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 [...]
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Support the Seattle Port Trucker Strike!
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 [...]
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 [...]
Chiquita Comes Out Against Tar Sands
Last Thursday the destructive Canadian Tar Sands industry was dealt a new blow when Chiquita Banana announced they would work to eliminate Tar Sands from their transportation footprint. Chiquita, the company responsible for one quarter of the U.S.’s bananas, was responding to a campaign led by ForestEthics and grassroots groups fighting Canada’s Tar Sands across [...]
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 [...]
Listen to your Neighbors: Occupy the Port
Your personal invitation to the West Coast Port Shutdown on Monday 12/12, from some of your Seattle comrades.
Occupy the Capitol, for Higher Education & for Our Environmental Future
Cuts don’t fix recessions. Washington is ending it’s first year in debt…ever! This is not the time to punish struggling Americans, it is the time to lift up our brothers and sisters and help all of us thrive together. The Governor had an opportunity to come up with creative and progressive solutions to our deficit [...]
