MassEquality 2012 Questionnaire
MassEquality sent me its 2012 candidate questionnaire on June 11, 2012.The text that is in blocks is the text of the questionnaire.My answers and comments are outside of the blocks in italics.My...
View ArticleStoughton Did it--Your Town Can, Too
The Stoughton Democratic Town Committee adopted a resolution calling for the overturning of Citizens United and introduced it before our Select Board on Tuesday. Where it passed, unanimously. Joining...
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Green Party nominating convention live streaming
Will write more about my experience at the Green Party Nominating Convention in Baltimore, MD, but for now, you can watch it live:Watch live streaming video from greenpartyus at livestream.comYou can...
View Article"Ganga Jill Stein" and the Hempen-Clean- Energy-based-Green- Economy
About time the candidate got a nickname. "Dr" is so stuffy (seriously, btw--this "Dr." business is a misguided tactic. One of Dr.Stein's strengths is that everyone thinks of her as "Jill." That's a...
View ArticleNeed a link to Recent SteinTax Returns
Enjoying Candidate Laugenour's lengthy descriptions of his own rectitude when it comes to transparency.Noted, in today's Boston Metro, that Dr Stein refers to herself as part of the 99%. I'm assuming...
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GRP Primary Day 2012
I sent the following message to Berkshire Greens on the occasion of today's (Sep 6, 2012) state primary election. The write-in votes that I cast were consistent with my June 25 endorsement of Patsy...
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My Opponent's Campaign Finance Gaffe
There was a story in the July 31, 2012 Berkshire Eagle about Rep. William "Smitty" Pignatelli being fined $250 for a 'campaign finance gaffe.' His campaign treasurer worked for the town of Lenox,...
View ArticleCombatting Election Theft: Some Resources
Ever since the selection of 2000, the rudiments of US democracy have been under attack. We still haven't dealt with the multitudinous problems of electronic voting machines and now we have a concerted...
View ArticleMass DOT Testimony
MassDOT (Dept of Transportation) is holding 15 public meetings around the Commonwealth. One of them was held on October 4, 2012 in Pittsfield,which I attended and followed up with written testimony...
View ArticleThe Cambridge, MA Solar Tool
You can now estimate with great detail the solar electric potential of any roof in Cambridge, MA by just typing in an address on a webpage, the Cambridge Solar Tool (http://cambridgema.gov/solar). For...
View ArticleBuilding Resilient Communities: John Robb at the NYC Maker Faire
John Robb is a strategist and theorist of modern warfare. His book, Brave New War, is the best introduction I know of to small group warfare, the way technology has enabled ad hoc groups like Al...
View ArticleOccupy Sandy
http://techpresident.com/news/...A group of people from the Occupy Wall Street movement is collaborating with the climate change advocacy group 350.org and a new online toolkit for disaster recovery,...
View ArticleVoting For Green Change in Egremont
Nick Thielker of Egremont sent the following letter to the Berkshire Eagle, which was published by that newspaper on election day - Nov 6, 2012.It establishes the global and local imperative for change...
View ArticleThe Answer
BY ROBINSON JEFFERS, 1938Then what is the answer?-Not to be deluded by dreams.To know the great civilizations have broken down into violence, and their tyrants come, many times before.When open...
View ArticleDesignating a Party
If you were registered in Green-Rainbow Party in 2012 you received a postcard recently that said that 'your voter registration has been updated' because the Green-Rainbow Party is no longer a...
View ArticleCitizens' Appeal for Openness, Transparency, and Integrity
At Lenox Town Meeting on May 2, 2013 article 19 on the Town Meeting warrant invited public discussion on the legal costs of defending a Scenic Mountain Act appeal that a Lenox citizens group has filed....
View ArticleOpposing restrictions on future democracy
A quorum of Lenox Green Rainbow Party committee members joined individual Lenox Dept of Public employees and others in opposition to a Conservation Restriction on Yokun Ridge, which was voted on and...
View ArticleWhom Will We Honor Memorial Day?
by Howard ZinnPublished on June 2, 1976 in the Boston Globe (from the Zinn Reader)Memorial Day will be celebrated ... by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the...
View ArticleShadowboxing with power
On behalf of all Americans who seek a new direction, who yearn for a new birth of freedom to build the just society, who see justice as the great work of human beings on Earth, who understand that...
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