Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with seattle www.salem-news.com 2010 Truck drivers at the Port of Seattle have walked off the job by the hundred, leaving lawmakers in a quandary. Drivers at several trucking companies that haul containers between the port and intermodal rail yards say the companies they contract with are paying them at less than the market rate. http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/truckers-seattle.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/truckers-seattle.php Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:34:00 PST At a time when U.S.-Iran tensions are the highest I have experienced in my lifetime, Danger Room of wired.com breaks a news story that a new US commando special operations team is operating near Iran. Meanwhile, a columnist in Lebanon writes that Syria increasingly looks like Libya. http://salem-news.com/articles/january232012/white-house-p.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january232012/white-house-p.php Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:47:00 PST After a modest round of wintry weather over the weekend, more snow, including a potentially historic winter storm will target the Pacific Northwest this week, with heavy accumulations expected, even in Seattle. In the Cascades of Washington and Oregon, snow will be measured in feet and along some western-facing slopes, it could take multiple yard sticks to total up the powder! http://salem-news.com/articles/january162012/seattle-wx-bd.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january162012/seattle-wx-bd.php Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:01:00 PST On 11 November 2011, the 93rd anniversary of the armistice of World War 1, a new movement to end human violence was launched around the world. 'The People's Charter to Create a Nonviolent World' was launched simultaneously in Australia, Malaysia, the Philippines and the United States and has already gained signatories in twenty-one countries. The aim of the Nonviolence Charter is to create a worldwide movement to end violence in all of its forms. http://salem-news.com/articles/december202011/global-peace.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december202011/global-peace.php Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:07:00 PST Occupy Portland begins Thursday at noon. Organizers of the event say they will gather in solidarity with the ongoing protest in New York City, Occupy Wall Street, and the growing number of cities whose people will no longer sit back watching corporate and special interests run their government. City and police officials from Portland say they are currently in dialogue with the group. They say their goal is to allow free speech and ensure public safety. http://salem-news.com/articles/october032011/occupy-portland-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october032011/occupy-portland-tk.php Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:57:00 PDT Wall Street protesters will soon have the protection of U.S. Marines who will form a human wall between the crowds of tireless protesters and the increasingly unpopular New York cops who continue to appear on YouTube in scenes that twist the insides of patriotic Americans. People continue to learn more about Wall Street and NY City and the nature of the place. Americans watched the players on Wall Street shove the nation's future into their wallets. http://salem-news.com/articles/october032011/marines-wall-st-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october032011/marines-wall-st-tk.php Mon, 03 Oct 2011 00:41:00 PDT Protesters in Seattle gathered at Westlake Park on Saturday morning to protest against corporations influence on the government. More than 100 people participated in “Occupy Seattle,” according to the event’s organizers. “It’s amazing the diversity and the singular voice that we have,” said one protester. http://salem-news.com/articles/october022011/wall-st-seattle-ed.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october022011/wall-st-seattle-ed.php Sun, 02 Oct 2011 20:35:00 PDT In an odd commemoration of the Seattle Hempfest's upcoming twentieth anniversary, organizers of the "protestival" have filed a lawsuit in United States District Court against the City of Seattle. The biggest hemp festival in the United States is seeking relief under the U.S. Constitution and the Washington Constitution in an effort to obtain a 2011 permit to produce the annual free speech rally to reform America’s laws prohibiting cannabis. http://salem-news.com/articles/february142011/hempfest-lawsuit.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february142011/hempfest-lawsuit.php Mon, 14 Feb 2011 01:20:00 PST Marc Emery is a name that is becoming synonymous with American injustice. Sometimes that old adage “truth is stranger than fiction” rings true, as in this case of a Canadian businessman and political activist. His greatest crime was to sell cannabis seeds. Yes, seeds. First, a little background. http://salem-news.com/articles/september242010/marc-emery.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september242010/marc-emery.php Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:46:00 PDT A long time has passed since Americans witnessed the flight of a zeppelin; an airship that uses an inner superstructure for support inside of an 'envelope'. A rare chance exists in Oregon for enthusiasts to actually ride aboard a zeppelin, in fact it is the largest such craft in the entire world. http://salem-news.com/articles/august192010/zeppelin-ride-jf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august192010/zeppelin-ride-jf.php Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:11:00 PDT The Hearst Corp. announced Monday that it would stop publishing the 146-year old newspaper, Seattle's oldest business, and cease delivery to more than 117,600 weekday readers. The company, however, said it would maintain seattlepi.com, making it the nation's largest daily newspaper to shift to an entirely digital news product. "Tonight we'll be putting the paper to bed for the last time," Editor and Publisher Roger Oglesby told a silent newsroom Monday morning. "But the bloodline will live on." http://salem-news.com/articles/march162009/pi_online_3-16-09.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march162009/pi_online_3-16-09.php Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:08:00 PDT In early December, Barack Obama invited Americans to participate in an unprecedented, bottom-up approach to government. Visitors to the President-elect’s official website, Change.gov, were able to submit questions and vote on which questions should take priority for the new administration. More than a dozen of the top 50 questions called for amending America’s drug policies, with inquiries ranging from availability of doctor-recommended medical marijuana to the economic impact of continuing to arrest and incarcerate millions of people for drug offenses. http://salem-news.com/articles/december302008/leap_opinion_12-30-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december302008/leap_opinion_12-30-08.php Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:04:00 PST