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Philly Sheriff cand Cheri Honkala (G) will halt home evictions and challenge bank power

Posted on August 18, 2011 by iwilder

Cheri Honkala, homeless advocate and Green Party candidate for Sheriff of Philadelphia, Pa., pledges to halt home evictions and challenge the power of banks, if elected Cheri Honkala, candidate for Sheriff of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has emerged as the Green Party’s highest profile candidate in the 2011 election year. Ms. Honkala’s campaign slogans, “Keeping Families in […]

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Moving Forward on the Happiness Initiative

Posted on August 8, 2011 by iwilder

from Moving Forward on the Happiness Initiative. The United Nations’ General Assembly adopted a resolution calling the pursuit of happiness “a fundamental human goal” and requesting member nations to “give more importance to happiness and well-being in determining how to achieve and measure social and economic development.” The resolution declared “GDP was not designed to and does not […]

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Obama Speaking on Economy & Deaths Now

Posted on August 8, 2011 by iwilder

IW:   Just got a call that Obama is making a speech about the economy (and maybe the 30 Americans who died in Afghanistan.)  He is singing the same song.  He continually refuses to address that our economy is going down the toilet because he has expanded the bad wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to […]

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Arctic scientist who exposed climate threat to polar bear is suspended

Posted on August 6, 2011 by iwilder

IW:  Another example of the Obama administration persecuting whistleblowers. Tim DeChristopher. Bradly Manning. Some question why Monnett, employed by the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, has been suspended at this moment. The Obama administration has been accused of hounding the scientist so it can open up the fragile region to drilling […]

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Nader’s Warning to Ratings Agencies

Posted on August 5, 2011 by iwilder

Now your lobbyists are pressing members of Congress to weaken further the provisions affecting rating agencies in the Dodd-Frank law in ways that will raise the risk-consequences for the savings and investments of innocent people. See the strong critique of your looming downgrade by arch-conservative columnist Holman W. Jenkins in the January 27, 2011 Wall […]

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

Posted on July 31, 2011 by iwilder

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 […]

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Obama is NOT “Caving” to Corporate Interests

Posted on July 26, 2011 by iwilder

Those accusations are wrong. The accusations imply that Obama is on our side. Or was on our side. And that the right wing is pushing him around. But the evidence is clear that Obama is an often-willing servant of corporate interests — not someone reluctantly doing their bidding, or serving their interests only because Republicans […]

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Food Sovereignty Principles (via Food Freedom)

Posted on July 25, 2011 by iwilder

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HoycnupWsc&feature=player_embedded#at=44] Presented by Farm Together Now and National Family Farm Coalition Produced by Daniel Tucker, supported by the Headlands Center for the Arts Hat tip NextWorldTV … Read More via Food Freedom

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LI Dem Electeds Support Nuclear Power

Posted on July 24, 2011 by iwilder

IW:  No, this headline is not a throwback from 30 years ago.  Thought I can still remember  1980’s Assemblyman Pat Halpin (D) telling my Mom he supported Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant.  She told him he was crazy.  The other time I remember my Mom disagreeing with him was when he asked her to support Koch […]

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Obama: Declaration of Thingamajig

Posted on July 21, 2011 by iwilder

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWB2G9reo2I&feature=player_embedded] Barack Obama holds forth on the legality of various conflicty thingamajigs. Take a closer look at Libya, Yemen and Pakistan after the president delivers his address on Afghanistan and Iraq. A Mark Fiore political animation.

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‘Hot, healthy lunches may be a thing of the past’ (via thegreenschoolhouseseries)

Posted on July 21, 2011 by iwilder

It’s no secret that public schools across America are facing enormous budget cuts, cutting programs and laying off staff to cope. But depriving students of meals? According to a Philadelphia Inquirer article (“26 Philadelphia schools losing full-service kitchens”), hot, healthy lunches may be a thing of the past: “More than 70 percent of the district’s […]

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Remembrances of Harry Chapin, Part II

Posted on July 16, 2011 by iwilder

IW: . . . .  Harry’s second most famous song is “Taxi”.  It contained the painful audience participation that adorns the other t-shirt in Sandy’ shop.  The phrase ends an encounter between Harry the taxi-driver and a now-married ex-girlfriend, neither of whom seem happy with their life choices:

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Green Party urges national protest & voters’ revolt over deal by Obama & GOP to cut Social Security & Medicare

Posted on July 12, 2011 by iwilder

Green Party leaders warned that President Obama and Democratic leaders will betray the American people if they agree with Republicans to cut Social Security and Medicare, and demanded that such cuts be taken off the table. The Green Party has challenged bipartisan claims that the deficit, rather than the recession and job crisis, is the […]

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NYCLU Releases Guide on New NY Marriage Law

Posted on July 6, 2011 by iwilder

NYCLU Releases “Know Your Rights” FAQ on New York’s Marriage Fairness Law  The New York Civil Liberties Union today released a “Know Your Rights” guide that answers frequently asked questions concerning the Marriage Equality Act – the new law granting lesbian and gay couples the freedom to marry in New York State. The guide, written […]

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