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NYC: Spraying in Brooklyn and Queens on Wed 8/3 and Thurs 8/4

Posted on August 3, 2011 by kwilder

You can get the official pesticide spraying schedule at the New York City Department of Health: here

Summer 2011
The Coordinator of the  No Spray Coalition sent this message and announcement around:

The City will be spraying large parts of Brooklyn and Queens tonight and tomorrow with toxic pesticides. Please help us stop it! The pesticides being sprayed are extremely dangerous, especially to children, the elderly, and immune compromised people. Even a phone call from you to the DOH or City Council members just asking questions about it will put them on notice and be helpful. Thanx!

NEW YORK CITY MUST STOP SPRAYING TOXIC PESTICIDES IMMEDIATELY

The City has announced it will spray dangerous pesticides in crowded residential areas in Brooklyn and Queens on Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011.

The No Spray Coalition is appalled by Mayor Bloomberg’s and the City’s Department of Health decision to renew the mass-spraying — no legitimate reasons given.

We also condemn the New York City government’s advice to residents and visitors that they personally use insect repellants containing DEET on themselves and their children. DEET is especially dangerous for children and should NEVER be used; it is associated with numerous infant deaths. The City knows this; we negotiated an agreement with the City last year that they wouldn’t recommend DEET. And here they are, again, acting in utter disregard of the health and safety of our children, and more generally of all the people of New York. Read more »

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Indian Point Evacuation Plan Is Unrealistic

Posted on August 3, 2011 by iwilder
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IW: The Obama administration has been pushing a return to nuclear energy, despite its obvious failure. Watch for them to intervene on Indian Point.

But we do know that American officials have told citizens of the United States to stay at least 50 miles away from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan as the nuclear crisis continues.

In the case of a comparable disaster here, this is what a 50-mile circle around the Indian Point nuclear plant on the Hudson River in Westchester County would look like: past Kingston in Ulster County to the north; past Bayonne and Elizabeth, N.J., to the south; almost to New Haven in the east; and into Pennsylvania to the west. It includes almost all of New York City except for Staten Island; almost all of Nassau County and much of Suffolk; all of Bergen County, N.J.; all of Fairfield, Conn.

Try evacuating that on short — or long — notice.

via Indian Point Evacuation Plan Is Unrealistic – NYTimes.com.

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Kentucky Greens Organize State Party

Posted on August 2, 2011 by iwilder
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Aware of the odds stacked against them, it was reported that 35 people met to formally organize the Kentucky Green Party last weekend.

Kentucky’s laws for becoming a “Political Party” rather than a “political organization” requires obtaining 20% of the vote in a Presidential Election, a nearly impossible task.

via Green Party Watch:  Kentucky Greens Organize State Party

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The Vegan Travel Guide: International Edition (via Autonomie Project’s Blog)

Posted on August 2, 2011 by iwilder

The Vegan Travel Guide: International Edition August is just around the corner. For serious summer enthusiasts, this change in the calendar can be a bit of a let down. But it’s still one whole month! Here’s one way to make the final weeks of summer last longer: travel. I don’t mean the staycation, one-state-over, bus or train kind of travel; I’m talking about really getting out there and immersing yourself in a totally new environment. Visit that one country you’ve been dying to see for year … Read More

via Autonomie Project’s Blog

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Nassu County coliseum vote: Link to results

Posted on August 1, 2011 by kwilder

Update: Tuesday, morning. With 99.83% of districts reporting, the voters said NO to borrowing to build a new coliseum.

           YES/SI  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .    66,829 votes
           NO/NO.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .    88,389 votes   

The vote is currently reported as 43.05%-YES to 56.95%-NO

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To find a link to the Nassau County BOE results page, go here:

http://www.nassaucountyny.gov/agencies/BOE/results.html

(update, or go back to main page and “Election Results” to get current results) Read more »

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Weiner : Walsh :: Sexting > Deadbeat Dad

Posted on August 1, 2011 by iwilder
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According to the  Chicago Sun-Times:

Freshman U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh, a tax-bashing Tea Party champion who sharply lectures President Barack Obama and other Democrats on fiscal responsibility, owes more than $100,000 in child support to his ex-wife and three children, according to documents his ex-wife filed in their divorce case in December.

IW: Yet this guy was able to loan his own campaign $40k.  Why isn’t his face on the news every night?  Why isn’t he being hounded into resigning?  Where are all the family values champions?  Why hasn’t he been sent to jail?

See Kimberly’s thoughts on the Anthony Weiner incident…

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Peace Group sponsors 29th World Peace Vigil 8/6/11

Posted on July 31, 2011 by iwilder
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SOUTH COUNTRY PEACE GROUP SPONSORS
THEIR 29th ANNUAL WORLD PEACE VIGIL
IN BELLPORT VILLAGE

Hiroshima Day, Saturday, August 6, 2011, will mark 66 Years since the atomic devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This year, as in the past 29 years, participants wearing traditional white for mourning will meet at 10:15AM on the sidewalk adjacent to the Woodland Cemetery located on Station Road, Bellport Village, south of Head of Neck Rd. They will mark the day with a silent, commemorative walk to Main St. where they will join the Women in Black. The walk will end at the Gazebo on Bellport Lane. A memorial program will be held there, including a homily by Rev. Tom Phillip, a talk by Paul Ames and music and singing led by guitarist Rick Sackett.

All who yearn for World Peace and an end to the threat of Nuclear annihilation are invited to joint the vigil. For more information call 631-714-4384.

