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 [...]
Tag Archives: poverty
Call for Empathy for Children of White Swan & Harrah Communities
“Building community” can be deeply realized by placing a stepping stone to safe, fulfilling, self-empowered lives when it is asked for. I recently was asked to help find some financial help for several communities to the east of Seattle, which I became acquainted with through OAG’s environmental injustice research. If you’ve got something to spare [...]
Bring the Food Not Bombs Tour to Your School!
The Elect to End Poverty & Hunger Tour Bring the Elect to End Hunger and Poverty presentation to your campus. Learn about the campaign to end the criminalization of poverty and Food Not Bombs support of the global protest against austerity. Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry will share the history, principles and current activities [...]
Get Out of Jail Free Card
While not exactly the equivalent of that incredible Monopoly game “Get of jail free” card, the dice were just rolled in favor of those still serving time from crack-cocaine convictions. Since you(th) have been old enough to consider illicit drugs, you had two options if you wanted to get high of the white stuff: 1. [...]
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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Sodex-NO
For the past 6 months OAG has been an active and determined member of the Kick Out Sodexo Coalition on UW Campus. Sodexo is a sub-contracting company that currently has a contract with the UW. We’ve mobilized ourselves to actions for the campaign, and we have done our traditional work of digging deep into problems [...]
The 2 Dolla Dolla Bill Challenge
Hi all! I’m writing today as a representative of Campus Kiva at UW. This week (starting now!) we are all spending $2 per day on food to be in solidarity with the poor around the world (estimated 1.4-2 billion people) who only have $2 per day for all of their expenses. We’ll use the money [...]
Common Spaces NW
You are invited to join Common Spaces NW! This event is a three day gathering for anyone with a vision for a better world, aka, YOU! Come learn about the different visions and strategies of Seattle’s many organizations and movements through fun and educational activities and workshops. The whole darn schedule is available at commonspacesnw.org. [...]
Thoughtful Thursday: Happiness and GDP
This week, a couple powerful politicians and a lot of economists have been talking about wanting to transition from measuring their economies only with conventions like GDP, to measuring based off of happiness. President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, and prime minister David Cameron of the UK, told the public they were interested in measuring happiness. [...]
