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The Stand (Washington Labor News)

Rally with Seattle-area hotel workers on May Day
Author: David Groves

On International Workers Day, join hotel workers from the Seattle area at the Westin Seattle, Doubletree SeaTac as they demand a fair contract   SEATTLE and SEATAC — The Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO is urging all union members and supporters to celebrate May Day — International Workers’ Day — take taking action to support […]

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Seattle Times Politics

WA, feds upend plan to clean up one of nation’s most costly, dangerous radioactive sites
Author: Annette Cary

The agreement took nearly four years to negotiate and was made public this week.
As Seattle budget deficit grows, City Council begins spending review
Author: David Kroman

Inflation is the big driver of the money gap, but there are other factors. The result could be staff cuts, raising new money or repurposing funds from the payroll tax.

The Chronicle - Centralia

The Chronicle - April 30, 2024

Washington State News

Mariners, Braves meet again after playing an instant classic
(Photo credit: Stephen Brashear-USA TODAY Sports) What can the Atlanta Braves and Seattle Mariners possibly do for an encore Tuesday night when they return to the stage at T-Mobile Park? It'll be hard to top their performance on the opening night of their three-game series. The Braves' Max Fried and the Mariners' Bryce Miller both started with six hitless innings and Atlanta star Ronald Acuna Jr. provided some thrills b
Angels turn to Tyler Anderson in encounter vs. Phillies
(Photo credit: Kiyoshi Mio-USA TODAY Sports) Cole Tucker may not be the answer to all of the difficulties facing the Los Angeles Angels, but they'll take what they can get from the former first-round draft pick. Tucker likely will be in the starting lineup for a second straight game when the Angels host the Philadelphia Phillies in the second contest of their three-game series on Tuesday night in Anaheim, Calif. Tucker
Rangers' Jon Gray faces Nationals, looks for elusive first win
(Photo credit: Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports) Still in search of his first victory of the season, right-hander Jon Gray will take the mound for the Texas Rangers in their series opener with the Washington Nationals on Tuesday night in Arlington, Texas. Gray (0-1, 2.92 ERA) went 9-8 last season for the World Series champions but has yet to pick up a victory in five starts this season. He came close in his most recent outi

DemocracyNow!

Months After Israel Killed Gaza Poet Refaat Alareer, His Daughter & Infant Grandson Die in Airstrike
Author: webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)

An Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on Friday killed the eldest daughter and the infant grandson of the prominent Palestinian poet and past Democracy Now! guest Refaat Alareer, who himself was killed in an Israeli airstrike in December. Shaima Refaat Alareer was killed along with her husband and 2-month-old son while sheltering in the building of international relief charity Global Communities. Shaima had recently lamented on Facebook that her father never got to meet his grandson, writing, “I never imagined that I would lose you early even before you see him.” “Why is the state of Israel and its military targeting the families and relatives of those it has already assassinated and murdered?” asks Jehad Abusalim, a scholar, policy analyst and friend of Refaat Alareer and his family. “Israel seeks to eradicate, to destroy the social environment that fosters resistance and defiance. This environment produced figures like Refaat.”

Israeli Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov on Campus Protests, Weaponizing Antisemitism & Silencing Dissent
Author: webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)

As Biden administration and U.S. college and university administrators increasingly accuse peaceful pro-Palestinian protesters on school campuses of antisemitism, we speak with Brown University professor of Holocaust and genocide studies Omer Bartov, who visited the student Gaza solidarity encampment at UPenn alongside fellow Israeli historian Raz Segal. “There was absolutely no sign of any violence, of any antisemitism at all,” says Bartov, who warns antisemitism is being used to silence speech about Israel. “There’s politics, and there’s prejudice. And if we don’t make a distinction between the two, then what we are actually doing is enforcing a kind of silence over the policies that have been conducted by the Israeli government for a long time that ultimately culminated now in the utter destruction of Gaza.”

In Gaza Protest, Columbia Students Occupy Hamilton Hall, Site of Historic 1968 Takeover
Author: webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)

Columbia University students began occupying Hamilton Hall shortly after midnight Tuesday as the university moved to suspend students who joined Gaza solidarity protests, and renamed it Hind’s Hall, after Hind Rajab, a 6-year-old Palestinian girl killed by Israeli soldiers in Gaza in January. We look at how it was 56 years ago today, on April 30, 1968, that the hall was also the site of the historic student occupation by students who renamed the building “Nat Turner Hall at Malcolm X University.” We feature an archival newsreel about the 1968 occupation and our interviews with campus activists on the 40th anniversary of the action about how they were protesting Columbia’s connections to the military-industrial complex and racist development policies in Harlem.

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