The Silver Tsunami: Candidates’ Forum on Washington’s Aging Readiness, Monday, Oct 1, 2012, 11 am – 1 pm, Mercer Island Community Center Event is free and open to public but registration is required. Contact Doug Ricker at 206-684-0292 or doug.ricker@seattle.gov

Thursday evening I went to an exhibit of inspiring photos of the Seattle Occupy movement and chatted with several people there.  One woman and I discussed Occupy and the path forward. She said she distrusts the Democratic Party. I said that I understand why people reject working through the Democratic Party — it would take…

Send a message to your senators at: http://action.lcv.org/SaferChemicals Tell them to pass the Safe Chemicals Act this fall! [I really like the use of music, humor, and – uh – sex, to market progressive values.]

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Published on Sep 6, 2012 by naacpvideos “1 in 2.3 million. Those are the infinitesimal chances voter fraud will occur in a federal election. That’s less likely than being struck by lightning or attacked by a swarm of bees. Right now, 33 states have proposed laws making it harder to vote. That means 23 million…

In February of this year, Chris Hedges penned an influential article, The Cancer in Occupy, in which he exposed and condemned the activities of the “Black Bloc” of violence-loving extremists who have weakened, divided and discredited the Occupy Movement.* There’s a comparable cancer in the Democratic Party: corporatist Democrats who ally themselves with Republicans on…

Without government, we’d still be hunter-gatherers. True, the government is often corrupted so as to server the few, but the solution isn’t to follow Grover Norquist and the Tea Partiers and drown government in the bathtub. The solution is to fix government so that it serves everyone.   What’s government good for? Let’s remind ourselves…

What happened to Howard Dean?   He served as chairman of the DNC from 2005 to 2009.  According to the wikipedia article about him, “He currently holds neither elected office nor official position in the Democratic party.” You’d think that Dean would play a leading role on the progressive Left, alongside Alan Grayson, Dennis Kucinich, Bernie…