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: Wealth Disparity
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 25 2019
GETTING THE RIGHT NEWS OUT TO THE MANY WHO CARE
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 …
Jan 28 2019
OUR HOUSE IS ON FIRE
This is just in from Davos by this young person. She is a miracle. Write, Call, Email your elected officials at all levels with the following OCCUPY demands. OCCUPY BELLINGHAM demands that our elected officials at all levels: Tell citizens the truth via their web sites, tweets, town halls, social media about the looming global climate …
Jan 06 2019
FIGHT FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE – 2
So we begin our learning about the Global Extinction Rebellion. Many people are on board with this, believe it, are changing their approach to life, and working to help others understand it. Having watched our own Jill McIntyre-Witt TedXtalk (the post below) I hope you are now enthusiastic about learning more. The next person to …
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, …
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 …
Dec 03 2016
EUGENE DEBS 1917
Tim Robbins reading what got Eugene Debs into prison for 10 years. Tim Robbins performs Eugene V. Debs Canton, Ohio speech June 1918 Tim Robbins performed this excerpt of Eugene V. Debs' 1918 speech at a May 2009 performance at the 92Y in New York City, as part of a celebration of the …