FRIDAY, APRIL 14  ■  Janitors' kids protest in Seattle for affordable health care

Pacific Northwest news:
■  In today’s Seattle Times -- Garbage strike next week? -- Drivers (IBT 174) will gather at their union hall in Tukwila on Easter to review the status of contract talks and decide whether to strike.
■  In today’s Tri-City Herald -- Stability key for Hanford, Gregoire says -- The vit plant, and the rest of Hanford, need stability, commitment from the federal government and stable funding, she says.
■  In today’s Seattle P-I -- 747-8 model turning heads -- Although Boeing has yet to announce a customer, two key airlines in Europe and Asia are seriously considering the plane.
■  In today’s Seattle Times -- Snohomish health district managers' salaries too low? -- As contracts continue to garner wage increases, some union employees make as much as their managers.

Immigration news: 
■  In today’s Washington Post -- Immigrant groups split on boycott -- The coalition of grassroots groups that has staged huge rallies on behalf of illegal immigrants is torn over an ambitious next step, a massive job and economic boycott some are calling "A Day Without Immigrants."
■  Today from AP -- Latinos fired after leaving work for Seattle rally -- IUPAT files a grievance after Laitala Enterprises, a painting contractor (phone: 425-486-6696), refuses to reinstate them.
■  "Blame Game" back in fashion; today from AP -- Bush, Democratic leader clash over immigration

Political news:  
■  In Thursday’s Walla Walla U-B -- Only voters can break the cycle of waste in Congress (editorial) -- This from a paper in the district of freshman Rep. Cathy McMorris, who has voted for every budget bill backed by her party leaders -- in the process, driving America into a fiscal ditch.
■  In today’s Washington Post -- 2002 N.H. scandal shadows GOP anew -- Republican operatives, in contact with the White House, jammed Democratic GOTV phone lines on Election Day.
■  In the Spokesman-Review -- Cheney to speak at Fairchild -- After another compulsory-attendance military rah-rah event, the VP is off to a fund-raiser for Mike "Friends in Low Places" McGavick where -- for $2,100 -- you, too, can get your picture with the man less popular than Stalin. 

National news:
■  Today at AFL-CIO Now -- Oprah highlights life on minimum wage -- The show today explores the struggles of working families trying to get by on a federal minimum wage that hasn't increased since 1997 and gives a full-time worker just $206 a week -- before taxes. Learn more.
■  In today’s LA Times -- Safeway CEO Burd's pay up 42% -- His pay rose 39% the previous year. Burd led Safeway into the 4˝-month Southern California strike in 2003. A year later, the company had declared strike-related losses of over $320 million -- three times the projected cost of the contract -- and the company's stock hit an all-time low (it has since returned to 2003 levels). Burd cashed $13 million in personal stock options in 2003 before the strike began.
■  Today from AP -- Delta, pilots union reach tentative deal that could avert strike
■  Today from AP -- Ford to cut 4,300 jobs, close two plants in Norfolk, VA and St. Paul, MN

Last Throes update:
■  In today’s Washington Post -- 17 Iraqi officers are killed in Ambush of police convoy
■  In today’s NY Times -- More retired generals call for Rumsfeld's resignation -- Says one who led ground troops in Iraq: "I do not believe Secretary Rumsfeld is the right person to fight (the "war on terrorism") based on his absolute failures in managing the war against Saddam in Iraq."
■  Today from AP -- White House defends Rumsfeld tenure -- "Rummy's doin' a heck of a job."

THURSDAY, APRIL 13  ■  Union-supported Medco Health Solutions locks out USW staff -- CALL TO ACTION: Please contact Medco and urge an end to the company's illegal lockout. 

If-You-Read-Nothing-Else-Today-Read-This news:  
■  In today’s Seattle Times -- This nation's path to fiscal ruin (David Broder column) -- The real difference between the money the U.S. government received and the obligations it added in the last year was $760 billion, not the $319 billion it reported. That's because the government has been running up bills -- notably the promises of pensions and health care benefits for military veterans and millions of other retirees -- without putting the obligations on the books. The $760 billion ONE-YEAR deficit "amounts to $156,000 of debt for every man, woman and child in America.  For a family, it's like having a $750,000 mortgage -- and no house."

