Guerilla Café & Movie Night!

DATE: Friday, February 17th
TIME: 7:00 pm

Suggested Donation: $10-15

CISPES, the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador will be hosting a fundraiser for an elections delegation to El Salvador March 3-17. We need your support!

Proceeds will go to material aid for social justice groups in El Salvador fighting for democracy and against capitalism. Particularly they are struggling against the conditions of neoliberalism; free trade (CAFTA), privatization of resources and social services, and unemployment. The people in El Salvador are also still fighting against U.S. intervention which has continued since the Peace Accords and is now visible through the U.S. sponsored ILEA is a international military and law enforcement training center that closely resembles the SOA and is reminiscent of U.S. training of death squads in the 1980’s. The ILEA will be based in El Salvador.

Join us for dinner and a movie. We will be screening Innocent Voices, a feature film that revisits the experience of the civil war between revolutionary guerillas and the U.S. sponsored military state in El Salvador during the 1980’s through the eyes of a young boy.

We request that you let us know if you plan on attending. Directions will be provided through contact.

Contact: Nikki Miller at nikki_mmiller@yahoo.com or 360-273-9800

Observed during an afternoon of sun downtown:

• Profusion of bicycles, skateboards, and baby carriages
• Open jackets, lighter clothing worn and less layers
• People looking ahead and up rather than down at their feet
• Smiles along with dazed happy expressions
• A goth girl in black and purple, dancing solo while watching her reflection in an empty storefront window
• Overheard bus conversations about who thinks who is "hot"

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I spoke with Dick and Jody and viewed the damage last night. The electrical fire occurred in one of the side rooms in the hall towards the bathrooms. All the electric for the whole building is fried and it will take 3 weeks (estimated) since all the wiring to all the fixtures has to be rerun. The heat was intense and all the panels melted. Amazingly there was no major fire. The electrical smell is bad but there were no flames in Traditions.

Traditions biggest sale of the year is coming up. Dick wants to keep the store open and run off a generator to keep some cash coming in.

I think this is a time for the community to show support for traditions.

Paul Allen

Six Sunday Afternoons: Feb 12 to April 9

A six-part video/discussion series will explore how nonviolence has been used effectively against a variety of brutal dictatorships and other oppressive situations – with increasing success in recent history. The series will be held at the Olympia Timberland Library, 8th & Adams, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. on six Sundays during February, March and April. The dates are February 12, March 5, March 12, March 26, April 2, and April 9. Admission is free.

“A Force More Powerful

Free film screening and discussion with Filmmaker
Saturday February 11th 7:00 p.m.
Olympia Unitarian Universalist Church
2200 East End Street NW, Olympia
(on the Westside off Division)
Same-Sex Marriage Equality

Three years in the making, Tying The Knot documents the political war between gay people who want to marry and those determined to stop them. When a bank robber’s bullet ends the life of cop Lois Marrero, her wife of thirteen years, Mickie, discovers a police department willing to accept the women’s relationship, but unwilling to release Lois’s pension. When Sam, an Oklahoma rancher loses his husband of 25 years, cousins of his deceased spouse challenge his will and move to evict Sam from his home. As Mickie and Sam take up battle stations to defend their lives, Tying the Knot digs deeply into the meaning of marriage today. From an historical trip to the Middle Ages, to gay hippies storming the Manhattan marriage bureau in 1971, this eye-opening exploration of the embattled institution looks at rights, privilege and love as gay activists and right-wing politicos lock horns in the fight for marriage.

Sponsored by:
Olympia Friends Meeting
PFLAG-Olympia
Olympia Unitarian Universalist Church
Thurston Marriage Equality

Pierce usually ranks near the bottom when historians rank the presidents. His personal life was dark and tragic, not unlike some of the stories written by one of his best friends, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne congratulated Pierce on his election with, "Frank, I pity you--indeed I do, from the bottom of my heart!"

After failing to attain renomination for a 2nd term, Pierce supposedly said, "There's nothing left to do but get drunk." And he did just that for over a decade. His friendship with his old Sec. of War, Jefferson Davis, didn't help his popularity in the North during the Civil War. He died in Concord, NH in 1869, but a true memorial site for him was not constructed until decades later.

So the least we could do to show some respect for this forgotten political figure is to pronounce Pierce County the way it was meant to be pronounced. Purse County.

"The Olympian will not publish these cartoons because the images are unnecessarily inflammatory and insensitive. The newspaper has published reports on the issue from the news services we subscribe to. Those stories have described the cartoons sufficiently for readers to understand the issues."

So what do OlyBloggers think about this?