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Election ’11: Occupy the Ballot
Welcome to the Eat The State! endorsements for the November 8 elections. This year, our local election season has coincided nicely with a national political event of truly promising proportions: the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement that has unfolded in Seattle and nationwide in recent weeks. Many of the same themes that are driving the Occupy movement
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Some solutions
The Occupy movement has been notoriously lacking in specific demands and goals. That’s okay—in fact, it has so far probably been a strategic advantage
Resources for a populist uprising
As the Occupy Wall Street movement enters its second month, with more than a hundred additional occupations across the country and around the world, here
Behold! What Is This Mysterious Thing Called “Newsprint”?
Whatever it is, we’ve got a lot of it, because we just got thousands of copies of the first new print edition of ETS! in a year back from the printer!
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American Autumn: Progressive Populism Rises Up
Occupy Wall Street and related occupation efforts are quintessentially a movement to reclaim democracy. “We are the 99%!” expresses the growing understanding
The Citizens’ Initiative to Get Costco Out of the Retail Business
A popular initiative to get Costco out of the retail business in Washington is rapidly gathering signatures for the next election. The new initiative
A History Lesson
The current #Occupy Wall Street action has its most immediate inspiration and roots in the democratically organized Spanish
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Radical Seattle Remembers: Nov. 6, 1970: The Seattle Seven
“Did you ever hear of ‘The Seattle Seven’? … That was me … and six other guys.” And that stonily-intoned quote, culled
Nature & Politics: The Iranian “Plot”
First, a simple rule: utter absurdity in allegations leveled by the US government is no bar to a deferential hearing in our nation’s major conduits of
Nature & Politics: Is Fascism Coming to America? And If So, Dressed as What?
But first, a simple rule for killers: If you are going to murder someone in the United States, don’t try to get the job done in Texas. Keep your captive
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History
Reclaim Our History: Oct. 16-31
| Special Mass Murder Edition Oct. 16, 1973: War criminal Henry Kissinger is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, less than a month after he had secretly overseen the bloody military coup in Chile. Oct. 17, 1961: |
Reclaim Our History: Oct. 1-15
| Oct. 1, 1964: UC Berkeley math grad student Jack Weinberg is arrested for setting up CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) information table in Sproul Plaza, inadvertently starting the Free Speech Movement |
Reclaim Our History Sep. 16-30
| Special “Bubble” Issue! Sep. 16, 1992: Black Wednesday, UK: Conservative government forced to withdraw pound from European Exchange Mechanism, costing taxpayers 30 billion pounds in cash and reserves. |