The right wing think tank Washington Policy Center is proposing an amendment to the Washington State Constitution to make a permanent 2/3 super-majority requirement on raising revenue. See Citizens’ Guide to Initiative 1185: To Affirm the Two-thirds Vote Requirement for Tax Increases. Duch an amendment will be needed if the State Supreme Court rules I-1153…
SEASN (Solidarity, Equity and Activist Support Network) provides education, training and support to empower activists to be leaders in the social movement towards equity for all oppressed peoples. We advocate that no voices be silenced due to the pervasive patriarchy that exists within the activist community and throughout our society as a whole. We believe…
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John Jonik is a prolific and spot-on political cartoonist who grants permission for people to use his work for non-commercial purposes. His cartoons succinctly express some of the sources of the desired outrage. Here are four more cartoons that I like. See his website for even more.
Inspire Seattle Invites YOU to join us at our Social Forum: Saturday, October 20th at 6:30PM. Main discussion topic for this evening: Climate Change Some twenty years ago, the shouts of many climate scientists around the world grew to a roar. Their findings indicated global climate change was accelerating and our planet was indeed warming,…
Let’s assume that a person really wanted to understand a foreign philosophy, a different way of setting up a society. If that was the case, I would recommend listening to Suzanne Guerlac talk about the philosophy of Henri Bergson. This is a dense program, but Suzanne is articulate and the interviewer asks probing intelligent questions,…
Please join Real Change Reads this Thursday, September 20th at 7pm at the Common Good Cafe, to meet Chuck Collins, author of 99 to 1, How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It. This exciting opportunity is for you to meet the author and discuss the book, along with the reading group participants from around the…
Here is a music video by Duane Thorin, a phenomenal musician who wrote an incredible song about the efforts of Altadenans to fend off a Walmart that is moving to their town. This just goes to show why poets lead revolutions. . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS54QvBOcNY&list=FLlMxXslVnU9pM44AQuxhc7g&index=2&feature=plpp_video For those of you who haven’t seen it, below is the…
FAIR is reporting: Brought to You by…Big Oil? Washington Post hides industry sponsorship of energy debate
One year of Occupy in Seattle