Washington Liberals Blog
Occupy Graduation & new Doo-Occupy video (Cameo by Ben Cohen!)
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May Day In Seattle – Mayhem and Media Spin
On May 1st 2012 activists all around the globe gathered to celebrate May Day, a pagan holiday that has become a traditional date for insurrection and revolution. In 1886 the Haymarket Massacre in Chicago...
InspireSeattle Social: "Transportation Issues", Sat., May 12th, 6:30pm
InspireSeattle invites YOU to join us at our Social Forum:Â Saturday, May 12th at 6:30PM. Main discussion topic for this evening:Â Transportation Issues in the Greater Seattle Region Wedged in between Puget Sound and...
On Rob McKenna's Six Principles
GOP gubernatorial candidate Rob McKenna’s campaign website has Six Principles for a New Direction in State Budgeting Below I’ve added interpretations, suggested by Zach Smith an Walt Kloefkorn. Restore the Legislature’s role in collective...
Hollande Ousts Sarkozy in French Election
The French people kicked Sarkozy out! Â When people understand that ‘austerity’ really means ‘ripping off working people,’ they can do amazing things. The first thing Hollande plans to do is pull French troops...
Poll: Were progressives who fell for Obama in 2008 foolish?
Many progressives who voted for Barack Obama in 2008 are now angry. They feel cheated and betrayed. They feel that President Obama failed to even try to live up to his promise to bring...
The IRS allows the NFL, but not nonprofit journalism outlets, to register as nonprofits
FreePress.net and SaveTheNews.org are reporting The Internal Revenue Service considers the NFL — yes, the National Football League, home to gazillion-dollar salaries and revenues — a registered nonprofit!1 Meanwhile, dozens of nonprofit journalism outlets...
What is our Strategy to Create Change?
Then we can step back and talk about the tactics to make change happen. I have been somewhat fixated on the controversy about the black bloc, the whole diversity of tactics debate since the...
Rocky Anderson at UW calls for rejection of 'lesser-of-two-evils-ism'
Rocky Anderson spoke last night at University Methodist Church near UW in Seattle on his third-party bid for Presidency. Photos courtesy of Andy Kern. Anderson, former mayor of Salt Lake City, is running under...