her was waaay back on July 6th.)
  • Encourage other polling organizations to include Jill Stein. (They are an industry leader and should be promoting responsible polling and reporting.)
  • Advise the CPD to only consider polls that have included all legitimate candidates. (The Stein campaign made history and secured Federal matching funds! Doesn’t that demonstrate significant public support?)

Here’s how you can contact them – and we strongly encourage you contact them repeatedly.  Read more »

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Video: Julian Assange speaks from the balcony

Posted on August 20, 2012 by kwilder

Thanks to Rose for posting this on FB:

(excerpt from) RT.com
Click above for video

Julian Assange has made his first public appearance in the two months since he took refuge at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

He thanked the hundreds of people gathered outside the embassy for their support, claiming it was their resolve and presence that stopped British police from storming the building… Read more »

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Welcome to Boog City Festival 2012 Photos

Posted on August 19, 2012 by iwilder

As part of Ian Wilder’s August 2012 week-long tour, he hosted the Saturday August 4, 2012 night portion of the Welcome to Boog City music and poetry festival at Brooklyn’s Unnameable Books.  On Sunday, he and Kimberly Wilder performed in a Poetry Theatre piece at Manhattan’s Sidewalk Cafe.

Kimberly Wilder & Ian Wilder perform at Boog City Poetry Theatre

Kimberly Wilder & Ian Wilder perform at Boog City Poetry Theatre

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Prez cand Stein (G) calls for FBI to act on the White Supremacist Threat

Posted on August 18, 2012 by iwilder
Dr. Jill Stein

Dr. Jill Stein

Last Sunday’s White Supremacist terrorist attack at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin is a “clear wake-up call that the nation is not adequately addressing the terrorism threat from white supremacist groups,” warned Green Party presidential candidate  Jill Stein following an address to a major veterans group, Veterans for Peace, at their national convention in Miami this weekend.Stein said that, “It is long past time that the FBI show it understands that white supremacists, not pacifists or environmentalists, are the real threat to American security.”

“While the individuals who commit these terrible crimes often exhibit signs of mental instability, their acts do not arise solely from personal psychological disorders. Their savagery has often been cultivated, encouraged, and enabled by rightwing groups that foster hate, condone racism and xenophobia, glorify violence, and train their members in the use of assault weapons and military tactics. An individual may decide to act alone, but this does not absolve the hate groups from responsibility for their role in laying the groundwork for the tragedy.”
Stein charged that the FBI and Homeland Security have given inadequate attention to the threat of white supremacist groups, choosing instead to focus resources in attempts to entrap anti-war and environmental activists who have never used violence against any person. “The FBI has a long history of politically motivated targeting that goes after minority groups and leftwing protesters. They expend great resources in entrapping citizens who are basically nonviolent. This is not just a waste of resources, it is an infringement upon our civil liberties.“As president, I will order a thorough review of FBI targeting practices and ensure that the Agency is properly dealing with the threat of white supremacist groups. I will also issue an executive order forbidding the FBI or Homeland Security from infringing upon the legitimate rights of the American people to exercise their free speech or to peacefully assemble to present their grievances to their government. Nonviolent groups, whether of right or left part of the spectrum, deserve to have their right to free speech protected. Political targeting must end.”   Read more »

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Remembering Ward Morehouse 1929-2012

Posted on August 16, 2012 by iwilder

from PeaceCouple.com:

I have written on this site a great deal about pacifist heroes of the past.  Ward Morehouse is a pacifist hero whom I was lucky enough to have worked with.

Even in our corporatized culture, there are still many people to act as guideposts for how to live a life, they are just not publicized.  Ward Morehouse is definitely one of those Great people.  And I just found recently that we lost him.

I met Ward in the late 1990’s through <a title=”The Other Economic summit” href=”http://www.toes-usa.org/” target=”_blank”>The Other Economic Summit North America </a>(TOES).  He was the Chair TOES NA.  Before there was Occupy or even the Battle of Seattle, there was TOES.  They would shadow the G8 summit, and put on a conference high-lighting a humane vision of the planet’s economy.  Ward was so much more than an academic,  he was a visionary, leader, teacher, publisher, and activist.  The obituary below describes him better than I could.

The full post with Ward Morehouse’s full Obituary and Memorial Service Information can be found at PeaceCouple.com

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Wikileaks is serious stuff: England threatens Ecuadorean Embassy over Julian Assange

Posted on August 16, 2012 by kwilder

English: Demonstration in front of Sydney Town...

