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Free Speech Battle Over Protests Looming at Seattle Colleges

A major battle over free speech is being waged on local college campuses in Seattle. The Seattle Community College District Board of Trustees wants to revise the Washington Administrative Code (WAC) for Seattle colleges. The district is proposing new rules that would regulate protests on all three of the city’s state funded community college campuses. […]

Activism Philosophy

Build a new model?

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” — Buckminister Fuller But taken to extremes, such thinking would lead to frequent divorce, destruction, and abandonment of institutions and plans. Sometimes you do need to fix what’s broken instead of replacing it […]