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June 25 (Friday) - Other
Critical Mass Bike Ride
Seattle's Fun-Lovin' Critical Mass Bike Ride departs from Westlake Center today (Friday the 25th) at 6:00. Bring your bike. Make space for us bikes on them roads! :) more...
June 20 (Sunday) - Other
World Refugee Day 2004-- Soccer Tournament!
Come celebrate World Refugee Day 2004 in King County! This Sunday, June 20th, the International Rescue Commitee (IRC) is hosting a soccer tournament in collaboration with five other local area refugee resettlement agencies. The event is free and open to the public. more...
June 17 (Thursday) - Panel / Forum
Exit Strategy: Rethinking Iraq
Three professors debate the options, their consequences, and the
assumptions that color our thinking as we try to imagine a way out of Iraq.
--Tim Amen (Seattle U, UW)
--Daniel Chirot (UW)
--Christoph Giebel (UW) more...
June 15 (Tuesday) - Lecture / Talk
George Draffan - An Examination of Corporate Power
Overview of the dynamics of corporate power, across six dimensions, by a long-time researcher on the subject. How economic, political, legal, and military power are intertwined. The institutions that maintain that power share an elite consensus: the centralization of power.
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June 15 (Tuesday) - Protest / Demonstration
SHAC Support Demo at Chiron
Seven members of SHAC were arrested last month simply for exercising their First Amendment rights of speaking out against animal abuse. Show Chiron that this will not be silenced. Chiron remains a customer of the huge animal testing laboratory HLS. As their customer, they are responsible for the millions of animals killed by HLS. Please come out and show your support
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June 15 (Tuesday) - Workshop / Training
Building the eNonprofit: Web, Email and Online Fundraising
Are you an Online Fundraiser?
If you are not yet fundraising online, or have just started, here’s your chance to maximize your success. Successful online fundraisers increase their organizations’ reach, engage new supporters and communicate with their stakeholders more effectively – you can too. more...
June 13 (Sunday) - Music / Entertainment
Green Concert for a Blue Planet
Join us for an amazng evening of music from around the world to benefit groups that work to protect wild salmon, whales & dolphins, and our Puget Sound waters. World music concert featuring Children of the Revolution, City Cantabile Choir (the Choir's annual "Orca Sing" on San Juan Island has been featured on "60 Minutes"), and others. Proceeds will benefit Save Our Wild Salmon, American Cetacean Society/Puget Sound Chapter, City Cantabile Choir, and People for Puget Sound. more...
June 12 (Saturday) - Music / Entertainment
Weapons of Mass distrACTION
WEAPONS OF MASS DISTRACTION is a cutting-edge multimedia show. WMD will entertain the pants off you while educating about the dangers of concentrated ownership of the media, and will benefit independent media producers (EAT THE STATE, RECLAIM THE MEDIA) and promoting truth in newscasting. more...
June 12 (Saturday) - Other
Increase the Turnout of Low-Income Voters
Be a part of this campaign to increase the turnout of low-income voters! Join Poverty Action as we hit the streets to register voters and commit people to vote, door-to-door THIS SATURDAY, June 12th from 10:45 am to 1:30 pm. more...
June 12 (Saturday) - Protest / Demonstration
World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) - Cities Worldwide & Seattle "Ride to the Fountain!" June 12, 2004
On June 12th citizens in cities all over the world will be riding naked through their towns, protesting oil dependency and celebrating the power and individuality of our bodies! more...
June 11 (Friday) - Film / Video
Media That Matters Screening!
On Friday, June 11th, Seattle's 911 Media Arts Center hosts the first stop in the fourth annual Media That Matters Film Festival's traveling tour. The screening highlights the festival's youth-produced films on the living wage crisis, civil rights, criminal justice and bullying. The screening will also include youth media from YouthSpace.net. There will be lively discussion with filmmakers and MediaRights to follow. more...
June 11 (Friday) - Protest / Demonstration
Petco Protest
Animals are not property and should not be sold, period, but PETCO's record of abuse in their stores makes the situation all that more dire for the animals involved. Please come & help educate people on what really happens to the animals sold at Petco. Also, check out www.petcocruelty.com for more information on hte truth behind Petco's practices and what YOU can do to help!
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June 10 (Thursday) - Lecture / Talk
Talk by PETER CAMEJO, GREEN PARTY candidate for California Governor in 2002 & 2003
PETER CAMEJO, GREEN PARTY candidate for California Governor in 2002 & 2003, will speak about the presidential race and the future of the Green Party. more...
June 9 (Wednesday) - Lecture / Talk
Globalization and Its Discontents
Globalization is a cultural and political force as well as an economic one. Antioch University political economist Don Comstock will respond to mainstream economic rationales and highlight contradictions and paradoxes of economic thinking that have shaped antiglobalization resistance. A discussion of what this might mean for further actions will follow. more...
June 7 (Monday) - Meeting
Rolling Thunder Summer Festival call for Volunteers
We need volunteers for the July 31st Rolling Thunder Democracy Festival at Magnuson Park. Whether you can help us out for one day or with the ongoing planning, we can't do this without you.
Please help us make this the best Thunder yet. Come to this open planning meeting. more...
June 5 (Saturday) - Other
Vote for a Change door-to-door voter mobilization
The voice of the poor is missing from the voting booth. US Census data confirms that voting rates decline as household income declines. Be a part of this campaign to increase the turnout of low-income voters! Join Poverty Action as we hit the streets to register voters and commit people to vote, door-to-door THIS SATURDAY, June 5th from 10:45 am to 1:30 pm in Kent. more...
June 5 (Saturday) - Music / Entertainment
Benefit Concert for SNOW
Two local groups present a family concert to benefit Sound Non-violent Opponents of War. Molly Tenenbaum & Friends play old-time Appalachian stringband music, and Clallam County plays and sings piquant and rousing folksongs of several decades. more...
June 5 (Saturday) - Workshop / Training
Media Analysis Workshop
Daniel Hannah, director of media literacy education at Reclaim The Media (www.reclaimthemedia.org), will use recent news reports as examples to illustrate how to think critically about and analyze news coverage, weighing news sources, potential biases, and messages conveyed. Free; donations welcome. more...
June 5 (Saturday) - Film / Video
Free Labor Films Screening Series to show "Bread & Roses"
FREE! the best labor films ever made screen at this series. On June 5th we feature "Bread & Roses" a feature movie whose story of immigrant janitors in LA is set against the backdrop of the Justice For Janitors campaign. Also screening will be "The 7,000" produced by Labor Beat Chicago, a piece that takes up Hotel worker's HERE Local 1 contract battle. "this video is very good" --Haskell Wexler, academy award winning cinematographer and director.
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June 5 (Saturday) - Protest / Demonstration
Seattle Solidarity Rally with June 5 National Anti-war demonstrations
Legal, non-violent, all ages welcome rally.
June 5 is a national day of action to Bring the Troops Home Now! in San Francisco and Washington DC. We will hold a local solidarity event here in Seattle for those that can't go to DC or SF. more...
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