Posted on March 31, 2008 by iwilder
There will be live music and poetry on Friday, April 4th at 8:00 pm at the PeaceSmiths Topical, A-Typical, Folk Music, Poetry and Whatever Coffeehouse. The poet is Richard Jeffrey Newman. In addition to his own poems, Newman will read translations of Iranian poetry. The featured musician is singer/songwriter David Bailey, whose very personal songs […]
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Posted on March 31, 2008 by iwilder
PeaceSmiths Coffeehouse in March 2008 featuring musician Tom Ryan, poet Tom Karlson and musical act Copper Rose. http://www.peacesmiths.org [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.493194&w=425&h=350&fv=docId%3D-5210526121477198941%26playerMode%3Dsimple%26hl%3Den] from video.google.com posted with vodpod
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Posted on March 30, 2008 by iwilder
from Mother Jones The Sierra Club voted this week to suspend its entire 35,000-member Florida chapter for four years and removed the chapter’s leadership. The reason? The chapter openly criticized the Club’s decision to partner with Clorox for Clorox’s new “Green Works” line of “natural” cleaning products. The dispute between the Florida chapter and the […]
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Posted on March 30, 2008 by iwilder
from Newsday: [U.S. District Court Judge Stefan] Underhill did determine that the plaintiffs have adequately alleged that Connecticut’s public funding system includes “unfair and unnecessary burdens” on certain candidates, such as minor parties. He’ll take up that matter at the end of April. To qualify for public funds, all candidates must raise a certain number […]
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Posted on March 30, 2008 by iwilder
Download a doc version of this flyer. Peace and Social Justice Groups in Suffolk County include: Babylon Green Party (631-422-4702): www.babylongreens.org Bellport Women In Black (631-286-5879) Code Pink LI Women For Peace: codepinkli@aim.com North Country Peace Group (631-331-3419) North Fork People of Conscience (631-765-4612) www.nfpofc.blogspot.com
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Posted on March 30, 2008 by iwilder
Ian and I attended the Smith Haven Mall event. We stayed by the sidewalk where demonstrators were showing the community and cars passing by that we want peace. For our household, Ian represented “The Green Party”, while I stayed non-partisan and represented “PeaceSmiths.” Many other greens were there, including Roger Snyder, Green Party of Suffolk […]
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Posted on March 29, 2008 by iwilder
from AP In Ireland, where environmentalists are part of the coalition government, lights-out orders went out for scores of government buildings, bridges and monuments in more than a dozen cities and towns. Activists gathered outside one of Dublin’s most impressive floodlit buildings, the riverfront Custom House, and cheered as the lights went out. The building […]
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Posted on March 29, 2008 by iwilder
The Wisconsin Green Party Spring Gathering and Presidential Preference Convention was held today at the River Center at the Gruenhagen Conference Center, UW Oshkosh.Cynthia McKinney received an overwhelming majority of the votes cast in the Wisconsin Green Party Presidential Preference Primary. McKinney received 79% of the vote; Kent Mesplay received 10%, Write-Ins for Ralph Nader […]
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Posted on March 29, 2008 by iwilder
New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty www.nyadp.org LET OUR REPRESENTATIVES KNOW WE CARE ABOUT WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS… PACK THE HOUSE DURING INNOCENCE HEARINGS The Senate Minority under Senator Schneiderman has called for public hearings on Innocence and Wrongful Convictions in New York. The first of these hearings is scheduled for April 11th at 9AM at the […]
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Posted on March 29, 2008 by iwilder
I think this event is an exciting, personally empowering way to express oneself. It reminds me of the voluntary blackout on the first day of summer that some people got really excited about (including me.) More and video posted below. – Lights Out for Earth Hour This Saturday, March 29, 2008, a global “lights out” […]
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Posted on March 28, 2008 by iwilder
from Ballot Access News On March 26, the Michigan Green, Libertarian and Reform Parties won their lawsuit against a state law that controls distribution of the list of presidential primary voters. The case is Green Party of Michigan v Land, no. 2:08-cv-10149. The law says the list of voters who vote in the Republican presidential […]
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Posted on March 28, 2008 by iwilder
Green Party Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney at the Malcolm X & Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center at the former Audubon Ballroom where Malcolm X was assassinated. Includes Former Congresswoman McKinney being interviewed by Kimberly Wilder on Feb. 21, 2008, Cynthia McKinney discusses: Malcolm X; 9-11; Government accountability; her switch to the Green Party. Taped […]
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Posted on March 28, 2008 by iwilder
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_c5K7Jdw9E] On March 29, 2008 at 8 p.m., join millions of people around the world in making a statement about climate change by turning off your lights for Earth Hour, an event created by the World Wildlife Fund. Earth Hour was created by WWF in Sydney, Australia in 2007, and in one year has grown […]
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Posted on March 28, 2008 by iwilder
The news was not as cheery for Mumia as the press reported, and I innocently posted. Better facts and a link are here. – KW
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