Georgiana is the subject of the movie "The Duchess" (currently on Netflix) and a relative of the young Prince and Princess of Cambridge. Get the Ultimate Fan Guide -- with plot points, history, and what happened to the historical characters -- for only 99 cents!
Green Party Peace Sign Bumper Sticker
Green Party Peace Sign Bumper Sticker
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.
**New York City Small Presses Night Tues. Nov. 17, 2015, 6:30 p.m. Sidewalk Cafe
**Boog Citys Classic Albums Live presents
For its 50th anniversary and his 75th birthday,
Phil Ochs’ I Ain’t Marching Anymore Sun. Dec. 20, 2015, 6:00 p.m.
Sidewalk Cafe
**Readings from The Portable Boog Reader 9: New York City and Cincinnati Sun. Jan. 17, 2016, 1:00 p.m. Unnameable Books
**Welcome to Boog City 9.5, Poetry, Music, and Theater Festival Fri. Feb. 12-Sun. Feb. 14, 2016
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Green Party and Libertarian Party candidates join with Our America Initiative to file lawsuit against the duopoly debate commission. Ongoing coverage at Independent Political Report: here. Good mainstream news coverage below. Read more »
“Johns Hopkins Medicine said Wednesday that it has discontinued its black lung program, the subject of…an investigation that showed how coal companies routinely beat back sick coal miners’ disability claims with help from doctors at the nationally recognized hospital.”
Breathless and Burdened Johns Hopkins terminates black lung program Unit subject of Center for Public Integrity-ABC investigation article by Jamie Smith Hopkins / September 30, 2015
Miners diagnosed with black lung — an incurable and potentially fatal disease triggered by breathing coal dust — can apply for benefits and medical care through a federal program. But the coal companies liable for those payments, aided by doctors and lawyers, have pushed back to get claims denied, the Center [The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit organization] and ABC News found…
Dr. Paul Wheeler, who headed the Johns Hopkins unit, has retired…Wheeler did not find a single case of severe black lung in the more than 1,500 cases decided since 2000 in which he offered an opinion…
A Long Island Coffeehouse promoting peace, justice, and environmental issues. Live, local music. A great place to network with like-minded souls who are peaceniks, leftists, tree huggers, and/or activists. -ows
PeaceSmiths October Coffeehouse Friday, Oct. 2nd
at 8pm
PeaceSmiths First-of-the-Season Coffeehouse A fun gathering, with a long tradition
Music by Billionaire Brian
and 90’s covers and more by J.P. Noonan
and
Poet, TBA
and Open Mic (Maybe you! Bring your song,
poem, joke, dance, or plan to save the earth)
Occupy Wall Street has joined energy with other movements such as Black Lives Matter and New Yorkers Against Bratton to create a full day of sharing, visioning, and protesting on the fourth anniversary of Occupy Wall Street.
Thursday, September 17, 2015 Morning til night
Some FaceBook links and more info below concerning schedules and speakers.
Summary: Stuff is happening in NYC all day today. Most events are at Zuccotti Park. Be at Zuccotti at 5pm for the big Assembly visioning meeting. Then, at 7pm at Zuccotti, gathering and special speakers.
Pauline will be appearing at the following events:
Sept 5-6, 2015, BRADSTOCK , Center Moriches, Check out: Bradstock for the event details
Sept 13, 1-4pm, Vegan Lunch Fundraiser, Private home in Patchogue Village, $50 a plate (100% goes toward the campaign fund of our Green Party candidate) Please RSVP by Sept 6th on the website, www.paulinegreen.us. Address and directions are also listed. Also on the website you may also pay for your seat either by Pay Pal or by mailing in cash, check, or money order. Instructions for how to make out the check are also there. Donations are appreciated and accepted.
Pauline will be speaking about environmental and additional local concerns in our own backyards, and letting us know why she is running for office, and what she intends to accomplish for our district, and Long Island. A Q&A will follow Ms. Salotti’s address.
The Discussion Also Focused On The True Meaning Of “Sanctuary City” And Why The Term Has Been Distorted
Riverhead, NY – Last month several Riverhead Town Board members publicly called for town police to hold into custody anyone suspected of being an undocumented immigrant, with or without probable cause or warrant, which would violate civil rights, lead to racial profiling and create a “climate of fear,” according to panel members.
The meeting, which was open to the public, was held Thursday at 10 am with the Riverhead Town Board and a diverse group of experts, who presented different viewpoints in regards to the “misinformation” centered around comments made by Councilwoman Jodi Giglio, Councilman Gabriel Petersen and Councilman John Dunleavy in July.
The meeting attracted about 50 community members and advocates:
Amol Sinha, director of the Suffolk County chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union;
Riverhead Police Chief David Hegermiller;
Daniela Guillen, a Honduran immigrant who came here as a child and now works for Pathstone, a non-profit organization that helps agricultural workers; and
Bishop Emil Aloysius Wcela, Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Rockville Centre,
Each presented legal and moral reasoning on why detaining people without a warrant or probable cause is unconstitutional and would put in jeopardy the public safety of the entire community.
The purpose of the meeting was to counter misinformation and anti-immigrant comments coming from the Town Board and to reach an understanding on why this kind of rhetoric is detrimental to the public safety of all community members.
“It doesn’t benefit anybody if significant portions of our community are fearful and untrusting of the institutions that are designed to serve and protect them,” said Sinha.
