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 …
Category: JUSTICE
Mar 03 2019
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 …
Feb 24 2019
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 …
Jul 20 2018
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, …
Jun 03 2018
TENANTS UNION PANEL AT WWU
Apr 18 2018
INTERSECTIONALITY
Jan 23 2018
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 …
Jan 04 2018