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My first chat with the City Council
Submitted by Starwing on Tue, 02/20/2007 - 10:44pm.
Okay... 

So I was a little nervous. It was difficult to face the very people who have been irritating me lately. I restrained my frustrations, but there were times when I wanted to shout at them.

I didn't...

I was civil...

I was sticking up for people I don't personally know: property owners who are having their lands forced from them by that same Council's abuse of the Emminent Domain laws.

I was nervous, and it showed.

However, during the time to respond to the Public, not a single one of them mentioned my concern. This means one of two things: (a) I was incomprehensible, or (b) I was right, and they knew it.

Either way, I shall have to bring it up again next week.

Whomever was there, or saw it on channel 3, please comment on my little diatribe.

Thanks.


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Toddler & Parent Creative Dance Class
Submitted by Julie on Tue, 02/20/2007 - 10:14pm.
Mar 21 2007 - 10:00am
May 9 2007 - 11:00am

Wednesdays or Thursdays, 10:00 am—11:00 am for 8 weeks starting March 21st

  • Toddlers walking to 2 & 1/2 years

  • An opportunity for toddlers to dance, play, explore, move their emotions and growing body.

  • This weekly class encourages creativity, cooperation with others, and motor skill development.

  • A wide variety of music, props, and rhythm instruments adds to the fun and learning, cultivating grounding and spatial awareness.

Cost:  Sliding Scale, $50.00-$96.00 (Drop-ins, $12.00)

Call Julie @ 570-1917, Pre-Registration Required.

 

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Cheating Dreamboats Don't Merely Prefer, They Attempt.
Submitted by Jason M on Tue, 02/20/2007 - 4:00pm.

Nineteen statements toward uses for, and understandings of, Camp Quixote and its detractors from The Phantom Languaging Wing of the Olympia Perturbers' Guild

  1. What all opponents and supporters of Camp Quixote understand is that the Poor People's Union is designing and attempting freedoms that almost no one has.
  2. The opponents who are cynical want these freedoms prohibited unconditionally.
  3. The opponents who are hopeful want new freedoms prohibited until everyone gets them at the same time.

    Read all 19.

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Activists take stories of welfare to Capitol
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 02/20/2007 - 11:10am.


The Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition, which organized Monday’s event, said benefits for 72 families will be eliminated in March, and as many as 1,269 more families in six months.

According to the Office of Financial Management, the number of families that could be affected is between 300 and 600.

Members of the welfare rights coalition said they didn’t expect to prevent the new cutoff policy. But they hoped their stories would aid lawmakers trying to increase support for the poor.

Among such bills being considered is SB 6016. It would allow welfare mothers of children younger than 1 to forgo the 20 hours a week of training and volunteering required of Workfirst participants.

“Children who feel safe and secure with their parents are able to go on and succeed in school,” said the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Debbie Regala, D-Tacoma.

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Did you know Karim from BRICK @ SPSCC ?
Submitted by telephone on Tue, 02/20/2007 - 9:36am.

Ian says:

Greetings all,
 
I have some unfortunate news.  Yesterday, February 15th, while passing out flyers (containing important questions to consider before enlisting in the military) in front of an Army recruiting table at the Western Washington University Career Fair, our good friend Karim Ahmath was arrested by the WWU campus police.  They charged him with disorderly conduct, citing his argument with one of the Army recruiters as the reason for the arrest.
 
However, I witnessed the whole thing, and although there was definitely a heated argument, I and others feel the arrest was unjust.  At no time did anyone in charge of the Career Fair ask Karim or any of us passing out flyers to leave the event.  At no time did Karim engage in physical contact with the recruiters or the police (except when the police put his arm behind his back, forced him out of the building, and later handcuffed him).  In addition, I feel that Karim, who is Asian American, was racially profiled.  Specifically, I feel he was profiled by the military recruiters, as they are the ones who requested the police remove Karim.  My reasoning for this claim is that at least 5 or 6 other students were engaged in handing out the same flyers in front of the Army and Navy recruiting tables.  Some of us were also engaged in verbal disagreements with the recruiters.  One of us was even engaged in a shouting match with one of the Navy recruiters.  But, the recruiters did not request police intervention for any of the rest of us.  As you may have guessed, everyone of us, except Karim, is white.
 

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Green Discussion-"The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community"
Submitted by telephone on Tue, 02/20/2007 - 7:21am.
Feb 28 2007 - 10:00am
Feb 28 2007 - 12:00pm

You are invited to join a study/discussion group based on the book "THE GREAT TURNING: FROM EMPIRE TO EARTH COMMUNITY" by David Korten’


Are you yearning for a positive future for all of life on earth and for those that will come after us?  At this crucial point in the story of humankind we are being called to turn from the violence and destructiveness of the past and to help create a just, sustainable and peaceful future.  This book offers a compelling spiritual and ethical blueprint that can help us build such a future.  The book draws on the spiritual, social, economic, scientific, psychological and common sense history of the past 5,000 years.

We hope you will join us and learn and share and be empowered to help create the new story we are longing for.


WHAT: Six  two-hour sessions using "The Great Turning: From Empire to

Earth Community" and study group material for the book
WHEN:  l0:00 AM to Noon, the last Wednesday morning of each month

beginning January 31 until June 27
WHERE: Olympia Unitarian Universalist Church

2200 E End St NW Olympia

This interfaith study/discussion group will be hosted by Olympia Unitarian Universalist Adult Education. The cost is $10.00 registration fee for those who are able plus the price of the book

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Facilitators: Sr. Mimi Maloney
                 Pat Lisoskie
                 Tom Joldersma

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Pacific Northwest Native Plants for Western Washington Gardens
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 02/20/2007 - 7:10am.
Washington Native Plant Society:

Pacific Northwest Native Plants for Western Washington Gardens


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