From Anarres Press Criticism of opposition to the police usually falls into one of five categories. The first common argument is that the police, as our fellow workers, are also exploited members of the proletariat, and should therefore be our allies. Unfortunately, there is a vast gap between “should” and “is.” The police exist to…
“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder – a soft…
Diplomats and lobbyists from the U.S., Canada and Mexico are converging in Seattle this week for the “North America in the Global Economy” forum, organized by the local Canadian consulate. This forum is a celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and a discussion of NAFTA’s future. The Zapatistas…
Local / Resistance / Unions
The owners of La Lot restaurant in downtown Seattle didn’t last long. Hien, Jeff, and SeaSol are proud to announce that, as of September 1st, La Lot management agreed to meet all of the demands set forth at the start of the strike! This means announcing a policy whereby all tips are distributed to workers,…
Economy / Government / Latino / Local / Resistance
Standing Against Foreclosure & Eviction WEEKLY NEWSLETTER September 20, 2014 HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT!
Standing Against Foreclosure & Eviction
WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
September 13,2014
Some truckers at the Port of Seattle do not have access to bathrooms. In the case of the main port-provided truck lot, a single HoneyBucket [port-a-potty] was delivered in an attempt to quiet truckers who spoke out against the lack of access to a basic necessity. However, many people have pointed out that the HoneyBucket has not solved anything.
From Cascadia Watch CASTLE ROCK, OCCUPIED COWLITZ TERRITORY – September 3, 2014 On May 18, 1980, Mt. St. Helens, or Lawetlat’la, erupted with the force of a hydrogen bomb. A cubic mile of ash and debris turned 230 square miles of land into a moonscape. The Toutle River was filled with boiling mud along its entire…
EVERETT, OCCUPIED SNOHOMISH TERRITORY — September 2, 2014 Five people, one of them sitting 18-feet high on a tripod, have blocked coal and oil traffic at the BNSF Rail Yard in Everett for about six hours this morning and afternoon. The group is demanding an immediate halt to all fossil fuel shipments through the Northwest,…
by Josh S. A Message From the Seattle Solidarity Network:
