Beyond Coal slideshow, Dec 5 at Bellevue Art Museum, Dec 7 at Islandwood Conference Center

Thousands of activists march to Gates and Bezos homes in protest of income inequality

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Stratospheric Wall Street compensation, tax avoidance by corporations

“The top five U.S. banks paid staff a combined $119 billion for 2010, according to bank consolidated income statements.”  from this Reuters article: Compensation seen rising among bankers: poll.  Add in Goldman Sachs and the compensation comes to about $140 billion. According to Dollars&Sense Wall Street financiers received $20.8 billion in bonuses last year on […]

Seattle Scoping Hearing, Rally, March, After Party, and Press

Backbone participated in five of the seven coal train scoping hearings across the state, bringing imagery, helping promote, and generally providing strong visual and messaging support to the effort to defeat this insane/foolish/greedy/ridiculous proposal in the court of public opinion.. These photos are from our effort at the final hearing in Seattle. It has been […]