tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275991762011-04-21T17:45:03.369-07:00"Changing the Media, One Story at a Time"<p> This website is your Pierce County source for progressive news and opinion. If you want to be a part of The Tahoma Activist, send all submissions <a href="mailto:tahomaactivist@yahoo.com">here.</a> We will print anything that makes sense and touches on the important issues of the day.Tahoma Activisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09651911314887304989noreply@blogger.comBlogger3481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27599176.post-48265811630453887232007-11-07T10:10:00.000-08:002007-11-07T10:30:44.465-08:00

I am shocked, but according to House.gov, Norm Dicks, Jim McDermott, and Jay Inslee all voted to oppose tabling the resolution of Dennis Kucinich's impeachment resolution. This means that the issue will continue to stay alive, at least for two more days.Now it moves to the House Judiciary Committee, where presumably John Conyers will attempt to keep it and expose pieces of the indictment to the

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Brothers and sisters of Western Washington:Where else can you rub shoulders with the most committed progressive activists in Washington State? This Convention, sponsored by America in Solidarity and AM1090, is the first of its kind and a major event. This once-in-a-lifetime event will feature progressive members of Congress, a Presidential straw poll, a silent book auction of signed progressive

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Dahr Jamail isn't your typical war correspondent. He didn't study journalism at an ivy-league school. He didn't come from a wealthy family or spend six years interning at the Washington Post. Dahr Jamail was an ordinary guy with an ordinary life who dropped everything to go to Iraq and tell the real story of what it's like to live in the middle of a violent occupation. Dahr Jamail is my hero.

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Some poor local band probably had to cancel their gig at Bob's last night. Hopefully Bob's will be back in business soon.

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Providence, Rhode Island:On Friday, August 11th, officers stopped protestors peacefully marching and followed the leaders onto the grass in front of a store. One of the organizers of the march, Providence pastry shop worker, Alex Svoboda, was tackled by four officers, dislocating her knee. The Providence Journal reports that Svoboda was part of a protest against Jacky's Galaxie, a Pan-Asian

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This was one hell of a week for the Tahoma Activist. Let me tell ya, my wife and I were stretched all over Western Washington, but it was sure worth it.Monday: Radical economist and author Michael D. Yates spoke at King's Books of Tacoma. America in Solidarity provided refreshments and got the word out, and Michael sold several books. I picked up a copy of his book, "Cheap Motels and a Hot

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Can you believe it? Tribune prints letter from me, a union guy, about something my union did to stop this mad President and his police-state goons. I'm actually pretty shocked.Here's the link, and the text of the letter:"On May 20, the Washington State Association of Letter Carriers passed a resolution calling for Congress to oppose warrantless searches of U.S. mail in postal custody.This

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As you've seen by watching the nightmare over the Iraq Funding Bill, a lot of Democrats across the country are sick to death of the way our leaders in Washington are handling this situation.This gives us a brilliant opportunity to seize the Democratic Party. If you believe that the Party should stand for the values of constitutional rights, peace, and justice in all aspects of life, then you owe

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Here's a link to the CNN transcript.Here are the questions. You can answer all of them or just the ones that interest you. You can answer them as yourself, as one of the candidates, or as some kind of fantasy Democrat. Also, if you think one of the candidates answered it better than you could, feel free to put that. I've scrubbed a few that were repetitive or redundant. Send it to me here at

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Well, there it is. Two hours of back and forth between the 8 candidates. Whoever it was at DU that said Gore would be there was wrong, but I would definitely say that the ghost of Gore was there: global warming and constitutional law was mentioned several times in between questions about other things.Kucinich, as usual, dominated the forum with real crowd-pleasing punchy statements that really

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Can you believe this? The US Postal Service, under the careful control of the Bush White House, aims to contract out hundreds if not thousands of new routes to independent contractors, replacing solid union letter carriers with unaccountable, unqualified contractors with no benefits and no background checks.Sound scary? That's because it is. I'm working to get this program stopped through a

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Hey all of you who took part in anti-war actions at one or more ports, as well as those of you who wanted to but were a little too scared, now's your chance to get in on an important strategy meeting on how to deal with these sort of protests in the future.Here's the straight scoop from protest organizer extroardinaire, Caitlin Esworthy:"There will be a regional organizing meeting for people

