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Test Blasts on the Historical Landscape
Do you(th) know the most bombed country on earth? American adolescence and naïveté may tell you some poor Middle Eastern country takes the gong. American bravado and arrogance may lean you towards some small, far-off nation in “need” of American “assistance” and “liberation.”
Everyone Loves Kissing & Dancing
Check out this kissing & dancing protest against Neoliberalism that’s going on in Chile… Perhaps this is a tactic we should try here in the US? Should OAG organize a kissing party? “We want the government to feel the pressure from you and from us, so we need a lot of support,” said Maura Roque, [...]
Schools 2 Prisons Podcast Series – Episode 1
OAG & the League of Education Voters present: The Opportunity Gap & the School to Prison Pipeline Listen now with the media player below! Download the podcast series on iTunes! You can also download the full transcript here: Schools 2 Prisons 1 The Opportunity Gap (PDF) Summary: In this first podcast of the three-part series, we’ll introduce [...]
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Thoughtful Thursday: Dukes vs. Walmart Stores
On Monday June 20th, a decade long legal battle over employment discrimination was decided by the Supreme Court. The case was a class-action lawsuit led by Betty Dukes (pictured right) ostensibly on behalf of the over 1.5 million female workers at Wal Mart stores. According to Equal Rights Advocates, legal support network for women’s rights [...]
Why We Staged The Sit-Ins
This post originally appeared on Change.org -> many thanks to Jess Kutch, director of Organizing at Change.org, for all her tremendous support of the Kick Out Sodexo Coalition After 7 months of polite letter-deliveries, postponed meetings with the UW administration, and general disinterest in their message to “Kick Out Sodexo,” the UW chapter of the [...]
Fun Citizens United
Good stuff everyone! We were so pleased to see youth come out last night to educate themselves and eachother! Thanks again to our experts: Center for American Politics and Public Policy fellow Sean Freeder, Professor Mark Smith of the UW, and Craig Salins of Washington Public Campaigns. For those who couldn’t make it, learn a [...]
Still Celebrating Empire
This post was written by OAG’s assistant director, Sam Withers. If you enjoy this post, check out his brand new Tumblr blog, Comrade Commentary. Happy Independence Day! Sounds like a cause for celebration. Duh, I’m no fan of the British empire and I’m stoked not have been born a subject to some far away crown. [...]