Isn't that a great title for a group contract at TESC?

or, "art for community planners;  a comprehensive "how to" recipe for the production of useful community space at virtually no cost to society"

~Integrate skills building workshops with tools like drawing, illustration, model-building, and Google "Sketch-Up".

~Encourage public collaboration with artists, designers, engineers, and planners, to save costs associated with the production of designs and plans required by the current community planning and development process.

~Formalize the design/build process and tool-set for non-professionals.

~Provide technical services to nonprofits and governments for the design/build process, focusing on resource development and capital facilities planning.

So, in short, a "call to arms" to all local artists that seek work in urban planning and/or community development.

I have found that the biggest obstacle to public participation in community development and/or urban planning is the prolific lack of skills in drawing and the ability to share visual ideas.

I seek to coordinate public & private funding into a foundation to fund artists in the work of public planning & development.

-any takers?

A young student from Olympia, Washington was given an english assignment to define what the American identity is. It seemed simple enough to spout the rhetoric of centuries past: "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," throwing in a few "freedoms" here-and-there. Unfortunately, that is not the reality of what is uniquely modern America. The perception of today's America abroad is stained with the wars and poorly operated foreign relationships of days-gone-by. There are starving youth in Africa, and wounded masses on the streets of Iraq and Somalia who see us Americans as their enemies. They are right. We have turned our backs on the wrong-doings, leaving countries torn apart for nothing more than money and oil. We are changing this reality. The American Identity resolves to wash the blood of innocence off our golden name, and bring an ultimate peace to our beautiful world.

June 11, 2009 from 7:00pm to 8:00pm
The Loft on Cherry
525 Cherry Street SE
Olympia, Washington 98501

*We are going to set a strategy for the actions we are prepared to take. I want to make take this group all the way, and really change the world. It's going to take a village to raise this baby up! (Suggested donation of $5 per person to offset the rental of the space.)

Visit TheAmericanIdentity.com for more information!

Remembering Willi

Thursday March 5, 2009, 7 pm

The Evergreen State College, Seminar II Building, Room E1105

A founding faculty member of The Evergreen State College, Willi Unsoeld was a philosopher, theologian and mountaineer. He was well known for the first ascent of the West Ridge of Mt. Everest with Tom Hornbein, for which President John F. Kennedy presented them the Hubbard Medal, The National Geographic Society’s highest honor.

Join members of the Evergreen community for a night of storytelling as we honor and remember Willi Unsoeld, who with student Janie Diepenbrock, perished in a slab avalanche on Mt. Rainier on March 4, 1979.

Note: While this event is not part of the Unsoeld Seminar Series, information on this year’s Series is located at http://www.evergreen.edu/events/springcolloquium/home.htm

Contact:
Jason Wettstein
(360) 867-5213; wettstej@evergreen.edu

saw this sad story in the olympian.  What a terrible thing to do.

 this is some of the story

An audit at The Evergreen State College revealed that a professor with a study-abroad program to Chile hasn't accounted for at least $50,000 in student fees and other college money, and that he misrepresented the college by signing contracts with a Chilean company partly owned by his family.

"Israeli apartheid and occupation isn't going to end by itself - it will end when it becomes ungovernable and unmanageable." Anarchists Against the Wall was established in 2003 in response to Israel’s construction of the Separation Wall on Palestinian land in the Occupied West Bank. Activity began with a four-month protest tent in Mas’ha, where the wall was to leave 96% of the Palestinian village's land on the Israeli side. AATW continues to work with Palestinians in joint popular struggle and, throughout the West Bank. Efforts are coordinated through local Palestinian villages’ popular committees and are essentially Palestinian led. Anarchists Against the Wall believe it their duty as Israeli citizens to resist immoral policies and actions carried out in their name. “We believe that it is possible to do more than demonstrate inside Israel or participate in humanitarian relief actions. It is time to physically oppose the bulldozers, the army and the occupation.” Polokow will discuss the work of AATW and his own experiences in solidarity with Palestinians in villages in the West Bank. Under occupation law, people are indicted for simply participating in demonstrations and AATW activists are faced with mounting legal expenses to cover defense in Israeli courts. Donations in the evening are suggested to help meet legal costs for Palestinians and Israelis arrested in the course of non-violent protests against the Separation Wall being built on Palestinian land. Events will be held at Evergreen from 12pm to 1:30pm in Sem II room D1105 and at Traditions Cafe from 7pm to 8:30pm Sponsored at Evergreen by Students Educating Students About the Middle East, OMJP and Political Economy of the Media. Sponsored at Traditions Cafe by OMJP and the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice.

On Wednesday, February 4th, colleges across the nation will be speaking with community leaders about global warming and sustainable solutions for our future. The Evergreen State College is hosting a webcast "Solutions for the First 100 Days" on Global Warming solutions followed by a panel discussion with local leaders and citizen activists. This event is free and open to all interested or concerned community members. More information can be found at: http://www.evergreen.edu/sustainability/home.htm