New online WA state labor newspaper

[eridani]

Washington State Labor Council email subscribers:

Today, the WSLC is celebrating May Day by launching The Stand, a new website / news aggregating blog that aims to fill the void created by newspapers and other commercial media in Washington state that focus on business news and toe the conservative corporate editorial line. Check it out at www.TheStand.org!

The Stand features news for and about working people. Its news stories and opinion columns focus on creating and maintaining quality jobs, improving our families’ quality of life, promoting public policies that will restore shared prosperity, and other things that the rest of us care about. It is an effort to restore the kind of progressive populist source of information that once thrived in Washington state, but has entirely ceased to exist thanks to media consolidation and the zenith of corporate influence on the press and on all levels of government.

Here's your to-do list to make the most of The Stand:

Utilize its “clip service” (similar to the former WSLC Reports Today) featuring local and national news coverage of interest to Washington's working families. It is posted by 9 a.m. every weekday under “Daily Links”.
Register and comment on the articles you read there.
“Like” The Stand’s Facebook page so you are notified of the site's latest postings on your news feed.
Spread the word about The Stand to your friends.
And most importantly, recommend and submit content for the site by emailing me.
If you see news articles and opinion columns you'd like to share, forward the links to me. If you have news from your union, your progressive organization, or your community that you think would be of interest to readers at The Stand, send it to me. If you have feedback about how to improve The Stand or issues you'd like to see covered, let me know.

In the meantime, visit The Stand and take a look around. Make yourself at home. And let me know what you think.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

David Groves
Editor, The Stand

[pscot]

1. Cool

Thanks for the link. :hi:

[freshwest]

2. :)