***MEDIA ADVISORY*** FOR APRIL 17, 2012 CONTACT: Sage Wilson, sage@workingwa.org Tax day protesters demand: “Fair’s fair. Pay your share.” On Tax Day, more than a hundred workers, students, people of faith, and community leaders will converge in South Lake Union to “occu-pie” Amazon and call on the company to pay their fair share of…
Subscribe via RSS
Fighting for a Fair Economy
STAY INFORMED
Register for Email Updates
MANTÉNGASE INFORMADO
Registro para actualizaciones por correo electrónicos
Tag Archive: occupy
The 99% greet the “President of the 1%.”
by Nate Jackson Outside of the Meydenbauer Center in downtown Bellevue, more than a dozen of us laid down on the cement as a red carpet was rolled over us. We formed a human red carpet, inviting the 1% gathered for Mitt Romney’s big fundraiser to literally walk all over us. After all they’ve been…
Unemployment down, but not out.
by Nate Jackson The latest report put out by the Department of Labor showed that 200,000 new jobs were created in the month of December. This was better than expected, but we still have over 5 million people who have been unemployed for over 27 weeks, the named “long term unemployed.” This is unacceptable and…
Fairness: a “sickening” concept?
by Nate Jackson Apparently the 1% don’t like hearing from us. Billionaire Paychex Inc CEO Tom Golisano said, “If I hear a politician use the term ‘paying your fair share’ one more time, I’m going to vomit.” The idea of fairness makes him sick and he’s not alone. Big bank CEOs and other 1% elites…
Kemper Freeman: The Grinch Who Stole Congress
by Nate Jackson What do you call a man who snatches away the things that bring us joy? The Grinch. Monday morning a group of 99%ers gave a wake up call to a 1% local area “Grinch” named Kemper Freeman. Freeman is a Bellevue real estate mogul who throws around money to political campaigns and…
A week of action in DC and we’re just warming up.
by Nate Jackson 500 white carnations rest on the steps of the capitol building as thousands of the 99% walked silently by on our way to Speaker Boehner’s office. As Speaker of the House, Boehner can do a lot to jam up our democratic process— if we let him. It’s time for Congress to get…
Whose Capitol is it anyway?
by Nate Jackson The 1% don’t cast many votes, but they seem to own the Capitol anyway. They certainly pay for it, with their huge campaign donations and their army of corporate lobbyists. Join us on Wednesday November 30th to highlight the 1% agenda in Olympia and speak out for what the 99% want: jobs,…
Night of a Thousand Voices for Jobs Not Cuts
by Nate Jackson You can’t stop a movement whose time has come. More than a 1000 of us gathered across from Husky Stadium to stand up for jobs, not cuts. We stood in the rain and sleet and cheered as speakers from the community took the microphone to tell why they were there to march…
We are the Port: Lets Celebrate Workers
by Nate Jackson Last Thursday, local business executive celebrated Port of Seattle executives at a $1750-per-table dinner at the Bell Harbor Conference Center on the Seattle waterfront. As they celebrated at their “black tie optional event”, workers and community allies were there outside, honoring the people who actually make the port prosper: the workers who…
November 5th: We’re breaking up with Big Banks.
By Nate Jackson Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan Chase isn’t just the top 1% — he’s the top 1% of the top 1%. On November 2nd, he came to Seattle to speak on “business leadership”. Instead, we told him that we weren’t satisfied with the kind of leadership he and the other big…
