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Sent to me by a good friend, A federal appellate court has declared that prayer at Greece town board meetings is construed as an endorsement of Christianity.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20120517/NEWS01/305170023/Greece-Town-Board-prayer?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Home
Just thought you would want to know:
WOR 710 AM said today it is canceling Beck’s program as of Jan. 17 and replacing him with another syndicated talk show hosted by Mike Gallagher, the New York Daily News reported.
I still haven’t watched it, but I understand that it is very good:
The vote is today. Call your senators:
Kirsten Gillibrand: Tel. (212) 688-6262
Chuck Schumer: Tel (212) 486-4430
This is an issue of national security and civil rights. Make the call.
This extension of the Bush tax cuts is bound to help the middle class…somewhere. Enjoy Hightower’s opinion.
I do.
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| More Info | Discussion and strategy session open to all. Find out what the anti-equality opposition is up to and learn why Rochester is so important to the next marriage equality vote. Sponsored by EqualityROC/MENY |
Call your congressman, and if you don’t have a congressman, call somebody else’s congressman. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, is an embarrassment to our civil liberties.
CALL ON CONGRESS: Support DADT Repeal!
Tomorrow, September 15 at 8:00am
Location: Anywhere - pick up your phone!
Dan Maffei’s Irondequoit office: Phone: (585) 336-7291
Chris Lee’s Greece office: Phone: (585) 663-5570
Louise Slaughter’s Rochester office: Phone: (585) 232-4850
It’s time for marriage equality in New York State. Come join the march and have some fun along the way.
Wedding March in Rochester
Time:
September 26 · 2:00pm - 6:00pm
Location start: Monroe County Office Building - come early to pick up shirt & umbrella
39 W Main St
Rochester, NY
Created By: Marriage Equality New York - Rochester Finger Lakes Chapter (MENY-ROC)
More Info: Rochester is joining the statewide Marriage Equality New York 7th Annual Wedding March. Register at http://www.meny.us/march to get an umbrella & t-shirt. (free if you raise $20.00 on a fund-raiser page.) A community celebration will follow at Genesee Crossroads Park - music, food, family activities
You have a chance to make a difference, once again, in the realm of legislation regarding childbirth in this country. At Freeourwidwives.org you can find the tools you need to call your state senator and assembly person and offer your support for the Midwifery Modernization Act.
We have arrived at the final phase of getting the Midwifery Modernization Act passed. Thanks to your amazing outpouring of support the bill was moved out of the Higher Education Committee last week. Now it is poised to be brought to a full vote in the Assembly and Senate. This is the moment!
…your policies are really stinkin’!
It’s time for Blanche Lincoln to leave the US Senate and it’s up to us to make sure that it happens. Bill Halter could use your help with the Arkansas Run-off election, this Tuesday. Calls can be made from home to voters in Arkansas to send Lincoln packing. From Halter’s campaign:
In less than 2 weeks, voters in Arkansas will start going to the polls to choose between incumbent Blanche Lincoln and progressive challenger Bill Halter. If you’ve been waiting to get involved, now is the time — can you sign up to make easy calls to Bill Halter supporters? We’re reminding them to vote.
You can call from home, all you need is a phone and a little time.
It’s time to send the message to Washington that the progressives are sick of corporate owned Senators and Congressman. In the words of Governor Howard Dean, “You have the power”.
Is it just me, or does everyone feel that you just don’t have an extra nickle to spend?
Congressman Alan Grayson from Florida has introduced “The War is Making You Poor” bill and you can be a citizen sponsor for the bill by signing here.
From an email, forwarded by a friend:
Next year’s budget allocates $159,000,000,000 to perpetuate the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. That’s enough money to eliminate federal income taxes for the first $35,000 of every American’s income. Beyond that, leaves over $15 billion to cut the deficit.
And that’s what this bill does. It eliminates separate funding for the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, and eliminates federal income taxes for everyone’s first $35,000 of income ($70,000 for couples). Plus it pays down the national debt. Does that sound good to you? Then please sign our petition in support of this bill, and help us build a movement to end our permanent state of war.
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The costs of the war have been rendered invisible. There’s no draft. Instead, we take the most vulnerable elements of our population, and give them a choice between unemployment and missile fodder. Government deficits conceal the need to pay in cash for the war.
We put the cost of both guns and butter on our Chinese credit card. In fact, we don’t even put these wars on budget; they are still passed using ‘emergency supplemental’. A nine-year ‘emergency’.
