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Submitted by enpen on Sat, 03/03/2007 - 11:21pm.
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Submitted by Phan on Sat, 03/03/2007 - 9:30pm.
Mar 3 2007 - 9:30pm Mar 10 2007 - 12:00am Saturday, March 3, 2007 Last year the military exported war and occupation through the Port of Olympia in broad daylight. The Olympia community responded with strong resistance. Fort Lewis was scared enough to avoid Olympia this year and has decided to export war through Tacoma instead, under the cover of darkness. Army Stryker vehicles began moving to the Port of Tacoma late Friday night, early Saturday morning and are not yet finished. Tacoma Port Militarization Resistance (PMR) is working with Olympia PMR to protest and stop the shipment of more military vehicles (and consequently, more troops) to Iraq.
Submitted by Summerisle on Sat, 03/03/2007 - 8:49pm.
Totally arbitrary, I won't be upset if you delete this as against policy.
» Recently, an Olyblogger who shall remain nameless (Chad360) described another blogger's speaking about using civil disobediance as "acting like a terrorist". My impression is that the "acting like a terrorist" part comes from advocating something that Chad personally sees as Not Nice. So here's a guide on How to Act like a Terrorist, Olympia style. I drive a car, yes it's true, and sometimes I'm not nice, really not nice, on the roundabouts, specifically after driving for a long time and facing people who don't know how to use them. I want to advance my position, literally, without much regard for other drivers, although what I'm doing is safe and probably legal. But, hey, I'm acting like a terrorist. Damn aggressive drivers! You're one step away from Al-Qaeda! I some times go to the express lane at the super market without knowing for sure that I have less than twelve items. It's my firm belief that I should use the express lane based on a sense that I'm *probably* not over the limit. If people around me stared or something I'd probably ignore them. If a person is behind me who has two items, I'll still stay in the lane and, what's more, won't let them go ahead of me. I'm pushing beliefs that may be unpopular, my idea of usage of the express lane, on an unwitting populace. I am acting like a terrorist. Keep a record of me at Safeway or Top Foods because you never know what an evil man like me would do. I return videos late. Sometimes I think to myself: is it worth it to return a movie at this particular time. I can take the hit monetarily, right? So, for almost arbitrary reasons, for the benefit of my own convenience, I push my belief on Olympia that I should be entitled to have this movie, which other people might want to see, for more days than I should rightfully be able to. Not only that but I'm Breaking The Law because I only agreed to keep the movie for a set number of days. Clearly, I Am Acting Like A Terrorist. The people at Rainy Day should quiver when they see me, and not in a good way either, because next thing you know I might start overturning CD racks and burning LPs with a zippo lighter in a big pile on the floor.
Submitted by Rick on Sat, 03/03/2007 - 7:20pm.
Mar 3 2007 - 7:30pm 
Submitted by Rick on Sat, 03/03/2007 - 11:26am.
Mar 7 2007 - 6:30pm Mar 7 2007 - 8:30pm WE NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU Your participation is key to this study. The City of Olympia and Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) are partnering on a joint study of city street and state highway systems on the west side of Olympia. The study will evaluate how well the systems work together to support the diverse transportation needs of the west side, now and in the future. What’s the problem? Current street and highway networks on Olympia’s west side hinder timely emergency response, efficient transit service, and pedestrian and bicycle access. We need to more evenly distribute traffic, and provide access to planned growth areas. What’s the study goal? The study will result in a package of improvements and programs to meet the future mobility needs of transit, bike riders, walkers, cars and trucks traveling to and through Olympia’s west side. Join us at one of the Public Workshops to: • Learn about this study.
Wednesday, March 7, 2007 -- OR --
Thursday, March 15, 2007 (Two identical workshops are planned for your convenience.) FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Kathy McCormick For information about this project: www.trpc.org/westolympia or the Washington State Department of Transportation’s website at: www.wsdot.wa.gov
Submitted by Rick on Sat, 03/03/2007 - 11:13am.
