Rocky Anderson says [we're] not done yet ─ Just beginning

People
Social movements

 A proposal to the people of the United States from 2012 (former) candidate for the U.S. presidency: 

Excerpt, minor editing by Carolyn Bennett

“I ran the race to heighten awareness, to inspire people toward effective action,” Rocky Anderson says in a memo dropped in my inbox today.

Third-party presidential debates 2012

“As demonstrated by third-party candidates in the past …, a third-party effort ─ helping to catalyze a persistent, broad-based democratic movement for real change ─ can win far more than an election.

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Our campaign was a call for the people of the United States to take charge – they must be the leaders and we must build a broad-based powerful movement ─ if we are to: 

Rocky Anderson

overthrow the plutocracy – government that is up for sale to the highest bidder 

end the imperial presidency 

restore the rule of law, and the most fundamental freedoms guaranteed under the Constitution of the United States 

end the two-tiered economic and justice systems, and achieve a republic where no one is above the law 

respect civil and human rights ─ here and abroad 

Only the people

end the empire-building serving only the interests of multi-national corporations and plutocrats 

end poverty in a nation where presidential candidates will not even discuss poverty 

end corporate cronyism that has caused economic devastation for the vast majority of American people 

end the deprivation of basic health care for tens of millions of people 

finally, bring an end to the strangle-hold the two corporatist, militarist political parties have on the U.S. electoral system and our government. 

 

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Rocky Anderson after November 6

Join other engaged citizens in this continuing movement for economic, social, and environmental justice. If you are interested in working with me and others in carrying this movement forward,” Anderson says, “send a note, including contact information” to him at: rockyanderson.justice@gmail.com.

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The silenced clamoring at gates of U.S. empire ─ Stein, Honkala, Anderson

Substantive responses barred from presidential debates

Green Party candidates protested last night at Hofstra University appeared today in rebroadcast parallel forum on Democracy Now! “Exclusive: Expanding the Debate with Third-Party Candidates Jill Stein, Virgil Goode, Rocky Anderson”

Excerpting, editing, brief comment

By Carolyn Bennett: I apologize that my excerpted and edited version from the Democracy Now transcript of the third party candidate’s participation seems biased. I guess it is because, while I believe strongly in free speech and new ideas, I am strongly against regressive opinion, the status quo, the willfully ignorant and or the ridiculous.

Last night’s protest outside dominant party’s (singular) “anti-democracy” performance

Dr. Jill Stein (Green Party candidate for U.S. President):

We are here at the barred gates of American debates to say that we need to open up this debate and make it a full, fair and inclusive debate.  

Cheri Honkala (Green Party candidate for U.S. Vice President):

It shouldn’t just be whether or not you have billions of dollars that determine whether or not the American people can hear about your platform.

Jill Stein:

Our Green campaign is on the ballot for 85 percent of voters.

Eighty-five percent of voters deserve to know who their choices are in this election and what the real solutions are that can solve the desperate problems that we’re facing. The Commission on Presidential Debates makes a mockery of democracy by conducting this fake and contrived debate.

Stein - Honkala
Green Party
Pres - Vice Pres

Jill Stein:

We’re here to stand our ground.

We’re here to stand ground for the American people, who have been systematically locked out of these debates for decades by the Commission on Presidential Debates.

We think this commission is entirely illegitimate; … If democracy truly prevailed, there would be no such commission. The debates would still be run by the League of Women Voters [and] would be open with the criteria that the League of Women Voters had always used: that if you have done the work to get on the ballot, if you are on the ballot and could actually win the Electoral College by being on the ballot in enough states, you deserve to be in the election and you deserve to be heard; and that the American people actually deserve to hear choices which are not bought and paid for by multinational corporations and Wall Street.

Stein - Honkala police handled
outside Hofstra presidential debates

STEIN/HONKALA clamoring for speech at gates of empire

Confronted by Police force

“We were held at a facility, especially created for detaining protesters at the debates,” Dr. Stein said. “It appeared to be a warehouse which had been specially equipped. It was obvious … [that] they were prepared to handle a lot of people.

