LNG Protest Rally Preceeding FERC Scoping
What are you doing the evening of October 9?
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Read Morethe members of the alliance pledged their mutual support to defeat attacks on bona fide labor unions by organizations intent on undercutting working conditions and displacing incumbent workers.
Read MoreThe Occupy movement is not constrained by party ideology and partisan loyalty but is free to identify inequity on a national, regional and local level and to design grassroots movements to bring about change at home. What succeeds in Coos Bay migrates to Salem, Washington and beyond and bounces back and forth across the nation with its similar threads but unique regional signatures.
Read MoreWhereas, according to Long shore & Shipping News, within a month, the empty grain ship will be escorted by armed U.S. Coast Guard vessels and helicopters, from the mouth of the Columbia River to the EGT facility; and
Read MoreCoast Guard escort of empty SSA ship from the mouth of the Columbia River to the Port of Longview’s docks: It was reported that this is the first time since the 1970’s that armed forces are being brought out against workers during a labor dispute, and this is a terrible breach of our civil liberties. Dave suggested we contact ACLU for support. In the 1970’s President Nixon brought out the National Guard against the postal workers during a strike. But now, after 9/11 the Coast Guard was reorganized under the Navy as part of Homeland Security, the US Government will use a branch of the military, the Coast Guard, to protect a private corporation against US citizens fighting for their labor rights. U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell may be supporting the use of the Coast Guard against the ILWU.
Read MoreOne sign read “Don’t be a gashole”.
Read MoreAccording to Richard Haynes, a consulting natural resource economist formerly with the US Forest Service, as a rule of thumb, there are about five milling jobs for every million board feet of logs manufactured domestically, while there is only one job exporting those same logs.
Read MoreA project I have been working on has taken up most of my time these last few months and forced me to focus the blog primarily on local issues we can all do something about but like all of you, I can’t ignore the national and global issues or see the parallels within our own Coos County microcosm.
Read MoreStrategies for moving forward with the fight to regain control of fundamental rights to life, liberty and happiness from the corporatocracy.
Read MoreWe are the 99% – We are unstoppable, another world is possible – Occupy Earth!
Read MoreCountdown discusses the role of veterans in an all volunteer military defending their right to free speech and peaceable assembly. Keith Olbermann speaks with Jose Vasquez of Iraq Veterans Against The War
Read More“Invest in Main Street not in Wall Street”, so says the slogan for the Move Your Money campaign that has already seen more than 800,000 customers are reported to have closed accounts with too big to fail banks like BofA, Wells Fargo, Chase and Citibank in favor of democratically run local non profit credit unions.
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