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Thoughts about political action in 2025
Here are some thoughts about responding the MAGA assault to come this year. Your thoughts? Please post in comments. Respond to specific injustices as they arise. Of course. Remember how people shut down airports when the Muslim travel ban was announced last time? A rapid, forceful response that could not be ignored. We’ll need to… Read more
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WTO+25
On this 25th anniversary week of WTO protests, I’ll reshare this thing I wrote 5 years ago. A truly transformative time. ********* As we approach the 20th anniversary of the WTO protests in Seattle, I think about how there must be thousands of first-hand accounts of those historic days. So many stories from so many… Read more
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Life choices
I don’t usually post about my personal life on this blog, but this thing I wrote elsewhere seems somehow relevant. Maybe relevant to a lot of aging activists in similar circumstances. Some Thanksgiving conversations with family got me thinking about my life choices and life trajectory. How do I concisely explain my current predicament of… Read more
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Song of Cascadia
At a time when we’re getting a far-right authoritarian federal government, cities, states, and regions that oppose that agenda need to find ways to exert our independence. Cascadia (especially that portion west of the Cascades) is not like the rest of the country. Here’s a song for Cascadians. I wrote it years ago. (Sound file… Read more
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Manufactured fascism
I’ve been reading too many post-election analyses that point fingers in all the wrong directions and completely miss the elephant in the room. The problem is not what Harris did or didn’t do in her campaign or whether some different choices could have moved the vote a point or two in some crucial swing state.… Read more
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Pacific states are not like the others
A lot of us are struggling with the reality that a voting majority just voted for a fascist to run the country. This time everyone knew exactly what and who they were voting for and did it anyway. It boggles the mind and torments the soul. Raises the question: How do those of us who… Read more
political praxis & catalytic communications
freelansing in Seattle 