Washington Liberals Blog

Join the local fight to free Marissa Alexander 0

Join the local fight to free Marissa Alexander

The terrible injustice of the not-guilty verdict for Trayvon Martin’s killer has brought Marissa Alexander’s racist and sexist treatment by Florida courts to center-stage of U.S. and world attention. It is infuriating to think...

Protect Social Security, not the 1% 0

Protect Social Security, not the 1%

Representatives Rick Larsen and Jim McDermott have signed the Ciccline letter “Expressing the sense of the Congress that the Chained Consumer Price Index should not be used to calculate cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security...

A Win for “Just Scrap the Cap” 0

A Win for “Just Scrap the Cap”

Conservative billionaire Pete Peterson, a major financier in the effort to dismantle Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, just got some egg on his face courtesy of the Social Security Works – Washington coalition, the Economic...

Letter to the editor in right wing newspaper 0

Letter to the editor in right wing newspaper

The editorials and cartoons of the local newspaper, the Bellevue Reporter, almost always have an anti-government and anti-taxation message. During the 2010 election cycle, when the high earner’s income tax initiative I-1098 was on...

For-profit health care is cruel and immoral! 0

For-profit health care is cruel and immoral!

Insurance Company Gets F-ed Over By Another Cancer Patient Eventually, people will look back to our age and wonder: how could people be so uncivilized that they let people suffer and die without adequate...

SAFE Newsletter Week Two July 2013 0

SAFE Newsletter Week Two July 2013

Upcoming Actions – Now until ????? – Awaiting word to resume Eviction Blockade as Jeremy’s home was tagged/eviction posted on Tuesday, July 9th. July 12th -   Peacekeeper Training, Bethany UCC  1 – 3PM - ...