Why join the Justice Party and support Rocky Anderson for President

ByJGlennEvans

Remember hearing in grade school, “That’s not fair.”  That’s what justice is all about.  Our so call Justice System should really be called our Injustice system.  Over and over poor people, people of color, both brown and black, go to jail for years in many cases for petty and nonviolent crimes when compared to the…

Inpsire Seattle social forum and potluck on March 31, topic: the execution of Troy Davis

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InspireSeattle invites YOU to join us at our Social Forum and potluck:  Saturday, March 31st at 6:30PM. Main discussion topic for this evening:  TROY DAVIS: THE HUMAN FACE OF THE DEATH PENALTY We have scored again and have a great speaker:  Jen Marlowe, author/filmmaker/playwright and human rights advocate, to discuss the recent execution of Troy…

Ellen Brown on how banks rip off municipalities via interest rate swaps

ByLinda Boyd

Excerpts from Ellen Brown’s WALL STREET CONFIDENCE TRICK: How “Interest Rate Swaps” Are Bankrupting Local Governments:  It was a deliberate, manipulated move by the Fed, acting to save the banks from their own folly in precipitating the credit crisis of 2008.  The banks got in trouble, and the Federal Reserve and federal government rushed in to bail…

Charter schools worse than public schools

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David Sirota reports in Charter schools: No silver bullet: In recent years, major studies suggest that, on the whole, charter schools are producing worse educational achievement results than traditional public schools. For example, a landmark study from Stanford University’s Center for Research on Education Outcomes discovered that while 17 percent of charter schools “provide superior…