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Now is the perfect time that our comrades, allies and supporters from Olympia, Cascadia, the US of A and beyond put pressure on the Evergreen administration to reinstate SDS as a student group, with full funding, complete rights and no strings attached.
Hereâs who you can put pressure on. You can make the demands listed above, and feel free to add in any more information (see below) you want. Wendy Freeman will be presiding over our appeal on May 21st, but Art Costantino and Les Purce both have been putting a lot of pressure on SDS.
Wendy Freeman
Director of the Career Development Center
360.867.6187
 freemanw@evergreen.edu
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 Northwest Winter Soldier May 31, 2008 at 12:00pm
Seattle Town Hall In 1971 Vets from the Vietnam War, organized by Vietnam Veterans Against the War, came together to provide testimony about the horrific events that occurred during the War. Many spoke about the killing innocent civilians, rape, and torture that they had witnessed and taken part in. Last month Iraq Veterans Against the War held a similar event in Washington D.C. IVAW Seattle Chapter 8 will be holding a regional Winter Soldier at Seattle's Town Hall on May 31st. The event will be followed by a march to the Federal Building. Our intent is to fill Town Hall to capacity then...
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1. Nader "Fight Back" Rally at TCC
Wed., May 14, 1:30 p.m.
Tacoma Community College (Building #3)
6501 S 19th St, Tacoma 98466
 http://www.tacomacc.edu/upload/files/abouttcc/CampusMap.pdf
$10 contribution/ $5 student/low-income (no one turned away)
For more info call: (206) 755-4262 or contact: events@votenader.org
2. Pre-Rally Reception w/ Ralph Nader
Wed., May 14, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
In the University District
Space is limited, RSVP now
$50 minimum contribution, suggested $100 contribution
for address and more info, call: (202) 471-5833 or contact: events@votenader.org
3. Nader "Fight Back" Rally at...
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At around 2:45 pm on Saturday, four demonstrators entered the main highway and briefly blocked traffic on the Kitsap County side of the Main gate at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor. The four demonstrators carried a banner that stated, âAbolish Nuclear Weapons.â They were immediately arrested by Kitsap County Sheriffs.
Soon after the four were arrested, six demonstrators entered the highway on federal property and were arrested by base security.
Those arrested by Kitsap County Sheriffs: Julia Rusk, of Bothell; Joy Goldstein of Vashon; Thomas Hodges, of Seattle; and Larry Kerschner, of Veterans for Peace, Chapter 109, of Pe Ell.
Those arrested by Naval Base security: Nicole...
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Nakba means the catastrophe, disaster or cataclysm. This is the word used to describe what happened to Palestinians with the establishment of Israel in 1948 and the resulting ethnic cleansing. In 1948, Israel destroyed over 450 Palestinian villages. The United Nations estimates over 700,000 Palestinians became refugees as a result. Now, sixty years after the war, Israel continues its policy of ethnic cleansing. The United Nations maintains 59 refugee...
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Speaking on the subject, "A Revolution of Values: Moving from a War Economy to a Peace Economy," Sheehan will address Seattle audiences about the need to challenge our current leaders in Congress and to move the country away from its militaristic response to international problems.
Five years after the invasion of Iraq, with more than 4,000 U.S. military deaths, and somewhere between 600,000 and 1.2 million Iraqi civilian deaths, it is clear that our elected officials, even after the resounding message sent by the people in the 2006 elections, are unwilling to end the devastation.
Cindy Sheehan has been a brave and unfaltering voice against the cowardice that continues to be...
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The Natural Resources Defense Council estimates Bangor holds 1,600 active stockpile nuclear warheads. Additionally, six of the Trident subs based at Bangor carry the operationally deployed D5 missiles fitted with up to twelve 475 kiloton warheads each. The last two subs, the USS Henry M. Jackson and USS Alabama are currently being retrofitted to carry the D5 missile, bringing the total to eight. As of 2007, the US nuclear arsenal is estimated to contain 5,736 active stockpile warheads. Between 400 and 480 U.S. warheads are deployed at U.S. bases in England, Holland, Germany, Italy, Belgium and Turkey.
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Gather at 8:30 a.m. at the Kitsap Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 4418 Perry Rd., Bremerton,...
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On the 66th Year of the Fall of Corregidor, May 6, 1942
Remember Corregidor, Heighten the Struggle for Equity and Justice, Fight Racism and Inequality
On May 6, 1942, after enduring one month of siege, air and artillery bombardment by the Japanese, the island fortress of Corregidor surrendered to the Japanese Imperial Army..
