Event Title & Host Rally for Seattle Port Trucker Strike! Website https://www.facebook.com/events/251667024907923/ When? Monday, 2/13, 9am-12pm Where? E. Marginal Way and Hanford, under the viaduct Why? Longshore workers asked us to support them at a strike rally they’ll hold on Monday. Description Over the last two weeks non-unionized short-haul truckers at the port have refused [...]
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Seattle’s Deputy Mayor: another activist in office
Here’s a interesting article on the background of Seattle’s Deputy Mayor, Daryl Smith, re-posted from over at the South Seattle Beacon online. http://www.southseattlebeacon.com/… He and his former jazz-singer wife, Andrea, looked for a house and found Columbia City was the only place they could afford. They bought a $99,000 bungalow fixer-upper. But his new [...]
Video: Stop School Pushout
Here is a short video produced by Maggie at League of Education Voters to introduce viewers to the collaborative LEV/OAG Schools 2 Prisons research project. An OAG zine based on the research is forthcoming, while LEV moves forward strongly with the campaign to Stop School Pushout. Enjoy!
March and Vigil in Solidarity with Wukan Village
Where 1pm Westlake rally/march 5:30 Hing Hay Park in the International District (corner of S. Maynard and King St. S) Description The people of Seattle support the people of Wukan in the struggle for economic justice. At the very moment you read this, our brothers and sisters in Wukan, a small village in the south [...]
“The Ramblings of an Old Man”
This is an email sent to OAG’s group address. The words of this unknown friend are honest and uplifiting. You(th) should have a chance to read, we thought. Please enjoy – all emphasis is original. – OAG If I were a young man and not afraid of loosing the little that I have left I [...]
Occupy Seattle: A New Phase for the Workers’ Movement
— PRESS RELEASE — December 13, 2011 CONTACT: Seattleportsolidarity@gmail.com [Note: This article was written by several members of Occupy Seattle who were closely involved with organizing for the December 12th West Coast Port Shut Down. Any opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect all of Occupy Seattle.] SEATTLE, Wash — Monday, December 12th, Occupy protesters and [...]
Bye Bye Sodexo. Direct Action Gets the Goods!
Last year, OAG joined the Kick Out Sodexo coalition, originally formed by the UW chapter of United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS). The goal of this coalition was to demonstrate support and solidarity for the termination of the UW’s contract with food service company Sodexo International. Today, we won. The UW has chosen to not renew [...]
Don’t Fuck With Private Property: SWAT Raids Cultural Center
On the evening of Friday December 2nd, the Occupy movement in Seattle catalyzed another status-quo-bending action. Seattle, along with LA, Oakland, NYC, and other occupy cities, have adapted their occupations from the original tent-city habitats, to empty homes, warehouses, and businesses, that lie in disuse. Last night Seattlites squatted their second shelter in the last month [...]
