freelansing in Seattle

political praxis & catalytic communications

  • Looking back at 2009

    Some things just got weirder in 2009. Tom Tomorrow looks back at the year in crazy. Although the wingnuts are easy to laugh at, they should not be taken lightly. They are poisoning public discourse and encouraging misinformed and unstable people to greater misplaced anger and extremism. Many of those people, let’s remember, are armed… Read more

  • Something Rotten in Denmark? Looking Back at Copenhagen & Looking Forward to the Future

    How you assess the outcome of the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference (UNCCC), held in Copenhagen Dec. 7-18, depends on whether you see the glass 95 percent empty or 5 percent full. And how you feel about that extremely modest progress in relation to the planet-wide urgency of the climate crisis. And what you believed… Read more

  • This Week’s Climate Report…

    COP15: Of course, the biggest climate news is currently coming from Copenhagen, & some of the best reporting from Copenhagen is coming from Democracy Now!, the only independent news show reporting daily from Copenhagen. As might be expected, some of the biggest rifts so far in Copenhagen have been around issues of climate justice. Developing… Read more

  • 10 years after the Battle in Seattle

    10 years after the Battle in Seattle

    Seattle’s getting ready to celebrate the 10-yr. anniversary of WTO protests. One of the main events is the People’s Summit this weekend. Listings of other events can be found, as well as stories about the event’s meaning & legacy today, in the paper I help publish, Eat the State! Battle of Seattle, or Battle in… Read more

  • The honeymoon is over — time to get busy

    I’ve been saying it since before the inauguration: If progressives expect Obama (and the Democratically controlled Congress) to create the kind of policies we want, we have to organize and apply the public pressure to make them do it. We know that the corporate powers, with their enormous influence and abundance of resources, are not… Read more

  • Blog Fail, Qwest Fail, Big Media Fail

    OK, I said this was about “slow blogging,” but I never intended to be this slow. It’s been over 7 weeks since my last post. Just getting started and then I stopped. Pathetic. I blame Qwest. Qwest Fail: I’d blocked out most of a week in between project deadlines in mid-October to catch up on… Read more