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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.

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PeaceSmiths March Coffeehouse 3/4/2011 (via PeaceSmiths)

Posted on February 28, 2011 by iwilder

Friday, March 4, 2011 at 8pm, PeaceSmiths Coffeehouse: The music of George Mann www.georgemannmusic.com 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 Read More via PeaceSmiths

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NY Assembly Speaker Duryea (R) letter on Roe v. Wade

Posted on February 28, 2011 by iwilder

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 […]

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Wisconsin Would Be The First Domino – We Are All Wisconsinites (via Peace and Justice Online)

Posted on February 28, 2011 by iwilder

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, […]

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Lullaby by Phil Jimenez

Posted on February 28, 2011 by iwilder

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-frN_6UYw8] Phil Jimenez played this new song at the 2/23/11 LI Pulse singer-songwriter series at the Cinema Arts Center.  Phil was accompanied on flute by Maureen. Phil is best know locally for leading Easy Anthems http://www.myspace.com/easyanthems and internationally for touring with WHEATUS. The co-feature was Brian Sendrowitz. The series is curated by Alan Semerdjian. Related […]

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Wisconsin union files unfair labor practices charge against Walker (+ link to full complaint)

Posted on February 28, 2011 by kwilder

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 […]

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Herscovitch and Joffen 4/21/11

Posted on February 28, 2011 by iwilder

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 […]

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American Workers Vs Multi-Billionaires music video

Posted on February 27, 2011 by iwilder

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwpSh66aEUw&feature=player_embedded] 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 […]

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Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail? | Rolling Stone Politics

Posted on February 27, 2011 by iwilder

The rest of them, all of them, got off. Not a single executive who ran the companies that cooked up and cashed in on the phony financial boom — an industrywide scam that involved the mass sale of mismarked, fraudulent mortgage-backed securities — has ever been convicted. Their names by now are familiar to even […]

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Sunday afternoon: Wisconsin protest update

Posted on February 27, 2011 by kwilder

excerpt from www.msnbc.com at about 6-m Sunday: Hundreds defy order to vacate Wisconsin Capitol At issue is Gov. Scott Walker’s bill to strip public workers of collective bargaining rights MADISON, Wis. — About 200 protesters have left the Wisconsin Capitol, but many more have remained behind in defiance of a 4 p.m. deadline… Capitol police […]

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The Trials Giving Steve Levy Nightmares | Long Island Press

Posted on February 27, 2011 by iwilder

This case was small potatoes for the Westhampton Beach attorney, a mere four counts. The worst one is still to come: a 130-count indictment charging Guldi and a handful of others with $82 million in mortgage fraud that links S&M dominatrices in SoHo to real-estate hijinks in the Hamptons. The political ramifications of this upcoming […]

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Barbara Allan: Founder, Prison Families Anonymous

Posted on February 27, 2011 by iwilder

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuXNGLSjPXE&feature=player_embedded] Through her involvement with The Fortune Society, word spread about the network Barbara was creating with the families. Eventually she formed Prison Families Anonymous (PFA) as a non-profit that provides a safe, non-judgmental place where those in similar situations can connect with one another. “That was the beginning of my recovery,” she says. Barbara […]

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Nader: ‘Mad as Hell’ in Madison

Posted on February 27, 2011 by iwilder

There is an ideological plan driving these corporatists. They create “useful crisis” and then hammer the unorganized people to benefit the wealthy classes. Governor Walker last year gave $140 million in tax breaks to corporations. This fiscal year’s deficit is $137 million. Note this oft-repeated dynamic. President Obama caved to the Minority party Republicans in […]

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Interesting – did Walker/fake Koch phonecall out illegal activity?

Posted on February 27, 2011 by kwilder

The full story is worth reading: here. Why A Reporter’s Prank Call To David Koch Is No Laughing Matter Mary Bottari, Center for Media and Democracy via Business Insider …But the Governor also explains how he is going to lay off thousands of Wisconsin workers as a tactic to get the Democrats to cooperate: “So, […]

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Wisconsin: 100,000 rally PLUS police join protesters inside the Capitol

Posted on February 26, 2011 by kwilder

from Common Dreams 100,000 Strong In Madison: “We Fish Through Ice” by Abby Zimet / Feb 26, 2011, 8:30 PM In reportedly the largest rally in the history of Madison, over 100,000 people packed the Capitol Square for a “Rally for Workers’ Rights” Saturday as a snowstorm raged and Peter Yarrow played. The AFL-CIO live-streams […]

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