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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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Karl Grossman endorses Walt Whitman holiday

Posted on July 3, 2016 by iwilder

from Suffolk Closeup: Remembering Whitman by Karl Grossman Suffolk County Green Party activists Ian and Kimberly Wilder, lovers of poetry and nature, residents of Riverhead, have proposed making his birthday a national holiday. Said Ms. Wilder, a teacher, in an essay that is online (ontheWilderside.com): “Walt Whitman was born close to me in West Hills…For me […]

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Photos & Video: Whitman’s Leaves of Grass Marathon May 21, 2016

Posted on June 5, 2016 by iwilder

Photos and videos from Canio’s Books’ Leaves of Grass Marathon reading on May 21, 2016

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LIPA Disaster: Blame Cuomo, Not Privatization

Posted on November 18, 2012 by iwilder

Cuomo wins this year’s Scott Walker false narrative award.

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Tell Gov. Cuomo: LIPA needs Elections, not more Privatization

Posted on August 11, 2012 by iwilder

Governor Andrew Cuomo is finishing the job of destroying Long Island’s power grid and finances under LIPA

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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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Nuclear Waste film: Into Eternity 5/4/11

Posted on April 23, 2011 by iwilder

Wednesday, May 4 at 7:30pm INTO ETERNITY In Person: KARL GROSSMAN, Professor of Journalism at SUNY Old Westbury [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoyKe-HxmFk&feature=player_embedded] $9 Members / $13 Public / Includes reception. 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

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Unhappy with LIPA?

Posted on April 20, 2011 by kwilder

If you are unhappy with LIPA/Long Island Power Authority, you are not alone. A new survey-study shows that LIPA customers are the least satisfied in the nation. If you don’t like it…change it. When LIPA was set up, LIPA board members were supposed to be elected. There are still vestiges of the petitioning rules in […]

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Work of activists helped prevent Fukushima-style cluster of nuclear reactors on Long Island

Posted on March 26, 2011 by iwilder

One of those dedicated, anti-Shoreham activists was Green Party of Suffolk chair Roger Snyder.  The Green Party was founded in opposition to nuclear energy and weapons. As a reporter for a Long Island weekly in the 1980s, Grossman covered the relentless band of anti-nuclear activists who packed government hearings and filed repeated suits against granting […]

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Karl Grossman: Nuclear Emergency in Japan

Posted on March 14, 2011 by iwilder

There are numerous lessons to be learned from the situation now underway in Japan including why a nation situated on a string of volcanic islands would build nuclear power plants, vulnerable as they are to earthquakes. Of course, Japan is not alone on this score: in the U.S., the Diablo Canyon nuclear facility in California […]

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The Push to Revive and Expand Nuclear Power 10/8/10

Posted on September 19, 2010 by iwilder

The Push to Revive and Expand Nuclear Power with Karl Grossman Friday, October 8, 2010 at 8:00pm Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library 1125 Broadway Hewlett, New York Karl Grossman has specialized in investigative reporting for more than 45 years.Grossman is the author of many books, including The Wrong Stuff; The Space Program’s Nuclear Threat to Our Planet and […]

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Gearing up for a GOP primary in CD1-NY

Posted on July 1, 2010 by iwilder

IW: Ok, I posted this because I’m quoted, and I like Karl.  Karl managed to skip over the mention of Altschuler’s brief time as a Green Party member.  See my prior post Hey Demos, thanks for the free publicity.  As I told Karl today,  I’m not that happy with any of the candidates in the 1st, […]

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