Washington Liberals

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…

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Vanguard founder and former CEO  John Bogle says: “We have one hell of a problem in this country, and it is not badly articulated by talking about the 99 percent and the 1 percent, although if you wanted to split hairs, we’d be talking about the 99.9 percent and the 0.1 percent.” “Only one-half of…

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…