Washington Liberals Blog
Voter support clear for wage, sick leave legislation
The just-concluded elections helped to resolve nothing in our state. We will have a small Republican majority in the state Senate and a small Democratic majority in the state House. They won’t agree on...
Press Release: Black Friday: Boycott Microsoft and Picket to Demand Tax Fairness
Contact: Julianna Dauble 206-856-1357 November 12, 2014 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE “Black Friday: Boycott Microsoft and Picket to Demand Tax Fairness †Seattle – Washington Badass Teachers Association (WA-BATS) a grassroots group of career educators...
The Trillion Dollar Death Machine… And What You Can Do to Stop It!
Part 1 The Navy Plan to Turn the Olympic Peninsula into a War Zone David Spring M. Ed. Director, Washington Environmental Protection Coalition November 18 2014 Everything is connected to everything else…. The...
Dems' Resolution Opposing Common Core Standards
WHEREAS the copyrighted (and therefore unchangeable) Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are a set of controversial top-down K-12 academic standards that were promulgated by wealthy private interests without research-based evidence of validity and are...
Look who doesn't pay their fair share
Using aggregated income tax data from the IRS for 2012, I calculated some statistics about zipcodes in Washington State and nationally. As you can see from the first chart near the end of this...
The nation is progressive!
Once again, our nation, which largely holds progressive values has not shown them at the ballot box. Our party’s message and messaging, campaign techniques, and ability to deliver on its (vague) promises must all...
Stand Up For Democracy, Stop the TPP
Backbone Ally, Washington Fair Trade Coalition invites you to Stand Up For Democracy Join WFTC for Tuesday’s Light Brigade Actions in Seattle and more. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Stop the Sneak Attack on Democracy, Nov. 8-14! Washington...
Listen to Howard Dean!
Let’s see, in 2004 the Progressives from both the Dean and Kucinich camps had to threaten the DNC leadership with walking out unless Governor Dean was appointed Chairman. Then within two years the Democrats...
TPP Protest, Federal Office Bldg, Seattle, Tues Nov 11, 5PM
Both parties may be counting on us to be exhausted and out of the loop when it comes to this ghastly Trade Agreement which has been kept out of the public eye. And in...