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Green Party New York Challenges Cuomo’s Alice in Wonderland Approach to Budget

Posted on February 4, 2011 by iwilder

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Opposes Cuomo’s Proposals for Tax Cuts to the Rich, Job Cuts, Says Single Payer Health Care is the Solution to Medicaid

Howie Hawkins, the former Green Party candidate for Governor, said today that Cuomo’s proposals to resolve the state’s alleged $9 billion state budget deficit by giving a $5 billion tax cut for the wealthy and laying off more than 10,000 state workers was doomed to failure and would be rejected by state lawmakers.

Hawkins challenged Cuomo’s claim of transparency, saying Cuomo’s penchant for micromanaging was freezing out the public and was at least partially to blame for Cuomo’s inability to attract qualified Commissioners and senior staff. Most of his Cabinet remains unfilled a month into his administration.

via Green Party New York.

Filed under: 3rd party, governor, grassroots democracy, Green Party, new york, News, politics, US Politics | Tagged: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, aliceinwonderland, andrew cuomo, Deficit, Lewis Carroll, Medicaid, new york, politics, united states, wall street | 2 Comments »

Fri. 2/4/2011: Crowds and good spirits in Tahrir Square (and Live Feed)

Posted on February 4, 2011 by kwilder

Live Feeds from Egypt:
**HERE**

KW writes: Not sure how many updates I can give today. So, above is the link again to Common Dreams where they have live feed, including Al-Jazeera.
Some good news of today: Hundreds of thousands of anti-government demonstrators in Tahrir Square. Al-Jazeera also reports that there are many famous Egpytian artists, actors, and musicians who have come to Tahrir Square… Read more »

Filed under: international politics, News, politics | Tagged: Al Jazeera, Day of Departure, Day of Leaving, Departure Day, Egypt, Egyptian protesters, Egytptian State TV, Liberation Square, live-feed, live-feed from Egypt, Tahrir Square | 2 Comments »

Worldwide Tahrir: Sit-ins at Egyptian embassies around the world…

Posted on February 3, 2011 by kwilder

On, Friday, protesters in Egypt will have a “Day of Departure”, by gathering in Tahrir Square, Cairo, demanding the resignation of President Mubarak. Al-Jazeera English reported on a movement for people around the world to hold solidarity sit-ins at Egyptian embassies in their own cities. Here is some info. If you can give details about your own city, please write in the comments.

http://worldwidetahrir.wordpress.com/
Read more »

Filed under: Action Alert!, activism, News, politics, progressive politics | Tagged: Day of Departure, Egypt, Egyptian embassies, Egyptian protests, Human Rights, Mubarak, sit-ins, Tahrir, worldwide Tahrir | 1 Comment »

Urgent: An Amnesty International staff member and others were detained by police in Egypt this morning

Posted on February 3, 2011 by kwilder

Important Update 2/5/2011: Amnesty staffers and other human rights activists freed. Amnesty demands investigation as to why detained. Story at Amnesty International: here.

KW writes: Oh, my goodness. This should really hit home for a lot of activists who know, and benefit from, the good work of Amnesty International.

Thinking about the Egyptian government’s move, it really seems just bizarre — desperate, stupid, ill-advised, etc. — for the Eygptian government and Mubarak to detain an Amnesty person. What is the Egyptian government thinking? Amnesty is the gold standard of responsible, human rights work. Amnesty has the networks (and, please, be the network) to lobby back. This situation is so hard to believe. And, yet, I received the message below in my in-box from Amnesty, a message I am usually receiving from Amnesty about some poor soul who does not work for them…

Thursday, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:10pm:

Urgent: An Amnesty International staff member and others were detained by police in Cairo, Egypt this morning.

Call on Egyptian authorities to immediately release Amnesty International staff member and other human rights monitors.

Dear [Friend of Amnesty International],

Our hearts nearly stopped this morning when we heard the news – one of our own, a member of the Amnesty International staff, was detained by police in Cairo after the Hisham Mubarak Law Center was taken over by military police.

Our colleague was taken along with at least three others, including a delegate from Human Rights Watch. We do not know their current whereabouts. Read more »

Filed under: Action Alert!, activism, News, politics, progressive politics | Tagged: activism, Amnesty International, Egypt, Egyptian protests, Human Rights, Mubarak | Leave a Comment »

Friends of the Edgewood Preserve 2011 Upcoming Events

Posted on February 3, 2011 by iwilder

All events that take place at the Edgewood Preserve are free of charge. We always meet in the parking area, near the information kiosk.

