Washington Liberals

On the 10th anniversary of the Afghan invasion Vets & Soldiers Speak Out against War Friday, October 7, 7:30pm Doors open at 6:30pm Three generations of veterans and soldiers will examine the human and economic costs of the endless U.S. occupations in Afghanistan and Iraq, including the rise of anti-war sentiment and suicide rates among…

Attend the Public Bank Forum — How to make our tax dollars work for us in Washington State! Ellen Brown, attorney and author of Web of Debt Rep. Bob Hasegawa – Chair of the Infrastructure Task Force Wednesday, October 26th, 7:00 p.m. 120 Kane Hall, UW Tickets $5.00 at the door or at Brown Paper…

This is somewhat over the top and disturbing — and it may involve illegal disruption of Internet traffic — but the righteous anger at the corruption and injustice of our political system is justified. From http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAnonMessage.

[Editor’s note: I’m copying this here for your information. While I’m sympathetic to many of their grievances, I would have emphasized some different issues and would have phrased things differently.  Where, if anywhere, are these protests heading? The Oct. 6 protest in D.C. is likely to be larger and better organized. How can we help…

The Wall Street protests are getting media attention.  How will you help? What protests are planned for your community? On Thursday, Oct. 6 there’ll be a large protest in D.C., directed not just at Wall Street corruption but also at the out-of-control militarism and the general corruption and lack of accountability in our nation’s capital.…

Second General Assembly Meeting – Portland OR — cool music, instructions for protesters, how to get arrested This facebook page lists resources for occupiers. Occupy Worldwide: http://www.occupytogether.org/ Occupy Washington (State): http://www.occupytogether.org/events/west/washington/ Occupy Seattle: http://www.occupyseattle.org/

Like a lot of people these days, we have come to the conclusion that it’s time to change our lousy bank. And it wasn’t even like we chose badly, either – we were customers of Washington Mutual for almost two decades, and we loved ‘em: they were nice people to deal with, they didn’t constantly…

Not just the candidates or the lack of political will to create public policy to turn the country in the right direction, but the election apparatus itself just got even less respectable. The Brad Blog carried the story recently that the Diebold voting machines can be easily hacked remotely. There seems to be some question…

It’s easy to beat up on Keynsian economics in good times, but in a serious economic downturns, keynsian economics are the way up and out. The push and pull between keynsian economics and free market economics represent a scale and reasonable people will understand that both have their place in large-scale economic, real world applications.…