Sound Transit CEO to privatize routes, bring in scabs Privatization leads to worse service and outcomes. This week Sound Transit CEO Peter Rogoff suggested privatizing a bus route and replacing union jobs with low-bid scabs. What’s good for the goose is not good for the gander though, as Rogoff haggled an 11 percent pay increase… Read more »
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The Hellhole – Week of 2/18
UW right-wing vandalizes monument to those who fought fascism in Spain (and many who died in the Holocaust) Fascists recognize how popular socialist policies are. It frightens them. Reactionaries at the University of Washington defaced a memorial to the Spanish Civil War, a struggle where anarchists and communists bravely fought dictator Franco’s rise to power… Read more »
The Hellhole – Week of 11/26
Rising tides won’t lift all boats California just contained its worst fire ever. As global climate refugees resettle in King County, the future shows that we’ll have the fires around us to deal with first, then the climate flood. It’s disgusting that countless lives will be lost on coasts and islands globally — especially with… Read more »
The Hellhole – Week of 9/10
Capitalism barrels forward, leaving refuse in its wake (literally), creating cycles of tremendous overproduction, destruction, and artificial scarcity to satisfy the investments of the top 1%, the capitalist class – but as long as they whitewash their deeds with charitable profitable giving who’s to say what’s bad right? This week we have stories of military… Read more »
Hellhole – Week of 8/6
People talk about inequality like it’s some sort of market aberration. It’s not. It’s just worker exploitation. This week we have stories about REAL estates, them public employee scabs, so-called “right to work,” and banks – what are they good fer? Seattle, more luxury apartments than sense As Jeff Stein pointed out this week in… Read more »
Hellhole – Week of 7/30
Life is too short to be spent in toil for the sole purpose of making a billionaire richer. This week we have stories about Jenny Durkan’s Technology Justice League, the Showbox Showdown, another big gift for billionaires, and that guy Bill Gates. Enter the Hellhole … The Future According to Jenny Durkan (AKA Seattle Superprime… Read more »
Hellhole Week of 7/16
Lonely, isolated, divided, and powerless – that’s how the capitalist class wants to keep us, realizing that our strength comes from being united in a community working toward mutual goals is the first step. We like to think of our little Hellhole as a community and this week we have an analysis of ICE and… Read more »