March 19, 2011, 7p.m. to 9p.m. Full Worm Moon Hike. Celebrate the full moon and the arrival of spring on Long Island. Limited to 12 people. Reservations are required for this hike. Bring small flashlight and dress warmly. Rain and cloudy conditions will cancel this hike.

Saturday, April 23, 2011, 9:30a.m. to 12:30p.m. 6th Annual Earth Day at Edgewood! Come help spruce up hiking trails, pick up litter from parking lot, pull mugwort and more. We need lots of volunteers. All welcome. Water, gloves, bags, and tools provided, but your own pruners and gloves are welcomed and helpful. Last year we had almost 200 volunteers! Let’s do it again…

Friends of Edgewood Preserve will celebrate its 5th Anniversary in May 2011. We are planning a cocktail party fundraiser to celebrate all we have accomplished and to honor some very special friends who have helped along the way. Stay tuned for date and details!

Sunday, June 5, 2011 is World Environment Day. Event for families and kids to be announced.

Friday, July 15, 2011, 8:30p.m. to 10:30p.m. Full Buck Moon Hike. Celebrate the full moon as we hike Edgewood on a summer evening. Limited to 12 people. Reservations required for this hike. Bring a small flashlight, wear closed shoes (no sandals!). Rain and cloudy conditions will cancel this hike. RAINDATE: Saturday, August 13, 2011, 8:00p.m. to 10:00p.m., Full Sturgeon Moon.

Saturday, December 10, 2011, 5:30p.m. to 7:30p.m. Full Cold Moon Hike. Celebrate the coming of winter. Limited to 12 people. Reservations required for this hike. Bring a small flashlight and dress warmly. Rain, heavy snow or icy conditions will cancel this hike.

via Friends of the Edgewood Preserve | “Restoring and protecting Long Island’s only pitch pine scrub oak wildlife habitat.”.

Filed under: Calendar, Ecology, Environment, events, long island, News | Tagged: Community centre, Community service, earth day, long island, Lunch, Moon, Solar System, united states | Leave a Comment »

Live from Egypt: Link and updates

Posted on February 3, 2011 by kwilder

Live-Feed, etc. at Common Dreams: here.
Above link: In order to follow the situation in Egypt, Common Dreams news site has a page with a live-stream from Al-Jazeera English, live-stream of Democracy Now! on-the-ground coverage, and a Twitter feed. (The Twitter feed is helpful when Twitter is over capacity.)

Twitter reports are saying that 3 Al-Jazeera journalists have been arrested. Though, I don’t hear that announced on the Al-Jazeera English channel. So, I am unclear about that.

There are reports from several news outlets saying that Pro-Mubarak supporters assaulted journalists; that the government may be rounding up journalists and destroying equipment; and that Egypt state television has been blaming the protests on foreign journalists, which is inciting violence against journalists.

Tomorrow – Friday – the protestors are planning another big gathering day, and some religious leaders have told people to go to Tahrir square.

—Important updates…

Some Ministers of Egypt, including the Minister of the Interior, are being questioned and detained, denied the right to travel, and their assets seized. Evidently, this is related to the government investigating why police did not act on Friday. I think this is the government saying that they are trying to clean up people who made mistakes to hurt protesters.

US speaks out against treatment of journalists in Egypt
Story: here, excerpt below

Washington (CNN) — A spokesman for the United States blasted forces in Egypt Thursday who have harassed, detained and beaten journalists.

“There is a concerted campaign to intimidate international journalists in Cairo and interfere with their reporting,” U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Thursday on Twitter. “We condemn such actions.”…

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned the attacks…

Journalists became targets Wednesday — they were beaten, bloodied, harassed and detained by men, most all in some way aligned with Mubarak.

Filed under: News | Tagged: Egypt, Egypt protests, foreign journalists, Journalists, Mubarak | Leave a Comment »

LI Co Still Providing Execution Drugs: Henry Schein

Posted on February 3, 2011 by iwilder

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A LONG ISLAND-BASED COMPANY IS PROVIDING DRUGS FOR EXECUTIONS. TAKE ACTION against HENRY SCHEIN.

Henry Schein received Fortune Magazine’s “Most Admired Company” award in 2010. But this drug company, based in Melville, New York, SOLD THE STATE OF KENTUCKY PANCURONIUM BROMIDE so that Kentucky could continue to perform executions.

Other pharmaceutical suppliers are refusing to sell drugs to states if these drugs might be used in lethal injection, including KRS pharmaceuticals and Hospira. More and more, there is resistance on the part of companies that have ethical statements to provide death drugs. The momentum most not stop! Let’s keep the pressure on these companies and let them know we are watching them and will make sure everyone knows about their involvement.

