Week of March 26: click here for updates

Who can protest and does not is an accomplice in the act _The Talmud

WPKN Reports: A thriving business on the east end - Food Pantries

Immigration Issues in Focus

Combatants for Peace - Israelis and Palestinians - ex fighters tour the US

April 1 (Wednesday): Global Warming-How Immediate is the Crisis- Talk by Dr Scott Carlin in Babylon

April 1, April 3: Father Roy Bourgeois - School of Americas Watch at Stony Brook, Huntington

April 4 (Saturday): March on Wall Street - United for Peace & Justice

LI Wins Blog: Support the Dream Act

Peace and Justice Calendar

Suffolk Peace Vigils

Casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan - When will they end?

Gaza / Palestine Update:

Is there a Leadership Crisis? Obama choice for Intelligence Council withdraws under fire from AIPAC

Recommended Reading - click here:

America is in need of a moral bailout - Chris Hedges

Capitalism Hits the Fan - Richard Wolff

Kafka Era Double Standard: Edward Hermann on Gaza Coverage

Lucero Killing Follows Months of Anti-Immigrant Agitation

Economic Contributions of Immigrants to Long Island

Democracy Now!

The independent news hour with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez:
on Riverhead/Southampton/Southold/Shelter Island Channel 20:

Note: Channels 20 (public access) and 22 (government meetings) now require a digital capable TV or converter box and have been removed from the basic cable service in violation of contracts with the east end towns. Call your Town Council members to find out what they are doing about this.

Starting April 1 - no fooling - new schedule for Democracy Now!

Monday 6:30 am

Tuesday 6 PM

Wednesday 8 PM

Thursday 10 PM

Friday 6:30 am

Saturday - 10 PM

Also on WUSB 90.1 FM 5 PM Mon-Friday and East Hampton LTV Ch 20

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One Business Thrives on East End: Food Pantries

In the economic downturn there is one business that is thriving on Long island's East End. That’s the local food pantry business. Kathy Byrnes, is director of the East Hampton food pantry. She says last winter 80 to 100 families were served each week at the pantry on Accabonac Road. This year the number has increased to 200 families a week. 


"I have people calling me who say they are very embarrassed 
because they were always ones to donate to the Food Pantry 
and now they want to know how they can become clients
 of the food pantry."


Byrnes says anyone who can show they live in East Hampton is eligible for food - no questions are asked. But the increased need has meant a budget squeeze for the pantry. 


'My last delivery was $3700. and we had reduced it, we didn't buy as much produce. We are giving a choice of one fruit and and one vegeable where before we were giving two fruits and two vegetables because w'ere running out of money."

She says appeals for funds in the weekly East Hampton Star have helped 
but more is needed.

Donations can be sent to the

East Hampton Food Pantry 

P.O. Box 505,
East Hampton NY 11937,

or call the pantry to volunteer
at 631-324- 3025.

Other food pantries in the area and throughout Long Island are stressed by increased demand
including the pantries in Springs and Sag Harbor.

An open mike poetry reading to benefit the Sag Harbor Food Pantry will be held
on Saturday April 4 at 6 p.m.

"Buddy, Can you spare a poem?" an open mike reading of poems for the new economy - plus food drive - will be held at Canio's Books, 290 Main Street in Sag Harbor. Read a poem about facing uncertainty and bring a donation for our local food pantry.

Poets can register by calling 631-725-4926. Others are invited to come, listen and contribute.

The Sag Harbor Food Pantry is at Christ Episcopal Church, East Union Street and Rte. 114.

A food pantry is operated by the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center at 551 Bridgehampton - Sag Harbor Turnpike

Call the Center at 631-537-0616

Other Food Pantries -

Montauk - Food Pantry at St. Therese R.C. Church

Springs - Food Pantry at Springs Presbyterian Church - Springs Fireplace Road

Southampton Village: Human Resources - R.C. Church at Hill St.

Hampton Bays - Food Pantry at St. Rosalies Church - East Montauk Highway

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Adapted from a report prepared for WPKN News heard Monday-Friday at 6:30pm following
Free Speech Radio News at 88.7 WPKM Montauk and 89.5 WPKN Bridgeport
and www.wpkn.org

WPKN / WPKM are now in their Spring Fund Raising period. Call 203 - 384 - 9756 to pledge your support for community - free speech radio - or go to www.wpkn.org, donate and get a beach blanket or a copy of "Sag Harbor Is: A literary celebration".

Immigration Issues in Focus

The Forum on Immigration held last Friday in Hampton Bays organized by Southampton Town Councilperson Anna Throne Holst, NY Assemblyman Fred Thiele and US Congressman Tim Bishop was supposed to shed light on immigration issues by presenting just the facts about this topic. It was also to re-start a dialog on the topic.

