Green party candidate for Washington State senate Aaron Dixon is going to be in Olympia this Friday April 28th.

He'll speak at Evergreen in SemII 13 1107 from 12:30-2PM. The talk is sponsered by Gateways for Incarcerated Youth and Dixon will speak on organizing and on progressive movements.

At 6PM he'll be at a house party the Green Party is hosting on the westside at 1716 Conger Ave NW.

Here are some more Officers that should have turned the other cheek according to Rick. link

Come one come all and celebrate cycling and MAYDAY at the same time as we ride to the rally in Sylvester Park! Where: Meet at Red Square at Evergreen When: Meet up at 2pm Or join us at 2:30 at Harrison and Division! Let's skip work and school and have some fun! Support each other and all people around the world in spirit! Critical Mass is a monthly bicycle ride to celebrate cycling and to assert cyclists' right to the road. Keep rollin`-

Come one come all and celebrate cycling and MAYDAY at the same time as we ride to the rally in Sylvester Park! Where: Meet at Red Square at Evergreen When: Meet up at 2pm Or join us at 2:30 at Harrison and Division! Let's skip work and school and have some fun! Support each other and all people around the world in spirit! Critical Mass is a monthly bicycle ride to celebrate cycling and to assert cyclists' right to the road. Keep rollin`-

We are very fortunate to live in the Olympia area (Marylea and I actually live in a south Oly neighborhood we call Chehalis) because Oly has become a destination stop for some big thinkers, great souls, large vision folks.

Dr. Robert Jay Lifton is the most recent example. Lifton joined the Olympia community on Tuesday night to talk about the superpower syndrome, the topic of his most recent book. But the discussion was much broader than simply a review of the dangers of superpower status. Here are some notes and thoughts I collected as Lifton spoke:

Lifton has made a career of studying the causes and consequences of experiencing human horror. Lifton thanked the crowd for coming out since his presence must raise the question "What new horror will he bring us this time?" Lifton said "When I am in demand to speak, the world is in trouble." And the question raised is "What is the moral path?" How do we as a community regain or restore our collective moral compass. The journey to find a moral compass is mytho-psychosocial journey. A nitty gritty review with a double layer of meaning - a struggle in symbolization of immortality that seeks to make an eternal home for each of us. We are creatures of history, we are survivors. Like the survivors of the Hiroshima bombing, or the experience of combat in Vietnam, or life as a patient or physician in Nazi deathcamps, we are all survivors of our individual experience of human horror.

Lifton said when he was a young man, and relatively inexperienced psychiatrist, he traveled to Japan and by chance took a side trip to Hiroshima and met and spoke with the survivors of the boming of Hiroshima. That experience led Lifton to come to the conclusion that there is a certain law of history which says that the more important a historical event is, the less likely it is to be studied. It's an interesting and perplexing thing, but it ties to his lifelong work in the study of the experience of human horror. Fleeing the experience may be easily understood, but perhaps unwise if there are lessons to be learned from the event and experience.

There is a long piece on the McClatchy Family in The Seattle Times:

Brown McClatchy Maloney of Sequim tells this story to illustrate how far The McClatchy Co., his family's newspaper chain, has come in 40 years:

In the late 1960s, another newspaper family put its Olympia and Bellingham papers up for sale. One of Maloney's older cousins thought McClatchy, whose only daily papers at the time were in Sacramento, Fresno and Modesto, Calif., should at least look into buying them.

He ran the idea past his septuagenarian aunt, who had run the company for more than three decades. Her response?

"If it wasn't in the [Central] Valley, we weren't interested," Maloney says.

Today, McClatchy's horizons extend far beyond the Sierras. On July 1, if all goes as planned, the chain will swallow Knight Ridder and become the nation's second-largest newspaper company, with 32 dailies stretching from Miami to Anchorage.

Among the 20 newspapers it would acquire: The Olympian and The Bellingham Herald.