“They had 13 [police] officers there and three in plain clothes. For most of the time, it was just Cheri Honkala and me yet they felt the need to keep us in tight plastic restraints, tightly secured to metal chairs.…

“We were handcuffed to chairs for the entire duration of our time ─ about eight hours. Thirteen officers to keep these two women, mothers, handcuffed to chairs for the entire time.

“That was their procedure for handling people who were arrested at the debates,” Jill Stein said on Democracy Now. Did you get to see the debate from the warehouse,” Amy Goodman asked. “Absolutely not,” Stein answered.

Speaking last night, Jill Stein said in a clip rebroadcast today at Democracy Now

This is what democracy looks like in the 21st century. … [And] It’s going to take some politics and courage to get our democracy back.

More [is] to come.

WHAT EMPIRE SHUT OUT

DENIED a HEARING

Issue: FOREIGN WARS

Rocky Anderson (U.S. presidential candidate, Justice Party):

“The important issue is that we went into Libya … without any authorization from Congress. This is the real long-term question that ought to be addressed:

Do we allow one person to act as a dictator and determine whether our country goes to war, or do we, in compliance with the War Powers Clause of the United States Constitution, seek a determination from Congress that there is reason for our country to engage in acts of war?

This is an ongoing problem with the drone attacks, creating more hatred, more hostility toward the United States in sovereign nations.

We need to get back to the fundamentals. This is the important question that we should all be addressing and Congress needs to live up to its constitutional responsibility.

Jill Stein (presidential candidate, Green Party:

The tragedy in Libya, … is a very good case in point that shows how this ‘get tough’ international policy has been extremely unproductive, has produced the opposite effect of what was intended.

“And we are seeing this [effect] now, not only in Libya; but in the demonstrations against U.S. embassies across the Middle East, in the fact that the Afghanistan army is shooting at U.S. soldiers.

“The war effort is not being turned over to an Afghan army. The Afghan army itself has a very high desertion rate. 

“We need a foreign policy based, not on ‘tough guy’ militarism, not on wars for oil; but on international law and respect for human rights.”

Issue: JOBS

Jill Stein:

“Women-headed households have a 40 percent poverty rate relative to the 15 percent poverty rate among the general population. So we have a critical problem.

“That’s why our Green New Deal insures that everyone will have a job, and a job paying living wages.

The Green New Deal will put 23 million people back to work, will end unemployment. We will provide jump-start grants, zero-interest loans to small businesses and worker co-operatives, and we’ll provide the public works and public services that enable you to go down to an employment office, rather than an unemployment office, and actually get a job.

“We are also advocating for free public higher education.”

Banks are now getting a $40 billion every month as a part of the latest [Obama government] ‘quantitative easing.’ Again, we need to quantitatively ease student debt, not bank debt, again, for the third time, their fourth consecutive bailout.

Issue: Trade Agreements, Off-shoring

Jill Stein:

“We saw the first free trade agreement, NAFTA, enacted under Bill Clinton, a Democrat. We saw it carried out under George Bush; we saw Barack Obama expand three free trade agreements and is now negotiating a secret free trade agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, that will continue to offshore jobs, undermine wages; and as well, this time, compromise American sovereignty with an international corporate board that can rule on our laws and regulations and say whether or not they pass muster. This is an absolute outrage against American sovereignty, democracy and our economy.

“We need to turn the free trade agreements into fair trade agreements.

“The Green New Deal will create the community-based jobs we need here, supporting  small businesses, worker co-operatives, and public services and worker—and public works to put people back to work right now, for a cost—less than the cost of the first stimulus package.”

Rocky Anderson:

“We are seeing a return to the Gilded Age with a disparity in income and wealth unparalleled since the 1920s.

Anderson - Rodriguez
Justice Party
Pres - Vice Pres

“We can do so much better providing good jobs but having a strong labor movement in this country is crucial to that.