Immigration news: 
■  In today’s Seattle Times -- Latinos fired for leaving work early to attend Seattle rally -- The workers'  union (IUPAT) files a grievance after Laitala Enterprises, a Monroe-based painting contractor, refuses to reinstate them. For more information, call Laitala at 425-486-6696.
■  In today’s LA Times -- Most favor tighter border control and guest-worker plan -- By a solid 2-1 margin, Americans prefer a comprehensive approach like that proposed in the Senate to an enforcement-only strategy, which the House of Representatives approved in December.

Pacific Northwest news:
■  In today’s Yakima H-R -- Growers, union hail new agreement for Global Horizons, UFW -- If the state reinstates Global Horizons' license, there could be up to 3,000 unionized farm workers in Washington state this year, according to the UFW and Global.
■  In today’s Tri-City Herald -- Sen. Cantwell hears Hanford workers' pension worries -- Hanford workers and labor leaders ask for equal pensions for longtime workers at the nuclear reservation.
■  In the new Seattle Weekly -- Union doer -- David Freiboth, the new head of the Martin Luther King, Jr. County Labor Council, plans to rebuild the county's big political machine.
■  In today’s Spokesman-Review -- Firefighter faced charges -- The Spokane firefighter who resigned last month after having on-duty sex with a 16-year-old girl previously sent pictures of himself engaged in sex acts with other women over the Internet while at work, according to city records.
■  In today’s Spokesman-Review -- Right to know: Embarrassment doesn't trump public records law (editorial) -- Public employees and their unions could save everybody a lot of money if they'd just accept what the courts are telling them: Exceptions to public records statutes are rare.
■  In today’s Seattle P-I -- Guardians of disabled sue DSHS after forced move from Fircrest
■  In today’s Everett Herald -- $1.6 billion Brightwater sewage treatment plant breaks ground
■  In today’s Tri-City Herald -- Boise Cascade OKs $72 million investment at its Wallula paper mill
■  In today’s News Tribune -- NASCAR track nears a flag -- A company’s push to build a speedway in Kitsap County could end if state lawmakers don’t appear eager to help finance the project.
■  In today’s Everett Herald -- Wal-Mart seeks out its friends -- Fliers go out in the Arlington, Marysville and Mill Creek areas seeking support for proposed stores.
■  In today’s Seattle Times -- Give Gregoire her due (Balter column) -- Her take-charge attitude (on the Alaskan Way Viaduct issue) is a hallmark of how she has governed the last several months... she is bushwhacking through thorny issues with forcefulness and aplomb.
■  In an Olympian blog -- When states privatize -- Florida is suing its human-services contractor after problems ranging from state employee identity theft to unauthorized access of confidential information about 100,000 state employees, including Gov. Jeb Bush himself.

National news:  
■  In today’s Detroit News -- UAW loses 11% of its members -- The union drops below its post-World War II low as automakers and major manufacturers continue to bleed blue-collar jobs.
■  In today’s Cleveland P-D -- Labor merger replaces Cleveland AFL-CIO -- The merged central labor council is part of a statewide reorganization in Ohio that consolidates 36 labor councils into 22.
■  In today’s NY Time -- The Trojan pension bill (editorial) -- The House's pension bill has become a grab bag of bad tax ideas designed not to spur retirement savings, but to make the rich richer.

$3 Gas and CEO Pay news:
■  Out with the old, in today's NY Times -- Exxon chairman got retirement package worth $400 million
■  In with the new, in today's LA Times -- Exxon CEO's pay package up 33% to $13 million in 2005
■  In today’s NY Times -- A cozy arrangement (editorial) -- Runaway CEO pay matters because top executives are snatching more than their fair share of corporate proceeds. The process that led to these out-of-kilter salaries has a chilling resemblance to other recent corporate scandals.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12  ■  Employee Free Choice Act is 5 co-sponsors shy of majority -- The WSLC urges Reichert, McMorris and Hastings to back labor law reform. So can you! 

Immigration news: 
■  In today’s Seattle Times -- Stunning rally turnout credited to word-of-mouth -- Seattle police: "This was one of the largest in recent years and certainly the most efficient and the most peaceful. They weren't trying to take over downtown. It was a fantastic, peaceful voicing of opinion."
■  In today’s SF Chronicle -- Rallies have House legislators shifting positions on immigration bill
■  In today’s NY Times -- People power (editorial) -- Whether the rallies on Monday's "national day of action" leave you inspired or unnerved, they are impossible to ignore.
■  In today’s Olympian -- Sen. Cantwell hopes for compromise on immigration legislation
■  In today’s NY Times -- Kennedy tactics on immigration vex Democrats -- His drive to strike a deal with Republicans is making some in his party nervous. They worry he'll cede too much and the end product will fall short on the guest worker and citizenship provisions most Democrats favor.

