Note to Incumbents on Social Security
Interested in re-election in 2014? You can pack your bags for home if you vote for the chained CPI. It doesn’t matter what party: if you are a Democrat, the Republican candidate will hammer...
Washington Liberals Blog
Urgent! Call our Senators about the 2013 Defense Authorization bill
Last Friday I met with our Senators Washington DC staff via video-conference as a member of a delegation of faith, union and NGO leaders. Our goal was to convey to our Senators a desire to sustain Social Security,...
Ring in the New Year with Northwest rabble-rousers!
Monday, December 31, 8:30pm A Rebellious New Years Eve Celebration: Sweep the Globe Clean in 2013! Make the scene at the red-hot spot for activist movers and shakers!·        Sumptuous Northern Italian Feast (menu below)...
Unacceptable!!! Americans want Social Security, not endless wars and giveaways to the rich
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Breaking news: Obama will cut Social Security, largely spare the Pentagon, and retain many Bush era tax cuts
The New York Times is reporting that President Obama will cut Social Security, largely spare the Pentagon, and retain many Bush tax cuts: a grand betrayal. President Delivers a New Offer on the Fiscal...
Seattle Scoping Hearing, Rally, March, After Party, and Press
Backbone participated in five of the seven coal train scoping hearings across the state, bringing imagery, helping promote, and generally providing strong visual and messaging support to the effort to defeat this insane/foolish/greedy/ridiculous proposal...
Education reform will require new revenue – here are a few ideas
Given the decision of the Washington State Supreme Court in the McCleary case, which highlighted Washington’s failure to adequately fund education, the new legislature and Governor will soon be looking for new revenue to meet the state’s...
Norm Goldman: "let's move people away from over-the-air radio"
Julia Chase and others have started a petition to keep progressive radio on the air in the Pacific Northwest. See The attack on progressive radio in the Pacific Northwest. They contacted progressive talk host...
We're coming to get your guns, imbeciles!
Actually, we’re not coming to get your guns, unless you have something like an assault weapon. We just want to make it harder for dangerous people to massacre innocents, and that just requires some...
Peggy Noonan: Republicans are too "lockstep"
Reagan speech writer Peggy Noonan says in a Wall Street Journal essay: “Republicans are now in the habit of editing their views, and they’ve been in it for 10 years. The Bush White House...