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In this new post by Cindy Sheehan, she declares her exit from the American peace movement. Why not stop by afterdowningstreet.org and let her know you care?"This is my resignation letter as the “face” of the American anti-war movement. This is not my “Checkers” moment, because I will never give up trying to help people in the world who are harmed by the empire of the good old US of A, but I am

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Well, it took several months, but we finally did it. The resolution I got passed at our local Tacoma Branch got moved up and passed at our State Convention. Now I need to get the State Labor Council to do a similar resolution opposing this practice, and we might have enough momentum to take it all the way to national.For folks who don't know, the President has claimed in a signing statement the

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If you read this latest piece from the Progressive Magazine, you may think that he is. Instead of analyzing the article, I'm just going to reprint the entire thing below. You can also go to the source here.Bush Anoints Himself as the Insurer of Constitutional Government in EmergencyBy Matthew Rothschild May 18, 2007With scarcely a mention in the mainstream media, President Bush has ordered up

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Robert Greenwald, creator of Outfoxed and Unprecedented, has put together a brand-new website to help facilitate the ouster and eventual impeachment of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, AKA Gonzo, AKA Traitor McTorture Pants.Please go to this website, www.impeachgonzales.com, and sign the petition to have him run out of town on a rail, preferably nude covered with hot oil and feathers, and taken

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"A small spark can light a large fire. Be that spark."America in Solidarity, the grassroots working families' advocacy group that I am a member of, puts on two labor celebrations every year, Labor Day and May Day. This year's May Day celebration was hosted at Tacoma's King's Books and featured stories of workers struggling to find fairness in the workplace both in history and today. (To learn

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Trey Smith was the police liaison for the peace protestors at the Port of Grays Harbor protests last week. He is a longtime activist and a relatively recent transplant to Aberdeen (he moved to Washington in Dec of '05), where he lives with his wife, 3 dogs and 2 cats. He is the Treasurer for the Washington State Green Party and edits their weekly e-zine and bimonthly newslwetter.I caught up

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That's right, guys. You out there at your computers, surfing the interwebs, looking for the next big thing to blog about, you know you've been neglecting your women. Your mom, who bore you in her womb, your wives and your girlfriends, who put up with your crap and relentless obsession with politics and activism, and your beloved Mother Earth, who looks upon all your wastefulness with the sad

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Special thanks to Kyle Raven on this one: check out The Daily World poll on shipping military equipment through civilian ports. Whether or not you live in Grays Harbor, you owe it to yourself to vote in this poll.There was some decent coverage of the aftermath of the protests in Aberdeen in this story, but the rest of the world ignores it. So what else is new?

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Okay, it looks like the Department of Homeland Security has allocated several million dollars to Washington Ports, including the Port of Grays Harbor, which received no funds last year. Here's the quote from the Seattle PI:"The ports of Vancouver, Longview and Grays Harbor are also receiving $935,000 between the three of them after they failed to receive any such money in 2006."The largest

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I just received this urgent communication from the organizers of the Aberdeen port protests. I've pulled out the most relevant passages, excerpted below.(Olympia, WA) After six days of peaceful protest at the Port of Grays Harbor, the ship has sailed. Local and regional citizens protested shipments of military equipment to support and escalate the United States illegal occupation of Iraq.

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To everyone who helped make the protest of the Grays Harbor port a success, thank you. Though I couldn't be there in person, I did my best to publicize the event and I will continue to follow this story.Special thanks to Trey Smith of the Washington State Green Party, for operating as the police liaison during this whole affair. Check out his blog, The Rambling Taoists, to gain some insight

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Well folks, this is it. This could be the last night for you to get involved with the port protests down at the Port of Grays Harbor. Sunday's protest was the biggest yet with over a hundred people, but this fight is not over with. If you haven't been to a protest at a port yet, why not make tonight the night for mass peaceful resistance?Check out these awesome photos I located on Portland

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If you feel like reducing your carbon footprint while protesting, check out the Protest Carpool page at Olyblog.net.

