Green Party

Hank Stone plays Holiday Party

On Wednesday,December 2,  2009 at 7pm, the Babylon Green Party Gathering will feature musician Hank Stone for the annual Green Party Holiday Party. The event will be held at Pisces Café, 14A Railroad Avenue, Babylon, NY (631-321-1231) http://www.piscescafe.net Come hungry! For directions to the Babylon Green Party Gathering, call 631-422-4702 or email ian.wilder@yahoo.com Children are welcome. All gatherings are free of charge, and open to the public. http://www.BabylonGreens.org

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Hank Stone is a classic ‘late bloomer’, who finally found his stride in middle age.  He is at the peak of his songwriting and performance skills. Since hitting the local stages in 2001, he has garnered praise and encouragement from fans, musicians, radio hosts, and writers. The diversity in Stone’s melodies reflects his wide-ranging taste in music, and his lyrics offer a smorgasbord of narratives, character studies, and mood pieces. He has recently shifted his creative focus onto some new tools: partial capos that work like alternate tunings for the guitar, but with a twist. Stone has also been including harmonicas in the composing process, for some exciting new sounds, some of which will be included in his next CD.  More information about Stone can be found at http://www.hankstone.net.

Rough Folk is Stone’s first CD, recorded from 2004 through 2005, and released in November 2005. The album got airplay on WUSB 90.1FM, and Bob Fass’s Radio Unnameable on WBAI 99.5 FM in New York City. Stone described the album as:

After the two opening tracks, idyllic representations of some threatened Eden, our hero is thrust into a trilogy of tragedy with the fiery opening harmonica of ‘Red,’ the preachings of a moralist that morphs into a murder confession, then the saga of suicide called ‘A Riddle,’ and the ‘Father’s Lament’ for his dying child. Fun stuff, and a surefire way to entice the party-loving youth pop music market!

Good Times reviewed the album by writing that Stone

eschews the usual singer/songwriter cliches and opts to write and sing about romance, politics, and events that have shaped his life – there’s even a tribute to John Lennon entitled ‘John, The Weather’s Fine’ included here – in a straightforward yet personal way. Using colors as a theme (‘Blue Crayon,’ ‘Red,’ the story song ‘Black Christmas’), Stone weaves his way through compositions both new and old with conviction and soul.

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Babylon Green Party Gatherings are held on the first Wednesday of every month:

  • The December 2, 2009 Gathering  will feature musician Hank Stone for the annual Green Party Holiday Party.
  • The January 6, 2010 Gathering will feature the bluesy folk-jazz of Stephanie Carlin .
  • The February 3, 2010 Gathering will feature “Civil Liberties for Activists” with Andrea Callan of the NYCLU

The Green Party is an alternative party to the Democrats and Republicans. The four pillars of the Green Party are:

  • Nonviolence/Peace;
  • Grassroots Democracy;
  • Social and Economic Justice; and
  • Ecological Wisdom.

The Green Party of Suffolk will be holding its annual membership meeting on Saturday, November 14, 2009. It will start at 1pm at the  Unitarian Universalist Society of South Suffolk at 28 Brentwood Road, Bay Shore, Long Island, NY 11706-8011.  Directions can be found at http://www.uusouthsuffolk.org.  The meeting is open to all registered Green Party members. Light refreshments will be served. For more information about the Green Party of Suffolk, please go to www.gpsuffolk.org or call Green Party of Suffolk Chair Roger Snyder at 631-351-5763.

You can enroll in the Green Party by checking the box marked “Other” on the voter registration form and writing in the word “Green” on the line next to it. Click here to find a voter registration form. You can send donations to the Green Party of Suffolk,14 Robin Drive, Huntington, NY 11743.

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4 Responses

  2. Patrick, on September 13th, 2008 at 11:24 am Said:

    OIL IS FOR DINOSAURS

    I hope that Obama will talk about the true cost of oil. People in this country are complaining that oil gasoline costs them $4 per gallon. However, oil costs us much more. I think that the cost to the environment, which can be calculated in dollars…for example the cost to clean-up oil spills, the cost of dirty air and the health problems it causes, the costs of hurricanes like Ike and Katrina, the cost of global warming in general. I hope Obama has his people calculate these real costs and average them into the cost per gallon for gasoline. I would imagine gasoline actually costs the average citizen more like $50 a gallon!

    Just as an addiction to heroin costs much more than the price of the drugs itself, so addiction to oil costs much more than what we pay at the pump.

    What about the cost to our beautiful landscapes; the coastal waters, the pristine Alaskan environment. And what should we do with all of these ridiculous drilling rigs after we have sucked all the oil out of the ground and pumped it up into the atmosphere? What about the cost of removing the drilling machines when they are no longer of use…when all the oil is gone…because one day it will all be gone…that is its nature. Oil is non-renwable. Or do all the fanatical born again christians like Palin not care because they are just hoping for Armageddon soon anyway? The policies of the right wing christians will certainly hurry that along!

    OIL IS FOR DINOSAURS…and if we keep using OIL we will become dinosaurs.

    We need to invest in the energy of the future….in fact solar and wind power are the energies of the present. They already exist! Lets use them more fully and develop a sustainable infrastructure before the religious right (which does not care about the planet anyway) turn Earth into a living hell.

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  4. ivaylo avramov, on September 20th, 2006 at 1:59 am Said:

    Hi,

    I’d like to introduce you one vision about how to tackle Climate Change consequences as part of a bigger Economic Development mechanism.

    I am conducting a research in the field of climate change (and what we could do to adapt to it). The study has multiple scientific, social, economic and political aspects.
    The details are available at http://www.deserticeproject.com

    There you will find a description of the project aimed to fight global warming (and many other related global problems like desertification / drought, food and water shortage, poverty, unemployment and illiteracy as foundation for hate, violence and religious fanaticism, etc.) by global, complex measures.

    The emphasis is on the belief that basically we can react to climate change in two key ways: once – by intensive greening (more trees and leafs – more absorbed CO2, as well as more jobs, more income and profits, more stable economies and more well living people, etc.), twice – by sophisticated filtering and energy efficient systems not allowing heat-trapping gases to flow in the atmosphere.

    I believe that this might be interesting for you from your perspective, and that the proposed measures could initiate a serious discussion.

    regards,
    ivo

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