“We can renegotiate those trade agreements, put in place a WPA-like project, and raise wages, including the minimum wage, which will have that rippling effect and helping out everybody along the way.”

Issue: HEALTHCARE

Dr. Jill Stein:

“It is every woman and every man’s right to have complete healthcare through a Medicare-for-all plan, which is the only way that we can actually get to complete coverage. It provides comprehensive care, so that it’s not up to your boss, as the president basically validated by agreeing to relieve business—businesses where employers objected on religious grounds to the coverage of birth control.

Dr.Jill Stein

“Birth control should not be up to your employer nor should vaccinations or blood transfusions or any other aspect of healthcare that might be objected to on religious grounds.

“Healthcare is a human right. We should be providing it now for everyone. It will also save us trillions of dollars over the coming decade.”

Issue: VIOLENCE, GUNS (domestic)

Rocky Anderson:

“We need to end the stranglehold of the National Rifle Association on our government.

There’s one reason for assault weapons ─ to kill as many people as quickly as possible.

There was a federal ban on assault weapons, which expired in 2004.

The permanent reinstatement of that ban would be the right thing to do but neither of these [Republican and Democratic Party] candidates will do the right thing when it comes to ending the influence of the National Rifle Association and, once and for all, getting assault weapons off the streets of this country.

Jill Stein:

“Some 260 people every day are injured or killed by gun violence, so it’s very important that we ban assault weapons, for starters; but there are other steps that need to be taken quickly.

“Local communities need to be able to regulate guns, as needed, to deal with their violence.

We need to keep guns out of the hands of criminals.

We need background checks, so that the mentally ill are not possessing and using guns.

We need to end the gun show loopholes, as well, because there’s far too much violence from guns, which is not needed.

“But in addition, we have to address other drivers of community violence.

That includes ensuring that mental health services are available to everyone. Mental health services have been cut back in a major way with all the cuts to healthcare.

Providing Medicare for all ─ that covers everyone, including mental health services ─ would go a long way to ensure that very unstable and troubled individuals are not getting into possession of guns and then using them.

In addition, we need to end the culture of drug violence, which also is a major driver of gun violence. This means legalizing marijuana because it is a substance that is dangerous because it is illegal (it is actually far less dangerous than other legal substances). Legalizing marijuana will go a long way toward putting an end to the violence surrounding the drug culture.

Sources and notes

“Green Party Candidates Arrested, Shackled to Chairs for 8 Hours after Trying to

Enter Hofstra Debate,” October 17, 2012, http://www.democracynow.org/2012/10/17/green_partys_jill_stein_cheri_honkala

 “Exclusive: Expanding the Debate with Third-Party Candidates Jill Stein, Virgil Goode, Rocky Anderson,” October 17, 2012, http://www.democracynow.org/2012/10/17/exclusive_expanding_the_debate_with_third#transcript

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Open your minds and public forums to rights champions in race for U.S. presidency

 Bona fides in politics and human rights: 

Physician and former gubernatorial contender Jill Stein advocates at Physicians for Social Responsibility; 

Lawyer and former mayor Rocky Anderson advocates at High Road for Human Rights

Editing and comment by Carolyn Bennett

Do not let yourselves be bamboozled into believing that there are but two or (is) one pretending to be two sets of ideas worthy of hearing. 

If you believe your choices in the 2012 U.S. campaign for the presidency are limited to singular or barely plural options, you are mistaken.

Better to imagine something BETTER, reach out, research, uproot the entrenched same ole, no matter how it is packaged. 

Prepare and vote the BETTER you hope for instead of the lies you are handed.  

Presidential candidate Jill Stein
Vice presidential Cheri Honkala

In their own words, Jill Stein and Rocky Anderson merit your hearing.

JILL STEIN’S GREEN NEW DEAL • GREEN NEW DEAL • GREEN NEW DEAL

“The more people see that phrase, the more they’ll wonder what it is and the better chance we have at forcing it into the political discourse!” 

