There is a rather frightening trojan horse making its way into American elections, called AmericansElect.org, or as I think of it, AmericanSelect.org, because they have positioned themselves to secretly choose presidential candidates for us. What is really insidious about this is that NO ONE is calling them on their unaccountable, undemocratic, unwatchable, and completely nonpublic…
I have a dream! It’s not a dream on the scale of ML King Jr.’s dream and if I try to express my dream in a speech, it won’t bring a lump to your throat the way that Martin’s dream speech will, but if you have a full bladder in downtown Olympia after hours some…
The Tea Party movement is not just a grassroots phenomenon. It was nurtured and financed by the likes of the Koch brothers and Fox News. But it can’t be denied that it does express some populist outrage at government corruption. See That Tea Party-Occupy Wall Street Venn Diagram for an excellent, short depiction of the…
People have little faith in the corrupted and fixed electoral system. So, like the protesters in the Arab Spring, Americans are taking to the street to demand real change, not the negative change of Reagan and Bush, who brought us immoral wars, recession, corruption, torture, debt, and increasing concentration of wealth. And not the imaginary…
NYC police riots against Occupy Wall Street protesters are comparable to the violent response by regimes in Syria and Iran to the Arab Spring.
The King County Legislative Action Committee will host Rep. Bob Hasegawa (11th) at this month’s meeting: Sunday Oct. 16th, 2-4 p.m. at the Mercer Island Library. 4400 88th Avenue Southeast, Mercer Island, WA 98040-4148 Click here for a “printer friendly” version of the map & directions Rep. Hasegawa is sponsor of the State Investment Trust…
According to the Seattle P-I, Swedish to drop elective abortions if deal goes through, Swedish Medical Center, one of the region’s largest hospital systems, will stop performing elective abortions if a proposed alliance with a massive Catholic-run health-care organization is approved…. My primary care physician is with Swedish. Looks like I’ll switch to another provider.
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We are underway in the WA State capitol city with an occupation that started back in the spring when we had a week of action to challenge the legislature to close loopholes and raise revenue instead of cutting essential services. The state has so far been unable and/or unwilling to challenge initiative-based mandates that hamstring…
According to Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, the richest 1 percent of Americans now own 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. Twenty-five years ago the top 1 percent owned 33 percent of national wealth. The Top 1% Take Home 24 Percent Of National Income. See 15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wealth And Inequality In America. The Top…