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.
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Federal judge rules Trump plan to halve FEMA workforce unlawful
The ruling covers the reservists who deploy after hurricanes and floods, with a decision on remedies due next month as hurricane season continues.
Forty-five groups urge House vote on Cuba war powers resolution
The coalition cites a 148 percent rise in Cuba's infant mortality rate since 2018 and a Senate companion measure that failed by four votes in April.
Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large group of other Russian guests.
Energy Transfer seeks to overturn Pennsylvania clean water law after jet fuel spill
The 89-year-old law's mens rea challenge could also unravel other state statutes, from traffic offenses to hunting rules, if the company's argument succeeds.
Houthi seizure of Yemeni port pushes US diesel past $6 a gallon for first...
Saudi oil output has fallen to its lowest level since 1990 as the Iran war disrupts shipping.