Stein’s ideas in debate

UNEMPLOYMENT

Jill Stein’s Green New Deal includes a Full Employment Program that will create 25 million jobs by implementing a nationally funded, but locally controlled direct employment initiative replacing unemployment offices with local employment offices. (http://bit.ly/PtTrhv) 

It is time to end unemployment
Time to transition to a green economy
Time for a Green New Deal! (http://bit.ly/PtTrhv#debate)

FORECLOSURE CRISIS

JillStein2012’s Green New Deal includes an immediate halt to all foreclosures and evictions (http://bit.ly/PtTrhv#debate)

TAX REFORM

Jill Stein’s Green New Deal would establish a 90 percent tax on bonuses for bailed out bankers. (#presidentialdebatehttp://bit.ly/PtTrhv)

Jill Stein’s Green New Deal will break up oversized banks that are ‘too big to fail’ and establish a 90 percent tax on bonuses for bailed out bankers. (#debate)

HEALTH CARE REFORM

The Green New Deal equals quality health care through a single-payer Medicare-for-All program. (#VoteGreen #debatehttp://bit.ly/PtTrhv)

STUDENT LOANS

Jill Stein’s Green New Deal includes the right to a tuition-free, quality, federally funded, locally controlled public education system from pre-school through college.

Forgive student loan debt from the current era of unaffordable college education. (“If we can bail out bankers, we can bail out students!” JillStein2012’s Green New Deal would solve the student loan crisis!  (#debate)

FINANCIAL REGULATORY REFORM

The Green New Deal from JillStein2012 will reform the financial system by regulating derivatives and forming public-owned banks. (#debate)

“Take Wall Street out of the driver’s seat and make an American economy that works for all of us.” (#GreenNewDeal #debate)

Green Party

candidates

Dr. Jill Stein (Massachusetts)

President

Cheri Honkala (Pennsylvania)

Vice President

ROCKY ANDERSON

Drawing moral line

“If you can draw your line at embezzlement of government funds to pay off the Mafia, lying about war experiences and one’s academic record, Anderson asks —

Presidential candidate Rocky Anderson
Vice presidential Luiz Rodriguez

will you also draw a moral line at assassinating U.S. citizens with no due process; imprisoning people for up to the rest of their lives without charges, trial, legal assistance or the right of habeas corpus; killing innocent men, women, and children in other nations, creating more hatred and hostility toward the United States

The President, not the Supreme Court, Rocky Anderson says to those fearing new appointments to the U.S. high court, “is shredding the Constitution, the rule of law, and human and civil rights.”

The President, not the Supreme Court, “is refusing to apply the law to the rich and powerful (Wall Street fraudsters), war criminals (Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and others who approved or perpetrated torture), and those who engaged in felonious spying on U.S. citizens’ communications.”

The President, not the Supreme Court, “is targeting U.S. citizens for assassination without due process.

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The President, not the Supreme Court, “has asked for and signed into law a bill providing the authority to round up people (including U.S. citizens) and have them imprisoned for up to the rest of their lives with no charges, no trial, no legal assistance, and no right of habeas corpus.

The President, not the Supreme Court, “is sitting around in the oval office deciding who will be killed by drones in at least four other nations (without the consent of and in violation of those nations’ sovereignty). Doing this with full knowledge that hundreds if not thousands of innocent men, women, and children will die in the process.”

Anderson promises:

I can to restore the rule of law, an effective system of checks and balances, due process, the constitutional limits of war-making power, and the right to be free from governmental tyranny and horrendous civil and human rights abuses committed during the George W. Bush/Barack Obama administrations.

Rocky Anderson urges U.S. voters to “Draw your own moral line.” And after all is said and done, Anderson says, “let us keep up the fight in a broad-based people’s movement for restoring democracy.”

