SA Yard Sale Fundraiser

Do you have anything you want to get rid of that we can sell at a yard sale?

We are holding our annual yard sale fundraiser to send young activists to an educational social justice conference in Europe. Please donate any items you would like to clear out of your home, or if you would like to support youth activism and social justice! And please pass this onto anyone you know who might want to clear things out of their homes.

HOW TO DONATE ITEMS:

Anything that would sell for as little as $0.50 can be dropped off at anytime on my porch in Wallingford, Seattle at 4418 2nd Ave NE.

If you have items that would sell for over $25.00, email us back or call Joe at (206) 595-0474 to see if one of our members with a car or truck can pick them up.

The yard sale will be on Saturday, June 14 from 9 AM - 2:30 PM in Ballard at 6516 3rd Ave NW (cross street: NW 65th Street). You can drop off items to be sold then, and please come shopping! Our rain date is the next Saturday, June 21st.

WHO WE ARE:

Socialist Alternative along with Youth Against War and Racism have organized numerous walkouts of hundreds of students against the war and military recruitment in schools. When the Tukwila School Board tried to fire 6 Tukwila district teachers for supporting their students in their walkout, we mobilized community support to defend all the teachers' jobs and the principal was forced to resign instead!

We also succeeded in pressuring the Seattle School Board to pass one of the strongest policies against military recruitment in schools in August 2007. Recruiters used to come as they please; now they are only allowed into Seattle public schools twice a year (although we really need people to make sure this policy is being enforced).

We are a multiracial organization with active members involved in the labor movement and other social justice movements, we have weekly educational activist meetings, we publish the newspaper Justice, and we are in solidarity with the Committee for a Workers' International which has sister organizations in 37 countries around the world. For more info: www.SocialistAlternative.org

Thanks for your support!

Ralph Nader in Tacoma

Tacoma SA Proudly Presents the Following Event:

Ralph Nader speaks in Tacoma!
Wednesday, May 14th
1:30 PM
Tacoma Community College
Building#3
6501 S. 19th Street
Tacoma 98466
$10 contribution/ $5 student/low-income (No one turned away)

Why support Nader?
A recent poll showed 81% of Americans think the country is headed on the wrong track. Obama has inspired millions of people by speaking out against the war and claiming to refuse money from corporate lobbyists. It's clear ,the overwhelming majority of Americans are yearning for a change from eight years of Bush's corporate war-mongering. But the question is: Can the Democrats deliver the change they are promising?

Beneath Obama's and Clinton's rhetoric, their actual records reveal that they have repeatedly voted to keep the troops in Iraq, and they have received millions upon millions of dollars from big corporations. Come hear Ralph Nader speak and read these articles about why you should support the strongest independent, pro-worker campaign and help us build a movement to end corporate control of our society!

Excellent Articles:
1. By Matt Gonzalez: 'The Obama Craze: Count Me Out' on Counterpunch

2. 'Does Obama Deserve Your Support? Ten Things You Should Know'

3. 'The Obama Mirage: Behind the Rhetoric of Hope and Change'

4. 'Break with the Two Parties of Big Business! Build Nader's Antiwar, Anti-Corporate Campaign'

5. 'Is a Nader vote a wasted vote? The Case against Lesser-Evilism'


We need your help, especially to spread the word:
1. Pass the news on to friends, family, co-workers, classmates right now! Post this announcement on other websites!

2. Lead a team of volunteers to go postering or pass out leaflets together. Pick a time and place you want to meet, bring tape and/or staple hammers, and call Ramy at (206) 293-8389 to get volunteers to go postering together.

3. Let the media know Nader is coming to town and urge them to cover Nader's speech and to interview Nader while he is in town. The media can contact Nader's media team through www.VoteNader.org

4. Volunteer to collect signatures to get Nader on the WA State ballot. Contact Mike Gillis at 206-755-4262 or mikedgillis@hotmail.com

5. Help us find a volunteer who could provide American Sign Language interpretation for Nader's speech for at least 1 person who requested this. Email jessiquadown@gmail.com if you find a volunteer.

Workers’ Assembly on Immigration

Tacoma Socialist Alternative endorses the following event:

Workers’ Assembly on Immigration

Fri & Sat, April 11th and 12th, 2008
(4:30 pm to 8:00 pm Friday, 9:30 am to 5:00 pm Saturday)
The Evergreen State College Tacoma Campus
1210 Sixth Avenue Tacoma, Washington

The Assembly is for workers to talk to one another about immigration, how it affects working families in all of our communities, and what we can do to stop exploitation on the job and in the streets.

“How are children in immigrant communities dealing with the ongoing terrorizing of their families by some municipal law enforcement and ICE. How can community allies help?”

“How can workers, immigrant communities and their supporters respond to ICE raids?”

“How can we overcome stereotypes and myths about each others’ communities to create a stronger power base and solidarity?”

*Childcare and Transportation will be available -please call for more information

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT e-mail bocanegj@evergreen.edu

Assembly Organizers: Labor Center at The Evergreen State College and El Comité Pro Reforma Migratoria y Justicia Social

Sponsors: American Friends Service Committee, A. Philip Randolph Institute, Laborer’s Northwest Regional Organizing Coalition, Service Employees Int'l Union Local 6, Washington State Labor Council, Teamsters 117, UW Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, MEChA SU, NO! SIR, IUPAT District Council 5, CASA Latina, Orgullo Pu’repecha, MEChA TESC, UFCW 21, LCLAA, UNITE-HERE Local 8, WPEA UFCW Local 365, OPEIU Local 8, Martin Luther King Jr. County Labor Council, Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, Which Way Forward Committee and Other Community-Based Workers' Organizations.

