Monday, March 17, 2008
March meeting postponed
The March meeting of the Tri-County Greens, originally scheduled for Wednesday March 19, has been postponed and will be rescheduled shortly.
Friday, February 15, 2008
David Doonan for mayor of Greenwich
The Tri-County Greens are pleased to announce the candidacy of David Doonan for mayor of the village of Greenwich.
Visit Dave's campaign site at www.daviddoonan.com. There, you can learn about his platform and running mates and even make suggestions.
Visit Dave's campaign site at www.daviddoonan.com. There, you can learn about his platform and running mates and even make suggestions.
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Author of bio on German Greens leader to appear in Glens Falls
Author and journalist Paul Hockenos will be in Glens Falls next Tuesday. He will read from, discuss and sign his latest book: "JOSCHKA FISCHER AND THE MAKING OF THE BERLIN REPUBLIC: An Alternative History of Postwar Germany."
The event will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 5 at 7:30 PM at the Rock Hill Bakehouse Cafe in Glens Falls.
Bio: Paul Hockenos is a Berlin-based journalist and author who has written about South Eastern Europe since 1989. He joined ESI as a Berlin-based analyst November 2002 to December 2003. His articles and commentaries have appeared in World Policy Journal, The New Statesman and Society, The Nation, Christian Science Monitor, as well as many other periodicals in Europe and North America.
Hockenos is the author of "Free to Hate: The Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe" (Routledge, '93). From 1997-99 he worked with the OSCE in Bosnia on press and media issues. Since then, Paul has been a visiting fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and the European Journalism College at the Free University Berlin.
He received a fellowship from the German Marshall Fund of the US to research and write Homeland Calling: Exile Patriotism and the Balkans Wars (Cornell University Press, 2003). He is currently working on ESI's migration and development project within the Lessons Learned and Analysis Unit (LLA), concentrating on Kosovo.
About the book: Over the course of his long and controversial career, Joschka Fischer evolved from an archetypal 1960s radical--a firebrand street activist--into a shrewd political insider, operating at the heights of German politics. In the 1980s he was one of the first elected Greens and went on to becomeGermany's foreign minister from 1998 to 2005.
His famous challenge to Donald Rumsfeld's case for invading Iraq--"Excuse me, I am not convinced"--won him worldwide recognition, and the Bush administration's contempt. Here is both a lively biography of Joschka Fischer and a gripping history 'from below' of postwar Germany.
Paul Hockenos begins in the ruins of postwar Germany and guides us through the flashpoints of the late sixties and seventies, from the student protests and the terrorism of the Baader-Meinhof group to the evolution of Europe's premier Green party, and brings us up to the present in the united Germany.
He shows how the grassroots movements that became the German Greens challenged and changed the republic's status quo, making postwar Germany more democratic, liberal and worldly along theway. Despite the ideological twists and turns of Fischer and his peers, the lessons of the Holocaust and the Nazi terror remained their constant coordinates.
Hockenos traces that political journey, providing readers with unique insight into the impact that these movements and the Greens have had on Germany. Informed by hundreds of interviews with key figures and fellow travelers, Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic presents readers with one of the most intriguing personalities on the European scene, and paints a rich picture of the rebellious generation of 1968 that became the political elite of modern Germany.
The event will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 5 at 7:30 PM at the Rock Hill Bakehouse Cafe in Glens Falls.
Bio: Paul Hockenos is a Berlin-based journalist and author who has written about South Eastern Europe since 1989. He joined ESI as a Berlin-based analyst November 2002 to December 2003. His articles and commentaries have appeared in World Policy Journal, The New Statesman and Society, The Nation, Christian Science Monitor, as well as many other periodicals in Europe and North America.
Hockenos is the author of "Free to Hate: The Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe" (Routledge, '93). From 1997-99 he worked with the OSCE in Bosnia on press and media issues. Since then, Paul has been a visiting fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and the European Journalism College at the Free University Berlin.
He received a fellowship from the German Marshall Fund of the US to research and write Homeland Calling: Exile Patriotism and the Balkans Wars (Cornell University Press, 2003). He is currently working on ESI's migration and development project within the Lessons Learned and Analysis Unit (LLA), concentrating on Kosovo.
About the book: Over the course of his long and controversial career, Joschka Fischer evolved from an archetypal 1960s radical--a firebrand street activist--into a shrewd political insider, operating at the heights of German politics. In the 1980s he was one of the first elected Greens and went on to becomeGermany's foreign minister from 1998 to 2005.
His famous challenge to Donald Rumsfeld's case for invading Iraq--"Excuse me, I am not convinced"--won him worldwide recognition, and the Bush administration's contempt. Here is both a lively biography of Joschka Fischer and a gripping history 'from below' of postwar Germany.
Paul Hockenos begins in the ruins of postwar Germany and guides us through the flashpoints of the late sixties and seventies, from the student protests and the terrorism of the Baader-Meinhof group to the evolution of Europe's premier Green party, and brings us up to the present in the united Germany.
He shows how the grassroots movements that became the German Greens challenged and changed the republic's status quo, making postwar Germany more democratic, liberal and worldly along theway. Despite the ideological twists and turns of Fischer and his peers, the lessons of the Holocaust and the Nazi terror remained their constant coordinates.
