videos tagged politics

Excerpts from a discussion on Single-Payer Universal Healthcare with Mary Reed Dewar of the LI Coalition for a National Health Plan. E-mail contact: kanekohn@yahoo.com. Taped at PeaceSmiths Monthly Community Forum http://www.peacesmiths.org Music is La Toupie (The Top) by George Bizet.

Singer/Songwriter Heather Lev performs her song "What Have You Done" at the PeaceSmiths Coffeehouse. January 4, 2008. www.heatherlev.com www.peacesmiths.org

Nader describes in one, short quote, the need for third parties, and fair ballot access laws. Quote begins, "Historically, the great ideas that have animated social justice." This clip is from a press conference at the Green Party of the United States Annual Meeting in Reading, PA. Summer 2007. More on Nader, ballot access and the Prez '08 race overall may be found at www.onthewilderside.net

A workshop about how electoral politics can help to fight global warming. With strategies and tips for candidates about: campaign planning, campaign staff, media, messaging, fundraising and campaign finance. Workshop given at Long Island Global Warming Summit 2007 http://www.LIGlobalWarming.org by Kimberly and Ian Wilder of the Green Party of Suffolk. http://www.gpsuffolk.org

Janet Egan reads a poem she wrote to commemorate the death of the 3,000th American solider in Iraq. Includes announcement of formulating plans for the peace movement in Suffolk County, LI to meet on the day after, and the Saturday after the 4,000th soldier death. Stay tuned at www.onthewilderside.net (and here) for more updates on specific plans

The Babylon Green Party Gathering hosted a discussion of Immigration on LI with Dr. Luis Valenzuela. He is the Executive Director of the Long Island Immigrant Alliance (LIIA), and an adjunct professor of social work at the Adelphi University School of Social Work.

The War in Iraq is a constant weight on Kimberly Wilder’s thoughts. She is trying to do poetry anyway. Fallujah. Wilderside Media http://www.onthewilderside.net presented 6 LI Poets to read at Vox Pop’s Declaration of Independence: A Festival of Poetry and Music (7/6/ -7/8/07) featuring Boog City’s d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press series in exile featuring seven of the area’s finest publishers, with readings from their authors. Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor

Ahmad Ali is running for Suffolk County Executive on the Green Party line. Ahmad is a professional musician and a producer on WBAI Radio 99.5 FM Pacifica Radio. Ahmad will need 1,500 signatures to get on the ballot. For more information, or to help petition, please contact: http://www.gpsuffolk.org. Director: Kimberly Wilder. Videographer: Ian Wilder. For more about "The Green Party Show", go to: http://www.onthewilderside.net.