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Thoughts on Governor Inslee's climate proposal… and UW forum on Jan 14
The past week has been dominated by Governor Inslee’s climate proposal (and by the Seattle Times editorial board arguing for a revenue-neutral alternative!), so here are some thoughts, with a preface that Divest UW and Green Evans are organizing a climate policy forum for Wednesday night Jan 14 featuring KC Golden from Climate Solutions, yours…
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Kshama Sawant on unity of movements, December 17, 2014
Kshama Sawant spoke at community meeting in Columbia City Seattle, event called “Stop Police Brutality: Time to build a mass movement!” organized by Socialist Alternative.
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Hey, conservatives! YOU are responsible for torture, widespread death, and trillions of wasted dollars
As Americans, we have a fundamental right to vote and to support candidates, parties, and positions of our choosing. But voting and political advocacy aren’t just a right. They’re also a weighty responsibility.  Sometimes we support candidates or positions that result in great harm. For example, during the presidency of George W. Bush, our nation…
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Black Lives Matter – Seattle (Video)
(Raw video, my editing computer is dead) Stop Police Brutality:Â Time to build a mass movement! Wednesday, December 17, 2014 Africatown Center, Columbia City Seattle Organized by Socialist Alternative Moderator Ramy Khalil – Guest Speaker from NAACP – Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant – Devan Rogers, Youth Undoing Institutional Racism and Ending the Prison Industrial Complex…
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The Declaration of Independence says that Governments exist to secure our rights
The National Archives’ text of the Declaration of Independence reads as follows: When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of…
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Seattle Subsidizes Eastern Washington
Welfare State by Goldy Washington’s Republican counties depend on Western Washington’s money. How can they survive the state budget cuts they demand?
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Activists Confront Keystone XL Threat
I recently joined hundreds of other activists on a video chat hosted by 350.org to discuss recent developments in the saga of the hotly debated and much delayed construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. As you probably know by now, TransCanada wants to build the KXL pipeline to transport diluted bitumen (dilbit) from the tar…
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If we can afford tax breaks for Boeing, we can afford I-1351
When is a law not a law? That seems to be the question taken up by The Herald’s editorial board, education “reform†groups like Stand for Children, the Seattle Times, state legislators and now the governor. It is an odd question to ask, as it is directed at Initiative 1351, the class size initiative that…