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Day of the Dead Remembrances

Posted on October 1, 2011 by iwilder

When I tell stories about the folk art we sell, or about sugar skulls, I am remembering 29 years of past visits to DoD… the markets, warm invitations to family’s homes, being offered hot fruity punch while walking past a tomb in a cemetery…. I have a full heart of memories, walking into unfamiliar bakeries in Veracruz or Patzcuaro that smelled incredibly yummy, and being invited into the back room where the baker was up to his elbows in dough, working in front of an ancient stone oven. These experiences would have never happened in the United States!

via 27 October 2010 MexicanSugarSkull.com Newsletter.

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Inaugural Brookhaven Green Party gathering 10/11/11

Posted on October 1, 2011 by iwilder

Green Party of SuffolkOn Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 7pm, the Brookhaven Green Party gathering will feature a speaker on the Brookhaven Recyclebank program. The event will be held at Rio Douro,  800 Horseblock Rd, Farmingville, NY 11738 (631 880-7890). Come hungry! For directions to the Brookhaven Green Party Gathering, contact Marisa Pizza at  516-458-9319.  All gatherings are open to the public.  Read more »

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Today! Saturday 10/1/2011: Vigil for Peace in Bellport, LI at 11am

Posted on October 1, 2011 by kwilder

If you are on Long Island, and admiring the Occupy Wall Street demonstration, here is a very local opportunity for you to gain visibility for peace and justice. Bellport on Sat. Oct 1st at 11am. This request was reposted by Bill McNulty of “Lunch with Bill” on WUSB radio Stony Brook:

A [local newspaper] has informed the Bellport Woman In Black that they will be in Bellport tomorrow, Saturday, October 1st to report on their ongoing vigil on Station Road and South Country Road from 11am-noon.

Signs at this vigil have been showing the cost of military actions around the world. We can link our local vigil with the Occupation of Wall St. and still have plenty of the day left to occupy Wall St.

Please support Women In Black tomorrow as this opportunity to be interviewed…arises!

Thank you and hope to see you there!

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Suffolk Green Party cand Cesar Malaga (LD 14) on News 12

Posted on September 30, 2011 by iwilder

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This is the News 12 debate with Cesar Malaga, the Green Party candidate running for the 14th legislative District in Suffolk County. He is the only Green Party candidate running on Long Island.

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For the anti-war movement, McCain was “the lesser evil” in 2008.

Posted on September 30, 2011 by iwilder
John McCain official photo portrait.

The Lesser Evil Anti-War candidate

IW:  I was engaging in one of those Facebook discussions I just can’t keep myself from diving into, about who to support for President.  It was one of those only-on-Facebook discussions that take place with a group of people I went to school with decades ago.  One discussant was proffering the lesser evil excuse for voting for Barack Obama.  As usual I challenged that as voting for your fears rather than your beliefs.  Upon reflection, I wondereded who I would have voted for in 2008 under the Lesser Evil Strategy.  Well, Obama said in the the third debate that he would expand the war in Afghanistan (which he did) and John McCain did not say he would expand to the war.  To pacifists like myself, that makes McCain the 2008 lesser evil candidate.

Remember what Jerry Garcia said:  “Constantly choosing the lesser evil, is still choosing evil.”

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Bill McKibben: Support for Occupy Wall Street Activists

Posted on September 30, 2011 by iwilder

A note of thanks for all the New York city activists taking part in the Occupy Wall Street protest. Keep it up — time can do wonderful things.http://twitter.com/billmckibben

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Radiohead Playing OccupyWallStreet TODAY 9/30/11 @ 4p????

Posted on September 30, 2011 by iwilder

Update on the morning after: Radiohead did not peform at Occupy Wall Street yesterday, 9/30. From what I can gather from rumors, on-line chat, and official announcements, I believe that someone did a hoax on Occupy Wall Street. So, I think that Occupy Wall Street genuinely thought Radiohead was going to show up. But, that Radiohead had never promised to do so. Yesterday, the band did put out a friendly note on their Twitter, sending greetings to the demonstrators, but saying they were not scheduled to perform.

Update 3:41PM on 9/30/2011 – Representatives of Radiohead are now saying there is no concert.

UPDATE 12:19 p.m.: A spokesperson for Occupy Wall Street confirms “Radiohead will play a surprise show today at four in the afternoon. Press conference at one in the afternoon.”

Update 12:54 p.m.: The spokesperson tells Gawker they have no permit but the police are “aware” of the event. This is going to be interesting—a band with Radiohead’s popularity can easily draw a hundred thousand for a free show in New York City. You need permits for this sort of thing, and there, obviously, there are a lot of crowd control issues that are worked out in advance. However you slice it, this will be bananas. Press conference in 5.

via CONFIRMED: Radiohead Playing Occupy Wall Street TODAY!: Gothamist.

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State Green Parties sponsor No Nukes Tour 10/3 -10/8/11

Posted on September 29, 2011 by iwilder

Green Parties in several states are co-sponsoring and hosting a ‘No Nukes Tour’ of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida from Monday, October 3, to Saturday, October 8.

The No Nukes Tour, with the slogan “Organize the South!”, will feature Green activist and candidate Howie Hawkins.  Mr. Hawkins has been an organizer in movements for peace, justice, labor, the environment, and independent politics and against nuclear power since the late 1960s.

The tour will kick off with a press conference at 10 am at the Raleigh Old State House in North Carolina.  A schedule of the tour is appended below.

