Hunger Strike Song
This video might be challenging for some viewers, because of the people of color, the rap-inspired chant, and its (quite reasonable!) support for the rights of the (innocent) Muslims who are hunger-striking. I posted...
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Information about the sale of Fisher Communications to Sinclair
Fisher Communications, owner of Seattle’s KOMO-TV and 19 other television stations, will be acquired for $373 million by Sinclair Broadcast Group, the country’s largest Fox affiliate. Sinclair said it plans to keep Fisher’s three...
Close Tax Loopholes!
Over the weekend, volunteers with FUSE plastered areas on the Eastside with signs calling for the closing of tax loopholes. Areas targeted include the neighborhoods where Senators Rodney Tom, Steve Litzow, and Andy Hill...
Bipartisan task force concludes Bush administration responsible for torture, war crimes
A non-partisan, blue-ribbon task force sponsored by the Washington-based Constitution Project issued a report on US treatment of detainees in the wake of the September 11 attacks. The task force, after a two-year investigation,...
Imagine if everyone was this passionate about things that actually matter
Source: The Mind Unleashed.
On the effort to eliminate tax giveaways
The state in the current biennium budget period gave out 176 tax breaks for B&O taxes totaling some $7.5 billion while collecting only $6.5 billion in revenue. The exemptions were 54% of the potential...
Sickening: Why Walt Disney World and Olive Garden are exactly the wrong places to take your family
Walt Disney World and Darden Restaurants (which owns restaurant chains like Olive Garden and Red Lobster) both have happy-looking public faces regarding the health of the people they employ. But behind the scenes, they’re...
K12 INC costs the jobs of 10,000 teachers in the US – including 500 here in Washington State
We should offer our students better and more reliable online educational opportunities, but … Online education has tremendous potential to help some students in some situations. But online education also requires very careful oversight...
Drones, the C.I.A., and Pakistan
Bush oversaw forty-eight drone strikes in Pakistan during his two terms. Since 2009, Obama as authorized more than three hundred. In Mazetti’s telling, CIA leaders repeatedly pushed Obama for more expansive authority to used...
Chuck Thompson: Let the South Secede (video)
One can only imagine the humiliation it must be that a black man is in the White House for all those bigoted rubes who were the target of Nixon’s divide and rule “Southern strategy”. ...