I love TED Talks, more than you know. This is a great one I got through Facebook from a friend who lives in China but is studying abroad at the UW. Hope you guys enjoy how it relates economic growth with government systems and actions. The “tl;dw” version of the video is that comparing India [...]
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Free Road Trip to Yakima with the WA Bus this Saturday!
Say what? This Saturday, the Washington Bus is road-tripping to Yakima to canvass for the city’s Yes on Districts campaign, which supports Proposition 1. Yes on Districts would change the way Yakima elects their city council members to make the city government accountable to all of Yakima’s diverse neighborhoods. The nitty gritties: Currently, Yakima elects [...]
Schools 2 Prisons Podcast Series – Episode 3
OAG & the League of Education Voters present: The Cost of Inequity Listen now with the media player below! Download the Schools 2 Prisons series on iTunes! You can also download the full transcript here: SCHOOLS 2 PRISONS-FROM PUPIL TO PRISONER (PDF) Summary: The last segment explored the economic, social and cultural cost of educational inequity. [...]
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Witness to Empire
Today, I’ll be going up in front of a judge at the federal courthouse downtown for an indictment hearing. This is an unprecedented moment in my life: for the first time, I’m having to face the consequences for acting out my faith and values in a concrete way. I was arrested on Good Friday for [...]
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 [...]
Hijacked Democracy
Dr. Riki Ott is an Alaska-oil-spill activist and co-founder of Move-To-Amend will tour Washington state in May (with WPC Director Craig Salins and other speakers) — in a series of events in Olympia, Tacoma, Seattle, Marysville, Bellingham, and Spokane, to focus on the interplay of American democracy, corporate and union influence, and the wealthiest interests. [...]