Although the Town Board was interested and concerned, when asked if the anti-immigrant rhetoric would stop there, town officials did not provide a definite answer.
Long Island poets Kimberly Wilder and Ian Wilder will perform at Sachem Library in Holbrook, on Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at 7pm.
The poetry reading is titled “Children & Grown-ups” featuring poems about childhood and admiration. Among the grown-ups mentioned will be parents, local poets, and other heroes.
Monthly Series at Sachem Public Library Poetry: Verse in Person
Guest Readers: Kimberly Wilder and Ian Wilder
Theme: Children & Grown-ups
Plus: Open Mic
This is a post from one of our other sites, PeaceCeouple.com. Duke Augustus is my nom de paix.
Duke Augustus: I like to remember that the 4th of July is a celebration of Independence, not of war. It is the celebration of activists coming together to speak out against human rights violations and crying “Enough! We will not take any more.” In that vein, one of our greatest Americans,Frederick Douglass spoke on July 5, 1852:
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
Mr. President, Friends and Fellow Citizens: He who could address this audience without a quailing sensation, has stronger nerves than I have. I do not remember ever to have appeared as a speaker before any assembly more shrinkingly, nor with greater distrust of my ability, than I do this day. A feeling has crept over me, quite unfavorable to the exercise of my limited powers of speech. The task before me is one which requires much previous thought and study for its proper performance. I know that apologies of this sort are generally considered flat and unmeaning. I trust, however, that mine will not be so considered. Should I seem at ease, my appearance would much misrepresent me. The little experience I have had in addressing public meetings, in country schoolhouses, avails me nothing on the present occasion.
The papers and placards say, that I am to deliver a 4th [of] July oration. This certainly sounds large, and out of the common way, for it is true that I have often had the privilege to speak in this beautiful Hall, and to address many who now honor me with their presence. But neither their familiar faces, nor the perfect gage I think I have of Corinthian Hall, seems to free me from embarrassment.
The fact is, ladies and gentlemen, the distance between this platform and the slave plantation, from which I escaped, is considerable—and the difficulties to be overcome in getting from the latter to the former, are by no means slight. That I am here to-day is, to me, a matter of astonishment as well as of gratitude. You will not, therefore, be surprised, if in what I have to say. I evince no elaborate preparation, nor grace my speech with any high sounding exordium. With little experience and with less learning, I have been able to throw my thoughts hastily and imperfectly together; and trusting to your patient and generous indulgence, I will proceed to lay them before you. Read more »
WARNING!!! If someone comes to your door for Green Party signatures, ask if they are in the Green Party. The Green Party does not cross endorse.
The Green Party of Suffolk has just been notified that Republican Judges in Huntington have been taking advantage of the quirks in NYS Election Law to try to get the Green Party line.
Update: We have a report from Islip of the same deception happening.
Ian is honored to have his poems Soul Patch and Out of Time included in the 2015 Bards Annual. Ian will be reading his poetry at the release party at 5th Anniversary Bards Day on Sunday June 28, 2015 from 2-6:30 PM (Door opens at 1:30) at the Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site, 246 Old Walt Whitman Rd, Huntington Station, NY 11746. $10 Admission.
The event will include food and dessert. There will also be raffles for sale with prizes including everything from books to tea to gift cards. The schedule includes entertainment and awards. Bards Day 2015Read more »
will be offering it’s Annual Garden Party on June 19, 2015 from 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm at Helen Butler Hall at Dominican Village, 565 Albany Avenue, Amityville, NY 11701. The $40 donation includes Napa Valley wines, appetizers, dessert, raffles and live music. The music will be performed by Sun and Moon, a couple who sing and play guitar and flute.
Proceeds will benefit Homecoming Farm & Sophia Garden. Please visit their website at www.homecomingearth.org to learn more about Homecoming Farm. For more information, contact S. Jeanne Clark, OP, earthhomej@aol.com, 631-842-6000, Ext. 338.
To register, mail your name, address, email, phone number number of seats, along with your check, to Homecoming Farm, 555 Albany Avenue, Amityville, NY 11701. Please make checks payable to Homecoming. Read more »
PeaceSmiths June Coffeehouse Friday, June 5, 2015 at 8pm
Held at First United Methodist Church 25 Broadway Ave, Amityville, NY
$7 (631) 798-0778
PeaceSmiths Last-of-the-Season Coffeehouse A fun gathering, with a long tradition
Music by HypnoSmoothie
and Deborah Lombardi, Musician and Songwriter
and
Performance and Sing-A-Long with PeaceSmiths favorite, Andy Greenhouse
and Open Mic (maybe you)
Directions and Info and Performer Notes … Read more »
Poet Walt Whitman was born on Long Island, New York, on May 31, 1819. Below are some videos and ideas about how everyone can celebrate this wonderful poet, thinker, and experimenter of language on his birthday.
For those of us on Long Island, please do not forget the annual events at The Walt Whitman Birthplace in Huntington Station…
Sunday, May 31st at 12pm will be an awards ceremony for the Young Poets Contest. It is free and open to the public (donation requested). It is a fun way to hear some words from the Poet-in-Residence, take a tour of the house, and see happy, young poets read and receive awards.
The weekend includes other events at the birthplace. On Saturday, May 30th, after the Master Class, Poet-in-Residence Yusef Komunyakaa will present an evening reading. $10 for WWBA members and $15 for nonmembers.
How a poet and nature lover celebrates Walt Whitman’s Birthday… Read more »
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**New York City Small Presses Night
