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September 11 (Saturday) - Other
Volunteer to Make a Difference this Election Year
Register and engage voters with lower-incomes in the democratic process. Join Poverty Action as we hit the streets to register and turnout voters door-to-door this Saturday, September 11th, and every Saturday through October 2nd (4 more Saturdays left)! more...
September 11 (Saturday) - Film / Video
September 11th at the Greenlake Library
Come watch four short films by well-known international filmmakers on the events of September 11th. Screening will be folllowed by a discussion. more...
September 10 (Friday) - Film / Video
"Can Corporations Be People? - The Campaign To Abolish Corporate Personhood"
FILM: "CAN CORPORATIONS BE PEOPLE?" (57 minutes, 2002, Molly Morgan & Jan Edwards) Filmed workshop by Molly Morgan, from The Program on Corporations, Law, and Democracy (POCLAD), and Jan Edwards, from The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), explaining how corporations acquired more power than human beings have, the ways they exploit that power without consequences, and what the WILPF campaign is doing to abolish "personhood."
"If Corporations are People and Money is Speech, ...is Democracy a Myth?"
Presentation by Jacqui Brown Miller: Jacqui is an attorney actively involved with the WILPF Campaign To Abolish Corporate Power and Assert the People's Right, and is with ReclaimDemocracy (www.reclaimdemocracy.org). She will expand on the film's historical perspective on Corporate Personhood and origins of power and will explore how corporate power has dominated areas like the environment, media & democracy, and global corporatization. She will show how local actions can truly defend our democracy.
Facilitated Discussion Follows
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September 10 (Friday) - Lecture / Talk
GO-MAP Diversity Book Talk featuring Cornel West
The GO-MAP Diversity Book Talk Series, featuring Cornel West, Princeton University Professor of Religion and African American Studies and provocative activist intellectual, who will read from, discuss, and sign his new book, DEMOCRACY MATTERS: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
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September 8 (Wednesday) - Film / Video
"Outfoxed"
The Evergreen Peace and Justice Community presents the Robert Greenwald film, "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdock's War on Journalism" Fox News represents a quantum leap in media bias. Come to this event to see how Fox spins the News and manipulates the public mind to suit their hard-right partisan agenda. There will be a discussion following the video.
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September 5 (Sunday) - Panel / Forum
Reporting Back from the RNC in NYC! Open Mic Event
People returning from the protests in NYC during the Republican National Convention will report on their experiences. Followed by discussion of where to go from here to further build a movement of resistance toward a whole new world! more...
September 4 (Saturday) -
Register Women Voters in Bremerton and Port Orchard
Help NARAL Pro-Choice Washington and WROC (Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition) to register low-income, underrepresented women voters living in Bremerton and Port Orchard for the upcoming elections.
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September 4 (Saturday) - Protest / Demonstration
"Bare As You Dare" Naked Beach Rally
Drop your drawers! Its time for a celebration of clothing-optional fun at the beach! The purpose of the Naked Beach Rally is to generate interest in and an understanding of clothing-optional beaches in the Greater Seattle area. Discovery Park is a strong candidate for Seattle's first family-friendly clothing-optional beach. more...
September 3 (Friday) - Film / Video
Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
A new film by Deb Ellis and Denis Mueller documents the life of historian, activist and author of the best selling classic A People’s History of the United States. Featuring rare archival materials and interviews, YOU CAN’T BE NEUTRAL captures the essence of this activist and thinker who has been a catalyst for progressive change for more than 60 years. As Noam Chomsky said of him, “he has changed the consciousness of a generation.” more...
September 3 (Friday) - Film / Video
“Broken Limbs”
"BROKEN LIMBS" (57 minutes, 2004, Jamie Howell & Guy Evans ) is a new film that looks at the plight of apple growers in the age of globalization, and points the way to sustainable US agriculture. Set in our own backyard, Wenatchee, "Apple Capital of the World". This pastoral valley prospered for nearly a century as the home of the famed Washington apple. But good times have vanished, and farmers are going out of business by the thousands.
Also, Michael Ramos, Director of Social Justice Ministries with the Church Council of Greater Seattle, will lead a discussion on current issues surrounding the efforts to maintain family farms, and the impacts of globalization on farm workers in Washington State.
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September 2 (Thursday) - Meeting
Voter Education Meeting
Join NARAL Pro-Choice Washington and the Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition at a Voter Education Meeting in Port Orchard. Community organizers explain the new Washington primary system and discuss issues important specifically to women voters.
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September 1 (Wednesday) - Meeting
Voter Education Meeting
Join NARAL Pro-Choice Washington and the Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition to a Voter Education meeting in Bremerton. Community organizers explain the new Washington primary system and discuss issues important specifically to women voters. more...
