Event Title & Host Chase 5 Trial/Action Against Chase Bank Website http://itsrighttooccupy.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/on-his-birthday-jamie-dimon-will-roam-the-chase-five-will-be-on-trial/ When? March 13th (8:30 Court Solidarity, 12-2pm Demo) Where? Seattle Municipal Court (600 5th Ave Seattle) Why? Solidarity and anti-bank action Description The Chase 5 Trial begins on March 13 – Jamie Dimon’s bithday (!). As he roams free, the Chase 5 will [...]
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The Student Insurgent, Issue 23.2: Occupy & More
OAG’s lead editorial from our Takeover 4: Occupy Edition was published in this months edition of the Student Insurgent, a dope-diggity publication out of UO. Thanks comrades! For all those in Seattle, who can’t get their hands on a copy, enjoy some digital goodness! http://issuu.com/studentinsurgent/docs/si_23.2 Open publication – Free publishing – More anarchism
Don’t Bottle the Skagit River!
This piece originally appeared on readthedirt.org. by: Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin: Sandra Spargo Editor’s Note: Sandra Spargo, a dedicated citizen, clues us in on a proposed bottled water/food manufacturing plant in Anacortes, Washington as well as the struggle to give the people of Anacortes a say in the decision to deny or [...]
WHY I Support the Port Truckers Strike
This post can also be found at workingwa.org For more than a week, hundreds of truck drivers at our seaport have stopped working to protest unfair treatment, unsafe work conditions and their lack of workplace rights. They are putting their livelihoods on the line because they know that fighting together is the best way to [...]
An Evening of Radical Poetry with Activist/Occupier/Educator Jared Paul
Event Title & Host An Evening of Radical Poetry with Activist/Occupier/Educator Jared Paul Website http://www.facebook.com/events/149415348511435/ When? Friday 2/17 7pm Where? Parnassus Cafe in the Basement of the Art Building Why? Jared Paul is brilliant and inspiring, you will not want to miss this! Description After 3 months of living in People’s Park and organizing against [...]
Call for Researchers: Food & Labor Justice
Food justice and the food justice movement invoke in the popular imagination such concepts as fair trade, organic, and urban agriculture. The movement is sometimes perceived as a privileged environmental struggle. Yet food justice, as all of us who are passionate about it know, is inherently about social justice; this is inextricable from its ecological [...]
Bellingham Rights-Based Ordinance Proposed to Stop Coal Trains
This piece originally appeared on readthedirt.org. by: Coal Free Bellingham Posted on: January 27, 2012 Photo: Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Editor’s Note: Bellingham has taken the first step in following the example of towns and municipalities like Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who have recently explicitly asserted their rights as autonomous communities. Pittsburgh has outlawed all Hydraulic [...]
The Int’l Energy Horizon, Fossil Fuels, Clean Energy, & Empty Promisess
Near the end of 2011, the Department of Energy’s US Energy Information Administration released its annual report on the prospects of international energy consumption and production. The “International Energy Outlook 2011″ came 301-pages-thick, providing mind numbing amounts of research on global energy supplies, markets, and new technologies. I’ve created an overly-abridged summary, to share the [...]