Justice Party:

candidates

Rocky Anderson (Utah)

President

Luiz Rodriguez (Illinois)

Vice President

Sources and notes

Jill Stein for President

http://www.jillstein.org/donate

Authorized and paid for by Jill Stein for President
PO Box 260217, Madison, WI 53726-0217
http://www.JillStein.org

Rocky Anderson for president

http://www.voterocky.org/?utm_campaign=draw&recruiter_id=67772&utm_medium=email&utm_source=voterocky

http://www.voterocky.org/solutions

Wikipedia notes in brief

Jill Stein

U.S. physician Jill E. Stein (b. May 14, 1950), active with the Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities, is Green Party candidate for the U.S. presidency, a former candidate for the office of Massachusetts governor, and a member of the boards of Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility and MassVoters for Fair Elections.

She holds academic credentials from Harvard College (1973) and Harvard Medical School (1979).

Rocky Anderson

U.S. politician Ross Carl (Rocky) Anderson (b. September 9, 1951) is a former two-term mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, a practicing attorney, chair of the Utah State Bar Litigation Section,  Editor-in-Chief of and a contributor to Voir Dire legal journal; and current Executive Director of High Road for Human Rights.

He holds academic credentials from the University of Utah and George Washington University School of Law.

Politics 1.com’s comprehensive list of contenders for U.S. presidency 2012

“Presidency 2012: President Obama is seeking re-election to a second term in 2012. A large crowd of Republican candidates are competing for the GOP nomination plus tLOTS of third party and independent P2012 hopefuls.

If a person is running, regardless of party, ballot status or chances of winning, we have listed him or her.

In the order listed: first incumbent party followed by main opposition party; then third party candidates; then independent and write-in hopefuls. http://www.politics1.com/p2012.htm

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Third Party by Phyllis Fuffingbog

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Plural: more than corporate-media's one (Dem/Rpub) running for White House

U.S. Presidency 2012 

“There are some great third parties in this country, but none of them have a history of winning elections. They simply do not resonate with a sufficiently broad political base, either to succeed in winning or in helping create a long-term, sustained movement for significant change in this country. 

“I think this is a perfect time for third parties to come together under one unified banner, perhaps set aside some of our differences and join in providing the kind of option the majority of the American people want to see in the coming election.” [Rocky Anderson]

THIRD PARTY and
INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES:
(Note: Parties with ballot status in at least one state -- based on either 2008 status or preliminary 2012 status -- listed first, then all others under the INDEPENDENT and WRITE-IN CANDIDATES header)

AMERICA'S PARTY / AMERICAN INDEPENDENT PARTY:

Tom Hoefling (Iowa) Presidential Nominee J.D. Ellis (Tennessee) Vice Presidential Nominee

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AMERICAN THIRD POSITION PARTY:

Merlin Miller (California) Presidential Nominee Harry Bertram (West Virginia) Vice Presidential Nominee

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CONSTITUTION PARTY:

Former Congressman Virgil Goode (Virginia) Presidential Nominee Jim Clymer (Pennsylvania) Vice Presidential Nominee

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CONSTITUTION PARTY OF OREGON / INDEPENDENT AMERICAN PARTY:

Will Christensen (Utah) Presidential Nominee Ken Gibbs (California) Vice Presidential Nominee

NOTE: THE CONSTITUTION PARTY OF OREGON IS NOT AFFILIATED WITH THE CONSTITUTION PARTY (OF THE UNITED STATES).

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GRASSROOTS PARTY:

Jim Carlson (Minnesota) Presidential Nominee George McMahon (Iowa) Vice Presidential Nominee

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GREEN PARTY:

Dr. Jill Stein (Massachusetts) Presidential Nominee Cheri Honkala (Pennsylvania) Vice Presidential Nominee

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JUSTICE PARTY:

Former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson (Utah) Presidential Nominee Luiz Rodriguez (Illinois) Vice Presidential Nominee

NOTE: ALSO NOMINEE OF THE INDEPENDENCE PARTY OF CONNECTICUT and NATURAL LAW PARTY OF MICHIGAN.