Let’s show Congress the cost of these wars is too much for us.
Again, from Anne Tischer:
Wednesday May 19, 7pm there is a free showing of “The Times of Harvey Milk” at the Gay Alliance Youth Center – EqualityRoc is co-sponsoring. Contact EqualityROC@gmail.com for information. Blog: http://www.equalityroc.blogspot.com/
- Friday May 21, 11 am there is a LGBT rights rally planned at the city clerks office – Civil Rights Front is coordinating that. Civil Rights Front. (flyer attached) http://civilrightsfront.wordpress.com
- Saturday May 22, 2pm there is a “Linked by Love” mall walk planned for Marketplace Mall that is a family oriented visibility effort emphasizing the links to the community that LGBT people and families have and their need for equality. Contact EqualityROC EqualityROC@gmail.com for information.
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From an email received yesterday, please take the time to act.
We need your help!
At midnight tomorrow, April 30th, the majority of New York City’s home birth midwives will no longer be able to practice legally. Unless immediate action is taken by the Governor and the NYS Department of Health the women that these midwives serve will be denied access to a home birth with their chosen provider and these providers will no longer be able to practice legally in NYS. YOU MUST ACT NOW to save the home birth option for New York Women:
Call:
And say….
With the closing of St. Vincent’s Hospital, half of the licensed, highly trained home birth midwives serving NYC have lost their Written Practice Agreement (WPA). St Vincent’s was the only Hospital in the city supportive of a woman’s right to choose a home birth and willing to sign a WPA. In the weeks since it’s announced closure, these midwives have reached out to hospitals and obstetricians all across the city looking for support, with no success. Please help us to save the homebirth option in New York. People can also email the Governor at http://www.state. ny.us/governor/ contact/Governor ContactForm. php.
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Please Join us! We need your help.
 Photo borrowed from the Photography Project through the Free our Midwives Site. Click here for more information, more photos, and to learn how to submit your own photos to this great project.
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We are in our final hours! Please forward this email and help us flood 311 and the Governor’s office with calls supporting home birth.
And while you’re at it, please sign our petition supporting the Midwifery Modernization Act which will remove the WPA from the midwifery law effectively removing this barrier to accessing midwifery care.
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On my “bee” post last week commenter, better_one_third, reminded us about the Democratic Rural Conference, next week in Niagara Falls. Here are the particulars:
Agenda
Friday, April 30, 2010
2:00 - 6:30 p.m.: Registration in the Crowne Jewel Foyer 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.: Campaign Training Workshops (choose one)
- Getting the Youth Vote, Ruby Room, led by Young Democrats, Cassi Peters, Chair, YDNC Rural Caucus
- Not for Women Only: Finding, Funding and Electing Great Candidates, Diamond Room, led by Denise King and Karen Feldman
- Supercharging Your Information Analysis, Making Voter Data Work for You, Sapphire Room, DRC Political Committee, Tom Poelker and Dan McCandless
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.: Opening Reception with Governor David A. Paterson, Crowne Jewel Foyer 7:00 - 10:00 p.m.: Dinner with New York’s Elected Democrats, Crowne Jewel Ballroom - Speakers will include:
- DRC Chair Irene Stein
- Niagara County Chair Dan Rivera,
- Governor Paterson
- Senator Schumer
- Senator Gillibrand
- Comptroller DiNapoli
- Attorney General Cuomo
- Senator Sampson
- Senator Malcolm Smith
- NYSDC Chair Jacobs
- NYSDC Director June O’Neill
- Congressman Israel
10:00 - 11:00 p.m.: Dessert Reception with Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Jade Room 11:00 - ?: Young Democrats Midnight Music, Jade Room Saturday, May 1, 2010
7:00 - 11:00 a.m.: Registration & Credentials, Crowne Jewel Foyer 7:30 - 9:00 a.m.: Breakfast Buffet with Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli 9:30 - 1:00 p.m.: DRC Straw Poll Convention, Crowne Jewel ballroom (Coffee Break & Box Lunch included), immediately followed by the DRC Election of Board Members 1:00 p.m.: Adjournment followed by a DRC Board wrap-up meeting.
Another film about removing ourselves from our humanity:
Guerrilla Midwife
Brighton Library,
2300 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester NY 14618.
When: Tuesday April 27th at 6:30 PM.
PLease RSVP if you can although it is not necessary to do so:
Deborah Bradley 218-4245
Alison Spath 328-0215
You can watch the trailer, here.