Tag: Seattle
Big Business defeated as Socialist Kshama Sawant’s victory certified in Seattle
"The ruling class in the United States is afraid of these kinds of movements and so we should not be surprised by the reaction."
How a Seattle neighborhood confronted food insecurity in the pandemic
Seattle’s square-mile neighborhood of South Park has turned its early pandemic community supports into a sustainable system tackling food insecurity.
Seattle & Portland activists: Protest federal and city police crackdowns &...
“We don’t know exactly what the federal officers are doing. What we do know is we are in a situation where local police are welcoming those federal agents into our city.”
Trump to send federal troops to protests in Chicago & Seattle...
“We’re looking at the infringement on our rights that is just escalating.”
‘Stay in the streets’: Black Lives Matter movement in Seattle occupies...
“We cannot have a pacified movement.”
‘Awesome, brilliant, necessary’: Seattle bans foreign-influenced corporations from spending in local...
"It is possible to take on powerful corporations and win. Just look at Seattle."
‘Seattle is not for sale:’ Voters rebuke Amazon, re-electing Socialist Kshama...
The re-election victory “has been a major repudiation, not only of Amazon and of Jeff Bezos himself, as the richest man in the world, but also it has been a referendum on the vision for Seattle.”
Prescription drugs may be polluting our drinking water
“Pollution from prescription drugs threatens public health and the safety of drinking water."
Seattle ends crucial indigenous youth program
Every youth that regularly attended Clear Sky graduated from high school, yet the district wants to end the program anyway.
Progressive Briefing for Friday, September 14
15 groups account for nearly all dark money, Trump claim Democrats rigged hurricane death toll, Bezos commits fraction of $163B fortune to help homeless, and more.
POPULAR
Must Democrats stay centrist or go progressive, plus find savvy messaging, to regain estranged...
It's time for Democrats to kick Trump while he's down—repeatedly.
Seven dead in ICE custody in Trump’s first 100 days as detainee population swells
At least seven migrants have died in ICE custody since January, as the Trump administration expands detention and dismantles oversight across a system plagued by abuse, neglect, and inhumane conditions.
Millions of people depend on the Great Lakes’ water supply. Trump decimated the lab...
Cutbacks have gutted the staff at the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Sports can distract us (but not enough)
It’s now all Trumpiana all the time.
Michigan AG drops charges against pro-Palestinian campus protesters
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel dropped all charges against seven people arrested last year at the University of Michigan amid allegations of bias that the Democrat rejected.