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If you can't come to Aberdeen today to protest, you can come to a meeting of the Grays Harbor Port Commission to express your opposition to the transfer of weaponry through their port.For news stories about the protest, check our Urgent Updates page.Public MeetingThe organizers of the Grays Harbor protest are urging everyone to deliver their copy of the injunction either in person at the public

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[Image lifted courtesy of The Daily World, Aberdeen, WA][Editor's note: please send all your reports to us here. Also, check our Urgent Updates page for all the news about the protests.]Heads up from the Olympia Port Mobilization Resistance (PMR), courtesy of Olyblog. Thanks, Rick!"Start: May 5 2007 - 2:00pm[Via OMJP (maslauskas@riseup.net)]Hey folks,Two months after the military came through

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Please send any and all information about the Aberdeen Port Protests here to me so I can maintain this list of news items. We can thank the Olympia PMR, a subset of the Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace, for this courageous action to end this fool war.Here they are in reverse chronological order:City, port add up costs as ship departs - The Daily WorldMilitary transport leaves Port of Grays

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Special thanks to Brasscheck TV for this great video of the LA Police's riots in LA on May Day.

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In addition to news stories and blog posts, we also have updates from citizens at the protests. Most of these come from Indymedia, so they have not been verified.Police harrassing cars on way to Aberdeen - Drew, 5/6/07 10:11 PMFascism in Aberdeen - Ray Kavick, 5/6/07 7:34 AMPMR activists announce arrival of US Navy ship in Grays Harbor and schedule of protests - Olympia PMR, 5/5/07Plan for

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For bloggers, it can be difficult sometimes because so much of our time is spent indoors. We are often the sort of people who aren't able to go out to protest marches every day, and so it's important that we use our collective powers to spread the word about these courageous actions. Below is a list of bloggers who've written about this Aberdeen protest.Olyblog - Photos from Aberdeen City

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Remember all the protests at the Port of Olympia and the Port of Tacoma against this insane war and occupation? Well it looks as if the Army might be switching their business to Grays Harbor, an isolated region far away from Tacoma and Seattle. Will our intrepid young protestors travel all the way to Grays Harbor to raise hell against this war?Something tells me they will.[Special thanks to

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Call Speaker Pelosi's office ASAP! She is taking calls to determine whether or not she will move forward on impeachment. Now is the time to tell everyone you know to make that call! Here's the info from 911blogger.com.The phone number to call is: 202-225-0100

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In LA, police attacked peaceful protestors attending a post-march rally. Their reason for the attack is unclear. Check out LA Indymedia for reports as they come in.Those of us here in Tacoma know all about police brutality of this sort. It's too bad that our police forces always seemed to be used to frighten and harrass innocent people.Feel free to contact the mayor of Los Angeles and let him

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Just read a brilliant editorial by Glen Ford at BlackAgendaReport.com. Check out the intro and read the whole thing here:"Through his own statements, Barack Obama relentlessly destroys his former anti-war credentials. In an effort to establish himself as a "statesman" in the eyes of the power structure, Obama now advocates a much larger Army and Marine Corps to allow the U.S. to "lead the world

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The debate last night on MSNBS was poorly designed and executed due to its being on MSNBC and hosted by Brian Williams, but there were some choice moments. My favorite was when Williams asked Kucinich about his resolution to impeach the Vice President."MR. WILLIAMS: Is anyone on the stage willing to enter into Congressman Kucinich's effort to impeach Vice President Cheney? (No hands raised.)

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Shockingly, the corporate media is all but ignoring the major story that Congressman Dennis Kucinich has filed impeachment charges against Vice President Dick Cheney. This will surely have the intended result of a lack of popular pressure against Congress to follow through. We cannot allow the corporate media monopolies to derail this process. We must spread the news about this event as far

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This is it. Dennis Kucinich has delivered impeachment charges against Vice President Cheney. Now it's up to you, America. You must publicize this story, and encourage everyone you know to call their member of Congress and encourage them to support this resolution.The toll-free number for Congress is 1-800-862-5530. Call now! Call often!Categories: Politics - National, War & Peace

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Props to CoolAqua for this story:"The Seattle PI reports that an Iraqi doctor scheduled to talk at a University Of Washington conference has been denied a Visa by the US. The doctor, Riyadh Lafta, contested official reports of Iraqi civilian deaths as being too low. When an alternate plan was made for Lafta to participate in the University of Washington conference via video conference from

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Urgent Message from Global Exchange:Human and Labor Rights Organizer Murdered in Mexico for his Union ActivityMexican Government must Investigate the Murder, Achieve JusticeOn Monday morning, April 9, 2007, 29-year-old migrant farmworker organizer Santiago Rafael Cruz was tortured and brutally murdered in the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC, AFL-CIO) office in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