“The outline of environmental injustice overshadows nuclear power.  This injustice extends to commercial nuclear plants, uranium mines, fuel enrichment and fabrication plants, and waste sites,” said Lou Zeller of Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League (http://www.bredl.org).  “Most of all, this injustice affects miners, nuclear workers, and families living near radioactive facilities.  Recent studies indicate that there is nuclear power-related environmental injustice, particularly in the southeastern United States.  Is this ongoing inequality deliberate?  Or have the habits and patterns of the past become so much a part of the landscape that the image of a colorblind society can be maintained even while injustice persists?  We must force officials to take into account this pernicious, unwanted legacy when and where nuclear power decisions are made. This is why we have organized the No Nukes Tour.” Read more »

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Green Party US endorses October 2011 protest against Afghanistan and Iraq wars and 2012 austerity budget

Posted on September 27, 2011 by iwilder
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• Greens call for an end to the Bush-Obama post-9/11 decade of wars without end, bloated military budgets, skyrocketing hate crimes against Muslims in the US, torture and other abuses of power

The Green Party of the United States has endorsed the “October 2011” protests and other events marking the tenth anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan and the beginning of the 2012 federal austerity budget.

On October 6, 2011, thousands will gather on Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC to “occupy the plaza and hold a People’s Assembly where we come up with just and sustainable solutions to the crises we face and demand that these solutions be presented and that the people’s needs be addressed.  We  demand that our inherent rights and freedoms be protected, and that our children have a chance to live in peace, to breathe clean air, and to grow edible natural food,” according to the October 2011 web site (http://october2011.org).

Participants hope that the event will spark a US equivalent to the pro-democracy ‘Arab Spring’ of early 2011.  Green leaders said that, after the changes in the Middle East, the demise of Osama bin Laden, and the severe damage to the nation’s economy and rule of law that resulted from the wars, it’s time to restore peace and sanity in America.  Read more »

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Dr. Cornell West @OccupyWallSt

Posted on September 27, 2011 by iwilder

General Assembly 9/27/11 ~7:05 p.m. EST

Liberty Park, NYC, NY, USA

Dr. Cornell West speaks:

“Don’t be scared to say revolution.”

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Join the #AfghanistanTuesday 10 Club | Peace Couple

Posted on September 27, 2011 by iwilder

We are adding the 10 Club to our original requests for #AfghanistanTuesday.  (No, this has nothing to do with the Pearl Jam fan club, but we would love if they join.)  The 10 Club includes anyone who who tweets to 10 of their friends to join #AfghanistanTuesday.  Now we are asking you to do this in addition to your already tweeting your elected officials demanding that the US leave Afghanistan immediately.  You can also, of course, tweet your thoughts, hope, prayers and blog posts about leaving Afghanistan.

http://twitter.com/#!/MidwestAntiwar/status/116508587915886592

more via Join the #AfghanistanTuesday 10 Club | Peace Couple.

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“Peace Song of the Day” and a new statue for Wall Street

Posted on September 26, 2011 by kwilder


As some of you know, Ian and Kimberly have alter egos, and a new website, trying to channel activist energy towards good energy and good shopping. The website is Peace Couple, and it often features posts by Duke Augustus and Duchess Susanna, The Duke and Duchess of Peace.

For every day of the year, there is a “Royal Peace Song of the Day”. It’s usually something singable. Always something about love, peace, and/or social change.

Please visit Peace Couple to watch a fun video, and to see all the lyrics to “This Land is Your Land”, today’s Royal Peace Song of the Day.

At the Song of the Day post, you can also hear about the statue that Duchess Susanna proposes to put near the Wall Street Bull. Maybe the Occupy Wall Street protesters will put the statue on their list of “one demands”.

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US Green Party mourns Dr. Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Kenyan Green Party founder and leader

Posted on September 26, 2011 by iwilder

 

Wangari Maathai

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The Green Party of the United States is mourning the passing of Dr. Wangari Maathai and celebrating the life of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and founder of the Mazingira Green Party and the Green Belt Movement (http://www.greenbeltmovement.org) in Kenya.

 

In 2002, Dr. Maathai was elected to the Kenyan Parliament on the Green Party ticket in the first free elections held in the country in decades and later appointed Kenyan Deputy Environment Minister.  She was a close friend to Greens in the US and throughout the world and in May 2008 hosted an Global Greens conference in Nairobi (http://www.gp.org/greenpages/content/volume11/issue1/world4.php).

Dr. Maathai and the women-based Green Belt Movement, which planted more than 30 million trees, received numerous awards, including the Petra Kelly Prize for Environment, named for the founder of the first Green Party in Germany.  The first environmentalist and first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, she was jailed in 1991 for working to stop deforestation in Kenya.

• Dr. Wangari Maathai, 1992:

We have come a long way from ignorance to deep insight, from fear to courage and from the streets to Parliament.  We moved from self to others, from ‘my issue’ to ‘our issues’, from home to communities, from national level to global.  Now we embrace the concepts of our common home and future.   Read more »

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Unconfirmed reports: Kevin Callahan killed by multiple gunshots

Posted on September 26, 2011 by kwilder

We have received unconfirmed reports, via an e-mail, that a death certificate has been issued for Kevin Callahan, the man who was shot and killed by Suffolk County Police in Selden. This matches information received through comments to the site, that there were several shots fired. Because these reports are unconfirmed, we will continue to make updates and corrections here.

Below is the description I was told via an e-mail from last night (9/25):

“I just saw the official death certificate. The cause of death is listed as ‘homicide’ from ‘multiple gun shots.'”

In addition, here are two comments, from two different sources, posted at the original story on this incident: Read more »

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