Anti-gay group launches hit mailings against State Senator
The Family Policy Institute of Washington, organizer of the state’s campaign against same-sex marriage, has launched last minute hit mailings against State Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen, D-Camano, who in...
View ArticleDan Evans endorses R-74, Republicans in poll oppose it
Former three-term Republican governor and U.S. Senator Dan Evans has endorsed Referendum 74, which would make Washington the seventh state to legalize marriage between couples of the same sex. “As a...
View ArticleKen MacDonald, lawyer and fighter: An appreciation
Seattle lawyer Ken MacDonald picked his first civil rights fight in the 1930′s, with the fraternity at Dartmouth that he wanted to join. The fraternity did not permit African-Americans as members....
View ArticleUW cuts ties to Adidas, victory for students
University of Washington President Michael Young has terminated its ties to Adidas, responding to a student-generated protest over $1.8 million in severance pay owed to laid-off workers at a factor in...
View ArticleSen. Murray: Don’t throw native women under the bus
The U.S. Senate moved toward renewing and expanding the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) on Thursday, rejecting a Republican’s amendment that would have limited prosecution of non-Indians who commit...
View ArticleReject violence law — unfair to guys: Right-wing lobbies
Two high-profile conservative groups want Senate and House members to vote against a Senate bill to reauthorize the federal Violence Against Women Act, which is poised to pass Congress’ upper chamber...
View ArticleBig, bipartisan Senate vote on anti-violence bill
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday, by a bipartisan 78-22 vote, passed a renewal of the federal Violence Against Women, and sent it to the House where Republican leaders have refused to allow a floor vote on...
View ArticleTop Republicans embrace gay marriage
An expanding list of prominent Republicans, including a 2012 presidential candidate, have come out in favor of same-sex marriage and embraced a brief asking the Supreme Court to overturn California’s...
View ArticleAnti-violence bill on brink of Congress’ approval
After months spent blocking and trying to water down the legislation, Republican House leaders appear resigned to passage of a strong, bipartisan U.S. Senate bill that renews and expands the 1994...
View ArticleViolence bill passes; House Republicans cave
A strengthened, Senate-written Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday morning after lawmakers rejected a weaker version sponsored by Republican leaders....
View ArticleDREAMers are drug mules: Rep. King
A leading Republican opponent of immigration reform, Rep. Steve King of Iowa, has sparked division within his own party by saying that young emigres known as DREAMers are drug mules. King made his...
View ArticleHouse narrowly rejects bid to curb NSA surveillance
The U.S. House of Representatives, on a narrow 217-205 vote Wednesday night, rejected an amendment that would have prohibited the National Security Agency from secretly collecting vast amounts of phone...
View ArticleThe War on Thanksgiving: Where are the ‘pro-family’ forces?
The sight of “big box” stores opening their doors on Thanksgiving bespeaks an obvious, insidious objective: The bottom-line boys in America’s corporate boardrooms are out to destroy this holiday as a...
View ArticleScalia: Decision upholding Japanese-American internment was ‘wrong,’ but...
A 1944 U.S. Supreme Court decision, which upheld sending 100,000 Japanese-Americans to internment camps, was “wrong” but very likely will happen again in wartime, according to U.S. Supreme Court...
View ArticleNational poll shows strong majority favors gay marriage
Nearly 60 percent of Americans now believe same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, and 50 percent agree that they have a constitutional right to wed, according to a new Washington Post/ABC News...
View ArticleDisruptive protest, grandstanding publicity seekers trash King legacy
Two positive, often-inspiring Seattle marches, each featuring articulate young people, are — or should be — opportunities to raise the profile of and public support for needed social change. The first...
View ArticleA long march to LGBT equality: Employment, housing next stop in campaign to...
The triumph of marriage equality across America is not an end, but a step on the long path to equal rights, gay-lesbian-transgender rights supporters heard Tuesday at a symposium hosted at the...
View ArticleUW Human Rights Center will sue CIA for stonewalling information request on...
A University of Washington human rights project is suing the Central Intelligence Agency for refusing to declassify and turn over documents relating to the U.S. role in El Salvador’s civil war and...
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