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Impact of War conference: Thurs to Sat, April 14,15,16 (via PeaceSmiths)

Posted on April 13, 2011 by iwilder

This looks cool! Sent over from our friends at Veterans for Peace Long Island: VFPLI members will be participating in a Hofstra University's Conference "Into Sunlight: the Impact of War on the Social Body From the Vietnam Era to the Present" Featured in this conference will be a dance by the Robin Becker Company based upon David Maraniss's Pulitzer Prize winning account of two days in October 1967 entitled "They Marched Into Sunlight." The Confer … Read More

via PeaceSmiths

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Hippity Hoppity, Your Fair Trade Easter’s On Its Way! (via Fair Trade Trends)

Posted on April 13, 2011 by iwilder

Hippity Hoppity, Your Fair Trade Easter's On Its Way! As our loyal readers know, we love to provide you with the inspiration and resources to Fair Trade your holiday celebrations (check out our complete guides to Fair Trading your St. Patrick’s Day, Valentine’s Day, & Halloween … Read More

via Fair Trade Trends

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Movie star may have caught Murdoch!

Posted on April 13, 2011 by kwilder

(excerpt from) Periscope Post
Hugh Grant turns the tables on the News of the World
The News of the World phone hacking scandal continues, as Hugh Grant hacks a hack.

Alongside “actor” and “celebrity” Hugh Grant can now add “citizen journalist” to his CV. Clearing his own path through the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, Grant has covertly recorded a former NoW journalist speaking about the illegal practices of the paper and the collusion of the police, Rupert Murdoch and even the prime minister. You might say that Grant has hacked a hack…

Hugh Grant’s account is: here.

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Video: Our government frisks innocent, 6-year-old girl

Posted on April 13, 2011 by kwilder

KW: If you watch this video — which it is hard to do — you will see how the techniques the TSA uses to convince the child to succombe to this search, and feel assured, could be modeled by any child molester. This is very bad for our children, and our country. (In some places the youtube video of the incident has been removed. So, showing several sets below.)

(excerpt from) Seattle Times/AP
Ky. parents: TSA frisked our 6-year-old daughter

A Kentucky couple wants the TSA to change how it screens children after their 6-year-old daughter was frisked at the New Orleans airport… Read more »

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Serially Sane Welcomes Your Posts

Posted on April 13, 2011 by iwilder

Everything seems to be shifting: the planet, politics, the demographics of nations along with their leadership, attitudes, technology. Change is exciting, scary, depressing, exhilarating, curious, and returns us, no matter how old, to feelings of vulnerability. This unsettled feeling elicits in me a sense of losing my bearings, wondering how my perceptions of the world and what is happening can be so different from what I hear and read. I am only feeling serially sane.

Hence the name of this blog: seriallysane.blogspot.com.

via Serially Sane.

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Chart of US Energy Use Reveals Herculean Effort Needed to Ditch Oil, Coal : TreeHugger

Posted on April 12, 2011 by iwilder

There’s really no excuse for that — to lose 54% of the energy we generate across the nation due to inefficiency and pure wastefulness. And there’s a reason that energy efficiency aficionados are constantly making calls to pick the plentiful ‘low-hanging fruit’. They’re right, of course. At a moment in time when we’re fully aware of the consequences of burning coal for power, we still can’t even be bothered to work to capture and utilize all of the energy it creates?

via Chart of US Energy Use Reveals Herculean Effort Needed to Ditch Oil, Coal : TreeHugger.

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when it comes on like a dream by brian sendrowitz

Posted on April 12, 2011 by iwilder

released 08 May 2004
songs by brian sendrowitz
except “television” and “the damage done” by brian sendrowitz and timothy lannen

produced by phil jimenez
featuring brian sendrowitz, phil jimenez, jim mansfield and vanesa alvero.

cover photo by keith green

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$16 Billion under Cuomo’s Couch Cushions (via Sherry Talks Back)

Posted on April 12, 2011 by iwilder

In addition to that fund, according to the Green Party candidate who ran against Cuomo, Howie Hawkins, if New York returned to the tax rates it had when the rebate was created, 95% of state residents would get a tax cut, yet tax revenue would increase by $8 billion a year. In other words, there are cash reserves that could be tapped rather than face the horrific potential of slashing 15,000 jobs out of a state workforce of 190,000.

