Event Title & Host Occupy May Day Community Meeting Website https://www.facebook.com/events/126119367513582/ When? Saturday, March 10, 2012 – 5:00pm Where? WA State Convention Center Why? Make May Day the biggest success Description Occupy Seattle GA has passed a proposal to participate in May Day actions in solidarity with occupies all over the country. Now what? Come [...]
Tag Archives: economic justice
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 [...]
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 [...]
Economic Justice NOW! A Conversation with the 99%
Event Title & Host Economic Justice NOW! A Conversation with the 99%, hosted by the Learning Working Group at Decolonize/Occupy Seattle Website http://www.facebook.com/events/278730118837634/ When? December 3, 1-3pm Where? Elliott Bay Book Company, Basement Reading Room, 1521 10th Ave (Between Pine and Pike), Seattle Why? This conversation is a chance to learn about each other’s struggles [...]
Letter From UW President Michael Young to OAG on Sodexo Contract
Recently, a constituency of youth from OAG drafted and personally delivered a letter to UW’s fresh Prez, Michael Young. The letter was a statement declaring the principles on which many OAG members engaged in civil disobedience last year, in symbolic opposition to the UW’s contracts with Sodexo Intl. Follow the whole Kick Out Sodexo Campaign [...]
Nat’l Bank Transfer Day & Rally
Event Title & Host Nat’l Bank Transfer Day & Rally Website https://www.facebook.com/events/event.php?eid=281139538577206 When? Saturday November 5th, 9am-5pm Where? Your Bank (Rally at Westlake) Why? Big Banks Don’t Care About You Description More than 61,000 people — and counting — have already signed up to move their money out of the big banks on November 5th, [...]
9 Arrests this Morning at Westlake
I just heard from my friends who have been occupying overnight that early this morning, around 6:45am, police moved in to clear the part of tents and those peacefully sleeping in them. This action brings further context and evidence to Francis Gaze’s passionate article, which correctly cites anti-camping/anti-homelessness laws as one of the most tangible [...]
Bank Consolidation
What happens when only four banks control such a large part of the market for bank services? What happens when these banks also have large portfolios in speculative financial investments?
