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Submitted by Rob Richards on Thu, 01/24/2008 - 9:15pm.
Jan 25 2008 - 6:00pm Jan 25 2008 - 9:00pm 
Sponsored by: The Center for Community Based Learning and Action and the Peoples Legal Defense Fund WHERE: The Olympia Center - 222 Columbia St NW in downtown Olympia WHAT: This will be a moderated conversation for the whole community on what happened at the port and why. Various groups will be represented and willing to answer questions. The goal is to achieve some closure on the events around the protests and to move into the future, not divided, but as a community. Hope to see you all there. |
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What various groups?
Submitted by security_six on Thu, 01/24/2008 - 9:30pm.Will the city be there or were invited? Could be a good thing to have this meeting...
"It's okay to be armed"
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well,
Submitted by Rob Richards on Thu, 01/24/2008 - 9:32pm.makes sense...
Submitted by security_six on Thu, 01/24/2008 - 9:37pm."It's okay to be armed"
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Missed It
Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Sat, 01/26/2008 - 4:17pm.me too!
Submitted by Rob Richards on Sat, 01/26/2008 - 5:11pm.I made early offers to help with organization of WTO type
Submitted by Mike on Sun, 01/27/2008 - 12:47pm.legal action, including making contact with the attorneys who won some of those important cases against the Seattle PD, but I felt snubbed. I don't think the attorneys who responded to my contacts were invited to the community events and I have backed away from any involvement with the legal action. I am not likely to offer any further assistance with the cases because, as a freelance paralegal business, I do not want to look foolish when I am making contacts to law firms and there is no followup.
I have trouble understanding turning away an offer of pro bono or zero upfront legal assistance from businesses and firms that are engaged in legal issues every working day, but there it is.
I have no doubt that the folks who continue to work on the port issues are well-meaning, but I have felt that the actions of OPD belong in the courts and any community building that needed to be done would have to proceed in the context of establishment of a citizen oversight board through litigation and negotiation.
As Frederick Douglass has noted: Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
No worries, Mike
Submitted by Rob Richards on Sun, 01/27/2008 - 12:56pm.good to hear.
Submitted by Mike on Sun, 01/27/2008 - 3:48pm.