Read one account of the forum in the Sag Harbor Express.
(if you have a strong stomach - scroll down below the article and read the racist comments it elicited)

And please look at an interview with Anna Throne-Holst in that same periodical.

Here is our comment prompted by the interview, also posted on the Express Website:

Ms. Throne-Holst says “We don’t have the power to crack down on people who employ undocumented workers.” But does’nt the Southampton Town Board
have the power to establish and enforce a minimum or living wage law? *

Some of the angry people at the forum - viewed on SEA-TV on Southampton Town’s web-site - were professional anti-immigrant agitators. Others were local citizens upset that low wage workers are being hired by unscrupulous contractors and that those contractors who do not hire un-documented immigrants are the victims.

Some time ago a foundation offered to fund a hiring center for day-laborers in Southampton which would have regularized the hiring process and helped prevent the abuses by certain contractors who hire undocumented workers at low wages, often failing to pay the wages due.

Past Town Boards have vetoed the establishment of such a center. So the low wage employers are able to continue their abuses.

While we wait for the Feds to act - eliminating the “illegals” by
making them legal would make sense - there are things we can do IF we have the will.

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* Ms. Throne-Holst advises: The Town does not have the power to enact minimum wage laws - only the State or the federal government can do that.

Week of March 19: click here for updates

Who can protest and does not is an accomplice in the act _The Talmud

Immigration Issues in Focus

Combatants for Peace - Israelis and Palestinians - ex fighters tour the US

March 19 (Thursday): 6th Anniversary of Iraq War / Occupation

Suffolk County Actions to Mark 6th Anniversary of Iraq War and to Oppose Escalation of Afghanistan War

March 21(Saturday): NAACP Jubilee in Riverhead at 11 am

March 21: (Saturday): Hoops for History - Basketball Match Benefits Shinnecock Museum - 7 pm

April 1 (Wednesday): Global Warming-How Immediate is the Crisis- Talk by Dr Scott Carlin in Babylon

April 1, April 3: Father Roy Bourgeois - School of Americas Watch at Stony Brook, Huntington

April 4 (Saturday): March on Wall Street - United for Peace & Justice

LI Wins Blog: El Salvador Elections and Immigration

Peace and Justice Calendar

Suffolk Peace Vigils

Casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan - When will they end?

Gaza / Palestine Update:

Is there a Leadership Crisis? Obama choice for Intelligence Council withdraws under fire from AIPAC

Recommended Reading - click here:

America is in need of a moral bailout - Chris Hedges

apitalism Hits the Fan - Richard Wolff

Kafka Era Double Standard: Edward Hermann on Gaza Coverage

Lucero Killing Follows Months of Anti-Immigrant Agitation

Economic Contributions of Immigrants to Long Island

Democracy Now!

The independent news hour with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez:
on Riverhead/Southampton/Southold/Shelter Island Channel 20:

Note: Channels 20 (public access) and 22 (government meetings) now require a digital capable TV or converter box and have been removed from the basic cable service in violation of contracts with the east end towns. Call your Town Council members to find out what they are doing about this.

Monday 10 pm
Tuesday 6 pm
Wednesday 10 pm
Thursday 10 pm
Friday 8 pm
Saturday - 6pm

Also on WUSB 90.1 FM 5pm Mon-Friday and East Hampton LTV Ch 20

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Combatants for Peace - WPKN Radio News Report

Melinda Tuhus reports from New Haven:

audio here

A group of Israelis and Palestinians are on a speaking tour of the US. Melinda Tuhus talked with them at Quinnipiac College on March 16. Their group 'Combatants for Peace' includes several Palestinian former resistance fighters and ex Israeli soldiers. One Israeli on the tour lives near the Gaza border in a village in range of rocket attacks. The Palestinian who spoke told about the killing of one of his children "by an American bullet with an American M-16 rifle from an American Jeep". He says he wants to protect his remaining children by fighting for peace. The group advocate an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands and say only non-violent protest is acceptable.

Also on March 16 a rally was held in New Haven protesting the shooting of Tristan Anderson, an American opposing the building of the wall through the West Bank. Anderson was hit with a new style high speed tear gas cannister shot from a rifle. He is in critical condition in an Israeli hospital. Protesters called for a change in the US policy of un-conditional support for Israel.

audio here


Melinda Tuhus reports for the nationally syndicated programs Between the Lines (WPKN 89.5 / WPKM 88.7 - Tuesday 5:30 pm, Wednesday 8 am and Saturday 2 pm and Free Speech Radio News (Mon-Friday 6 pm) and (local) WPKN News (Mon-Friday 6:30 pm).