This year’s seedling giveaway will be held Saturday, April 19, from 12:00 noon to 3:00 p.m. (or until supplies run out) at Huntamer Park in downtown’s Woodland Square. Species available this year include Pacific Dogwood, Frazier Fir, Ginkgo Biloba, Quaking Aspen and Red Leaf Japanese Maple. The seedlings, up to three feet in height, are limited to one per person, so bring the family!

Join three authors for a reading and signing of their new releases. Elizabeth Crane, winner of the Chicago Public Library's 21st Century Award, will read from "You Must Be This Happy to Enter: Stories." Nina Revoyr, winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book in Literature award, will read from "The Age of Dreaming: A Novel." Abraham Rodriguez, American Book Award winner, will read from "South by South Bronx." The books will be available for purchase. The publisher of the books is independent book publisher, Akashic Books.

THE BIRTH ATTENDANTS would like to invite you:

April 19th from 3-6pm to an Prison Doula Project Orientation Workshop
and April 20th from 1-4pm to a Volunteer Training/Consensus Workshop

@ The Olympia Freeschool
610 Columbia Street, Olympia, WA 98501!!!

The Birth Attendants is a non-profit organization working to restore health and justice into communities in western Washington State.

Are you interested in: Social Justice?
The Reproductive Justice Network?
Non-Profits Organizations?
Creating Zines?
Community Education?
Prisoner Advocacy?

The Birth Attendants Is Seeking:
Volunteers to support community education and outreach projects and to participate in upcoming events:

• Reproductive Justice Week of Action - April 16th- 23rd, 2008
• Secret Cafe/Benefit Show- May 17th, 2008

Our community education project links our vital work inside prisons to the greater issues surrounding incarceration and works toward creating pathways of knowledge for western Washington communities about incarceration and its effects.

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Date: april 21
Time: 4-6pm
Location: Media Island (816 Adams St. SE across from the library)

Help build the Collective Autonomy Net!

Tyson and Kirsten are traveling on passenger trains across the country to discover, connect and facilitate networks of people, places and projects
that are developing alternative economic architecture for do-it-yourself liberation. Come meet others interested in Collective Autonomy!

We see thriving modes of existence that are impervious to the demands of empire.
We’re learning that when we don’t need capitalism anymore, it will disarm itself, much to the dismay of the wealthy elite who control governments,
media and the stock market.
We want to show that our movement is much stronger and richer than we are led to believe. We want to encourage this vital activity by making solidarity apparent and by deepening transcontinental mutual-aid.

Lets discuss what’s happening, how you are a part of it and what else we can do.

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The Collective Autonomy Net (CAN) is a network that connects an intentionally decentralized movement. It exists simultaneously on the Internet and between real people and projects in our streets and gardens.
We use the term Collective Autonomy to refer to the myriad ways we can arrange counter-institutions: Food not Bombs, Really Really Free Markets,
Infoshops, Local Currencies, Guerilla Gardens, Free Skools, Bike Kitchens, Worker-owned Cooperatives…

Monday, April 21st

• Queer Organization Potluck -5:00 to 8:00 PM - TESC Longhouse Come share yummy food while you mingle and smooze with queer organizations. Open to everyone.

Tuesday, April 22nd

• Silvia Behrend - 5:00 PM - SEM II A2107 "Soul and Gender: The Dance Towards Wholeness"

Wednesday, April 23rd

• Free HIV testing! - 12:00 to 6:00 PM - SEM II A2109 provided by UCAN
• EQA meeting - 3:00 to 4:00 - SEM II C2107 - Discussion subject: PRIDE: what does it mean? Do we still need pride celebrations?
• Lesbian Safer Sex Workshop - 5:30 PM - Lecture hall 2 by Planned Parenthood of Olympia

Thursday, April 24th

• Speakers panel - 6:00 to 8:00 - CAB 3rd floor Solarium (Student Activities) "How to Queer Activism"

Friday, April 25th