Hockenos traces that political journey, providing readers with unique insight into the impact that these movements and the Greens have had on Germany. Informed by hundreds of interviews with key figures and fellow travelers, Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic presents readers with one of the most intriguing personalities on the European scene, and paints a rich picture of the rebellious generation of 1968 that became the political elite of modern Germany.
Monday, December 17, 2007
'An Unreasonable Man' on PBS tomorrow
The PBS series Independent Lens is airing An Unreasonable Man, a well-received documentary on the life and career of citizen activist Ralph Nader.
Both WMHT in Albany, NY and Vermont Public Television will air the program on Tuesday, December 18 at 9:00 PM. Other local listings can be found at PBS.org.
Note: Interestingly, a poll on the site asks if Nader's 2000 candidacy was the reason George W. Bush won the presidency. 93 percent of respondents voted No.
Both WMHT in Albany, NY and Vermont Public Television will air the program on Tuesday, December 18 at 9:00 PM. Other local listings can be found at PBS.org.
Note: Interestingly, a poll on the site asks if Nader's 2000 candidacy was the reason George W. Bush won the presidency. 93 percent of respondents voted No.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
A survey of local progressive blogs
Although not nearly enough, there are several good local progressive blogs that worth checking out. If you have any other suggestions, please leave them in the comments field.
'Blogging behind the Blue Line since 2005,' Adirondack Almanack is always a good place to find out information on environmental and other issues in the Adirondack Park. This piece and this one take a look at Gov. Spitzer's latest nominations to the Adirondack Park Agency.
This piece wonders if another Adirondack fire disaster is on the way. I'm no expert, but the state fire prevention system seems almost nonexistent, Almanack writes. There are no signs that warn of periods of fire danger on I-87 to alert Northway travellers, for instance. When fire danger is high, Adirondack counties have no widespread system to alert residents and tourists of the danger. When counties pass bans on open fires, locals almost never hear about them, let alone visitors.
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Musings of a (Fairly) Young Contrarian had two recent essays of interest to followers of Green politics. The first condemned a handful of businesses in Lake George and Queensbury. The seven were fined by the state for violations of state labor law, accusing them of "breaking child labor laws, refusing to pay required overtime and deducting rent from wages." The affected workers were primarily from Eastern Europe and were invited to this country by the US State Department to fill a labor shortage. Great way to treat invited guests!
Another Musings essay pointed out the rather shocking fact that Warren County Democrats are so irrelevant that there were more REPUBLICANS running for office on the Democratic line in this month's local elections than Democrats. The blog also analyzed Board of Elections information and noted that over 80 percent of the offices up for grabs in Warren County will have no actual Democrat contending.
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Matt's Totally Biased Commentary is another good read. This entry posts an opinion by Sam Smith on 'The Crash of the Democratic Party.' Like many Americans, Smith (and Matt) believes that the one-time progressive soul of the Democratic Party no longer exists. Take front-running presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton. Just look at those round her: there isn't one major figure directly involved in her campaign who represents the spirit or the substance of a decent and progressive Democratic Party. It is a cadre of cynical manipulators and fund raisers with dubious pals.
He also includes his testimony at Gov. Spitzer's health care forum held in Glens Falls a few months ago.
'Blogging behind the Blue Line since 2005,' Adirondack Almanack is always a good place to find out information on environmental and other issues in the Adirondack Park. This piece and this one take a look at Gov. Spitzer's latest nominations to the Adirondack Park Agency.
This piece wonders if another Adirondack fire disaster is on the way. I'm no expert, but the state fire prevention system seems almost nonexistent, Almanack writes. There are no signs that warn of periods of fire danger on I-87 to alert Northway travellers, for instance. When fire danger is high, Adirondack counties have no widespread system to alert residents and tourists of the danger. When counties pass bans on open fires, locals almost never hear about them, let alone visitors.
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Musings of a (Fairly) Young Contrarian had two recent essays of interest to followers of Green politics. The first condemned a handful of businesses in Lake George and Queensbury. The seven were fined by the state for violations of state labor law, accusing them of "breaking child labor laws, refusing to pay required overtime and deducting rent from wages." The affected workers were primarily from Eastern Europe and were invited to this country by the US State Department to fill a labor shortage. Great way to treat invited guests!
Another Musings essay pointed out the rather shocking fact that Warren County Democrats are so irrelevant that there were more REPUBLICANS running for office on the Democratic line in this month's local elections than Democrats. The blog also analyzed Board of Elections information and noted that over 80 percent of the offices up for grabs in Warren County will have no actual Democrat contending.
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Matt's Totally Biased Commentary is another good read. This entry posts an opinion by Sam Smith on 'The Crash of the Democratic Party.' Like many Americans, Smith (and Matt) believes that the one-time progressive soul of the Democratic Party no longer exists. Take front-running presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton. Just look at those round her: there isn't one major figure directly involved in her campaign who represents the spirit or the substance of a decent and progressive Democratic Party. It is a cadre of cynical manipulators and fund raisers with dubious pals.
He also includes his testimony at Gov. Spitzer's health care forum held in Glens Falls a few months ago.
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