When you consider the intensity with which England is hunting down Julian Assange — on behalf of Sweden, over alleged sexual crimes that have not even created formal charges yet* — you start to realize that something is up. Julian Assange needs the protection of a country which won’t hand him over the the US, and Julian Assange needs the support and attention of people who believe in Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press.

(excerpt from) Brisbane Times
Tensions mount ahead of Assange asylum decision
Philip Dorling /      August 16, 2012 – 2:19PM

The Ecuadorean government will announce its decision on Julian Assange’s appeal for political asylum at 10 o’clock tonight, Eastern Australian time…

[The decision from Ecuador: Assange can stay. See article: here]

The Ecuadorean government has expressed “shock” at what it described as a “written threat” by the British government to send police into Ecuador’s London embassy to seize Mr Assange, who sought refuge there two months ago…

Australian National University international law expert Don Rothwell described the UK threat as extraordinary and without precedent in modern history… Read more »

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Green Party demands Independent Citizens’ Review Boards for Police

Posted on August 12, 2012 by iwilder

 The Green Party urges the establishment of independent citizens’ review boards to probe surges in police violence and prosecute abuses

  • Report cited on the extrajudicial killing of Blacks once every 36 hours in the US
  • Greens seek measures to prevent police violence against peaceful protesters outside upcoming Republican and Democratic conventions

The Green Party called two recent reports on police violence evidence of systematic abuses of power by police departments, especially in their treatment of young black and brown men and of people who engage in public protest.  Green Party candidates and leaders said the reports are supported by numerous reports of incidents in which police used deadly force against people of color, immigrants, and nonviolent protesters.

Don Cook

Don Cook

“The police abuses taking place in many cities and states require independent investigation by citizens’ review boards, followed by prosecution,” said Don Cook, Green Party candidate for Congress in Texas’ 22nd District and Harris County Green Party liason with the National Black United Front, New Black Panthers, and others in the Black Justice Tuesday Coalition. “When such crimes go unpunished, police believe they have a license to commit further crimes. Unless these patterns of crime and impunity change, we can consider ourselves to be living in a police state. This is not law, security, or order. It’s the opposite of law, security, and order.”

The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement has published a “Report on Black People Executed without Trial by Police, Security Guards and Self-Appointed Law Enforcers January 1 – June 30, 2012” which documented the extrajudicial killing of a Black person once every 36 hours on average for the first half of 2012. The number includes “the killing of 13 year-old children, fathers taking care of their kids, women driving the wrong cars, as well as people with mental health and drug problems.” (http://mxgm.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/07_24_Report_all_rev_protected.pdf / http://mxgm.org/report-on-the-extrajudicial-killings-of-110-black-people/)  Read more »

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Tell Gov. Cuomo: LIPA needs Elections, not more Privatization

Posted on August 11, 2012 by iwilder

LILCO Logo of the 80s and 90s (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Governor Andrew Cuomo is finishing the job of destroying Long Island’s power grid and finances under LIPA that his father started under LILCO.

Privatization step 1: Governor Mario Cuomo sold Long Island down the river to LILCO (Long Island Lighting Company) buying giving them our money and sticking the taxpayers with a failed nuclear plant and its debt.  So Long Islanders basically bailed LILCO investors out for the stupid decision to put a nuclear power plant on an island with millions of people. Even more brilliant we didn’t get any of the LILCO’s working power plants, they were sold off to National Grid.  Cuomo The laws that originally the public power authority LIPA included the ability for voters to elect the LIPA board of directors.  that was taken out of the law before any election could be held. LILCO got the gold, and we got the shaft.       Read more »

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Get Prez cand Stein (G) on Colbert, Stewart & Maddow

Posted on August 10, 2012 by iwilder
Dr. Jill Stein

Dr. Jill Stein

Help the Green Party‘s Jill Stein for President campaign get media coverage on three target outlets: The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, and The Rachel Maddow Show. These three sources could help us reach millions of sympathetic voters!

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Wikileaks drama: Someone shut down Wikileaks

Posted on August 10, 2012 by kwilder

Wikileaks recently put out information about “Trapwire”, a multi-country surveillance network, including facial recognition cameras, operated by company with deep ties to the CIA. (Story: here.) Read more »

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