Washington Liberals

President Obama wants to blame the Republicans for his inability to pass progressive legislation. Indeed the Republicans are bad news. But Obama bent over backwards to protect Republicans and their corporate allies from accountability for their many crimes. Rather than fight them, he coddled them, surrounded himself with Wall Street executives and Bush holdovers, and…

Free Speech for People, Public Citizen, Move to Amend, People for the American Way, and Common Caucus are jointly sponsoring house parties on Wednesday, November 9th, to work on the campaign for a Constitutional Amendment to overturn the Citizens United Supreme Court decision.  The parties will feature a nationwide conference call with U.S. Senator Bernie…

Protesters arrested, pepper-sprayed at Chase bank I’m waiting for the day when the police join the protesters and demand action on ending the injustices we face.

Her third try:  http://darcyburner.com/  

If you make cuts to Social Security and Medicare, if you make only token cuts to defense spending, and if you don’t raise taxes on the rich, you don’t deserve to be re-elected.    Stop acting like Republicans and stop blaming them for your many compromises and sell-outs.

We are the 1%. We stand with the 99%. (Well-to-do people who want higher taxes.) The GOP are adamantly opposed to raising taxes. They’ve so corrupted elections, deceived the people, and stacked the Supreme Court that it may be impossible to dislodge them from office in the near future.

http://www.opoa.org/uncategorized/an-open-letter-to-the-citizens-of-oakland-from-the-oakland-police-officers%E2%80%99-association/ An Open Letter to the Citizens of Oakland from the Oakland Police Officers’ Association 1 November 2011 – Oakland, Ca. We represent the 645 police officers who work hard every day to protect the citizens of Oakland. We, too, are the 99% fighting for better working conditions, fair treatment and the ability to provide…

I rode to work in the dark this morning, and I will probably ride home in the dark this evening. It’s that time of year, the sun rising later and setting earlier, Halloween right around the corner, and winter and darkness impending. The nation’s mood is equally darkening, and things are not much better here…

From the General Aseembly in Philly last night Below is the proposal passed last night by overwhelming majority. PLEASE PASS IT ON. Changes made from 10/30/11 General Assembly: Call For a Constitutional Amendment To Purify the American Political Process We of Occupied Philadelphia call for an amendment to the Constitution that would eliminate Corporate Personhood.…

Dear supporters, I wanted to update folks with the latest news from the taskforce. We are having another task force meeting Nov 1 in Olympia at 9:00 am in Senate Conference Rooms A, B, C. You can find the agenda for the meeting here on our website. Remember, if you can’t make it to Olympia…