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President Obama will be in Bellevue this Friday, 2/17.  Please join members of the Eastside peace and justice community to urge Obama to release Bradley Manning. Please also  bring your “NO WAR in...
States Settle for…a Poke in the Eye “The $26 billion settlement that state authorities wrangled out of the nation’s five biggest banks amounts to peanuts compared to the damage that was done to homeowners...
Australian rapper Potential has released his debut mixtape which is inspired by and dedicated to the Occupy movement. Each track relates to real current affairs such as the Arab Spring, the Occupy protests, the...
We are more than halfway through the short 60-day election-year legislative session, which is scheduled to end March 8th. Whether or not the Legislature will close the $1.4 billion budget gap, and put us...
Quoting from the video page: (In this Moyers & Company segment, Bill Moyers talks with conservative economist Bruce Bartlett, who wrote “the bible†for the Reagan Revolution, worked on domestic policy for the Reagan White...
CBS News published an informative article, Q&A: Obama and the birth control controversy, that dispels some myths about the abortion care coverage required by Obama’s plan. As the article says: Q: Was the Obama...
The Seattle P-I reports that the WA Senate passes bill to rein in tax breaks “Approved by a 45-3 margin Saturday, the measure would put five-year sunsets on all new and extended tax breaks...
Chris Hedges made a few waves with his recent piece describing the black bloc as the cancer in occupy. I believe in diversity. I think diversity is a fundamental natural law of the universe....
[Yesterday I posted to OpEdNews the article copied below. Contributors to and readers of OpEdNews tend to be quite progressive or socialist. Many of them refuse to support the Democratic Party, saying that it’s...
http://www.watkinsforcongress.com/ Watkins appeared at the MDC candidates forum a couple of weeks ago in Seattle, as I discussed here: Darcy Burner and Roger Goodman shine at MDC candidates forum. Watkins likes to chat with...
