Category: Economic Justice

GET MONEY OUT OF ELECTIONS

We need your help to get this petition on the ballot.   GMOP is a high priority for OCCUPY wall street BELLINGHAM and many of us are working as volunteers for this campaign. Find out how you can help at https:/www.wamend.org  

10 Indian Commandments from the Great Spirit

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STOP OLYMPIC FLYOVERS

TAKE ACTION AT THE WEB SITE POSTED BELOW  Petitions with 120,000 signatures opposing the US Navy request to develop electromagnetic warfare in sites around the forests on the Olympic Peninsula were recently delivered to the Forest Service. This would mean periodic unannounced closures of portions of Olympic National Forest for war games, testing and training.  Up to 118 …

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Buffy Saint Marie has a song for today

SUCH A POWERFUL VOICE. SOME NEW WORDS FOR THE WORLD TODAY  

THE FIGHT CONTINUES – STOP TPP

FlushTheTPP.org is an action campaign to Stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). OCCUPY BELLINGHAM joined this fight in December 2012 at the Peace Arch for a cross border rally.  We invite you to join.     OCCUPY BELLINGHAM worked hard to prevent the passage of “FAST TRACK”.  Since it passed we now have our work cut out …

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ACT OUT! INTERVIEW with Kshama and others

ACT OUT was the only media at the rally! It was awesome!      

FOLLOW THE MONEY

Professors Martin Gilens (Princeton University) and Benjamin I. Page (Northwestern University) looked at more than 20 years worth of data to answer a simple question: Does the government represent the people? Their study took data from nearly 2000 public opinion surveys and compared it to the policies that ended up becoming law. In other words, …

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BE THE CHANGE

I’m not sure we will win if we don’t begin. So I realign my mind to the sky and occupy visions. Music by Sariyah Idan, Images by Michael Gould-Wartofsky. Edited by Sariyah Idan. Composed by Sam Zeines and Sariyah Idan.  

FAST TRACK PROTEST REPORT

OCCUPY BELLINGHAM has been very busy this past week.  On Tuesday we participated in a rally to oppose FAST TRACK  for TPP.  We carpooled to Mt. Vernon and rallied at Representative DelBene’s office.  OCCUPY BELLINGHAM brought all our TPP banners.  Debbie made a third banner about FAST TRACK that got the most exposure (behind the speakers). …

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PROTEST CITIZENS UNITED- WE WERE THERE!

On the Fifth Anniversary of The 2010 Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court OCCUPY BELLINGHAM staged an action.  For starters we built the banners.  We learned this at a Backbone Campaign summer workshop here in Bellingham summer of 2012.             Then we took those banners to the freeway overpasses …

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