Image from event (added evening of 2012/03/21) Tonight: Wednesday March 21 Speakout/Vigil @ 5:30pm Westlake Plaza ( 4th and Pine in downtown Seattle) Speakers: Joshua Simpson (Iraq war veteran and one of the founders of Coffee Strong), Ashley J Hagemann (Her husband committed suicide after receiving orders for a 9th deployment overseas), and Tim Bedwell…

The University of Washington Center for Human Rights and The Jackson School of International Studies present  “Endless War and Civil Liberties Erosions in the Age of Terrorism” a lecture by Glenn Greenwald  April 5, 2012 ● 7pm ● UW, Seattle ● Kane 110 http://jsis.washington.edu/humanrights/greenwald.shtml The Center for Human Rights and the Jackson School of International…

There’s a movement underway to recruit Dennis Kucinich to run for Congress in Washington State. On March 6, Kucinich lost a primary battle for his redistricted and gerrymandered Ohio congressional district.  (See here , here and here.)  His loss generated national coverage with commentators lamenting the “end of an era.” Last summer and autumn Kucinich…

In many localities, groups of concerned citizens have approached members of their city or county council asking them to adopt a resolution denouncing corporate personhood and overturning the infamous Citizens United decision by the US Supreme Court that equates money with speech and allows unlimited spending on electioneering by corporate entities that are not even…

Washington State House Speaker Frank Chopp spoke and answered questions at Mercer Island Library Sunday afternoon, at the King County Democrats’ Legislative Action Committee meeting. Chopp mostly covered the negotiations about the state budget. About two weeks ago Senate Republicans pulled a surprise maneuver and passed a regressive budget, with the help of three turncoat…

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” — Buckminister Fuller But taken to extremes, such thinking would lead to frequent divorce, destruction, and abandonment of institutions and plans.   Sometimes you do need to fix what’s broken instead of replacing it…

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Bigotry-is-Bigotry-is-Bigo-by-Gregory-Paul-120315-139.html “For black Christians to cite the Bible as justifying their homophobia is about as theologically logical and as ethically vile as white Christians citing the same volume’s support of slavery to warrant their discrimination against blacks .”

Big week coming up; talk worth listening to. But first, from our growing collection of audio commentary on Jay Ackroyd’s You-Tube page: The Z Files: Success, in which Stuart Zechman describes Rush Limbaugh’s facility for distraction and disinformation. Schedule for Sunday, March 18 through Thursday, March 22. This week: Gloria Feldt, Avedon Carol, Marcy Wheeler,…

Sisters Organize for Survival meeting: Where will the state budget axe fall? How long will the extended session of the Washington State Legislature remain at an impasse over the budget? There is hue and cry over Republican machinations and the defection of three Democrats to support the Senate Republican budget. But what does the Democratic budget…