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This is it, folks. Once these charges are filed, it's up to all of us, America's progressive bloggers, to spread the word and to make sure that they receive a fair hearing and a clean vote. We should be calling our members of Congress as well as our two Senators and demanding that they hold Dick Cheney accountable.What's he guilty of?Number one, there was the secret White House Energy Task

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For those of you who remember when we used to have a thriving American labor movement, May Day was the first official labor day holiday. In 1886, May 1st marked the beginning of a nationwide campaign for the eight-hour day. It took many years of hard labor and dangerous protest, but in the end, our ancestors earned the right of the eight-hour day.One hundred and twenty-one years later, the

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Today's the day we remember the ten+ million victims of Hitler's genocidal madness. Today should also be the day we remember all victims of genocide, including those being victimized at this very moment.Contrary to disgraced Ambassador to Sudan, Andrew Natsios, there IS a genocide taking place in Darfur, as well as in neighboring Chad, where the refugee camps are being raided and women and

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Kurt Vonnegut was the man. I fell in love with his insane rambling imagination the minute I cracked open Slaughterhouse Five. Before that point, I'd never been much into history. I always thought it was bombs in Hitler's Germany, and racial slurs against the Japanese. I didn't know how truly momentous it all was, until I read about it from the mind of someone a lot like me. An agnostic (or

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Well, this is it. Don Imus got cut from not only his TV show, but his radio show as well. His career, as he knew it, is over. Time will tell if he can make anything out of his life from here on out, but to my mind this sort of dramatic collapse is all part of being a high-profile public figure - when you get caught saying racist, sexist things, sometimes there's no coming back from that.Ther

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Take action on the slander of the Rutgers Women's basketball team today! NOW and the YWCA are leading the charge to get Don Imus' show canceled, and if you agree that that needs to happen, here's where you can take action yourself.For those of you who don't know much about this issue, or who might think that Don Imus deserves to keep his job, I'd like to share my take on this. To start with,

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If you haven't heard about Moveon.org's virtual town hall, you ought to listen to it RIGHT NOW. Go over to Moveon.org and check it out. If you miss it, it will be rebroadcast on Air America in the next few days. You must listen to this thing, because it will be our best chance to hear the candidates deal with real liberal questioners.John Edwards is up now. He just answered a question about

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Sara Rich, the tireless mother of sexually abused female soldier, Suzanne Swift, sends us this inspiring account of her daughter's transformation from scared, introverted twenty-year old to a warrior for peace. Learn more about Suzanne's journey at her website, http://suzanneswift.org/.The Birth of an ActivistAs Suzanne and I attended the rally for Lt. Ehren Watada on the first day of his court

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Want to make America a happier and more productive place? Then join the Work Less Party and solve a whole lot of problems at once. The 32 hour work week works in other countries, so why couldn't it work here?

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This is it folks, George Orwell's 1984 meets Philip K. Dick's Minority Report, in which everything you own will have a little tag that can be tracked by covert computers and run to a central database for NSA analysis and commercial micro-targeted marketing.According to this article from Alex Jones' Prison Planet, the author discovered that something inside Andrew Jackson's eye in the $20 bill

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What the hell is going on here? Rosie O'Donnell speaks clearly and honestly on "The View" about the unanswered questions of 9/11 and dozens of right-wing jutjobs come out of the woodwork calling for her ouster, if not for her murder, and Media Matters doesn't strike out against them?This is wrong. Media Matters has an obligation to stand up and do what's right. Rosie O'Donnell is the highest

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You go, girl! This woman is systematically blowing up "The View" for the forces of good. Please check out this video from our friends, Brasscheck TV, and let everyone you know how awesome Rosie is right now.Categories: 9/11 Truth, War & Peace

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There's only one way you will ever sell the American people on a military draft, particularly in the middle of an EXTREMELY unpopular and utterly immoral war and occupation. And that is to make that service attractive, lucrative, and full of choices. Americans love choices, so a plan like this might go over very well.Here's the idea: Upon reaching 18 (after graduation), students will be

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Okay folks, if you weren't freaked out already, check out this latest post regarding Iran. Turns out "florida democrat" located a Russian newspaper article claiming inside knowledge of the upcoming US strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.If you've been following Scott Ritter and Seymour Hersh on this, the idea is no surprise. But the disturbing detail of an actual projected date (April 6th) is a