September 1 (Wednesday) - Other
Vote for a Change Door-to-Door Volunteer Opportunities
There are 5 more Saturdays to go in the door-to-door campaign! Check out <> for the day to day countdown until election day. Volunteer with Vote for a Change to make a difference this election year! Join us in our Vote for a Change door-to-door campaign THIS SATURDAY, September 4th from 10:45 am to 1:30 pm in Kent. If you need a ride from Seattle, we will meet at the Fremont Public Association back parking lot (1501 N 45th St in Wallingford) at 10 am sharp and carpool to Kent. If you have your own transportation, you can meet us in Kent at 10:45 am. For directions/map to either FPA or the meeting location in Kent, here's the link <<>>. Sign up for any Saturday from this Saturday, September 4th through October 2nd by replying to this e-mail or calling 206-694-6794.
Why Vote for a Change? Because US Census data confirms that voter registration and participation rates decline dramatically and consistently as household incomes decline. Poverty Action surveyed more than 350 people with low-incomes in Washington state about their voting habits and found that nearly half of those registered to vote had never voted. This severe under-representation of low-income voters translates directly into a lack of accountability among government leaders to low-income children and families in our state. The Vote for a Change campaign aims to increase low-income people's stake in voting and to make addressing poverty a priority for elected officials. Our efforts are focused in areas of South King County, specifically Auburn and Kent, where there are the highest numbers of people living on the lowest of incomes. In these areas, we go door to door at the neighborhood level to register voters, committing people to vote by signing a petition, and encouraging new voters to stay engaged and involved in the democratic process.
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August 29 (Sunday) - Other
RNC
Get in through the back door and sign up for the ridiculous GOP/MTV speech writing competition and be an agent provocateur! Infiltrate!
http://www.2004nycgop.org/essaycontest/ so bizarre... more...
August 28 (Saturday) - Other
Statewide Poverty Action Network -- "VOTE FOR A CHANGE" volunteer opportunities
There are 7 more Saturdays to go in the door-to-door campaign! Check out for the day to day countdown until election day. Volunteer with Vote for a Change to make a difference this election year! Join us in our Vote for a Change door-to-door campaign THIS SATURDAY, August 28th from 10:45 am to 1:30 pm in Kent. If you need a ride from Seattle, we will meet at the Fremont Public Association back parking lot (1501 N 45th St in Wallingford) at 10 am sharp and carpool to Kent. If you have your own transportation, you can meet us in Kent at 10:45 am. For directions/map to either FPA or the meeting location in Kent, here's the link <>. Sign up for any Saturday from this Saturday, August 28th through October 2nd by replying to this e-mail or calling 206-694-6794. more...
August 28 (Saturday) - Other
Women’s Rights Day celebration, For THIS we won the right to vote?!
An irreverent look at election lunacy. Festivities include: campaign satire by Tamara Turner; jammin’ spoken word and music by Christina Orbé; subversive poetry by KmWr Ausar; powerful prose by Christa Bell; and an exhibition of wickedly political art by Deborah Lawrence. more...
August 24 (Tuesday) - Meeting
Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform
Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform (W.O.N.P.R.) invites you to a free public forum:
Prohibition, how it adversely affects society
Featuring W.O.N.P.R. President Cher Ford-McCullough, and Executive Director Jean Marlowe, www.wonpr.org , Nora Callahan of The November Coalition, www.november.org, Criminal Defense Attorney Douglas Hiatt, and Jim Doherty of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, www.leap.cc. more...
August 24 (Tuesday) - Panel / Forum
Cascades Crossings: A free community forum on wildlife passage across I-90
Hear from the experts! Join us for this timely and interesting panel discussion moderated by Tom Banse of NPR.
A forum on wildlife connectivity and transportation planning, with a focus on the Washington State Deparment of Transportation's plans to expand I-90 just east of Snoqualmie Pass. more...
August 21 (Saturday) - Other
Volunteer to Make a Difference this Election Year!
US Census data confirms that voter registration and participation rates decline dramatically and consistently as household incomes decline. Poverty Action surveyed more than 350 people with low-incomes in Washington state about their voting habits and found that nearly half of those registered to vote had never voted. This severe under-representation of low-income voters translates directly into a lack of accountability among government leaders to low-income children and families in our state. The Vote for a Change campaign aims to increase low-income people's stake in voting and to make addressing poverty a priority for elected officials. Our efforts are focused in areas of South King County, specifically Auburn and Kent, where there are the highest numbers of people living on the lowest of incomes. more...
August 21 (Saturday) - Other
Summer Day of Action - Register, Educate and Mobilize Voters
Join Seattle's progressive grassroots organizations for a Summer Day of Action registering, mobilizing, and educating voters. Visit www.amercavotes.org/action to sing-up and get more information. more...
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