tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275991762024-10-15T23:26:18.094-07:00"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.comBlogger348125tag: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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