A Tacoma police patrol car was vandalized early today parked outside the officer's North End home, the department reported.

The car's windows were smashed out and three of the tires slashed. The vandals spraypainted the rear panel and trunk area with the words, "Oscar Grant was here," Tacoma police spokesman Mark Fulghum said.

The officer interrupted the vandals, who ran off. A police dog searched the area but didn't find the suspects, Fulghum said.

The vandals were described as men wearing hooded sweatshirts. The patrol car was towed to Tacoma police headquarters for processing, Fulghum said.

Maria and her family lived in a building that had water seeping into the walls, causing huge amounts of black mold to grow. Maria, who cleans houses for a living, kept wiping the mold away, but almost immediately it would grow back again. She reported the problem to the landlord, a company that owns several large properties in Seattle. Instead of dealing with the problem, the head of property management dismissed Maria's concerns and insulted her about her poor English. Maria's kids started getting sick and having to go to the hospital with respiratory problems.

Subject: Lawful First Amendment Activities and You

We know you monitor this website on a regular basis and we would like to communicate directly to you. The report you issued on March 26th 2010 (see extract below) on recent efforts by law-abiding citizens to compile information from various Washington State law enforcement agencies cannot pass without comment. You have repeatedly attempted to characterize the lawful first amendment activities of citizens as something nefarious or with ulterior motives. You pass this off as "analysis" and "warning" as a means to inflate your true value. Your attempts are then regurgitated and placed cut and paste into other daily summaries across the land. You've taken the art of pre-criminalizing to a new level Mr Chesbro.

Factors of our society such as patriarchy -a family, community, or system that is governed and dominated by men- and the concept of human capital places each one of us in a submissive position in our daily lives. Whether woman, queer, person of color, or poor we are either victimized, criminalized, or pacified by the dominant culture. Most of the time this goes unnoticed, and is acknowledged as “just the way it is.” There is no solution in perpetuating this sentiment, or merely replacing those who are dominant over others. There is no satisfaction in relying on politicians and the police. Within their existence and infrastructure, they will always be at the top and we will keep sinking lower into the their trenches.

For Immediate Release
May 24^th, 2010

On April 8th, 2010, 29 individuals were arrested in Olympia, WA while taking part in an unpermitted march against police brutality. This march, like many others in cities along the west coast that day, took place in response to several recent and horrendous examples of police brutality in the west coast states. These marches were a part of the West Coast Days of Action Against State Violence on April 8th and 9th, which were anonymously organized to rally people to speak out against these atrocities and others like them.

We took to the streets yet again last night (4/26). This was an anarchist police abolition march, which meant no reformist chants and no holding back.

Waste Management Sanitation Workers who service King and Snohomish County will return to work unconditionally at midnight to prevent a public health crisis and to minimize service disruptions to area businesses and residents.

“The public comes first,” said Ewart Grove Jr., a 25-year Waste Management employee. “We won’t stand by and let Waste Management break federal labor laws, but we also won’t let this company hold our community hostage to its illegal actions.”

Union representatives expect seven hundred area sanitation workers will resume normal operations Friday morning to catch up on the backlog created by yesterday’s work stoppage.

On Thursday April 8, students, workers, and instructors welcomed an unfamiliar face to a publicly advertised meeting for a campus-wide strike May 3rd.  A woman who identified herself simply as “Tani" described herself as an "alum" of UW still paying back student loans who was passionate about the cuts. She also said that her father worked with Waste Management and she was in the meeting to find out what the May 3rd strike committee was involved in with regards to the Teamsters' recent call for a strike.