Come join your fellow citizens, bloggers, and other concerned parties at the Olympia School District's Knox Center for a community forum to discuss the ongoing budget crunch. Be heard! (More info here.)

Terra Commons presents:

With Heather C. Flores
Presentation and Book Signing
May 6th Traditions Café
7-9pm Donations Welcome

Food Not Lawns combines practical wisdom on ecological design and community-building with a fresh, green perspective on an age-old subject. Activist and urban gardener Heather Flores shares her nine-step permaculture design to help farmsteaders and city dwellers alike build fertile soil, promote biodiversity, and increase natural habitat in their own "paradise gardens."

Tonight's event will also be a seed and plant swap. Bring your seeds and plants to share!

For more information contact Michael (360) 866-1331 terracommons@gmail.com www.terracommons.us

Jorge Martín, international leader of the Hands Off Venezuela Campaign to speak in Olympia on Wednesday, May 7th at 7:30 P.M at the Olympia Free School at 610 Columbia. (Columbia and Legion, downtown Olympia)

Topic: The Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, and the Present and Future of a 21st Century Left in Bolivia, Ecuador and Latin America.

Discussion to follow!

Jorge Martín, born in Barcelona, Catalonia, has been involved in the international solidarity with the Venezuelan revolution from the very beginning. He was a founding member of the international Hands Off Venezuela campaign, of which he is now the international secretary. He has written extensively on the Bolivarian revolution and has traveled around the world speaking in its defense. He has visited Venezuela often, participating in meetings and forums and holding discussions with revolutionary activists. He has been actively involved in the movement of occupied factories in Venezuela."

No Charge!

For more information, contact Peter Bohmer, bohmerp@evergreen.edu

Thursday May 8th at 6 pm at Traditions Cafe at 5th and Water street. Contact Beth Doglio for info: 570-8804.

Explore climate change and sustainability issues with Climate Solutions and visiting delegates from Olympia's sister city, Santo Tomas, Nicaragua. Great Family Event!

If you have ever had the desire to experience hand drumming and percussion then this series of upcoming classes is for you.

When 6:30pm Thursday
May 1st, 8th, 15th and 22nd
Where Yenney’s West Side Store
1404 Harrison Ave, Olympia
Cost All 4 days for only $40

To serve you better class size is limited so please call now to reserve your place.

We guarantee a fun learning experience. Classes will be limited in size to provide you with the individual attention you deserve so call or email now to reserve your place. Mobile 208 660 7197 Email Michael@DrumaticInnovation.com

Also you can visit our website www.DrumaticInnovation.com

Dr. Norman Finkelstein is a renowned scholar and author of several books, most recently Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History. The son of holocaust survivors, Dr. Finkelstein has thoroughly and famously debunked cherished myths and pseudo-scholarship around the Palestine–Israel conflict and holocaust studies.

His tireless efforts for truth and justice have made him the target of an attack campaign spearheaded by Alan Dershowitz.

“[Beyond Chutzpah] is in fact the best compendium that now exists of human rights violations in Israel and the blocking of diplomacy by Israel and the United States...[a] very careful scholarly book, as all of [Prof. Finkelstein’s] work is. Impeccable.” —Noam Chomsky

For information about Norman Finkelstein visit www.normanfinkelstein.com. On the silencing of ex-Presidents, diplomats, congress members, and Jewish and Arab activistsand academics participating visit Jewish Voice for Peace’s www.muzzlewatch.com.

LIMITED SEATING, TICKETS REQUIRED. Free for Evergreen students. (Tickets must be picked up at TESC Bookstore) General admission: $7 advance, $10 at the door Tickets available at Last Word Books (211 4th Ave E) and ticketswest.com

Renowned activist-scholar Norman Finkelstein will speak in Olympia on Thursday, May 8, on "Israel and Palestine: Roots of Conflict, Prospects for Peace."

Dr. Finkelstein is the author of several books, most recently Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and Abuse of History. The son of holocaust survivors, Dr. Finkelstein has thoroughly and famously debunked the cherished myths and pseudo-scholoarship used to excuse the Israeli occupation and oppression of Palestinians.

Professor Finkelstein was recently the target of a much-publicized tenure battle at DePaul University. Despite being hailed by DePaul as a "prolific scholar and outstanding teacher," Finkelstein was denied tenure following a vicious smear campaign spearheaded by celebrity lawyer/torture advocate Alan Dershowitz.

Finkelstein's work has been hailed by activists such as Amy Goodman and Noam Chomsky, as well as by preeminent holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg.

His struggles have highlighted the ideological attacks on academic freedom by Israel apologists and have exposed the violent, illegal, and immoral nature of US/Israeli aggressions in the Middle East.

He is also the subject of a forthcoming documentary, American Radical.

****LIMITED SEATING. TICKETS REQUIRED****

Tickets are FREE for Evergreen students. (Available at the Evergreen Bookstore with ID)