"The strongest bond of human sympathy, outside of the family relation, should be one uniting all working people, of all nations, and tongues, and kindreds." - Abraham Lincoln

This Monday at the Mandolin Cafe

Come to Socialist Alternative Meeting at 6.30pm,
Mandolin Cafe, Tacoma
www.themandolincafe.com
3923 S 12th St.
(Socialist Alternative meeting is held at table at back of the cafe.)

Guest Speaker on the struggle for socialism in Bolivia:

In the worldwide struggle against poverty and oppression, Latin America is clearly at the forefront. From Venezuela to Chile, the people of the region have shown enormous courage and sacrifice to fight to challenge imperialism and the corporations that dominate their lives. Bolivia is no exception. With mass strikes, protests, and the election of a left-wing president, Evo Morales, the country has become an inspiration to others. Today the revolution is at a crossroads, with workers and peasants searching for a way to take the struggle forward and defend themselves against growing the counter-revolution. Come hear an eyewitness account of the struggles on the ground in Bolivia and the prospects of a revolutionary movement with significant international implications.

About the speaker:

Recognizing the international significance of the rising tide of struggles of poor and indigenous people sweeping Latin America, Adam gave up the comforts of life in the U.S., left his family and friends, and moved to Cochabamba, Bolivia where the struggle is most advanced. As the impoverished Bolivian people know only too well, building mass movements against the poverty and oppression caused by capitalism and Western imperialism is a daunting task, but one that Adam has nonetheless dedicated his life to. Not even deportation and physical threats from reactionaries and semi-fascist groups have deterred Adam from supporting the struggle of Bolivia's poor and working class.

American Blackout: as a reminder: We are showing: American Blackout this Saturday in building #15 at TCC at 12pm. It describes how the Democratic Party leadership undemocratically kicked out Cynthia McKinney from her congressional seat due to her opposition to the Iraq war and calls for further investigation into 9-11.

National Speaking Tour: Revolucion en Latin America

2 Dates in Seattle!

National Speaking Tour:
Revolución en Latinoamérica
Eyewitness to the struggle

SPEAKER:

Adam Ziemkowski

· Member of the Committee for a Workers' International, Bolivia

· Editor and contributor to La Chispa newspaper (Bolivia)

Thursday, March 27th
7 PM
"Meeting Room"
White Center Library
11220 16th S.W., Seattle, 98146
Directions: http://www.kcls.org/whitecenter/directions.cfm

Wednesday, April 2

7 PM

Seattle University

Bannan Building, Room 402

12^th Ave. and E. Columbia St.

http://www.seattleu.edu/home/campus_community/visit_campus/campus_maps/main_campus_map/su_map_campus.pdf

In the worldwide struggle against poverty and oppression, Latin America is clearly at the forefront. From Venezuela to Chile, the people of the region have shown enormous courage and sacrifice to fight to challenge imperialism and the corporations that dominate their lives.

Bolivia is no exception. With mass strikes, protests, and the election of a left-wing president, Evo Morales, the country has become an inspiration to others. Today the revolution is at a crossroads, with workers and peasants searching for a way to take the struggle forward and defend themselves against growing the counter-revolution. Come hear an eyewitness account of the struggles on the ground in Bolivia and the prospects of a revolutionary movement with significant international implications.

Recognizing the international significance of the rising tide of struggles of poor and indigenous people sweeping Latin America, Adam gave up the comforts of life in the U.S., left his family and friends, and moved to Cochabamba, Bolivia where the struggle is most advanced. As the impoverished Bolivian people know only too well, building mass movements against the poverty and oppression caused by capitalism and Western imperialism is a daunting task, but one that Adam has nonetheless dedicated his life to. Not even deportation and physical threats from reactionaries and semi-fascist groups have deterred Adam from supporting the struggle of Bolivia's poor and working class.

**items directly from the Bolivian struggle will be available for a donation. Donations will go to help the work of the Committee for a Workers' International**

Fort Lewis G.I. Rights Rally

Tacoma Socialist Alternative endorses the following event:

Soldier, You’re Not Alone
GI Rights Rally
Saturday, March 22nd
Noon-4 PM

Harry Todd Park
8720 N. Thorne Lane SW, Lakewood
Directions: Take I-5 Exit 123
Go East on N. Thorne Ln. to park

Family fun—kids’ concert, crafts,
face-painting, puppet show
GI Resource Tables
Personal Testimonies
Music & Speakers
March & Vigil

Speakers include:
Chanan Suarez Diaz, IVAW
Seth Manzel, GI Voice
Maggie Pondolfino, MFSO
Steve Kofahl, AFGE

GIvoice.org for more info

Event sponsors: Iraq Veterans Against the War—Seattle chapter, GI Voice, Veterans For Peace—Tacoma chapter, Oregon Military Families Speak Out, Olympia Movement for Justice & Peace, Peace Action Coalition Tacoma, Tacoma Fellowship of Reconciliations, Tacoma Students for a Democratic Society, United For Peace of Pierce County

Endorsements: Industrial Workers of the World, International Socialist Organization, Socialist Alternative, Socialist Freedom Party, Pax Christi, Movement Against War & Occupation (Vancouver, B.C.)