Category: Social Justice

JOIN THE XR REBELLION

I found the following article so aligned with OCCUPY principles and values that I became motivated to finally put out a post.  While the local chapter OCCUPY BELLINGHAM has paused for now we still gather on Fridays to drink a beer and stay acquainted.  And we are certainly all still thinking and engaged in the …

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MORE ON VENEZUELA – OPEN LETTER TO AOC

The motive behind neoliberalism is perpetuation of ruling class power and American international power, and the mechanics are fourfold: capture competitor nations in an American-dominated system, exploit the markets of weaker nations, ensure net flows of wealth from peripheral nations to sustain US consumption, and lock peripheral nations into debt and dependency as leverage to …

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GETTING THE RIGHT NEWS OUT TO THE MANY WHO CARE

Here is another take on the Venezuela crisis with some historical perspective.  This might become a valuable alternative news source.     The Fire This Time in the Americas

ABBY MARTIN ON VENEZUELA

Finding the alternative news on this latest coup being delivered right before our eyes.  

REGIME CHANGE AGAIN

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/2/22/this_is_not_humanitarian_aid_a?fbclid=IwAR1cVTvxyr8JVc5O1eMfka0Ru3qU4s649kka8qP3xElVLaRBKFL9Z-yOxi8 Commentary by Dianne Foster: So, we have to confront this supposedly humanitarian aid, which is not humanitarian aid. It’s just direct intervention in order to have regime change, which has been the purpose of the Trump government from the very beginning. And we know what regime change has meant in other places. We know …

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WORKING LOCALLY

Can we do this in Whatcom County?  Well, we already are but we are siloed into our own working/affinity groups.  Can we all come together into a cooperative group?  I am calling it, for now, The Community Development Cooperative.  The Public Market on Cornwall has space where we could come together and begin this work, …

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ANNIVERSARY WEEKEND- JANUARY 20-21

It was a good weekend for progressive people and those who want to resist the agenda of the current administration and work toward supporting and helping those most vulnerable and marginalized.  On Saturday we saw the second women’s march, in Bellingham called March On Bellingham.   The attendance rivaled  last year’s numbers only slightly fewer.  The signs …

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WHITE WOMEN IN SOUTH AFRICA

Many lessons we can learn from others.  Many white people in the USA are supporting the  causes of the marginalized,  vulnerable and oppressed.  It is happening everywhere – this is a good example and perhaps a model to follow.  

NEIL YOUNG COMES THROUGH AGAIN!

This is so right on!  Good for today!    

TELLING TRUTH TO POWER

There is no better than Chris Hedges