The legendary protests of the World Trade Organization in 1999 can serve as a model for a deeply needed labor/environmental coalition for climate justice.
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Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Amazon’s Battle in Seattle Is a Fight Against Worker Power
The e-commerce giant has dropped $1.45 million to buy the Seattle City Council and blunt a vibrant working-class movement.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Seattle’s Biggest Corporations Try to Buy the City Council
Led by Amazon, which has poured $1.4 million into defeating socialist and progressive candidates, the city’s corporate sector wants to stop dead any talk of higher taxes funding public services.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Inslee Difference
The Washington governor’s focus on the climate crisis is prodding his fellow presidential candidates to develop their own Green New Deals.
Posted inHousing and Transportation
Amazon to Seattle: The Housing Crisis Is Not Our Problem
If this is how Amazon treats its first hometown, what does that mean for cities competing for its new headquarters?
Posted inHousing and Transportation
As Trump Gears Up for Big Tax Cuts, Seattle Opts to Tax Wealthy
The progressive city is once again paving the way, and strongly rebuking trickle-down economics.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Will Washington Pass Nation’s First State-Level Carbon Tax?
After years of gridlock on climate action, Washington state could soon pioneer the nation’s first tax on greenhouse gas emissions.