May Day Seattle: Top Civil Resistance Fashion Statements (PHOTOS)

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May Day has come and gone. The streets of Seattle have returned to their normal bearded, pale and busily apathetic ways. Still, we can't help but reminisce ... about some of the awesome looks that made yesterday's spate of civil protest and questionable anarchy so memorable.

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The Anarchists of Nostalgia

Categories: Civics 101

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Ashley Roe
As protests go, there was progress--a May Day of long marches and spirited speeches, smartly organized by a schedule easy to follow using high-tech handhelds, all of it coordinated by Tweets and text, then debated long afterwords by web commenters and Facebookers. Yet, in the middle, were the Luddites of protest, the tired old anarchists of nostalgia, with no point to make but violence, going to the old federal courthouse, then revisiting Niketown, with paint bombs, hammers, and rocks. Been there, done that.

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Occupy Amazon! Online Retailer's 'Price Check' App Unleashes the Fury of the 99 Percent

Categories: Civics 101

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It took less than a day for Amazon.com's new "Price Check" app to be attacked by critics as unsupportive of local bookstores and businesses (isn't that Amazon's whole game?). It took a little longer than a day for the Occupy movement to incorporate the app into its list of hateworthy corporate ploys.

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Rev. John Helmiere, Seattle Priest: Police Kept Punching Me and Punching Me

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Rev. John Helmiere says he told police that he came to the Port of Seattle protest because "I'm a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ, I believe another world is possible." That response, he says, came just after a cop threw him down and repeatedly punched him in the face.

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Comment of the Day: 'If You Want to Respect Your Local Politicians, Never Go to Work for Them'

Categories: Civics 101

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Today's Comment of the Day winner offers a bit of advice for potential job seekers and for people who give a crap what politicians do during their day-to-day.

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Seattle Anarchists Fail to Get Unions to Strike, Will Settle for Bicyclists

Categories: Civics 101

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Convincing an entire region's union port workers to strike is tough--especially if you're actually not in the union. Perhaps that's why local anarchists are toning down their demands that union members strike to something more manageable: A bike ride!

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Tale of Two Squats Leaves Central District's Anarchists Alone, Infuriating Neighborhood

Categories: Civics 101

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A few days ago, a local anarchists website posted eight handy tips for "how to occupy a vacant house." Tip one: a "smaller residential property in disrepair" has "greater long-term potential" than a commercial one. As if to prove the point is what you might call the tale of two squats.

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Garfield High School Students to Walk Out of Classrooms in Protest to Education Cuts

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At 12:30 p.m. today Garfield High School students will stand up and walk out of classrooms, en masse, making them the latest (and perhaps the youngest) additions to the growing movement of protestors against statewide budget cuts.

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Election 2011: Four Races Must be Recounted; Thousands of Ballots Tossed, 500,000 Not Cast

Categories: Civics 101

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8,000 failed the penmanship test.
Four county races face mandatory recounts today because of close votes in the November 8 election. And while there's no way to tell how a more robust turnout and voter accuracy might have affected those outcomes, 500,000 county voters didn't bother to return their ballots and more than 15,000 sent in votes that couldn't be verified, King County Elections reports.

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Longshoremen's Union Rejects Occupy Protestors' Call for Strike

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Keep your stupid suggestions to yourselves, thanks.
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union is not exactly known for backing away from a fight. But the feisty workers apparently draw the line at calls for strikes coming from out-of-state Occupy protestors.

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