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Here's the quote from Republican member of the Oregon Legislature, Brian Boquist:"It's time to take down those responsible for 9/11 and kill them," he said, preferably "with a bullet between each of their eyes."Of course, he was probably talking about going after Bin Laden and the Taliban, but we know what he really meant. Categories: 9/11 Truth

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Here it is folks! Senators Durbin and Specter have brought forth the first Public Financing bill for Congressional elections - support this bill and let's clean up our elections!Categories: Free & Fair Elections

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According to a little known provision in the Rules for the House of Representatives, citizens themselves can submit Resolutions for Impeachment. A new website designed to spread the word about this provision is calling for folks to send in their own Resolutions.I urge everyone to do this and to do it as many times as necessary to win this conflict. The President and the Vice President are

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Ron Jacobs is the author of the first comprehensive history of the Weather Underground - The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground. His articles, essays and reviews have appeared in Counterpunch, Monthly Review, Monthly Review Zine, Alternative Press Review, Berlin Jungle World, Works in Progress, State of Nature, and a multitude of other places. Ron lives in Asheville, North

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As many of you already know, 9/11 was an elaborate plot involving multiple intelligence agencies from several countries, including our own. President Bush and Vice President Cheney should be forced to answer for their complicity in those attacks, but for some strange reason Nancy Pelosi is bottling any attempts to move this evidence into the hands of someone who can do something about it.

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Elizabeth Edwards is a trooper. She finds out her cancer has moved to her bones, and the very next day she's encouraging her husband to keep running for President. I like these people. I'm glad they're gonna keep going. It's really nice to have someone in the "top tier" who really has taken strong public stands on issues that matter to millions of people: real healthcare reform, living wages,

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These photos are from the Tacoma March and Rally to Stop the War.

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I found this hilarious poster using Firefox's coolest new add-on. It's called Stumble. Check it out!

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These are from Washblog, courtesy of dinazina. There's more at the original post, so check it out!Categories: War & Peace

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This one comes to us from Wade Rathke's Chief Organizer blog.

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Here's an update from Northwest Media Action's own Pat Fletcher. She attended the March 19th Candlelight Vigil in Wright Park in Tacoma."The 8:00 p.m. candlelight vigil tonight at Wright Park was attended by about 100 people despite the blowing rain. Jazlan Grigsby was the MoveOn host. She read the names of the Washington State fatalities in the Iraq War, then some statements about some of

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This just in from South Sound Peace and Justice Center Director Sallie Shawl:An Interfaith Service of Prayers for Peace and HopeMonday, March 19, 2007, 7PMA Time of Reflection on the 4th Anniversary of the War in IraqKilworth Memorial Chapel, The University of Puget SoundOn Monday, March 19, the Office of Spirituality, Service, and Social Justice at the University of Puget Sound will offer

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Yesterday's march and rally, entitled "Enough is Enough", highlighted the overwhelming cost that this war has had on our local community. Unfortunately, I missed the first part, with all the major speeches, so I'd love it if someone would send me in an update. Also, I'm waiting to get my photos developed (I know, I'm still in the 17th century here) so if anyone has photos they'd like to share,

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When someone on "The View" talks about this, you know it isn't some crazy nonsense. This thing is coming out. Do what Rosie says, and google "WTC 7 collapse" today!Here's some of what she said:"for the third time in historyfire brought down a steel buildingreducing it to rubblehold on folkshere we go• The fires in WTC 7 were not evenly distributed, so a perfect collapse was impossible.•

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Courtesy of Mark Jensen at United for Peace Pierce County:Enough Is Enough -- Bring the Troops Home! -- march & rallySaturday, March 17th 2007 11:00 a.m.Tacoma, WA USA11am rally against the war at People's Park -- noon march to Wright Park -- 1:30pm rally at Wright ParkLocation: 11:00 a.m. -- Rally against the war -- People's Park, Martin Luther King Jr. Way and South 9th St., Tacoma, WA 12:00

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I'm all for honoring the history of workers of any kind, but this latest piece by the TNT was WAY in favor of the Tacoma Police Department and did very little to explain any instances in which they have gotten out of hand.I immediately called everyone I knew and encouraged them to follow my lead in contacting the News Tribune. Here's what I said to the author of the article in question, as well

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This one comes to us courtesy of Tacoma's own political cartoonist, Stuart NeimanDon't forget to check our news links page for the whole Port of Tacoma backstory.