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LIBERTARIAN PARTY:

Former Governor Gary Johnson (New Mexico) Presidential Nominee Former Superior Court Judge Jim Gray (California) Vice Presidential Nominee

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OBJECTIVIST PARTY:

Tom Stevens (New York) Presidential Nominee Alden Link (Florida) Vice Presidential Nominee

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PARTY OF SOCIALISM AND LIBERATION (PSL):

Peta Lindsay (California) Presidential Nominee Yari Osorio (New York) Vice Presidential Nominee

NOTE: THE PSL MAY ALSO USE SURROGATE PSL NOMINEES IN SOME STATES, WHERE NEEDED FOR BALLOT ACCESS PURPOSES, AS LINDSAY (AGE 27) AND OSORIO (AGE 26 & FOREIGN BORN) ARE NOT CONSTITUTIONALLY QUALIFIED TO SERVE IF ELECTED.

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PEACE & FREEDOM PARTY:

Rosanne Barr (Hawaii) Presidential Nominee Cindy Sheehan (California) Vice Presidential Nominee

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PROHIBITION PARTY:

Lowell "Jack" Fellure (West Virginia) Presidential Nominee Toby Davis (Mississippi) Vice Presidential Nominee

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REFORM PARTY USA:

Andre Barnett (New York) Presidential Nominee Ken Cross (Arkansas) Vice Presidential Nominee

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REFORM PARTY OF KANSAS:

Chuck Baldwin (Montana) Presidential Nominee Joseph Martin (North Carolina) Vice Presidential Nominee

NOTE: THE REFORM PARTY OF KANSAS IS NOT AFFILIATED WITH THE REFORM PARTY USA.

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SOCIALIST PARTY USA (SP-USA) / LIBERTY UNION PARTY:

Stewart Alexander (California) Presidential Nominee Alejandro "Alex" Mendoza (Texas) Vice Presidential Nominee

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SOCIALIST EQUALITY PARTY:

Jerome "Jerry" White (Michigan) Presidential Nominee Phyllis Scherrer (Pennsylvania) Vice Presidential Nominee

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SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY (SWP):

James Harris (New York) Presidential Nominee Maura DeLuca (Nebraska) Vice Presidential Nominee

NOTE: THE SWP MAY ALSO USE A SURROGATE VP NOMINEE IN SOME STATES, WHERE NEEDED FOR BALLOT ACCESS PURPOSES, AS MAURA DeLUCA (AGE 33) IS NOT CONSTITUTIONALLY QUALIFIED TO SERVE IF ELECTED.

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INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES WITH BALLOT STATUS IN AT LEAST ONE STATE:

Jeff Boss (Independent-New Jersey)

Richard Duncan (Independent-Ohio) - No Campaign Website

Nelson Keyton (Independent-Virginia)

Jerry Litzel (Independent-Iowa) - No Campaign Website

Jill Reed (Twelve Visions-Wyoming)

Randall Terry (Independent-West Virginia)

Sheila "Samm" Tittle (We The People-Virginia)

Mike Vargo (Independent-Ohio)

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Bennett's books are available in New York State independent bookstores: Lift Bridge Bookshop: www.liftbridgebooks.com [Brockport, NY]; Sundance Books: http://www.sundancebooks.com/main.html [Geneseo, NY]; Mood Makers Books: www.moodmakersbooks.com [City of Rochester, NY]; Dog Ears Bookstore and Literary Arts Center: www.enlightenthedog.org/ [Buffalo, NY]; Burlingham Books – ‘Your Local Chapter’: http://burlinghambooks.com/ [Perry, NY 14530]; The Bookworm: http://www.eabookworm.com/ [East Aurora, NY] • See also: World Pulse: Global Issues through the eyes of Women: http://www.worldpulse.com/ http://www.worldpulse.com/pulsewire http://www.facebook.com/#!/bennetts2ndstudy