Occupy Canada: reports: From Occupy Frankfurt. May 19, 2012. The German police took off their helmets and marched with the protest clearing the way for them. Thought you may like to have this image as well… The police coming over to serve and protect the people… Blockupy Frankfurt. Police are escorting, not participating. Reports of…

Our efforts worked:  People for the American Way is reporting: “Huge news! Amazon.com is now the 16th major corporation to cut ties to the American Legislative Council (ALEC), according to reports.” Local and national groups have contributed to this effort.

About the Cascadia Porject: Cascadia is the proposed name for the independent state that would be formed by British Columbia, Washington and Oregon, were these states and province ever to successfully secede from their federal governments in Ottawa and Washington D.C.  It is also a unique coastal-mountain bioregion between San Francisco and the Alaskan panhandle in…

The Seattle P-I is reporting: AP: Signs of improper campaigning in McKenna files.

[This article co-written with David Spring] Washington State Democratic chair Dwight Pelz is coming under criticism on Democratic email lists for inviting Newark mayor Cory Booker to be the keynote speaker at the State Convention Gala Banquet to be held on Friday June 1 in Seattle.   Booker is well known as a supporter of…

Apparent source: The Christian Left. That list of nasty things Republicans have done could be extended.

Rather discusses with Bill Maher the politically motivated attacks on his story that charged Bush with having gone AWOL  Rather also discusses media consolidation. “To put it bluntly, very big business is in bed with very big government in Washington and has more to do with what the average person sees, hears, and reads than…

Working Washington and Fuse Washington are planning a Rally outside Amazon’s shareholder meeting Thurs, May 24, 8:30-9:30am Seattle Art Museum 1300 First Avenue, downtown Seattle meet at the Hammering Man “Amazon is a member of American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a shadowy corporate front group that writes bills for conservative legislators across the country.” Amazon…

Welcome to the DIY generation Obama seems to have transformed the cohort of 18- to 29-year-olds, a whopping 66% of whom preferred him over John McCain, from passionate voters who thought Obama really did offer change they could believe in, into people feeling, in the words of veteran political analyst Charlie Cook, “disappointment and disillusionment.”…

Saturday afternoon I attended a meeting on “Progressive Coalition Building – 2012 and Beyond” at Green Lake library in Seattle. The meeting was organized by supporters of Rocky Anderson, who is running for President under the auspices of the Justice Party. Anderson spoke by Skype for the first 45 minutes. (Impressively clear audio and video!)…