What you can do: Read more »

Filed under: Action Alert!, activism, Death Penalty, local, long island, Long Island Politics, News | Tagged: Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals, business, Food and Drug administration, HENRY SCHEIN, Hospira, Kentucky, Pharmaceutical, united states | Leave a Comment »

The Dark Side of Chocolate 2/13/11

Posted on February 2, 2011 by iwilder

What kind of chocolate will you be buying for your Valentine?

Sunday, February 13 at 7:30pm

THE DARK SIDE OF CHOCOLATE In Person: Filmmaker U Roberto Romano

Chocolate Tasting by Roxanne Browning

THE DARK SIDE OF CHOCOLATE, a shocking documentary that investigates how thousands of children are being purchased from their parents in poverty stricken West Africa for a pittance, or in some cases outright stolen and then enslaved on cocoa farms, will be screened at Cinema Arts Centre’s popular Let’s Eat! Films on Food series, co-presented by Slow Food Huntington on Sunday, February 13 at 7:30pm. Following the film, there will be a discussion with Filmmaker U Roberto Romano and Roxanne Browning, NY’s chocolate sommelier, will lead a mini-chocolate tasting of an Ecuadorian chocolate from a Direct Trade chocolate producer, The Kallari Association.

$9 Members / $13 Public (Includes Reception & Chocolate Tasting) Tickets can be purchased online, www.CinemaArtsCentre.org at the box office during theatre hours or by calling Brown Paper Tickets toll free at 1-800-838-3006. CAC 423 Park Ave, Huntington 631-423-7611 Read more »

Filed under: Ecology, economy, film, Food, News, social & economic justice, video | Tagged: chocolate, Côte d'Ivoire, Denmark, facebook, Mali, new york city, slow food, West Africa | 1 Comment »

NYC: City panel votes to close 10 schools

Posted on February 2, 2011 by kwilder

A video with many good insights at an NYC local FOX News: here
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(excerpt from) NY Daily News
City panel votes to close 10 schools after five-and-a-half hours of testimony
by Rachel Monahan / Wednesday, February 2nd 2011

After more than five-and-a-half hours of testimony from hundreds of speakers, a city panel voted early Wednesday morning to close 10 schools.

About 2,000 parents, students and teachers flooded the city Education Department’s Panel for Educational Policy meeting about not only closing schools, but also about requiring existing buildings to share space with new schools…

A second meeting on closing another 13 schools will be held Thursday… Read more »

Filed under: children, Education, New York State Politics, News, politics | Tagged: Cathy Black, charter schools, education politics, Mayor Bloomberg, NYC education, NYC Education Department, NYC politics, NYC public schools, Panel for Education Policy, public education, school closings | Leave a Comment »

Groundhog Day 2011: What do the groundhogs say about winter?

Posted on February 2, 2011 by kwilder

Groundhog Celebrates Valentine's Day: 2011

A 2012 Long Island post-ground hog event at www.peacesmiths.org

On Wednesday, February 2, 2011, here is a round-up of ground hog reports for Ground Hog Day:

The most famous, prognosticator,
Punxsutawney Phil says:

No shadow, Spring is near.

More, groundhog predictions: Read more »

Filed under: News | Tagged: early Spring, Ground hog, Ground Hog Day, Ground Hog's Day, groundhog, Holtsville Hal, long island, Long Island events, Long Island weather, prediction, Punxsutawney Phil, Spring, Staten Island Chuck, Weather, weather prediction, winter | 3 Comments »

Into Eternity 2/2 -2/15/11 & Trailer

Posted on February 1, 2011 by iwilder

Playing Feb 2 – Feb 15 Only at: FILM FORUM, 209 W. Houston Street, bet. 6th & 7th Ave, NYC, 212-727-8110

From NIRS: Read more »

Filed under: activism, Ecology, energy, Environment, Global Warming, grassroots democracy, international politics | Tagged: Finland, Joanna Macy, Michael Madsen, new york city, Nuclear, Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant, Radioactive waste, united states, Yucca Mountain | 1 Comment »

Real news and live feed from Egypt

Posted on February 1, 2011 by kwilder

*A Long Island activist, Zabby, suggests calling US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to ask that the US withhold the 1.5 billion to 2 billion dollars in aid that we give Egypt. We are giving Egypt military aid and weapons, and they are using it to oppress people. That is wrong. You can call the Secretary of State’s office at: (202) 647-6607. (Be polite.)

