Author: oly mike

Austin's Picks:  Autonomy Alliance 0

Austin's Picks: Autonomy Alliance

“It’s a scary time to be involved with radical class struggle. But was it ever any other way?” Austin Kelly suggests you scan this one from LibCom.org:         An interview conducted...

Winning the War of Position, oh yeah, and Todd Akin 0

Winning the War of Position, oh yeah, and Todd Akin

Austin Kelly sent along this link. This article makes a number of arguments about the direction the IWW should take in its organizing, including taking a longer-term perspective than the next few years. Winning...

Politics and Entertainment! 0

Politics and Entertainment!

M & I are working on two campaigns for the regular election. The first is Thomas Bjorgen’s run for the Court of Appeals. Tom would simply make a superb judge and I think it’s...

Primary Election?  Did we have one? 0

Primary Election? Did we have one?

Tell me about the results that you are tracking. as for me, I was working on the Thomas Bjorgen Court of Appeals campaign and that one has my interest right now. Turnout was low....

Austerity Politics v. Posterity Politics 0

Austerity Politics v. Posterity Politics

Are we Keynesians or would we prefer to be serfs? It’s an election year, so we get to weigh on this and other questions. I really think we need to be thinking about creative...

The State is a Condition 0

The State is a Condition

“The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behaviour; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently toward one another…” Gustav Landauer Have to pack and...

Judging the Judge Candidates 0

Judging the Judge Candidates

Ok, a little more on the judge races. And specifically on the question of how to figure out who is really qualified to sit on the bench. The table below is from VotingForJudges.org.  VFJ...

If an Agent Knocks on your door… 0

If an Agent Knocks on your door…

Well, the news in Olympia is that the agents came knocking in the last few days. Our free society has generally embraced the political freedom of aligning with either the Republican or the Democratic...

Dana Walker for State Treasurer! 0

Dana Walker for State Treasurer!

It’s official. We are running a write-in campaign against Jim McIntire for Washington State Treasurer. I have imposed on my friend Dana Walker to accept the role of running against the previously unopposed Jim...