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https://southseattleemerald.com/2024/05/12/doom-loop-words/

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A Guest column in The Needling by District 5 Seattle City Councilmember Cathy Moore

We live in extremely politically divisive times, and that’s why it’s more important than ever to ask for more civility by repeatedly publicly threatening to open a can of whoop-ass on anyone who disagrees with you, doesn’t immediately follow your orders like when you were a court judge, or—God forbid—holds a mirror up to your face. Here are my favorite ways to ask for more civility and why.

Rank-and-file Seattle police officers voted in favor of a new, partial three-year contract that, if approved by the Seattle City Council, will give them immediate retroactive raises totaling 23%.

The agreement, announced by Mayor Bruce Harrell on Monday, will make Seattle officers the highest paid in the state, leapfrogging them from 29th. A starting officer will make $103,000 a year, up from $83,000.

Negotiations are not finished, however. The agreement covers 2021, when the previous contract expired, through 2023. City negotiators and the Seattle Police Officers Guild left 2024 unresolved and called in a mediator with the Public Employment Relations Commission to help.

But I thought the police were defunded!! /s

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/11557205

When the state of Washington made it illegal for tribes to fish for salmon in their usual and accustomed places, it was a declaration of war. A landmark court case in 1974 would affirm the tribes’ treaty right to fish and establish them as managers of the resource, but the fate of salmon in the Pacific Northwest still hangs in the balance.

Screening at the Seattle International Film Festival at SIFF Uptown on Saturday, May 11, 2024 at 5 PM and Sunday, May 12 2024 at 1 PM, as well as available to stream between Monday, May 20 - Monday, May 27, 2024 through the SIFF website: https://www.siff.net/festival/fish-war

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1235707-fish-war

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/11456897

Congressman Adam Smith says ‘totalitarian’ protesters are ‘trying to silence anyone who dares to disagree with them’

Protesters calling for Israel to cease fire in its war with Hamas who have disrupted US public events and infrastructure are practicing “leftwing fascism” or “leftwing totalitarianism”, a senior US House Democrat said, adding that such protesters are “challenging representative democracy” and should be arrested.

“Intimidation is the tactic,” said Adam Smith of Washington state, the ranking Democrat on the House armed services committee. “Intimidation and an effort to silence opposition … I don’t know if there’s such a thing as leftwing fascism. If you want to just call it leftwing totalitarianism, then that’s what it is. It is a direct challenge to representative democracy now.”

https://southseattleemerald.com/2024/04/21/doom-loop-highway-protest/

World premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival, Mon May 13 at 6:30pm and Thu May 16 at 3:30pm at the Egyptian theater on Capitol Hill.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/11430109

Crack open a cold one with the epic story of Rainier Beer and the world-famous 1970s advertising campaign—designed by a small, up-and-coming agency with everything to prove—that put the Seattle-based brewing company on the map.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1275958-rainier-a-beer-odyssey

Hundreds of high school and college students across the Puget Sound region walked out of school Tuesday to protest Israel’s fighting in Gaza.

Some gathered outside their school’s front offices, where they listened to student leaders chant into megaphones. Others left school and flocked to Cal Anderson Park in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood to do the same. Anywhere from 20 to 150 students turned out at each of a dozen Seattle-area schools, but overall the protests were calm and low-key.

“We demand a free Palestine,” and “Free, free Palestine,” students chanted at Cal Anderson Park. They carried posters that read “Genocide is never justified” and “Cease-fire now” during a small march down streets in West Seattle.

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