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Submitted by enpen on Sun, 08/05/2007 - 10:42pm.
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Submitted by Glasses on Sun, 08/05/2007 - 7:38pm.
I need to get this off my chest. I know that rants are not healthy, but in my ranting, I hope a message which will benefit all smaller non-profits on the Oly area can be discerned. I work at Bread and Roses (this fact drives most of my reasons for posting on olyblog). We are, as I'm sure many of you know, a small grass-roots non-profit which serves the poor and homeless with a modest facility. Modest is being euphemistic; we operate out of the first floor of an old house. Living-room = office. We love donations, but only the ones that we can appropriately use and efficiently store. We are open during regular business hours Monday through Friday, and although we are often busy, we are always happy to see if a given donation can be used by either ourselves at the non-profit (say, a printer) or by our guests (hygiene supplies, socks). If we cannot accommodate a donation, we can easily refer the donor to any number of agencies that are able to handle such a donation. Just today, Sunday, my porch (I say my because yes, I live here, too) has been inundated with clothing , speakers, an unusably dirty couch, a pasta maker, large unwieldy carpet scraps, and many more items of questionable use. Because of the nature of Bread and Roses, it is up me and any of my four coworkers to move all of this so we can be a functioning agency tomorrow. I do not honestly think the donor thought one of our guests could really use a pasta maker-it was the thoughtless act of one person schlepping their offal onto an already beleaguered non-profit. Please, I know we are not the only non-profit to have to deal with this. Let your friends and family know, we are happy to take inquiries about donations, but during business hours only! It takes time out of our ability to fulfill our mission to serve. Thank you.
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Submitted by Marcie on Sun, 08/05/2007 - 5:55pm.
As I perused my Voter's Guide a few minutes ago, I took much delight in some of the bios and pictures (go Prophet Atlantis!! You might want to consult a campaign manager next time you write a bio). But, as much as I try, I just can't remember the details about Matthew Green's previous departure from the council. I remember some sort of verbal threats and aggressive behavior, but I don't remember the details. Maybe there's someone out there that has a better memory or can help me find out more info...
Submitted by Marcie on Sun, 08/05/2007 - 5:55pm.
As I perused my Voter's Guide a few minutes ago, I took much delight in some of the bios and pictures (go Prophet Atlantis!! You might want to consult a campaign manager next time you write a bio). But, as much as I try, I just can't remember the details about Matthew Green's previous departure from the council. I remember some sort of verbal threats and aggressive behavior, but I don't remember the details. Maybe there's someone out there that has a better memory or can help me find out more info...
Submitted by Rob Richards on Sun, 08/05/2007 - 3:35pm.
(This is an amazing summation of our stance on this issue, so I'm reposting Drew's words here, By "our" I mean the PPU and other interested parties that took part in a meeting about the police recently.)
» Perspective new Submitted by DrewHendricks on Sun, 08/05/2007 - 2:18pm. That said, not all of you guys "get it" and probably never will; Police do not pick on people equally, they pick on people selectively - as does any other species of bully. If you have been consistently picked on your whole life, you tend to see it as normal and outrage wanes. If you get picked on suddenly, and that experience correlates with advocacy of deep political change, you will also experience outrage waxing (growing). If you're never picked on at all, you could over-analyze the "cycles of hatred" and equate an inflamatory sign held on a street corner for an hour - with a TASER carried on a belt 10 hours a day for four days a week. What Wally (and I) "hate" are not the people who become cops, but the choice to be a cop. We "hate" what is done, not who people are. That's a distinction that quickly gets lost in most of this discussion, so I'll suggest that we drop the hate/love dichotomy because we have something far more important to consider. How are we going to organize our community to achieve security, while either holding police officers accountable for their actions, or else making their job obsolete?
Submitted by Sarah on Sun, 08/05/2007 - 9:41am.
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