Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella created a national uproar when he advised women to rely on “good karma†for a raise. He almost immediately retracted. But if Nadella had instead advised women to ask for raises and urged girls to pursue computer science degrees, that still would have been the wrong answer to the gender wage…
Public Forum The Fight to Save Public Housing Stop SHA Rent Hikes! Saturday, October 25, 7:00 pm Doors open at 6:30 pm. Door donation $1-5. No one turned away for lack of funds. Desserts and snack plates, with vegan option, available for $2.50-7 donation. Speakers: Yusuf Cabdi – Immigrant rights advocate and former Seattle Housing…
(from InvolvedDemocracy.org) Stand Up and Speak Out for Your Health and Safety! Northwest communities are facing an onslaught of coal export and oil-by-rail proposals. If oil and coal companies are permitted to build their proposed facilities, they would turn our beloved region into a fossil fuel corridor. With their hazardous coal dust and explosive fuel,…
On a right-wing email list I monitor I saw a message claiming that the Freedom Socialists in Seattle we’re offering $13/hour for a web developer position while, at the same time, demanding $20 for a minimum wage. I found the source of the email: this article: Minimum wage group offers pay that undercuts the wage…
Every year more than 750,000 American teens become pregnant, and over 80 percent of these pregnancies are unplanned. That may be about to change. If teens take to the latest wave of birth control technologies the way they’ve taken to cell phones, unplanned pregnancy could go the way of landlines and stretchy handset cords. On…
CarbonWA Sustainable Ballard 2014 – initiative for a carbon tax!
Join us in our #BoycottMicrosoft Black Friday Mourning Picket! The Badass Teachers of WA are calling on everyone who cares about the future. Come prepared to: Carry a light for every child who didn’t get the attention their teacher wanted to give them because of criminal underfunding of schools. Mourn the learning opportunities lost in…
Someone on another site said he doesn’t know any liberals who WANT to vote for Hillary in 2016 other than the fact that she’s less objectionable to any Republican candidate.I am a liberal, and I will happily pull the lever voting for Hillary in 2016. And I’ll tell you why. Because she is a woman,…
We didn’t get our candidate through the primary, and because of that, we are stuck with an impossible choice. Three impossible choices to be exact. 1. Refuse to vote, in the hopes that out of tens of thousands of votes, your protest vote makes a statement…to whom, I have no idea, since we have a…