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How to Liberate America from Wall Street Rule

Posted on July 31, 2011 by iwilder
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The dominant story of the current political debate is that the government is broke. We can’t afford to pay for public services, put people to work, or service the public debt. Yet as a nation, we are awash in money. A defective system of money, banking, and finance just puts it in the wrong places.

via How to Liberate America from Wall Street Rule | Common Dreams.

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Journalist arrested on Long Island, while trying to film the aftermath of a police chase

Posted on July 31, 2011 by kwilder

A local chance to protect freedom of the press. Concerned citizens should watch this case, and make sure the journalist is treated fairly. – KW

(excerpt from) Newsday
Cops: News cameraman arrested in Bohemia
July 30, 2011

Suffolk police on Friday arrested a news cameraman in Bohemia who was trying to videotape the aftermath of a police chase, officials said Saturday.

The cameraman, Phil Datz, was charged with misdemeanor obstruction of governmental administration, police said. The department said it is investigating the case… Read more »

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Tom Clements: Nuclear Industry Intent On Moving Waste To SC (via South Carolina Green Party)

Posted on July 30, 2011 by iwilder

Tom Clements: Nuclear Industry Intent On Moving Waste To SC Tom Clements, writing in the Friday, July 29 edition of The State newspaper issues a warning and a call to action to South Carolinians about the nuclear industry's plans to store nuclear waste in SC: Much of the nation’s 65,000 metric tons of radioactive spent fuel now stored at reactor sites across the country could be brought to South Carolina for “interim” storage and reprocessing. The prospect of becoming the new Yucca Mountain spent-fuel dum … Read More

via South Carolina Green Party

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Got royal wedding fever?: Alternative eye candy (via Peace Couple)

Posted on July 30, 2011 by iwilder

The Duke and Duchess of Peace have devoted their lives to working for nonviolence and a world without war. They believe that the nature of other royal systems is ultimately to glamorize the military and/or to distract people from politics and real life with visions of celebrity.

So, Duke Augustus and Duchess Susanna would ask people to turn their attention away from the wedding of Zara Phillip’s (Queen Elizabeth’s granddaughter) and Mike Tindall, and turn their attention towards their own families, their own cultural excitement, and/or political problems in their own communities.

via Got royal wedding fever?: Alternative eye candy… | Peace Couple.

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Peter Yarrow as apologist on Tim DeChristopher trial

Posted on July 29, 2011 by iwilder

Peter Yarrow’s article about Tim DeChristopher gets a lot right, and a lot wrong.   Yarrow rightly pins the blame squarely on President Bush for wrongly scheduling auctions to sell off mineral rights for protected land

Then Yarrow veers off track, both factually and morally.  His misdirection is based on his inability to  pin the blame squarely on President Obama for prosecuting DeChristopher.   DeChristopher’s acts should have been nullified when the auction was withdrawn.  There should have been no prosecution because, in essence, there was no auction. Yarrow goes on to  indict DeChristopher for not having the means to pay for the leases.  That was never tested.  DeChristopher never reached the point where payment was allowed.  Yes, he may not have had the funds when the bid was made, but he did when he would have been required to pay.  This is no different then how businessmen in this country commonly buy things they can’t afford, and only obtain the financing when the bill is due.

Lastly, Yarrow insists that DeChristopher has to go to jail since his actions were conceived as civil disobedience, Yarrow only quibbles with the number of years.  Prison is the risk of civil disobedience, not the automatic price. When government is forced to recognize the error of its ways by the civil disobedience, like it did here, then there is no reason for a jail term to be exacted.  Sadly, this prosecution is a hallmark of the Obama administration, not an aberration. The Obama administration has extended and reinforced the imperial presidency, including the continual prosecution of whistle-blowers.

from via Tim DeChristophers brave act of civil disobedience by Peter Yarrow

In March, Tim DeChristopher was convicted of two felony counts for a nonviolent act of civil disobedience. Acting out of his deepest convictions and his abiding concern for the survival of humankind, Tim bid on oil and gas leases on federal land that he didnt have the means to pay for. On Tuesday, he could be sentenced to a maximum of 10 years in prison for his actions.

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Tim DeChristopher’s Court Speech: ‘This Is What Patriotism Looks Like’ (via Food Freedom)

Posted on July 28, 2011 by iwilder

April 2012 Update: Tim DeChristopher was put in isolation, and now seems to be let out of isolation. Story at The L Magazine: here.
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Tim DeChristopher's Court Speech: 'This Is What Patriotism Looks Like' Tim DeChristopher, whose act of civil disobedience stopped the illegal auction of oil and gas leases on thousands of acres of public land, was sentenced yesterday to two years in federal prison for fraudulently halting illegal government actions. This was his statement to the court. Thank you for the opportunity to speak before the court. When I first met Mr. Manross, the sentencing officer who prepared the pre-sentence report, he explained that … Read More

via Food Freedom

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Amy Winehouse: “She lived jazz”

Posted on July 27, 2011 by kwilder

Kimberly writes: I have been so saddened by the death of Amy Winehouse. I always did love her voice. Though, since I did not appreciate all the sentiments in her lyrics, I never focused on her so much. I did wonder what about the way her voice and music just woke me up and made me identify. I think part of it is similar to my appreciation of Jane Eyre. I just love strong, proud women with attitude. Today, as I was reading reflections on Amy Winehouse’s passing, I found some folks who were able to articulate more about the magic of Amy Winehouse’s music…

Quotes from an MTV story:

Lady Gaga posted: “Amy changed pop music forever. I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.”

Russell Brand: Read more »

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