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Washington State Prepares to Kill
With the ongoing death toll in Iraq and Afghanistan, the floods in Pakistan, and countless other crises, it’s hard to get excited about one life–particularly when that life belongs to a man who brutally kidnapped and murdered a young woman. But we need to, because Cal Coburn Brown is scheduled to die, by lethal injection, on September 10th,
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The Iraq speech
Passion over the wrong-headedness of the Iraq misadventure, more than any other single factor, was what got Obama elected in 2008. Given that the economy
Scapegoating tactics have familiar odor
It’s no great surprise that the right-fringe* would try to turn an innocuous matter of siting a Muslim community center in Manhattan into the latest
Targeting Target & making pro-democracy activism fun
In case you’re not one of the nearly 1 million people who have watched the “Target
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Weak Tea in Washington
Labor Day is traditionally the time of year when people start to get interested in fall elections; with our all-mail ballot system, it’s not much time
Eating for Better Food!
The Community Alliance for Global Justice (CAGJ) is hosting its fourth annual Strengthening Local Economies, Everywhere! (SLEE) dinner on August 7, 2010.
Yes, There’s An Election This Month
You’d hardly notice, but Washington state voters will have a ballot to fill out this month. The suspense is, uh, not riveting. With the exception of
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Thank You, Glenn Beck!
Last weekend brought us the August 28 anniversary of the March on Washington back in 1963. It was when Martin Luther King delivered his famous “I have
August 27, 1977: Equal Rights Already!
While many of the movements for positive social change first seen in the 1960s had either crested or crashed by 1977, the American second-wave feminist
America Enters a New Time
I went to get my hair cut the other day in the town of Fortuna and waited 10 minutes while the elderly barber finished buzz-cutting a young Mexican-American.
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History
Reclaim Our History: August 19-September 1
| Aug. 19, 1953: Iranian Royalist troops overthrow Premier Mohammed Mossadegh and restore pro-Western Shah Mohammed Pahlevi to power in a coup allegedly directed by Kermit Roosevelt on behalf of CIA. Aug. |
Radical Seattle Remembers: August 7, 1936: Zioncheck for President
| Seattle is full of stories of What Could Have Been. Among the most poignant of these is the story of Marion Zioncheck, at once one of Seattle’s greatest rabble-rousers and one of our most tragic |
Reclaim Our History July 31-August 10
| July 31, 1977: One person is killed in 60,000 strong demonstration against Super-Phenix nuclear reactor, Malville, France. 1991: START I nuclear arms reduction treaty signed by George Bush and Mikhail |