Mar 6 2007 - 7:00pm FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Cindy Corrie Palestinian Nonviolent Leaders to Speak in Lacey Tuesday, March 6th, 7 PM, at St. Martin’s University, Worthington Center, 5300 Pacific Ave. SE Feryal Abu Haikal and Mohammed Khatib, two leaders of the Palestinian nonviolent resistance movement whose struggles have received worldwide attention, will speak Tuesday, March 6th, 7 PM, at St. Martin’s University. Their free talk, Grassroots, Nonviolent Resistance to Israeli Apartheid in Palestine, will be presented at the Worthington Conference Center at 5300 Pacific Avenue, SE, in Lacey. Abu Haikal and Khatib, currently on a nationwide speaking tour, both live in West Bank communities that are immediately threatened with destruction and expulsion by the Israeli military and settlers. They will share their personal experiences mobilizing their communities to nonviolently resist occupation and discrimination. Feryal Abu Haikal, an educator and 60 year-old mother of eleven children, recently retired after over a decade as headmistress at the Qurtuba School in Hebron's old city. The school serves 100 Palestinian children. Some of the most extreme Israeli settlers have taken up residence in Hebron's old city and regularly attack Palestinian residents in order to drive them from their homes and communities. Qurtuba School serves as a model of nonviolent resistance to Israeli military occupation. Mohammed Khatib is a leading member of the town of Bil'in's Popular Committee Against the Wall. He has been a principal organizer of Bil'in's creative, two-year, nonviolent struggle to prevent both the construction of Israel's apartheid wall on village land and the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements. The community of Bil'in has worked closely with Israeli activists in a joint, popular struggle. The March 6th Lacey event is organized by the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice in cooperation with St. Martin’s University and is endorsed by Veterans for Peace Chapter 109 (the Rachel Corrie Brigade) and the Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project.
Submitted by enpen on Sat, 03/03/2007 - 9:38am.
from a flyer Decorate this Postcard Stage 1: Anonymously mail a secret you have never told to: Secret Box (write, decorate & illustrate the secret) Stage 2: The postcard secrets will be hung downtown on the corner of 4th Ave and Franklin in Dumpster Values. We would like to honor our struggles, our pain, and our power as a community in an attempt to stat to care for one another.
Submitted by enpen on Sat, 03/03/2007 - 8:49am.
Mar 21 2007 - 6:30pm Mar 21 2007 - 8:00pm Kathleen Flenniken began as a civil engineer and hydrologist, then added the skills of a poet and began to teach creative writing. She was born in Richland and worked on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, but is now a poet, teacher and co-editor and president of Floating Bridge Press, which is dedicated to publishing Washington State poets. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Iowa Review, The Southern Review, Mid-American Review, Farm Pulp, , and Poetry Daily. Her first collection, Famous (2006, University of Nebraska Press) won the 2005 Prairie Schooner Prize. As always, the 45 minutes is an open mic for the Oly Poetry community to share.
Submitted by anarchoprimate on Sat, 03/03/2007 - 6:11am.
Mar 3 2007 - 12:11pm Mar 3 2007 - 7:00pm Military vehicles are coming through the Port of Tacoma en route to Iraq. The military's decision to send convoys in the middle of the night on Friday is an obvious response to the militant resistance they encountered May 2006 at the Port of Olympia, which was met with pepperspray and other methods of assault as well as 22 arrests of civil disobedience activists, and a reaction to the recent organizing in preparation for resistance to the next military shipment. 50+ military vehicles were observed Friday night, including 22+ Stryker vehicles, in addition to the other hummers, trucks, soldiers, and vehicles with missiles. Up to 300 vehicles may be expected in total this weekend. The war machine is in our backyard. Be present and take action now. We anticipate activists from throughout the Northwest. Port of Tacoma resistance meetup Sat 3/3 at 12 noon inside Port of Tacoma at E 11th & Port of Tacoma Rd, near terminal 4 To get to Port of Tacoma: I-5 to exit 136 B (Port of Tacoma) Follow to Port of Tacoma Rd Take Port of Tacoma Rd until E 11th. Left on E 11th Follow until Milwaukee. Find our people and park there. If you can't come to the meeting, come to the port as soon as possible. The military knows they're not welcome in Olympia, and they need to know that Tacoma will not be complicit in their plans for war. Regardless of the tactics we choose, we must do something. They are counting on your absence.
Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Sat, 03/03/2007 - 1:27am.
I have received information that there is a convoy of Stryker vehicles assembled at Terminal 4 in Tacoma.
» [update: carpool to Tacoma. Today, March 3rd, 2007, at 11am, from the old Rainy Day location in the parking lot at the intersection of Division and Harrison.] |
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