Families and friends in Olympia say:

"End the Occupation of Iraq NOW!"

"Bring them home & keep them home!"

Tuesday, Nov. 6th - 4pm Percival Landing

Gather to march in our Streets, our Port, our Home.

Military Ships Return to Olympia - On November 5th military ships begin off-loading equipment returning from Iraq at the Port of Olympia. Our demonstrations are intended to show growing opposition to the war and the use of the Port of Olympia to ship military equipment to the Middle East in support of US occupation.

The Stryker Brigade whose equipment is returning lost 48 soldiers during their deployment. The brigade was the same as that whose equipment was shipped out in May of 2006 from the Port of Olympia prior to their deployment. We intend to keep our soldiers home and end the loss of innocent Iraqi lives facilitated by the militarization of our ports.

Participants are urged to bring candles, flashlights, or glow-sticks, along with signs opposed to the war.

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The bookcart, it is pimped.

Maple Leaf

First of a series: money and the parties

Some good discussions are happening out there/here in the blogosphere - blogging about blogging, about how we all communicate or don't. Read Blog Wars then War of words | Bloggers have taken off the gloves for some tasty food for thought.

Blog fights are verbal steel-cage smackdowns with a revolving door. Says Ariel Meadow Stallings, a Seattle writer who posts her random musings at Electrolicious.com: "Bloggers are an inflammatory bunch."

University of Washington communications professor Malcolm Parks calls it a "cowboy commentary" environment where individual bloggers, through their words, proclaim themselves "the Lone Ranger of truth."