Seattle (almost) Gets Revolutionary

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Saturday May 03, 2014 · 2:28 AM PDT

2014/05/03 · 02:28

Seattle just voted to raise the minimum wage to $15 dollars an hour. This is the exact wage that so many throngs of protesters nationwide were demanding for months now. Seattle has realized that with the high cost of living within their city, the former minimum wage was not only outdated, but terrifically insufficient. This is a local move, and local moves are what spread nationwide movements. Take the gay marriage issue for example. When localities get national attention for making major changes in policy, it opens up the conversation, and gives validity to the issue. Thank you Seattle for being the most progressive state so far on this issue, however there are problems...

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Monday April 21, 2014 · 11:56 PM PDT

2014/04/21 · 23:56

We began with the military industrial complex, and Zappa said it long ago, "Politics is the entertainment sector of the military industrial complex". In the 80's began the faux "war on drugs", aimed to further disenfranchise minorities and poor communities. This led to what we have now, the Prison Industrial Complex. Privatizing prisons is proof that privatizing everything is a terrible idea. Not everything should be run by the government of course, but certain services and resources should not be left to Corporations who's prime goal is profit. The prison system is one of those institutions in which the profit goal immediately renders said system corrupt.

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