Pacific Northwest news:
■  In today’s Everett Herald -- Teamsters Local 174 authorizes strike at Boeing -- Truck and bus drivers could strike at midnight Thursday, but a Boeing spokesman expects a settlement.
■  In today’s King Co. Journal -- Garbage strike (IBT 174) growing less likely -- Agreement has been reached on work hours and overtime, but health benefits remain on the negotiating table.
■  In today’s Everett Herald -- Brightwater plant to break ground -- After 8 years of studies, protests and meetings, ground will officially be broken today for the $1.6 billion sewage treatment plant.
■  In today’s News Tribune -- Who will take helm of foot ferries? -- King and Kitsap counties are trying to figure out how to finance regional subsidies to keep the money-losing runs afloat.
■  In today’s Everett Herald -- China's 80-jet order of 737s is secured
■  In today’s Spokesman-Review -- Union, S-R argue sides in release of firehouse report
■  In yesterday's Columbian -- Bush budget plan would trim worker training -- Cuts would slash the S.W. Washington Workforce Development Council's budget by 24% over a two-year period.

Global Horizons news:
■  In today’s Seattle P-I -- Guest farm workers get a contract -- The UFW signs a contract with embattled Global Horizons that promises to improve the lives of temporary farm workers and possibly help the company regain its right to operate in Washington state.
■  Today from AP -- Farm labor union, guest worker company reach pact 
■  In today’s LA Times -- Farm labor contractor, union in pact -- Owner hopes the deal will encourage growers to sign with Global Horizons and he's "glad to develop a partnership" with the UFW.

Political news:
■  In an Olympian blog -- WFSE Local 443 seeks national conservative caucus for AFSCME
■  In today’s Seattle Times -- Stevens visit makes a point -- Alaska senator raises cash for McGavick, making good on his threat to punish Sen. Cantwell for leading the opposition to Arctic oil drilling.
■  In today’s Seattle P-I -- Passing the hat in the "GOP Welfare State" (Connelly column) -- McGavick climbs into the political bed of Alaska's crooked, crony-infested congressional delegation.
■  A related story today from AP -- No-bid federal contracts favored Alaskan firms, audit finds

National news:  
■  In today’s LA Times -- Deal reached to let hundreds of security guards unionize -- SEIU calls the pact an opening salvo in a campaign to organize an estimated 10,000 security guards, most of them African Americans, who work in commercial office buildings throughout L.A. County.
■  In today’s NY Times -- A health fix that is not fantasy (column) -- The reality is that a national health care system will remain a fantasy as long as most employers offer health insurance, and the  Massachusetts plan gives companies a way to drop coverage without appearing brutish.
■  In today’s NY Times -- Evaluating doctors with Medicare data (editorial) -- The federal Medicare program is sitting on a trove of information that could help employers and patients decide which doctors provide the best service at the most reasonable cost.
■  Today from AP -- Wal-Mart opens books on diversity -- Says WakeUpWalMart.com spokesman: "If Wal-Mart was serious about diversity, it would hire independent auditors.. and finally release the hard data about what Wal-Mart pays its women and minority workers.''
■  Today from Reuters -- Regulators seen as leaning toward limits on a Wal-Mart bank
■  In today’s Seattle P-I -- Merit and money (editorial) -- CEO pay and corporate success aren't linked.
■  In today’s Seattle Times -- Pay and rewards: CEO compensation out of kilter (editorial)

Last Throes update:
■  In today’s NY Times -- Deaths of U.S. soldiers climbs again in Iraq -- At least 33 American troops have been killed so far this month, already surpassing U.S. military deaths for all of March.
■  Iraq casualty report -- U.S. soldiers killed: 2,359 -- U.S. soldiers killed since Bush's photo op announcing "Mission Accomplished:" 2,222 -- Iraqi body count: 34,030 to 38,164.
■  In today’s Spokesman-Review -- Rep. Cathy McMorris says war in Iraq is right -- "Iraq is better off and we are better off because Saddam is behind bars," she says, adding that it's important for U.S. troops to stay to prevent Iraq from falling under the control of a new dictator.
■  Today at Horses Ass blog -- Sen. Maria Cantwell: "Bring our troops home"