More than a million people in Liberation Square in Egypt!

Update: 9:20am/EST: Two million people in Liberation Square!

Live Feed at Al-Jazeera, via Common Dreams: here.

KW writes: LOL! You would think that the US media would not have to undercount demonstrations in other countries. But, so be it. The AP/Newsday story says this morning, “More than a quarter-million people flooded into the heart of Cairo Tuesday…” Though, Al-Jazeera English says in print that there are “at least a million”, and on the live-feed, someone is reporting that it is near two million.

In addition, someone on Al-Jazeera said that across the country, there are eight million protesters, which means that 10% of all the 80 million Egyptian population are protesting.
Read more »

Filed under: activism, international politics, News | Tagged: Al Jazeera, crowd count, Egypt, Egypt live feed, Egypt video, Egyptian crowd count, Eyptian protest, Liberation Square, live-feed, Tahrir Square, Woodstock | Leave a Comment »

Reichel claims debate victory; Admonishes Mainstream Press for Failing the Public

Posted on February 1, 2011 by iwilder

Matt Reichel

This Wednesday, the four contenders for the now-vacant 47th ward aldermanic seat met in a packed gymnasium at Coonley Elementary School, and discussed a number of issues ranging from TIF’s to environmental policy.

Reichel emerged from the debate as upbeat as ever: “This debate marked a clear victory for the Reichel camp. I was the most energetic, determined and progressive of the candidates, and provided the most well-founded and realistic solutions to the problems facing this city.”

While the debate remained civil throughout, the candidates did find room to inject friendly jabs at one another. In response to Reichel’s pleas to the community to join him in cleaning out the ward organization and removing the machine influence that exists there now, Tom O’Donnell disparaged Reichel and claimed “This isn’t about “machine” this or “machine” that. This is about getting things done.” Reichel retorted: “With all due respect, Mr. O’Donnell, the Democratic machine is very real, and poses a real road block to getting anything done for the 99% of us that are not integral members of it.”

Mr. O’Donnell is a long-time member of Ald. Schulter’s ward organization.

Reichel continued: “Our progressive and populist message resonated most with voters in attendance, who were also impressed by the enthusiasm of our campaign. Today, we have made a big step forward to victory on February 22nd.”

Reichel also took the chance on Thursday to comment on the thorough lack of mainstream press coverage of the event:

“I don’t know if anyone at the Sun Times, Tribune or NPR has gotten the memo, but THERE IS AN OPEN ELECTION IN THE 47TH WARD. YOU MIGHT WANT TO COVER IT.”

“The press serves the public function of making people aware of civic and political affairs. In this, the first open election in this ward in 36 years, you would think that there would be interest in providing comprehensive election coverage for our neighbors in the 47th ward. To this extent, the mainstream press is collectively failing us.”

The event received no coverage in any of Chicago’s major papers or television news programs.

Reichel (G) is Front-runner for Alderman (www.onthewilderside.com)

Filed under: debate, election, elections, grassroots democracy, Green Party, News | Tagged: Alderman, chicago, democratic, Illinois, Mass media, Tom O'Donnell, united states | 2 Comments »

Green Party of CA warns Gov. Brown that, like Egypt, the “have not’s” can only take so much

Posted on January 31, 2011 by iwilder

Laura Wells

Urge Governor to fix financial crisis by taxing the wealthy as they do the rest of us

The Green Party of California warned Gov. Jerry Brown today – minutes before he gives his “State of the State” address – to not go down the same path as ex-Gov. Schwarzenegger by trying to solve California’s financial crisis on the backs of workers and the poor. Like in Egypt, Californians can only take so much unemployment, out-of-sight education costs and increasing disparity between the wealthy and the rest of the population, Greens said.

“There is no reason California is in the financial state it’s in, other than the fact that our state government continues to practice prosperity for the richest of the rich, and austerity for the rest of us. The richest 1% captured a huge portion of economic growth in past years; they should get the austerity now,” said Laura Wells, a GPCA spokesperson and 2010 candidate for Governor.

“If California taxed them fairly, we would have enough money to improve education, environment, equality, and economy. And, they would still be rich. They would still have multiple houses, and private yachts, and private schools and golf courses. Their assets would keep growing. They just wouldn’t be filthy rich, while so many are dirt poor today,” Wells said.

Filed under: activism, governor, grassroots democracy, Green Party, politics, Press Release | Tagged: Arnold Schwarzenegger, california, green, Green Party of California, Jerry Brown, Laura Wells, state of the state, State of the State address | 1 Comment »

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