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May Day

Sunday May 1st at 1PM there will be a rally on behalf of immigrants and to stop the attacks on workers through the budgeting and union busting processes. The budgets are being balanced on the backs of the poor, disabled, seniors, immigrants, families with their children, union workers while someone has designed the tax loopholes big enough that you'd think they were trying to drive a herd of camels through to heaven.  It may turn out to be a disappointment to them!  It should be a good day for a walk and a good day to tell the world there is a side to this that isn't Sarah Patin's cup of tea. Event Location Judkins Park (next to St. Mary's Church) 611 20th Ave S. Seattle, WA 98144 Directions (Look for our banner at the northern baseball diamond on the field)

Tax Day Mail

More mail, this one from a Move On member in Seattle, where I live, inviting me (and you) to  local protest that is part of a nationwide tax day protest.  If you are not working or busy filing your taxes go and help nail corporate tax dodgers like GE.  (GE has agreed to pay some taxes for the year they paid nothing, all the while claiming to be as pure as a little lamb.) Protest corporate tax dodgers:  Monday—Tax Day—in Seattle   Host :   Norm C., MoveOn member   Where :   Bank of America in Ballard at 20th and NW Market (in Seattle)   When :   Monday, Apr. 18, at 11:30 AM   Can you come?   Click below for more details and to RSVP:     I can come.     Sorry, I can't make it this time.   What :   While vital government services get cut, corporations like GE are making huge profits, but paying no federal taxes. So, on Monday— Tax Day —in Seattle, and at hundreds of events across the ...

Pro seattle police vs Anti police brutality protest

My friend Miles Partman has been attending anti-police brutality demonstrations that have been occurring in Seattle due to repeated incidents, and regularly photographing them.  Taking some pretty good photos I might add.  I am providing you with a link and I think I shall do so regularly in the future as this is a civil rights issue of not only local but national significance.  If any of my other readers have such photos either to be posted on my blog or for a link, let me know. Also news reports from you are appreciated. In the interest of full disclosure, I have a labor lawyer brother who represents police and fire, so I definitely hear that side of the story, and at the same time I have had a life time association with civil rights, peace and economic justice causes.  I have sympathy for police who must make quick judgement calls, but I want the well being civil rights of all suspects to be protected. I remember sitting a...