The AMCHA Initiative, a California-based Israel advocacy group, is at it again. The group dedicated to monitoring Palestine solidarity groups on campus and filing legal complaints to halt activism is continuing to target Professor David Klein, who teaches math at California State University Northridge (CSUN). The Israel advocacy group sent…
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Sakuma must remove security from the workers’ housing area Bellingham — On September 25, Familias Unidas por la Justicia and individual plaintiff Felimon Pineda won a significant court victory when Skagit County Superior court by Judge John M. Meyer ordered Sakuma Brothers Berry Farms to remove security guards from their…
Ed. note: A bracero is a manual laborer admitted legally into the United States for a short period to perform seasonal labor—usually agricultural. Most media coverage of immigration today accepts as fact claims by growers that they can’t get enough workers to harvest crops. Agribusiness wants a new guest worker…
Postmodernistic Loss is Cryptic Cost In Word Economy. Pete Litster No one seems to know our dreams are so much like the Other others’ as we’re escaping that smothering grip of our big brothers, see… We gotta trust each other first. If not expect the worst But respect the burst.…
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/09/02/a-short-history-of-bio-chemical-w…
Farmworkers authorize consumer BOYCOTT of Sakuma Brothers Farms, Inc. photo (1) Familias Unidas por la Justicia committee and members after voting to authorize boycott of Sakuma Bros. Farms! Burlington, WA, August 19, 2013: The leadership of Familias Unidas por la Justicia and 246 members authorized a consumer boycott against Sakuma…
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Israel’s deadly drones have origins in Sinai occupation Jimmy Johnson http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/jimmy-johnson/israels-deadly-drones-… Drone Summit 2013–Drones around the globe: Proliferation and resistance CODEPINK http://www.codepink4peace.org/article.php?id=6457 CODEPINK protester disrupts drone lobby summit, says it’s time to ground killer drones CODEPINK http://www.codepink.org/article.php?id=6467 Ten ways to reduce the threat of terrorist attacks on…
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Have you walked into the Empty graveyard On division Street? Molly Nagin Caterpillar and John Deere weapons of massacre Have pilfered densely populated homeland And will cover up the evidence of the genocide With our asphalt-laden excuses To drive a car to go to church. But the forest is…
Works In Progress The state of its economy Dear supporters/readers: Works In Progress members are truly amazed and humbled by the amount and the number of donations we have received in the last few months. In addition, Media Island took us under their 501(c)3 status and shared a First Sunday…
Sailor and Mouse Elizabeth Jetton There once was sailor broad and bold His spirit was as bright as the stories he told His mind was brilliant his back was strong His soul was a singing and life was the song He sat upon his ship crusty and old Crusted…
Latchkey Kid Elizabeth Jetton My ears miss the sorrow filled wheezing of the ventilator machine, the iv no longer beeped its retched beep that had its way of driving me into insanity She looks peaceful, like a child at rest. I can no longer see the twisted maze of pain…
Daemon Inside Me Elizabeth Jetton Have you ever looked up at the sky Saw a dark fleet of cloud rolling by And suddenly your heart is filled with impending doom And you realize life is your eternal tomb For years I too felt this way Got up in the…
Words In Progress poetry slam Jordan Beaudry / Sylvia Smith On August 24 Works In Progress hosted it’s first annual poetry slam fundraiser at Traditions Café. Our reaction? Who knew that a poetry contest could be so much fun? Who knew that an audience could cheer or boo decisions made…
August’s symbolic closure of Bangor Ground Zero Center Silverdale, WA, August 11, 2013: Peace activists with Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action held an afternoon vigil and nonviolent direct action at the Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor Main Gate in remembrance of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Trident submarine…
A history of resistance to the Trident nuclear weapons system An interview with Glen Milner of Ground Zero Marco Rosaire Rossi For decades Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action (www.gzcenter.org) has been at the forefront of the peace movement in Washington state. Ground Zero is responsible for raising public awareness…
Alford plea, Yoos maintains his innocence: Scott Yoos, an Olympia man accused of a felony assault against a police officer, pleaded guilty Wednesday, August 7, with an Alford plea to two counts, one for criminal trespass...