TUESDAY, APRIL 11  ■  More than 25,000 march in Seattle for immigrants' rights
■  In today’s Seattle Times -- Immigration rally floods Seattle streets -- They kept coming -- and coming... By the time the 2-mile march ended, police estimated 25,000 people had participated, far more than organizers had predicted. One carried a simple sign: "The Giant has Awaken."
■  In today’s News Tribune-- "It's our time:" Immigrants rally for rights, reform
■  In today’s Everett Herald -- Hundreds of immigrants in Mount Vernon rally to stay
■  In today’s Yakima H-R -- Immigration forum participants in Yakima urged to stay informed
■  In today’s NY Times -- Immigrants rally in scores of cities for legal status -- The rallies, whose mood was largely festive rather than angry, were the latest in response to a House-approved bill that would speed up deportations, tighten border security and criminalize illegal immigrants.
■  In today’s Washington Post -- "We decided not to be invisible any more" 
■  In today’s Seattle P-I -- Immigration reforms not likely this year -- But some in Congress hope "tempers will cool" during the two-week break and lawmakers will return to craft a compromise.
■  In today’s Oregonian -- Immigration reform can't wait any longer (editorial)
■  In today’s News Tribune -- House immigration bill deserves a veto threat from Bush (editorial)

Also today:  ■  Global Horizons, UFW sign historic pact on guest workers
■  In today’s NY Times -- UFW set to announce first national contract for guest workers -- UFW: "This is huge, because we're setting a whole new standard of rights and benefits for guest workers... the most exploitable and vulnerable workers short of slaves in the United States." The company signed the union contract in part to help improve its image after Washington State revoked its license to do business there because of violations alleged by state investigators.
■  In today’s Yakima H-R -- Union, contractor form curious coalition -- It was only months ago that the UFW was leading the criticism against Global Horizons' recruiting and employment practices.

Boeing news:
■  In today’s King Co. Journal -- Boeing truckers (IBT 174) authorize strike (brief) -- Walkout could happen as soon as midnight Thursday if negotiations for a new contract are not successful.
■  Today from Bloomberg -- China Eastern airline signs $924 million order for 16 737s
■  In today’s LA Times -- Boeing shares rally to record levels on China order optimism
■  Today from AP -- Machinists union OKs new contract with Lockheed Martin -- Members get a  $2,000 bonus and 4-3-3% wage increases; pay more for health care but expenses are capped.

Enron news: 
■  In today’s Seattle P-I -- Enron settlement assailed by state political figures
■  In today’s NY Times -- Proposed Enron settlement would seal some documents -- FERC aims to bar public access to most of the e-mails, documents and audiotapes, like the one where Enron traders boasted of cheating customers, mocked as "poor grandmothers."
■  In today’s Everett Herald -- Enron keeps working full time on con job (editorial) -- Are you fuming about what Enron is trying to pull, with the feds' help? You should be. Fortunately, local PUD officials and Sen. Maria Cantwell are continuing to fight efforts to let Enron off the hook.

Other Pacific Northwest news:
■  In today’s Seattle Times -- Air traffic controllers predict mass exit -- Five days after the FAA asked Congress to settle its long-running contract dispute, Seattle-area controllers predict a massive wave of retirements if the FAA's most recent contract proposal takes effect.
■  In today’s Orlando Sentinel -- Air traffic controllers fear impasse in national contract talks
■  In today’s News Tribune -- Sawmills lobby in D.C. for a tax break -- Weyerhaeuser and other timber companies say a tax may force them to move to lower-cost locales outside the U.S.
■  In yesterday's Walla Walla U-B -- Kennewick's grab for VA hospital is bad for veterans (editorial)
■  In yesterday’s Olympian -- Reinstating state workers fired over union dues is a slow process
■  In today’s LA Times -- Eyeing port unrest in Vancouver, BC -- To avoid a repeat of a strike that idled Canada's busiest port for five weeks last summer, officials in Vancouver have borrowed a strategy pioneered in Southern California: extending the hours that terminal gates are open.
■  In today’s Seattle P-I -- Homeland Security Alert! Someone is subverting U.S. port security! (Horsey cartoon) -- Wal-Mart: "Hey, we're patriots... as long as it doesn't cost us anything."