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Check your favorite Tacoma coffee shop for the latest issue of the Tahoma Organizer, or read it online here.This issue covers topics from the Iraq War, the obligations of the new Democratic majority, Presidential Signing Statements, and more. Here's the Organizer Quote of the Day: "I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two

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The protestors at the Port of Tacoma met today from 4 to 7 PM, enjoying what they called an arts vigil, designed to give families and community members a chance to send a message of care and concern to soliders in the 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division set to be deployed to Iraq next month. Above is a shot from the same spot, taken last night by Olympia native, Robert Whitlock.I hear that the

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Mark Jensen of United for Peace Pierce County has a stirring report about his time with the protestors last nightNews reportsDon't forget, city council meeting tonight!

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I just received confirmation from Mayor Baarsma that he will not be attending tomorrow night's city council meeting. Turns out the surgery he is recovering from was pretty serious. This means that the meeting will most likely begin and end without any serious business. This means it is critical for our side to make its presence felt in a big, big way.I am calling on all the mainline peace

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Given all that's taking place in our fair city this week, you would think the Tacoma City Council would do everything they could to ensure a full public meeting this Tuesday. Not so fast.It appears that the combination of four members being out of town and the Mayor having health issues may just keep the meeting from taking place. This is a circumstance that can only benefit our cause. I would

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According to Seattle Indymedia, the anonymous person who had his backpack seized late Frdiay night was none other than Northwest Media Action's own Tom McCarthy. Let's hope he gets his stuff back. [Note: the poor guy above is not Tom, but it probably looked much like this.]If you'd like to know more about this protest, check out our newslinks page.

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Okay, according to the TNT, the Stryker vehicles began to be loaded at some point on Saturday (but they aren't saying when) and our protestors were not present.I'd like to know if this is really true, and if so, what our people plan to do about it. Are we simply making our displeasure known, or do we really want to stop this load from happening? Contact us here at tahomaactivist@

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This interview was first posted over at Washblog. For more information about the protests at the Port of Tacoma, check out our news roundup page.Joe La Sac, as you may have learned by reading Noemie's piece on the subject, is a student at UPS and an independent journalist who was harrassed by police down at the Port of Tacoma.He was gracious enough to answer some of my questions about the

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Great piece in the TNT about an independent journalist's hassles with the Tacoma Police as he was filming on the Port of Tacoma.

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Please send in your reports of the protests at the Port of Tacoma as well as any photos, audio, or links to websites or pages that you think our readers will want to see.Video courtesy of Tacoma SDSRecent News UpdatesMore Whitlock photos from March 12thNew photos from rwhitlockPhotos from tacomapmrUpcoming Events courtesy of Olyblog

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Brothers and sisters in Western Washington opposed to the Iraq War:The Bush administration is upping the ante in our fair city, bringing Stryker armored vehicles to the Port of Tacoma for shipment to the war in Iraq. If you've ever despaired about protests not making a difference, or being upset that activism doesn't seem to make a difference, here is your chance to experience some truly

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This is it, bloggers. You are required to tell all your readers to CALL their state legislators and especially Senators. They can also call Majority Leader Lisa Brown and raise some hell on this issue. The only way Bush and Dick will be taken down is if one of the states get enough pressure to send the message. Let's make it the state named after the "Father of Our Country". Come on, do your

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Here is the news about the Port of Tacoma Protest in reverse chronological order:Port Militarization Resistance - Guerilla News NetworkStryker ship sails, ending protests - Tacoma News TribunePort of Tacoma anti-war protestors unbowed - Seattle PIPeers debate Johnson's arrest - The OlympianDozens show to support activist councilman - The OlympianWashington activists try to block port shipments -

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42 years after the first Selma-Montgomery march for equal rights, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton gave speeches in two churches that had hosted marchers 42 years before.Hillary was great, but I still feel like she's pandering. Barack, on the other hand, seemed kind, understanding, sensitive and committed to justice. Hillary said all the right things about what needs to be done, but Barack made

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This comes to us courtesy of Tom Chambless of Tacoma:"Along with everything else that the 110th Congress has on its plate there is some old business from the 109th Congress to reconsider now that real humans are in charge. All this legislation was voted down by the GOP majority: * S. Amdt 214 to S. Con. Res. 18, the Snowe Amendment to the Medicare Program to allow negotiated drug prices. *

