The Gleaners Coalition invites you to join us as we enter our second season of sharing the harvest with hungry people in our community. Plant, paint & play in our garden. No one too old or yount to help us feed the hungry.

Help Plant Lettuce at Kirsop Farm

This is how the gleaners work parties first got started last year, planting lettuce at Kirsop Farm.

We need 6 volunteers to work from 9am till noon planting lettuce. At noon we'll share a farm fresh meal prepared by the farm...

We will be doing this about every two weeks all spring and summer long! Call Barry to come along!

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Joining Hands: Juntos Somos Un Volcan An evening of revolutionary music & stories from Nicaragua presented by the Thurston-Santo Tomas Sister County Association

Join us for this gala event as three community organizers from Santo Tomas, Chontales, Nicaragua share music and stories of their lives.

Rosa Aura Guerrero, lead singer for the Nicaraguan band Nuevo Amanecer & coordinator of the Santo Tomas Children’s Free Lunch Program. Facunda Zeledon, teacher at Lincoln Elementary’s sister school, Ruben Dario. Doctora Maria Salvadora, People’s Clinic in Santo Tomas.

Lincoln Elementary students will perform Baile Folklorico (traditional Nicaraguan dances) and join in several songs.

The three women, the eighth delegation from Santo Tomas, will be visiting Olympia from April 19 – May 11 as we work together to strengthen our 17 year sister city relationship. TSTSCA is one of hundreds of sister city organizations which formed in direct response to undeclared US wars in Central America in the 1970’s & 80’s. These cross-border exchanges bring great benefit to both sides, as communities share resources, organizing tactics, hope and humanity, building bridges, not fences.

Doors open at 6 pm, Show starts at 6:30 Refreshments will be served following the performance.

$6 children under 12
$10 OFS, student & low-income
$12 - $30 (sliding scale) General

All funds go to projects in Santo Tomas!

From The Seattle Times:

Who is a terrorist?

After the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people, it was clean-cut Timothy McVeigh, a brooding loner — infused with hatred of the government — who was convicted and put to death for that crime.

After 9/11, which claimed the lives of more than 2,900 people, it was the bearded visage of Osama bin Laden.

This year, the Bush administration has touted the arrests of terrorists of a different kind — homegrown militants who have embarked on arson attacks to protest treatment of animals and the environment.

During the past three years alone, FBI counterterrorism agents have conducted at least 190 investigations into property crimes claimed by the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) and the Animal Liberation Front (ALF). None of the crimes injured or killed people.

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From the comments:

Isn't it odd that a guy in a fish suit would raise the hackles of so many people? I guess in Olympia the guy in a salmon suit is the equivalent of roller skating transvestite nuns for the religious right in san francisco. Stand proud fishman, you are what is right about olympia. May your spawn be prolific, your fry hardy, and may you continue to return to our welcoming streams.