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Tour Stops:

Admission is free at all events

• Tacoma
  Tuesday, January 12, to be announced

• Olympia
  Wednesday, January 13, 6pm
  Orca Books,
  509 E. 4th Ave, Olympia, WA 98502

• Seattle
  Thursday, January 14

  3:30pm-5:00pm
  University Bookstore,
  4326 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98105

  7pm-9pm
  Cascade People's Center,
  309 Pontius Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109-5421

• Spokane
  Saturday, January 16, 3pm
  Downtown Spokane Public Library, Room A
  906 West Main Avenue, Spokane, WA 99201 (corner Lincoln St. and Main Ave.)

Published to coincide with the 100th Anniversary of the Spokane Free Speech Fight, which began in November of 1909, Wanted: Men to Fill the Jails of Spokane! tells the story of one of the first of the Industrial Workers of the World's famous "free speech fights." Through newspaper articles, dispatches from the scene of the fight, and personal recollections, the voices of the men (and women!) who filled the prisons of Spokane, Washington in the name of free speech and the One Big Union are brought back into print.

About the editor: John Duda is a founding member of Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse, a Baltimore worker's collective affiliated with the IWW, and an activist-scholar of social movements and self-organization.

For more info contact:
nwcommonaction@gmail.com

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Common Action announces the latest issue of our quarterly newsletter Intersections. Take a look for an alternative view on the raging national health care debate, the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver B.C., cuts to local transit, and a review of Michael Moore's latest film.

This issue's contents include:

• Checking Up on Healthcare Reform: Compromises and Alternatives
  By Josh Neuhouser
• Disqualifying the 2010 Olympics
  By Lambert
• Review of Capitalism: A Love Story
  By Ariel Wetzel
• Taking Back Public Transportation
  By Alexandra Snapp

Intersections is available as a PDF for reading and single page printing, and 11" x 17" printing. To get a hard copy, or to let us know what you think, hit us up at nwcommonaction@gmail.com

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Wednesday, December 2nd
7:00pm

The Charleston
333 N. Callow Ave.
Bremerton, WA

In 2001, the entire economy of Argentina collapsed. As the United States faces economic crisis, what can we learn from Argentina?

The Take is a peak into what Argentine workers have been doing to survive under their own economic collapse. The film tells the story of workers in Buenos Aires, Argentina who reclaim control of a closed Forja auto plant where they once worked and turn it into a worker cooperative.

For more information, call 360-850-2313.

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Tuesday, November 10th, 7:00pm

Cascade People's Center
309 Pontius Ave N
Seattle, WA

In February 2010, Vancouver (Canada) will be host city for the 2010 Winter Olympics. Due to the negative impacts of the Olympics, including homelessness, ecological destruction, huge public debt, and a greatly expanded police state, a movement has arisen to challenge the Olympic industry & expose to the world its true nature.

Beginning in mid-November, 2009, organizers from No2010, an Indigenous anti-Olympics organization, will travel down the West Coast of the US to conduct a speaking tour on the resistance to the 2010 Olympics, to share their experiences, and to promote an anti-colonial & anti-capitalist convergence that will coincide with the opening days of the Games in February, 2010 (Feb. 10-15, the Olympic Games begin Feb. 12).

The event will feature 1-2 speakers from No2010 and the Olympic Resistance Network, a short video, with time for questions and discussion.

Sponsored by Common Action and Democracy Insurgent.

For more info: www.No2010.com, www.OlympicResistance.net

Bus Routes: 8, 25, 70-73, 74, 77, 79, 304, 317, 355, 377.

Cascade People's Center is wheelchair accessible. If you have any questions about accessibility or require any other accommodations, please call 206-612-2962 or E-mail lambert@riseup.net. If you require childcare call or Email and we will work to arrange it upon request.

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Underground Events Center
2407 1st Ave (between Battery St & Wall St)
Seattle, WA 98121

The weekend of October 17-18, Common Action will take part in the Seattle Anarchist Bookfair, presenting three panels and workshops on Transformative Justice, science fiction, and anti-racism.

Times and other information on Common Action's panels and workshops are available below. For the full bookfair schedule, including other exciting panels and workshops, visit the Seattle Anarchist Bookfair website.

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