Welcome to Permanent Defense, a project of the Northwest Progressive Institute founded in February of 2002 to protect Washington from destructive right wing initiatives. Our mission is to safeguard the common wealth: our schools, our roads, our parks, our libraries, our hospitals, our police, fire, and emergency medical services…or, more concisely, all of the great public resources that we as a people have created through the years through the wise investment of our tax dollars.
For over a decade, our common wealth has been threatened and attacked by right wing initiatives designed to paralyze our communities and wreck government. Permanent Defense exists to provide a year-round first response to these harmful ballot measures. In cooperation with other caring Washingtonians, we are working to ensure a better future for our state and broader prosperity for our families.
Permanent Defense’s 2010 objectives are to defeat new initiatives filed by the BIAW (Initiative 1067) and Tim Eyman (Initiative 1053) which would further damage our state’s quality of life at a time when we can least afford it.
