If you haven't stopped by Dumpster Values and seen the postcard-art-your-secret community project going on, I would highly encourage you to change your formerly misguided ways.  And while you're at it, create a postcard, divulge your secret.

Have you ever wanted to be a part of a grassroots collective in Olympia, while learning how to run a unique publication?

Here is you chance to get involved with a local independent publication in collaboration with Olympia Free School.

The Free School aims to provide classes, workshops, programs, and events committed to free, non-coercive, and non-hierarchical education. The Free School promotes a safe environment supportive of self-directed learning – for all ages. And Natural

Learning for the past 2 years has been our medium for informing the community about our classes and other educational alternatives.

Currently Natural Learning needs to fill three coordinator positions to make Free School’s catalog a continual dependable and resourceful publication of the community. Experience with non-profit groups in the areas of writing, fundraising, editing, advertising, or publishing are beneficial, however certainly not required. We are also willing to train the right candidates for these positions, for those with strong interest.

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There will be a final meeting to work out the details for the Westside ARTSWALK (3) this SUN (25) 4pm @ Media Island (816 Adams)
We will be hammering out some final details (secrete cafe, sound equipment, ect) and there will be flyers (and maps perhaps) to pick up for distribution.  It is very important that a lot of people show to this meetup so that the 31st goes off smoothly.  If you would like to more involved with collective this is a great opportunity to learn more about what were doing.

if you would like to receive our stout newsletter email raccooncollective@gmail.com with the subject: foofoo

Be sure to check here for new project posts and the latest news daily www.raccooncollective/blogspot.com

Have you ever wondered why there is a pipe spewing fresh artesian water out of a parking lot in downtown Olympia? Well wonder no more!
On tuesday march 27th feel free to bring food for a potluck meal at 6:30, then at 7:30 Jim Ingersoll will tell the tale of the well.

Jim is a psychologist in our community for over 30 years, and has been coordinating Olympia's pilgrimage toward securing a publically owned artesian vest pocket park for the last 14 years. He will share a short film about the well and talk some on that subject and there will be time for questions. we hope to be done by about 8:30. this evening will take place on cooper point at  3723 36th ave NW.

any donations will go towards the new well project and would be greatly appreciated.

DIRECTIONS to Sol Ascendente at 3723 36th ave NW:

Coming from downtown go up the Harrison hill and go all the way to cooper point road and take a right. follow cooper point past kaiser/french road, on your right you will see a Texaco gas station, go less than 1/4 mile around the corner and take a left on 36th ave NW. Go 0.8 miles on 36th then take a slight left onto 36th loop and a left up the first driveway. up the driveway we are the 3rd house (blue roof).

If you have any questions please feel free to email flyfreeasabird@comcast.net

 

"water the basis of life... -Scott"

Hiya All-- I just love these quotes, and the last one is >so< OlyBlog.

Quotes

• "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Magic."

• "The truth, as always, will be far stranger."

• "The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. "

• "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. "

• "Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering."

• "How inappropriate to call this planet Earth, when clearly it is Ocean."

• Of UFOs: "They tell us absolutely nothing about intelligence elsewhere in the universe, but they do prove how rare it is on Earth."

• "Somewhere in me is a curiosity sensor. I want to know what's over the next hill. You know, people can live longer without food than without information. Without information, you'd go crazy"

from online

How 'bout that,

Eco City Olympia (ECO) will be giving two presentations on Permaculture activism and Ecocity Development in Oly this weekend.  The first will be SAT 5:00pm-7:30 at the Freeschool (610 Columbia St) and the second will be on SUN 1:00pm-3:00 in the Mix 106 Conference room next to Ottos Cafe.  Please come and learn about what happening right now and please pass this info along to others.

If you would like to join our update list just send a email to ecocityolympia@gmail.com with the subject: visionary
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"Olympia is a great place so lets make it better"

P.S.  VOTE META FOR MAYOR!!!!
The obstacle is the Path. --Zen proverb

Email to Brian Baird Brian, how can citizens mobilize to start a citizen vote to stop the "war"(or whatever it is called officially) in Iraq, and change the US foreign policy? Please advise. American citizens are stakeholders in this process (the US foreign policy & "war" in Iraq/Middle East), and our will is not being represented. My goal is to create a public information directory that details the process of conducting a national vote on the Iraq issue, and then create a convocation on the whole of the US foreign policy. So, how do citizens (like me) start a vote process like this?

From this article; by Wes Enzinna, (publish date April 2, 2007)

The Revolution Will be You-Tubed

With top-ranked titles like Dancing Hamster Man, The Shining: Trailer Mash Up and Monsters Are Waiting--Ha-Ha, you'd think YouTube is all spoofs and stupid pet tricks. But things can get serious fast at the video-sharing website. Consider Give Peace a Chance--Tacoma Police Riot, a raw and dramatic documentary of recent clashes between police and antiwar activists in Washington State. Viewed by more than 100,000 people to date, this and other protest videos from Tacoma are proof that YouTube is good for more than pranks and soft porn. Peace activists are leveraging the site to reach new audiences and counter bias of their actions in mainstream media.  (. . . )

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When I was a kid attending Roosevelt on the Eastside of Oly, there was a joke that was told and retold. All these years later the enigma of this exchange still haunts my mind:

Kid #1: Guess what?
Kid #2: What?
Kid #1: That's what!

Now, just exactly what does this mean? And please don't answer, "That's what!" In college I found myself wondering what Al Camus would've said about this.

Interesting article, can't say that I necessarily agree on all their points, but I must applaud their tone.

"A global and social transformation is taking place being manifested through the media, television, corporations, government agencies, the United Nations, and the educational system. The agents of change and the social engineers wish to purge our children's beliefs, value systems, their independence and individuality; their aim being to replace them with more global beliefs, universal values, and interdependence thus molding their fragile little minds, shifting them into group think. All the while with the state trying to undermine parental authority and influence, playing a greater role in a child's life and contributing to the further breakup of the family.

There is a battle on for our children's hearts and minds. With the educational system assuming direct control and responsibility for the development of children's attitudes and values, and through mental health screening, the government will be incorporating social and emotional development, a place where it does not seemingly belong. John Dewy, considered to be the father of progressive education said, “the society or groups is most important, and that independent individualists have a form of insanity.” Much of his teachings have become dominant in the American public school system..."Read More...