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By Cortney Marabetta, Communications Specialist

In August, the White House’s social media team raised eyebrows in some circles by calling out Republican Twitter accounts that were decrying President Biden’s student debt forgiveness plan. The team retweeted the complaining accounts and included publicly accessible data stating how much each person had forgiven in PPP loans. It was a fantastic response to the litany of complaint claiming that, among other things, ranchers and farmers should not be responsible for paying the student debt of Wall Street advisors and doctors – very culture-wars of

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“Misinformation.” A word that’s popping up all over the place, often matched with tones of disdain and frustration. Misinformation, defined by Merriam-Webster as “incorrect or misleading information,” can be found from newspaper articles to social media posts, but what does it say about our culture of information sharing? As librarians, we are concerned with both the created information as well as how it is engaged with and then distributed.

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If we can be sure of anything, it's that the spreading of false information to sway the public is not new. Over a century ago, Senator Hiram Johnson noted "When war is declared, truth is the first casualty." The term propaganda dates to the early 1600's. Religious in origin, it referred to a "propagation of the faith." But with the 2022 midterms looming, the rise of "information warfare," claims of "fake news," and our relationship with social media, perhaps it's a good time to examine misinformation.

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May 2020

  • Adjuncts Building Solidarity ZOOM Conference
    May 16th, 2020, 10:00 AM - 1:30 PM
  • Human Rights Happy Hour
    June 3rd, 2020, 5:00 PM
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March 2024

From the President 

Karen Strickland

As you are likely aware, Project 2025 provided a roadmap for an attack on many federal programs, organized labor, and marginalized communities. The Trump Administration is implementing this roadmap, causing tremendous disruption and fear among the people of this country, and undermining the institutions and programs that meet our collective needs and create opportunity.

Standing for Democracy is a national group launched in 2024 to build a multi-racial, multi-gender, multi-generational, multi-class movement to strengthen our democracy, fight back against any

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April 2025

Worksite Representative Training

Tuesday, April 22nd, 5:00 - 7:00 PM

Whether you are called a union steward, building rep, officer, or executive board member, we all want to do our best to represent our members. During this training you will learn the importance of engaging our membership, building our power inside and outside of the worksite, and enforcing our contract.

Register here.


Contract Enforcement and Grievance Training

Wednesday, April 30th, 5:00 - 7:00 PM

Our Collective Bargaining Agreements are one of the cornerstones of having a powerful local. A contract that is enforced

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May 2020


Everett Community College: Everett Community College faculty union donates $5,000 to EvCC Food Pantry

Everett Community College’s faculty union is donating $5,000 to the EvCC Food Pantry to purchase food for students and employees in need.

The union, the American Federation of Teachers Local 1873, made the donation at its executive council meeting in April.

“We hope that these funds ease some of the burden students are experiencing and allow them to continue to progress towards achieving their academic and career goals. As

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April 2025

We're Joining A One-Day Washington State Public-Sector General Strike!

By AFT Washington Staff

On Wednesday, April 23rd, public sector workers who will be impacted by the cuts currently proposed in the legislative budgets will stand together in Olympia in a general strike. We are asking locals to send two people to Olympia for a rally at 1:00 PM.

These budget proposals are a five-alarm fire. The cuts now in the budget are severe – the ones two weeks ago were bad enough. These are worse. We can’t overstate how devastating the lack of progressive revenue will be to our students

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