Health Care news:  
■  At AFLCIO.org -- Sweeney: Massachusetts individual health plan mandate is "misguided" 
■  In today’s Seattle P-I -- Is the cure mandatory health insurance? (Virgin column) -- A potential source of a push for substantive change, one that heretofore hasn't been much involved, is the individual American. In an odd sort of way, the Massachusetts plan might actually get them in the game.
■  In today’s NY Times -- Employers push White House to disclose Medicare data -- The White House and the nation's largest employers clash over access to data on cost and quality of care.

Other national news:  
■  In today’s NY Times -- As ruling on contract nears, Delta pilots build strike fund
■  In today’s NY Times -- Tax cuts on hold (editorial) -- The longer it takes to get a final tax bill, the more time the public has to object to its worst provisions.
■  In The Onion -- DeLay to pursue corruption in the private sector -- Former House Majority Leader: "I can say with a clear lack of conscience that, after 21 years of public disservice, I have done everything I could to the American people... I have a lot to offer the corporate world, such as money laundering and influence-peddling."

MONDAY, APRIL 10  ■   Immigration rights march, rally TODAY at 3:30 p.m. in Seattle
■  In today’s Seattle Times -- Immigration march, rally today in Seattle -- "At one point or another, we're all immigrants," says business owner who'll close shop so his employees can participate.
■  Today from AP -- 10,000 protest immigration proposals at Oregon rally
■  In today’s NY Times -- Across the U.S., growing rallies for immigration -- Singing, chanting and waving placards and American flags, a sea of demonstrators: an estimated 500,000 in Dallas, 20,000 in San Diego, 7,000 in Miami, and 4,000 each in Birmingham, Ala., and Boise.
■  Today from AP -- Immigration concerns reflected in new poll -- Immigration now ranks alongside the economy when Americans are asked to name the most important problem facing the nation.
■  In today’s Tennessean -- Better conditions for all workers needed (Chavez-Thompson op-ed) -- The last thing we need is a new law that criminalizes people and creates an undemocratic, two-tiered society. Our nation has had enough of that in our past.  (Also see her op-ed en Espańol.)
■  In today’s Wash. Post -- A Hispanic civil rights movement? (op-ed) -- Are massive demonstrations by Hispanics across the country the first indicator of a major new civil rights movement?

Local news:
■  In the Tri-City Herald -- Hanford workers' comp program gets state OK -- The study's results were released at a Richland meeting; many of the more than 100 in attendance appeared skeptical.
■  In today’s Spokesman-Review -- U.S. Sens. Craig, Murray support VA center in Walla Walla
■  In today’s Seattle Times -- Who'll pay the pension piper? (Peirce column) -- Workers took government jobs -- often at lower pay than the private sector -- based on expectations of job security and strong retirement benefits.  And governments (that's us) benefited.  But will all that hold fast in a world of globalization, contracting out and off-shoring?
■  In today’s Olympian -- State workers' paychecks have different look today
■  Today from AP -- Spokane firefighters' union fights release of firehouse sex files
■  In Saturday’s Bellingham Herald -- Ferndale school workers (PSE) OK offer
■  In today’s Everett Herald -- The idea of privatizing colleges is limited in its scope (McCusker column)

Boeing news:
■  Today from Bloomberg -- Boeing, China airlines to sign deal for 80 737s -- China may sign the $5-billion order for the Boeing jets today during a U.S. visit by Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi.
■  In today’s Everett Herald -- A jumbo gig -- Boeing 747 project chief engineer Corky Townsend is pumped up about the company's decision to build the 747-8.  

Political news:  
■  In Sunday’s Olympian -- Democrat challenges Sen. Tim Sheldon -- Former Locke aide Kyle Taylor Lucas says: “I am a Democrat and apparently the only one running in this race for senator.”
■  In Sunday’s King Co. Journal -- Younger Reichert bows out -- Citing flare-up of an old injury, the congressman's brother drops out of the Republican race to retain Sen. Steve Johnson's seat.
■  In today’s Everett Herald -- Candidates argue value of Cheney visit -- He'll stump and raise cash for Mike McGavick and Rep. Larsen's challenger. (Apparently, Joseph Stalin wasn't available.)
■  At the Horses Ass blog -- McGavick campaign loses (another) campaign manager 

