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The Green Party has continually opposed entry into war and has consistently called for the immediate return of our troops, in stark contrast to the Democratic and Republican parties. Today we march, tomorrow we vote Green Party.
Occupy Wall Street: What Just Happened?
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Reflections on Occupy Wall Street, with photos, fun, and good wishes for the future. eBook, Occupy Wall Street: What Just Happened? (Only $.99 !) In the eBook, the Occupy movement is explored through original reporting, photographs, cartoons, poetry, essays, and reviews.The collection of essays and blog posts records the unfolding of Occupy into the culture from September 2011 to the present. Authors Kimberly Wilder and Ian Wilder were early supporters of Occupy, using their internet platforms to communicate the changes being created by the American Autumn.
The eBook is currently available on Amazon for Kindle;Barnes & Noble Nook ; Smashwords independent eBook seller; and a Kobo for 99 cents and anyone can read it using their Kindle/Nook Reader, smart phone, or computer.
The wind blows through your hair, your muscles tense with exercise and your ears fill with the sound of your tires rolling over the pavement as your ride down the street. You are enjoying this beautiful day as you bike to work, when BAM: a car comes flying by and you breathe in the nasty exhaust as it speeds by you. Sound familiar? It sounds like my every day commute! But what if it could be different? What if you could ride, walk, live, and eve … Read More
Gov. Scott Walker says he wants state workers covered by collective bargaining agreements to “contribute more” to their pension and health insurance plans. Accepting Gov. Walker’ s assertions as fact, and failing to check, creates the impression that somehow the workers are getting something extra, a gift from taxpayers. They are not. Out of every dollar that funds Wisconsin’ s pension and health insurance plans for state workers, 100 cents comes from the state workers.
The documents reveal that the wastewater, which is sometimes hauled to sewage plants not designed to treat it and then discharged into rivers that supply drinking water, contains radioactivity at levels higher than previously known, and far higher than the level that federal regulators say is safe for these treatment plants to handle.
Other documents and interviews show that many E.P.A. scientists are alarmed, warning that the drilling waste is a threat to drinking water in Pennsylvania. Their concern is based partly on a 2009 study, never made public, written by an E.P.A. consultant who concluded that some sewage treatment plants were incapable of removing certain drilling waste contaminants and were probably violating the law.
The Times also found never-reported studies by the E.P.A. and a confidential study by the drilling industry that all concluded that radioactivity in drilling waste cannot be fully diluted in rivers and other waterways.
Ron Thomson was a beloved member of the PeaceSmiths community. Ron passed away on February 20, 2011. This Friday, PeaceSmiths will be dedicating its coffeehouse to Ron. The evening will include music by George Mann, and a tribute to Ron from Veterans for Peace Long Island. More information at the PeaceSmiths website: here.
Some notes from the program shared at The Life Celebration Service for Ronald George Thomson, Jr. held at the First United Methodist Church: Read more »
– Koch Industries won massive government contracts using their close relationship with the Bush administration. The Bush administration, in a deal even conservatives alleged was a quid pro quo because of Koch’s campaign donations, handed Koch Industries a lucrative contract to supply the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve with 8 million barrels of crude oil. The SPR deal, done initially in 2002, was renewed in 2004 by Bush administration officials. During the occupation of Iraq, Koch won significant contracts to buy Iraqi crude oil
–Although Koch campaigned vigorously against health reform — running attack ads, sponsoring anti-health reform Tea Parties, and comparing health reform to the Holocaust — Koch Industries applied for health reform subsidies made possible by the Obama administration.
– The Koch brothers have claimed that they oppose government intervention in the market, but Koch Industries lobbies aggressively for taxpayer handouts. In Alaska, blogger Andrew Halcro reported that a Koch subsidiary in Fairbanks asked Gov. Sarah Palin’s administration to use taxpayer money to bail out one of their failing refinery.
(excerpt from) WTAQ news State Capitol Access Limited Again Tuesday
Tuesday March 1, 2011
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) – The public’s access to the State Capitol will be limited again Tuesday, when Governor Scott Walker speaks to the Legislature about his next state budget…
Police only let a few in at a time – and they allowed other protestors to enter if they were escorted by a lawmaker. The American Civil Liberties Union wrote Administration Secretary Mike Huebsch and said the selective admitting of individuals was, “presumptively unconstitutional.” Read more »
Memorial tribute to visual artist,
veteran, and PeaceSmiths volunteer Ron Thomson 1943-2011
with a presentation by
Camillo Mac Bica of Veterans for Peace Long Island
IW: We spent the last year culling through my parents’ archives. Both of my parents were activists. My mother was very much a letter-writer. She was very involved with the League of Women Voters in the early 70s, and spent a lot of time lobbying elected officials. Unfortunately, I do not have her letters in favor of a woman’s right to choose at the time of Roe v. Wade. But I do have NY Assembly Speaker Perry Duryea’s response.
