Ellen Brown on state bank, Olympia (Tue), Seattle (Wed)
Tuesday, October 25, 2011, 7:00 PM Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts 2011 Mottman Rd SW Olympia, WA 98512 Public Bank Forum Featuring Ellen Brown, Author of The Web of Debt Rep. Bob...
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"Occupy Obama" Could Turn Up Heat on the Democrats
From Truthout: President Barack Obama is no longer running unchallenged in all the major primary states, thanks to activists in Iowa who are focusing their Occupy Wall Street activism onto the headquarters of the...
US sponsored torture in Afghanistan
“Ten years after promising that human rights would be protected in Afghanistan, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has verified “systemic torture” by Afghan security forces trained and funded by the United States.”...
Seattle Town Hall Saturday 5 pm: Lawrence Lessig, "The Corruption of Congress" and …
Saturday, October 22nd – 5 PM. Lawrence Lessig, “The Corruption of Congress” Seattle Town Hall (downstairs hall; entrance on Seneca). 1119 – 8th Ave, Seattle 98101 (8th & Seneca) (tickets $5 – in advance...
A catchy symbol for the Occupy movement
The Occupy movement should adopt an easily recognizable, catchy symbol — such as a red/white/blue ribbon with “99%”. It can then be displayed everywhere: on trees, hanging from overpasses, etc. Another idea: a tricorne...
What sort of person thinks like this?
From One Million Strong against Michelle Bachman (http://www.facebook.com/StopBachmann)
Rallies statewide, phone calls to Senator Murray to end Big Oil subsidies
Today, 14 U.S. Senators called on the Congressional Super Committee to end subsidies for Big Oil. This is our chance to end this outrageous program. We need Sen. Patty Murray to make this issue...
Powerful political cartoons
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=pu.134812666618600&type=1 Click through the photos. Some are very clever. http://blog.seattlepi.com/davidhorsey/2011/09/19/how-we-slice-the-pie-in-the-usa/ http://blog.seattlepi.com/davidhorsey/2011/03/07/class-warfare-starts-at-the-top/ http://blog.seattlepi.com/davidhorsey/2011/07/21/1021/ http://blog.seattlepi.com/davidhorsey/2011/09/08/conservatives-hate-government-until-they-need-it/
50,000,000 strong, human megaphone: End the wars! Stop the corruption! Stop socialism for the rich and austerity for everyone else!
Tens of millions of Americans are fed up with the immoral war-mongering, the torture, the rampant corruption, the fixed elections, the handouts to the super-rich, the mismanagement, the outsourcing of jobs and profits, the...