Voting Rights Act would level election field
One hundred and fifty years ago today, Robert E. Lee surrendered his troops to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, bringing to an end the Civil War. What had begun as a sectional war by which the...
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Why We Need To Restore Tax Fairness to Restore School Funding
Recently, both the House and Senate have proposed “band-aid†budgets that ignore a direct order from the Washington Supreme Court to fully fund public schools. Both budgets also ignore the will of the voters...
How you can Fight the Battle in Seattle against TPP
On Monday, March 30, Seattle City Council will vote on a resolution OPPOSING FAST TRACK for the massive, secret, corporate-negotiated Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement. http://pol.moveon.org/event/moveonaction/143352 Fast Track would circumvent normal Congressional review processes,...
Ending the War on Drugs: a talk with Inspire Seattle
InspireSeattle invites YOU to join us at our Social Forum: Saturday, April 25th at 6:30PM. Main discussion topic for this evening: Ending the War on Drugs For four decades the US has fueled its...
Response to the Seattle Times editorial on Common Core
[This is a response to the Seattle Times’ March 15 editorial Criticism of Common Core is misdirected.] You need to get the history of CCS right. The standards, the curricula and the tests are...
Report on the 41st LD Town Hall, and a challenge for Steve Litzow
Turnout was huge at Saturday’s 41st LD Town Hall at Somerset Elementary School in Bellevue. Scores of people were standing around the perimeter of the gymnasium. The largest component of the crowd was school...
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Will Unequal Access to New IUD’s and Implants Worsen America’s Economic Divide?
Unwanted pregnancy is contributing to a new “caste system†in America. Is that about to get worse? When new and better technologies become available only to people who are already privileged, the rich get richer...