The crisis in Wisconsin has the potential to drastically diminish the rights, salaries, and working conditions of Americans throughout the country. Whether they are public employees, private sector employees, union members, or non-union workers, America’s working families will suffer if the conservative efforts in Wisconsin are successful. Public-sector employees are entitled to collective bargaining rights, as we all are. This is essential to … Read More
See bottom of this post for link to live stream of Governor Scott Walker’s Tuesday speech to legislature…
(excerpt from) Journal Sentinel on-line WSEU files unfair labor practice charge against Walker
by Don Walker of the Journal Sentinel / Feb. 28, 2011 12:43 p.m
The Wisconsin State Employees Union on Monday filed an unfair labor practice charge against Gov. Scott Walker, accusing him of refusing to bargain on a new contract.
The complaint was filed with the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission.
“This governor has never made any attempt to contact the unions he is attacking, much less negotiate in good faith as required by law,” said Marty Beil, the union’s executive director. “Instead of trying to find real solutions to the challenges facing the state, the governor is attempting to dictate terms. This not only is ineffective, it’s against the law,” Beil said.
Beginning on April 21, and continuing on the third Thursday of each month, the Cinema Arts Centre’s Sky Room will be home to the Folk Music Society of Huntington’s Hard Luck Café series. The 8:30 p.m. concerts, usually featuring a split bill with two artists/acts, will be preceded by open mics at 7:30 p.m. Admission will be $7 for Cinema Arts Centre and Folk Music Society of Huntington members; $10 for nonmembers.
April’s featured artists will be singer songwriters Lara Herscovitch andJosh Joffen. Herscovitch was Connecticut’s State Troubadour for 2009-2010, while Joffen is a two-time winner of the prestigious Kerrville New Folk Competition for Songwriters.
Note: Joffen and Robert Bruey, another Long Island-based singer-songwriter, also will perform a few songs during a free reception in the Sky Room in honor of the new partnership on Thursday, March 3, from 7:30-8:30 p.m.
Phil Ochs
On Wednesday and Thursday, April 6 and 7, the Folk Music Society of Huntington joins the Cinema Arts Centre in co-presenting two screenings of the new documentary “Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune,” along with a discussion of the film featuring the late American troubadour’s sister, Sonny Ochs (on April 6), and filmmaker Kenneth Bowser (on April 7). Folk harmony trio Gathering Time also will perform a few original numbers and songs by Phil Ochs during a reception following the film on April 7. Read more »
Our latest video “American Workers Vs Multi-Billionaires” was filmed on location in Madison, Wisconsin, where thousands of hard working Americans came together in unity to fight back against a Governor bought and paid for by Billionaires to break up Unions and deny workers collective bargaining and a living wage. “American Workers Vs Multi-Billionaires” was produced by Cynik Lethal and directed by Paradise Gray.
LYRICS
Scott Walker works for multi billionaires
John Boehner works for multi billionaires
while corporations get billions in welfare
and millions in this country been out of work for years
Sarah Palin works for multi billionaires
American workers vs multi billionaires
they wanna end social security and medicare
while millions in this country don’t have a dime to spare
Can main street get a bailout
Tell the president our checks weren’t mailed out
Tell the house of representatives and senate
And whatever business got the stimulus and spent it
Now they getting record profit that’s tripling with no limits
But they cutting jobs and unemployment benefits have ended
How we gone live with no income coming in
And the little help we get is cut from the budget then
What’s the role of government
Do workers stand a chance if multi billionaires are running it
Oh now you worried bout the deficit and cutting it
But when them banks needed billions you had enough for them.
Them car companies you had bucks for them
2 wars rebuilding 2 countries guess we stuck with them
the average citizen just ain’t lucky then
cause we be getting pimped so I guess we getting fucked again
Rush Limbaugh works for multi billionaires
Bill O’Reilly works for multi billionaires
while corporations get billions in welfare
and millions in this country been out of work for years
Sean Hannity works for multi billionaires
Crazy Glenn Beck works for multi billionaires
they wanna end social security and medicare
while millions in this country don’t have a dime to spare
When did the American worker become the enemy
Why is wanting a living wage such a penalty
What happened to justice and liberty
These billionaire haters wanna crush us literally
On the box is Murdoch and his foxes
And if you watch it you might as well be an ostrich
They terrorists cause they hold facts hostage
24 hours straight of we hate what Barack did
If you want to unionize your a communist
But if you buy a congressman they just call you a lobbyist
It’s so obvious but here’s where the problem is
they act like regular Americans but they sloppy rich
Why you think they wanna cut taxes
cause every single one of them in the higher brackets
This ain’t white or black it’s class warfare time for action
Just look at wide the gap is
American workers vs multi billionaires
The middle class vs multi billionaires
while corporations get billions in welfare
and millions in this country been out of work for years
Rupert Murdoch is multi billionaires
the Koch brothers are multi Billionaire
they wanna end social security and medicare
while millions in this country don’t have a dime to spare
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The wind blows through your hair, your muscles tense with exercise and your ears fill with the sound of your tires rolling over the pavement as your ride down the street. You are enjoying this beautiful day as you bike to work, when BAM: a car comes flying by and you breathe in the nasty exhaust as it speeds by you. Sound familiar? It sounds like my every day commute! But what if it could be different? What if you could ride, walk, live, and eve … Read More