National news:  
■  Last week in the Seattle P-I -- Wal-Mart's dirty secret is out (John Sweeney op-ed) -- Why has the government spent just $630 million -- less than 4 percent of the $18 billion-plus we have spent since 9/11 on airport security -- to make ports safer? Because time and again since 9/11, lobbyists backed by Wal-Mart have opposed new port security rules that might cut into its record profits. Its mantra is: "Security requirements should not become a barrier to trade."
■  In today’s LA Times -- Sides to square off on Wal-Mart bank -- Plan has produced unusual alliances, pro and con. Banks, real estate agents and farmers stand with unions in opposition.
■  In today’s Washington Post -- Alleged misconduct draws scrutiny to all federal workers (column) -- The federal workforce represents much of the best that America offers. And, as with any large organization, it sometimes can reflect the worst.
■  In Sunday’s NY Times -- CEO pay keeps rising, and bigger rises faster -- The average total pay for chief executives rose 27 percent in 2005, to $11.3 million. 
■  Today at the Jesus' General blog -- Gridlock Doc -- Dear Rep. Hastings: I looked around your web site, and I couldn't find a single reference to your leadership of the House Ethics Committee... It's almost like you're ashamed of the things you've accomplished as Chair.  Learn more.

Leaky White House news:  
■  In today’s NY Times -- Bush ordered declassification, official says -- He selectively declassified documents, some of which intelligence officials were already skeptical about, to respond to critics who said he exaggerated Iraq's nuclear threat in making his case for pre-emptive war.
■  In today’s Washington Post -- GOP Sen. Specter says Bush, Cheney should explain leak
■  In the News Tribune -- Leak or not, it's cynical (editorial) -- It appears Bush was exploiting national intelligence for political ends. That's no great testament to the integrity of the White House.
 

Some 57 million U.S. workers say they would join a union if they could, based on research by Peter D. Hart Research Associates. But when workers try to gain a voice on the job by forming a union, employers routinely respond with intimidation, harassment and retaliation.

During union election campaigns, management routinely coerces employees to convince them not to choose union representation. According to a survey of NLRB election campaigns in 1998 and 1999 by Cornell University scholar Kate Bronfenbrenner, private-sector employers illegally fire employees for union activity in at least 25 percent of all efforts to join a union.

Employees not fired fear losing their jobs if they support union representation. According to the Bronfenbrenner survey, management forces employees to attend group anti-union presentations in 92 percent of all union campaigns. Brent Garren, senior associate counsel for UNITE HERE, told a House subcommittee this past September that 79 percent of workers agreed workers are “very” or “somewhat” likely to be fired for trying to form a union.

“These employers are literally robbing working people and their communities of better lives,” said AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney. “At a time in our nation when the middle class is shrinking, when the gap between the rich and poor is growing, workers deserve the right to form a union to win a real voice on the job through collective bargaining.”

MONDAY, APRIL 10, 2006
Immigration rights march, rally TODAY at 3:30 p.m. in Seattle

Washington State Jobs with Justice encourages all supporters of immigrants' rights and fair and responsible immigration reform are urged to participate in a rally TODAY (Monday, April 10) in Seattle. A march will begin at 3:30 p.m. at the St. Mary's Church, 611 S. 20th St., and proceed to a rally at the Federal Building, 615 2nd Ave.

Día Nacional de Acción por la reforma migratoria y nuestros derechos! Lunes 10 de abril 2006. Comenzamos a las 3:30 p.m. en la Iglesia Sta. Maria (611 S. 20th St. en Seattle, WA). Marcharemos al Edifico Federal (615 2nd Ave) en el centro de Seattle.

This is one of dozens of rallies and marches being held in cities across the nation. The National Day of Action for immigration reform and civil rights is intended to show solidarity with the immigrant community to defend their rights against some of the most regressive congressional legislation in decades.  

Organizado por/ Organized by: El Comité Pro-Amnistía General y Justicia Social, CASA Latina, LELO (Un legado de Igualdad, Liderazgo  y Organización), Tenants Union of WA State, Centro de la Raza, Churches of St. Mary's, SEIU Local 6, Church Council of Greater Seattle, Hate Free Zone, NW Federation of Community Organizations, NW Immigrant Rights Project, Community Alliance for Global Justice, Citizen Action of WA, Centro Latino de Tacoma, M.E.Ch.A-SVCC, M.E.Ch.A-UW, M.E.Ch.A.-TESC, Cascade People's Center, Jobs with Justice Seattle OC, Arab American Community Coalition.