Native American performance artist James Luna will be visiting the TESC campus and presenting his show on Friday, April 26 at 8:00 pm. This event is free of charge to Evergreen students. Students may reserve seats (one seat per student) by putting their name on a reserved list at the COM Building box office from 12-3 M-F or by calling 867-6833. Faculty may reserve seats for their entire program by emailing their class list to me with the request. Tickets are not handed out in advance. Students may pick up their tickets on the evening of the performance beginning at 6:30 by showing their current Evergreen ID card. Tickets not picked up by 7:45 are released to the general public. Students may also just show up at the Longhouse for the performance and received a free ticket as available on a first come first serve basis. Non-Evergreen students may purchase a ticket for $5.

[via omjp]

Mark Engler, author of the excellent book, How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy, just published by Nation Books, will give a talk with discussion to follow:

Latin America: The End of Neoliberalism and the Battle Over the Global Economy

Mark's talk will be this Tuesday, April 22nd from 11:15 A.M. to 12:30 P.M. in Sem II, D1105.

Today the Evergreen Police Services Community Review Board, which is made up of students, staff, and faculty at Evergreen released its report on the incident on Feb 14.

It is attached in PDF format on this thread.

Basically, these were the major findings of the Board:

• that the Evergreen police followed protocol, but the officer should have attempted to leave sooner and park her vehicle so it could have a quicker exit route, and
  
• the initial arrest was justified and was not based on racial profiling, given the evidence and witness statements the officer gathered at the scene, and that the officer went beyond what was necessary to attempt to gather more statements, even when the crowd was growing more hostile
  
• their should not have been only one officer on campus, and back-up should have been called sooner
  
• that event staff were not trained and/or did not follow protocol, an
  
• their was little to no communication prior to the event, between the police on campus and the event staff/student activities people responsible for planning the event
  
  

It should be noted that this report is only for the campus police, and the scope can not include Olympia police actions.

Intercity Transit has nearly finished installing camera systems on all of its regular coaches – almost 70 in all. Most of these installations involve seven cameras, while some shorter coaches have only five. All of them record video and audio information in a digital form for storage on a removable hard drive on the bus. The system records video on the bus for approximately 7 to 10 working days.

According to news stories (and Verint’s own website) these camera systems also wirelessly transmit the imagery to anyone with the knowledge and tools to make a wireless connection to the bus’ WiFi system, located above the driver’s head:

“In the event of a security incident, Nextiva Transit will allow supervisor and police vehicles to view live video from within the bus, enabling more effective actionable intelligence and emergency response.” 1

“Verint Systems Inc., a leading provider of analytic software-based solutions for workforce-enterprise optimisation and security, announced an agreement with Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) to enable the use of Verint Nextiva™ Wireless devices on MOTOMESH broadband wireless networks. (…) By deploying Nextiva wireless video management solutions on a Motorola mesh network, private security, law enforcement and emergency response personnel have immediate, high speed access to security video and data delivering heightened situational awareness to enable a more effective response.” 2

With the ability of the system to monitored live by those with the access tools, these systems have likely become a prime target for detectives seeking to identify those responsible for the Evergreen Uprising (Feb 15, 2008). Recent late night extensions of the routes to Evergreen have resulted in more “face time” for those who travel via bus to TESC.

When I was logging camera installations in the post-uprising weeks I noticed only 3 of the 30 buses seen on the Evergreen routes were NOT ones with camera systems installed. Prior to the uprising, it was rare for the buses on the 41 / 48 routes to have cameras installed. It is not known at this time whether this intelligence “take” has proved useful to the Sheriff’s Department, but one can imagine others who would find its data quite useful.

I've already begun to exploit this data pool by requesting bus video and audio from IT Bus #808, which in November 2007 was used to move Olympia Police into the Port of Olympia. Their conversations were quite telling...

C-SPAN’s “Road to the White House” Bus Tour Hits Campaign Trail to Track Action in 2008 Presidential Election

WASHINGTON (March 26, 2008) – Evergreen State College students will join the thousands who have toured C-SPAN’s Campaign 2008 Bus as part of the “Road to the White House” tour, when the bus stops at Evergreen State College on Thursday, April 3 from 1:30pm-3:00pm.

The 45-foot mobile production studio is on the campaign trail to promote and enhance C-SPAN’s comprehensive political coverage, traveling to major political events such as candidate debates and speeches in early primary states, touring state capitols, and also conducting educational programs for teachers and students. Since its January 2007 launch, the bus has been to 32 state capitals and 95 schools, where 278 elected officials, 2,750 teachers and 21,650 students have been on board.

The Olympia event, in partnership with Comcast, is part of the Bus’s inaugural “Road to the White House” tour, named after C-SPAN’s renowned political program that marks its 20th year on the air in 2008.

**Bus will be open to all students, faculty & local media. It will be at the bus loop.**

1:06AM
"Advise, there was a concert, several fights broke out, TESC is trying to take someone into custody, there is still a large crowd."

1:09AM
"We're in the area, Overhulse and Fireweed (CP) - We can't see anything. Can you be more specific?"

1:11AM
C30 arrives at CP (This is probably Deputy Gallagher, whose car is named in the WSP diagram - and is thus likely the one whose car is lost. Other reports refer to a female officer's car being lost, and this is the only female officer early on the scene for TCSO who sounds like a female on the recordings we have.)

1:17AM
"OK, go ahead and send Olympia, too." (says Lincoln 8, the Lt from TCSO)

1:18AM Time marked as start on most of the Olympia PD Reports

1:21AM
"How many units do we have (still) responding (Not yet here, but logged as on the way)?" Dispatch responds: "We have 6 Oly, 1 Tumwater, 2 County, and 3 State."

1:21AM (Dispatch reads back this time to tape)
"Uh, we're gonna have a problem here real quick"

1:21AM
"Charles 30 in the area." (Arriving at the actual scene of the event)

1:22AM (Dispatch reads back this time to tape)
"When Olympia comes in, let 'em know we need helmets, they're starting to throw stuff."

1:22AM
"Code 10 on County, for a Disturbance" (Says Dispatch)

1:22AM (Dispatch reads back this time to tape)
"We probably have a couple hundred here and it's growing."

1:26AM
OPD Arrives at McCann Plaza but can't figure out how to get down to the Gym.

1:27AM
C30 advises she'll show OPD how to come into the area if they meet here at Fireweed and Overhulse.

1:30AM
"Lincoln 8, (this is) 94 - where do you want the incoming units?" (NO RESPONSE)

1:32AM

Audio from the TESC Valentines Day Uprising - Nine One One calls.

021808 TESC Riot 911 ph call (Error in date is original to the file):

021508 TESC Riot Call to EVPD:

021508 TESC Riot 2nd EVPD Ph call:

Three people have been arrested in connection with the Feb. 14 Ded Prez riot at Evergreen. Two more arrest warrants have yet to be served. According to The Olympian Breaking News four out of five warrants were for TESC students, with the first arrest being at student housing this morning at 7:00.

These are images made of the CAPCOM (Capital Communications) calls to 9-11 dispatch, showing who called and from what cell, where that cell phone was at the time of the call, and what dispatch did in relation to the call over the course of the evening. Enjoy!