Peacekeeper Training Near Olympia

BASIC: SUNDAY May 28

ADVANCED: SUNDAY June 4 and SATURDAY June 10

(Note that the first two are Sundays and the third one is a Saturday. Also note that the Saturday time frame is different from the Sunday hours.)

Help Our Rallies, Marches, etc. Be More Effective: Learn Peacekeeper Skills

As we look ahead to future rallies, marches, and other nonviolent actions for peace, social justice and other issues, we want to prepare now so they will be more effective. Trained peacekeepers can help our events be satisfying and safe for participants and successful in achieving our goals.

• § Peacekeepers help an event’s organizers facilitate the event by guiding the flow of marches and other activities so they will be safe and effective for everyone.
• § Peacekeepers help maintain a climate of nonviolence by minimizing disruptions by people who disagree with us, by participants whose behavior becomes counter-productive, and by provocateurs planted by the government to discredit the peace movement.
• § Peacekeepers also perform other useful functions, such as referring news reporters to our spokespersons and summoning first aid.

The Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation (www.olyfor.org) invites you to attend this training and become a peacekeeper:

BASIC Peacekeeper Training: This training provides the basic orientation and skills so you can serve as a peacekeeper. This is also a great refresher for persons who have been trained before.

SUNDAY MAY 28:

Arrive between 12:30 and 12:45 p.m. so we can start on time! Training starts promptly at 1:00 p.m. and ends at 7:00 p.m. Bring a brown-bag lunch for a late afternoon lunch break. Trainers are Erica Kay and Michael Siptroth.

ADVANCED Peacekeeper Training:

This TWO-DAY training deepens your knowledge and skills. It strengthens your abilities to deal with complex and stressful situations. It helps you plan peacekeeping services for a variety of activities and situations. You must have already attended at least 6 hours of BASIC peacekeeper training either on May 28 or on some other occasion. Please attend BOTH DAYS of this TWO-DAY training session. In case you are available for only one of these days, please attend the day you can, but we strongly encourage attending BOTH DAYS.

There is an interesting Capitol Chat on homelessness in the community of Olympia. Check it out here.

Here's an interesting question that someone submitted:

Eve, Centralia: In an earlier century, every locale operated a "poor farm" in which to house the unfortunate. Long regarded as a last resort, at least people made homeless by circumstances beyond their control were ensured a place for shelter and food. As we now seem determined to consign these people as street trash, couldn't we at least have the decency to operate "poor farms" again, allowing people some space in which to engage in helping themselves through gardens, communal livestock raising, etc.?

Is this a realistic possibility? It wouldn't have to be called a "poor farm," but it seems like there could be a better place to live than on the streets. Is anyone doing anything like this?

1. There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq during the month of January..... In the fair city of Detroit there were 35 murders in the month of January. That's just one American City, about as deadly as the entire war torn country of Iraq. 2. When some claim President Bush shouldn't have started this war, state the following; FDR...led us into World War II. Germany never attacked us: Japan did. From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost, an average of 112,500 per year. Truman...finished that war and started one in Korea, North Korea never attacked us From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost, an average of 18,334 per year. John F. Kennedy....started the Vietnam conflict in 1962. Vietnam never attacked us. Johnson...turned Vietnam into a quagmire. From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost, an average of 5,800 per year. Clinton...went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent, Bosnia never attacked us. He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter three times by Sudan and did nothing. Osama has attacked us on multiple occasions. 3. In the two years since terrorists attacked us President Bush has liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in Libya, Iran and North Korea without firing a shot, and captured a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people. The Democrats are complaining about how long the war is taking, but...It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno to take the Branch Davidian compound. That was a 51-day operation. We've been looking for evidence of chemical weapons in Iraq for less time than it took Hillary Clinton to find

Please join us The Evergreen State College MPA Student Union…

“WHOSE AMERICAN DREAM?: A Dialogue About Immigration, Race & Public Policy

Evergreen Students who went down to New Orleans over Spring Break to work in solidarity will the victims of Hurricane Katrina at the Common Ground Collective will be showing slides and telling stories

TODAY (Wednesday) at 7 pm in the Recital Hall (COM BLDG)

SUEÑOS BI-NACIONALES (BI-NATIONAL DREAMS) Documentary.

Leading Indigenous filmmaker and Evergreen grad, Yolanda Cruz, from Oaxaca, Mexico will present and discuss her latest documentary: SUEÑOS BI-NACIONALES (BI-NATIONAL DREAMS) this Tuesday, May 23rd from 12:30 to 1:45 PM at SEM II, B1107.

Sueños Bi-nacionales (Bi-National dreams) is a documentary about the bi-national experience of indigenous immigrants from Mexico. Sueños Bi-nacionales tells the stories of the Mixtec people who have been immigrating to California for over 30 years and the more recent stories of the Chatinos who have been immigrating to North Carolina for the past 10 years.

Yolanda is a member of the Chatino community. She received a BA from The Evergreen State College in 1998 and a MFA from the UCLA Film School. Yolanda first student project at UCLA, “Entre Sueños