(author unknown) See also: The State Constitution and other reasons to oppose charter schools

John Jonik is a prolific and spot-on political cartoonist who grants permission for people to use his work for non-commercial purposes. His cartoons succinctly express some of the sources of the desired outrage.  Here are four more cartoons that I like.  See his website for even more.

Please join Real Change Reads this Thursday, September 20th at 7pm at the Common Good Cafe, to meet Chuck Collins, author of 99 to 1, How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It.  This exciting opportunity is for you to meet the author and discuss the book, along with the reading group participants from around the…

FAIR is reporting: Brought to You by…Big Oil? Washington Post hides industry sponsorship of energy debate

One year of Occupy in Seattle

Why is the [Obama] Administration talking about replacing Treasury Secretary Geither with a wealthy banker who wants to cut Social Security and Medicare, would lower taxes on his fellow rich people, and is trying to impose European-style job-destroying austerity on this country? Klein wrote that “as of today, I’m ready to name a frontrunner, at…

We Stand with Bishop Talbert’s Courageous Witness In September 1960, a young pastor named Melvin Talbert was arrested and jailed alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. for sitting in at a segregated lunch counter. He went on to become a bishop in the United Methodist Church and serve as president of the National Council of Churches.…

Uploaded by spellbinder00 on Feb 27, 2008 “Shows what REAL Money Is and it’s NOT the Federal Reserve Note. This video describes the superior performance of government issued currency over that issued by private central banks. There is no reason for any free people to have to make interest payments on the printing of their…

I and about 3000 people went to a luncheon with Bill Clinton and Jay Inslee at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle today. I sat right in the center about 5 tables back from the podium.  Had I had the chance, I’d have asked Clinton if he regrets dismantling Glass-Steagall and passing NAFTA.  He…