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Remember Bush's plans to open citizens' mail without a warrant?The online group I started to oppose this practice, Postal Workers United Against Tyranny, has successfully gotten a resolution passed at the Pierce County Central Labor Council, and we'll be looking to get one passed at our union meeting tomorrow. Next, we'll be putting together by-laws and working to organize postal workers across

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Once again, the corporate media totally misses the point on the conflict between two Democrats and obscures the issue to serve their own preconceived notions. This conflict, which Hillary's people are trying to broaden to include Barack Obama, is not merely a personality conflict between a wealthy media mogul and a pro-war "Democratic" front-runner. It IS about the issues. David Geffen is one

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This interview is archived at my book website, The New American Populists.Here's my interview with Black Agenda Report's Glen Ford, who has been active in progressive politics for decades:Before I get into my questions, can you tell me a bit about your background, what got you interested in politics, and how you ended up being the director of BlackAgendaReport.com:"My father was a very successful

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In case you haven't heard, the beloved Molly Ivins has passed away, following a long battle with breast cancer. Just before she died, she pledged to spend the rest of her columns on fighting the Iraq War, working to bring it to a close.We now have the opportunity, thanks to the Berkeley Daily Planet, to carry on her legacy and speak truth to power in a way greater than anything we've done

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Follow my lead and send your letters to the editors in response to Representative Steve Kirby screwing over the working man with these dang payday lenders.The TNT has the article here:Here's my letter:This is an outrage. Representative Kirby, chair of the important House Consumer Protection Committee, decides to block legislation that would actually protect consumers because it would deal a

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The paper is called Rock Creek Free Press and its first issue includes articles on 9/11, impeachment (written by Cynthia McKinney), and the history of Al Qaeda. It's being handed out today in D.C. during the huge anti-war protest. This is a great opportunity for those of you with a little dough to support an effort that really can make a difference.Check it out, submit articles, and be a part

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In this post I'll quote the speech and deliver my opinion of each section. After that, I'll write a bit about what I think should have been included."It would not be possible in this short amount of time to actually rebut the president's message, nor would it be useful. Let me simply say that we in the Democratic Party hope that this administration is serious about improving education and

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Special thanks to Mike Pappantonio and Bobby Kennedy for having me on their awesome Air America radio show, Ring of Fire.These guys consistently put out a great show, despite all the other work they do all week to protect consumers and defend the environment from the corporations. They were a lot of fun to talk to, and they both understood the importance of exposing Bush's signing statements and

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I know it may sound goofy, but your state legislators really love to hear from you. And if the issue is one that can actually improve society, like public financing of elections, why not make the connection?I went to the State Legislature and found it was very simple to contact my legislators. Each one had an email webform, and I put my phone number in the text of my message, so I may hear from

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Check out this post from Dennis Kucinich's website. The media has already begun to erase him from the campaign. Email them and tell your favorite radio hosts - this is wrong!Categories: Politics - National

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Do you support Lt. Watada? Then come to the Citizens' Hearing on the Legality of the War in Iraq and hear the evidence the military won't allow on the record.The Tahoma Organizer has the scoop. Also, check out the Tahoma Activist Calendar for more information.Categories: War & Peace, Local Events

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Congressman Ron Paul may be a libertarian, but he definitely says the right thing on issues of foreign policy. Check out these latest gems:"While the president’s announcement that an additional 20,000 troops would be sent to Iraq dominated the headlines last week, the real story was the president’s sharp rhetoric towards Iran and Syria. And recent moves by the administration only serve to

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Here's the latest letter I've sent to the News Tribune on this issue:I'm a letter carrier here in Tacoma. Recently, President Bush's signing statement authorizing the opening of citizens' mail without a warrant has me extremely concerned.Today I had the opportunity to confront the new Postmaster of Tacoma during work. I asked her directly whether this signing statement truly allowed the

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World War Three is on our doorstep. Read this post by Dying to Preserve the Lies on Bush's latest provocation with Iran.Invading a foreign consulate and kidnapping DIPLOMATS is an ACT OF WAR. When the Iranian college students kidnapped our diplomats in Tehran, that was considered an act of war, and was responded to with UN Sanctions and a months-long crisis that ended up getting RONALD FREAKING

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