DeFazio on the secret Trans Pacific Partnership “free trade” negotiations 27 Aug 2013 | 07:57 pm

US Representative Peter DeFazio addresses Congress on the pitfalls of the secret “free” trade agreement known as the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement. This video predates Japan joining the TPP . . ...

Join Seattle Fast Food Workers Strike, Thursday in Seattle 27 Aug 2013 | 07:32 pm

Working Washington is reporting: Seattle fast food workers have joined with workers from New York to Chicago to Los Angeles to call for a first-ever nationwide fast food strike. Their goal: $15 an ho...

Gen Wesley Clark Reveals 2001 US Plan To Invade Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Lybia, Somalia, Sudan, And Iran 27 Aug 2013 | 10:42 am

Revelations from someone who was there. General Wesley Clark: Because I had been through the Pentagon right after 9/11. About ten days after 9/11, I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rum...

Happy Women’s Rights Day 27 Aug 2013 | 07:09 am

Women’s Rights Day commemorates the date that women in the United States finally won the right to vote on August 26, 1920. However, it took the Civil Rights movement for Black women to get access to t...

Bill Moyers Essay: The End Game for Democracy 25 Aug 2013 | 10:01 pm

The Coal Export Bubble 25 Aug 2013 | 08:51 am

Coal’s price collapse spells trouble for terminals’ investors. Clark Williams-Derry This post is part of the research project: Northwest Coal Exports There’s been so much news on the coal export fr...

Union Busting Doesn’t Pay Off for Boeing 24 Aug 2013 | 07:52 am

When Boeing announced in 2009 that it would invest $750 million in a new South Carolina production plant to build the 787 Dreamliner, the airplane giant said it needed to cut down on costs being drive...

Firearms are wrong answer to question of school safety 23 Aug 2013 | 09:41 pm

As a new school year approaches, many parents are less concerned about their children’s comprehension of reading, writing, and arithmetic than they are about simple survival.Firearms enthusiasts sugge...

Tana Senn chosen by 41st Dems to fill the remainder of Marcie Maxwell’s term in the State House 22 Aug 2013 | 09:19 pm

The PCOs of the 41st LD Democrats chose Mercer Island City Council member Tana Senn to serve the remainder of the State House term of Marcie Maxwell, who resigned last month to become Gov. Inslee’s se...

Move to Amend Speaker Visiting WA, Sept. 22nd-28th 21 Aug 2013 | 07:54 pm

Move to Amend invites you to an evening presentation by Ashley Sanders, a Move to Amend national spokesperson touring the state of Washington this September to build connections, inspire activism, and...