An old friend told me that her family used to ignore the change that would slip out of pockets beneath the couch cushions so that during the final desperate week of every month when finances were tightest, “lost” change was recovered and went toward beer. A creative savings plan if you ask me. In an excellent report about New York budget cuts protests recently, I came across something I’d never read about before. Wouldn’t you know it, but New Yor … Read More

via Sherry Talks Back

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Did Obama’s Election mean the End of the Anti-War Movement?

Posted on April 12, 2011 by iwilder
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A new study by U-M’s Michael Heaney and colleague Fabio Rojas of Indiana University shows that the antiwar movement in the United States demobilized as Democrats, who had been motivated to participate by anti-Republican sentiments, withdrew from antiwar protests when the Democratic Party achieved electoral success, first with Congress in 2006 and then with the presidency in 2008.

“As president, Obama has maintained the occupation of Iraq and escalated the war in Afghanistan,” said Heaney, U-M assistant professor of organizational studies and political science. “The antiwar movement should have been furious at Obama’s ‘betrayal’ and reinvigorated its protest activity.

via Did Obama’s Election mean the End of the Anti-War Movement? | Spero News.

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Only 2% of mercury-containing CFLs are recycled | Grist

Posted on April 12, 2011 by iwilder

IW: We need to move to LED bulbs.

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Every year, Americans recycle only 2 percent of the compact fluorescent light bulbs they toss. The unrecycled portion leads to the release of four tons of mercury into the environment annually. That’s almost 10 percent of the amount of mercury released by coal fired power plants, which are this country’s No. 1 source of the fish-and-pregnant-woman-contaminating pollutant.

via Americans are crap at recycling mercury-containing CFLs—here’s how to do better | Grist.

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NY Guv Cuomo a Tea Party Dandy – NYPOST.com

Posted on April 12, 2011 by iwilder
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“It’s interesting to see a Democrat make serious budget cuts. Cuomo sounds like a Tea Party member when you hear him talk,” Mark Meckler, co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, told The Post editorial board.

via Andy a Tea Party Dandy – NYPOST.com.

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Pitchfork: Ted Leo Sings Union Song for Wisconsin

Posted on April 11, 2011 by iwilder

Like the Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle before him, punk rock lifer Ted Leo has announced his support for Wisconsin public workers’ unions current struggles by posting a quick cover of a union anthem from a Depression-era lefty-hero folksinger. Yesterday on his website, Leo posted a couple of versions of “I Guess I Planted”, one of the unfinished Woody Guthrie songs that Billy Bragg and Wilco put to music on the first Mermaid Avenue album in 1998. Leo did both electric and acoustic covers of it, recorded in his parents’ basement. Above, you can stream the electric version. Below, you’ll find video of him playing the acoustic one in said basement.

via Pitchfork: Ted Leo Sings Union Song for Wisconsin.

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Green Party join NY UnCut Protest against Guv Cuomo’s Tea Party Budget

Posted on April 11, 2011 by iwilder

“Wisconsin showed us that working people don’t have to roll over and just take the attacks on their living standards from the two major parties. In Wisconsin, the Republican Governor led the attacks. In NY, it has been a Democrat Governor, who began attacking public workers and their modest pensions months before he was elected. It’s time for New Yorkers to reject the misinformation peddled by the two major parties. Three decades on unrelenting bipartisan assault on the living standards of average New Yorkers have resulted in the worst Depression in 70 plus years, the greatest income inequality since 1927 and a massive budget deficit from huge tax cuts to the rich. The people of NY needs to rise up and say that this austerity budget will not stand,”

via Green Party New York.

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My LI Pulse Green Energy Rant: Director’s Cut

Posted on April 11, 2011 by iwilder
Carter Solar Panel Photos

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IW: My article: starts:

Over 30 years ago, President Carter put solar panels on the White House. But don’t go looking for them—President Reagan took them down. Bush 1 and Clinton kept them down. Bush 2 did put three smallish solar collectors on the White House grounds for a maintenance shed and the pool, but with little-to-no fanfare. He also built his Texas ranch to be off the grid with geothermal heating, but unfortunately W’s sustainable energy policy stopped at his doorstep. He probably couldn’t have his oil buddies thinking he was a tree hugger.

You can read the rest on  Has the Green Revolution’s Engine Seized? | Long Island Pulse Magazine

For those of you who love DVDs with the Director’s cut and special features, here are some of the paragraphs left on the cutting room floor: Read more »

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