Stop the Struggle:

Understanding Emotional Eating and Finding Your Way to Freedom

Evening of Friday Septemeber 11, 2010

Olympia Center Building

For more information call (360) 350-7801

Are you tired of feeling out of control around food?

Do notice that at times you eat when you are not hungry?

Do you feel guilty during/after eating?

Do you know what you are “supposed” to eat and find that you struggle with making that a reality?

Do you have digestive and/or weight issues?

It's time to clear up struggles around food to Start living the life of your dreams!

In this workshop you will:

Learn, experience and discuss simple ways to permanently change the role that food plays in your life

The long awaited, and promised, US Social Forum "Cascadia 2 Detroit" Community Film, Art and Music Event! Films by Portland's B Media Collective! Music by Danny Kelly and friends! Photo Slide show by Berd Whitlock! Open Discussion! Vegan Pizza! Free! Please Join us! TONIGHT! 7PM. Quick teaser, Mic Crenshaw Hiphop video, made on the bus to Detroit! Fertile Ground -- 311 9th Ave. SE

From Pacific Citizen:

PNW Mill Workers, Descendents Sought For Historical Site Interpretation

Mill operations in Thurston County employed many Japanese Americans.

By Pacific Citizen Staff
Published August 20, 2010

Before World War II Issei mill workers lived and established roots in the Puget Sound area, but left behind a little known legacy, according to a historian who is searching for their descendents to reconstruct the area’s early Japanese American history.

   The same people who voted for and supported George W. Bush think America is going to hell in a handbasket. Evidently killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people is not enough to quell the fear in their compassionate hearts. So too, the torture, rape, and murder of innocent civilians in the Middle East does little to raise their sense of America being the last bastion of God's love. So it goes.

  Day in, day out. We need God in our schools. We need the 10 Commandments in every courtroom. We need the Confederate flag flying freely from every ......  Well, maybe not that one.  But all those Christian fundamentalists surely feel as though their God has somehow abandoned them. And they want him back. Oh, and they are so kind, considerate and compassionate that they also want you to want him back, too.

   Not your namby-pamby Jesus. Not him. He went around spreading goodwill towards his fellow men and women. Definitely not Allah. No, they mean that kick-ass God of the old testament who rained fire and brimstone down on all the slackers, sinners and heathen non-believers.  Yeah, that God!

   And it is so handy to have the modern day prophets, Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity. Why, I bet you thought, like I did, that maybe all the prophets died off back in the days of Moses, Abraham, John the Baptist, and Judas Iscariot. Oops! on that last one. Nope, they have been resurrected. But wait, isn't reincarnation a belief of those Muslims. Or is it the Egyptians? Oh I give up. All this religious fervor stuff leaves me with a headache and a hunger for biscuits and gravy.

  Stay tuned. I'm just getting warmed up.

my partner left olympia this morning to head out on his first bike tour!  he drove to spokane where he sold his van, and now he's going to ride from there to idaho.  the trip is being documented from the road at "Tales from Cowboy Dad," his first adventure in blogging.  i'm looking forward to following things from here, and thought some of you might be as well.

Good day. Here are some recent photos from the past couple of days or so. Included are photos from the peace vigil and around Percival Landing, as well as miscellaneous photos mostly from around downtown. Also included are some mouseovers (three mouseovers to be exact.)

Except for the first photos of the crow, which compose a mouseover, and the first photo of Percival Landing, the rest are in chronological order starting this Saturday morning and going back to Wednesday eve, until the phone camera photos (which start with "Islamophobia".) These are somewhat more random, and some go back further than this past Wednesday.

Cheers for peace, and happiness for all. May all beings be well! Bless the whole world, no exceptions!

Again, Good Day,
Berd

move cursor over image for "mouseover" effect:

Thank you Crow! (for being you)

Friday 27 August 2010, Percival Landing Scene
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Why the U.S. Supports Israel
http://stephenzunes.org/2002/05/01/why-the-u-s-supports-israel/

Stephen Zunes

May 1, 2002

In the United States and around the world, many are questioning why, despite some mild rebukes, Washington has maintained its large-scale military, financial, and diplomatic support for the Israeli occupation in the face of unprecedented violations of international law and human rights standards by Israeli occupation forces. Why is there such strong bipartisan support for Israel’s right-wing prime minister Ariel Sharon’s policies in the occupied Palestinian territories?

The close relationship between the U.S. and Israel has been one of the most salient features in U.S. foreign policy for nearly three and a half decades. The well over $3 billion in military and economic aid sent annually to Israel by Washington is rarely questioned in Congress, even by liberals who normally challenge U.S. aid to governments that engage in widespread violations of human rights–or by conservatives who usually oppose foreign aid in general. Virtually all Western countries share the United States’ strong support for Israel’s legitimate right to exist in peace and security, yet these same nations have refused to provide arms and aid while the occupation of lands seized in the 1967 war continues. None come close to offering the level of diplomatic support provided by Washington–with the United States often standing alone with Israel at the United Nations and other international forums when objections are raised over ongoing Israeli violations of international law and related concerns.

this event takes place in the Yard Birds parking lot in Centralia so it's not strictly hyperlocal but Yard Birds has gotten plenty of play on Olyblog,

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and here

Here's the billing from the Facebook page:

"Fun for the whole family! Music, games, t-shirts, food, popcorn, auction, and just added a car show! Please come by, have a great time and help raise money to save the YARD BIRD!!"

Plus, the Olympia Yard Birds was the original site of the Olympia Farmers' Market. They leased land next to one of their buildings for a dollar a year if I recall correctly.

Too bad this conflicts with the opening of Comics at The Crossroads: Art of The Graphic Novel but I am going to try to hit both.

Art Kitchen Presents TUSH! Burlesque and Press at the Loft on Cherry.

Also featuring local visual art, a photo booth, tasty treats and other sexy surprises. $15 at the door, 18 and over please

Put on your finest duds and join the party. Doors and art at 8pm, Show begins at 9pm sharp!

You don't want to miss this show!

Tush! Burlesque was formed in Olympia, Washington, in 2009. Tush! is a collective of sexy, vivacious, and creative women brought together by a shared vision to rebel against commercial beauty standards. We represent an authentic and unconventional array of body types, ages, colors, and cultural identities in a powerful, intelligent, and humorous way. Tush! strives to empower women, validating each individual representation of beauty while celebrating the diversity that defines what is sexy.

sponsored by: Bearded Lady, Duda Photography, Traditions & Belleza Ropa