With the surrender of Corregidor, General Jonathan Wainright, USAFEE Chief was forced to formally surrendered the whole Philippines. With the fall of the Philippines, organized armed resistance by the USAFFE forces in the Philippines ceased to exist. The formal occupation of the Philippines by the Japanese Imperial forces for the next three years begun.
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The demonstration was organized by El Comite Pro-Amnistia General y Justicia Social (The Committee for General Amnesty and Social Justice). It was sponsored by a host of organizations — including immigrant-advocacy groups, human-rights organizations, student groups, churches, and labor. The theme of the event was "We are not undocumented. We are not illegal. We are workers." Many of this year's speeches focused on the growing outrage over how some police and other local officials treat immigrants. During the pre-march rally, Archbishop Alex Brunett told the crowd that the Catholic...
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Over 25,000 lILWU members held an 8 hour strike to protest the war in Iraq. The strike stretched down the west coast, from Seattle to San Diego, effecting 29 ports. The ILWU has a history of political activism, it was one of the initial unions to oppose the wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. However, the May Day strike was the first time in decades that an American union organized a strike in response to U.S. participation in a war. The union took a stand against both Democrats and Republicans, holding both parties equally responsible for funding the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. ...
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The march then headed to City Hall where people listened to more speakers. When the march set off again, it headed down one-way 4th Avenue into the heart of Downtown Olympia. When the march passed the US Bank, multiple rocks were thrown and multiple windows were shattered. The march continued onward and soon passed a Bank of America. Multiple rocks were thrown, multiple windows were broken. And then the police attacked.
Three people were singled out and arrested. As of now this author is only aware of these three. Undercover cops pulled out their pistols and pointed them at people. Many people were hit and shoved by the police.
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The International Longshore and Warehouse Union declared an eight-hour strike to protest the war in Iraq. Since the ILWU controls every port along the U.S. Pacific Coast, including Seattle and Tacoma, this strike demonstrates the collective power of workers willing to use it. The Union passed an antiwar resolution to stop work in all U.S. West Coast ports for 8 hours to protest the Democrats' and Republicans' continuing to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Seattleâs ILWU Local 19 endorsed an anti-war march along the waterfront. Fliers for the march read âNo Peace - No Work.â The rally called for an end to the war and highlighted the struggles of workers. One of the speakers at...
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ALL US PORTS ON THE WEST COAST WILL BE CLOSED MAY 1!!!!
No Peace - No Work!
End the war now -
Bring our troops home!
On May Day, the historic international working class holiday, there will
be two important labor marches that OWLS hopes you will join us at. The
first is a labor march against the war, and the second is a march to
support immigrant rights. Organized Workers for Labor Solidarity (OWLS) is
organizing contingents to participate in both. If you can be there with
us, bring your union jackets, picket signs, or banners. And your
co-workers! Hope to see you at either...
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Banners read:
Hands off Tyendinaga Mohawks
OPP = VPD (They're all gangsters)
Natives Resist State Oppression
Signs read:
Solidarity is Our Weapon
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A few photos of the action can be found here:
http://hammondface.blogspot.com/2008/04/this-didnt-happen.html
Two short bystander youtube videos of the action can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYTGMuVoBX8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzTcPaNCANs&feature=related
BACKGROUND
On Friday April 25th at 2:45pm EST Ontario Provicial Police (OPP) surrounded the quarries in Tyendinaga demanding the surrender of the Mohawks who were resisting an encroachment...
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I digress. The day before yesterday. Saturday the 26th. I have this staunch belief that people are good and that when they know that something is happening that is just wrong, they will stand up against it. So we take to the streets. Hey, they are making concentration camps and putting people in them! OK, so no they aren't extermination camps... does that make it alright? At what fucking point is what they are doing going to be the popular thing to protest? They are killing people. They are destroying the lives of thousands, they are ripping families apart. They are making 300,000 children in this country orphans and wards...
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The day began with a rally at People's Park in which any who wished to were allowed to speak. Most of the hour before the march was filled up with people talking on a megaphone about what they knew of the detention center. While people were speaking a cop who denied being a cop took pictures with not one but two telescopic cameras. Later a line of bike cops appeared behind him and waited. The march started and people stepped off the sidewalk and into the street. The bike cops arrived and told people to get on the street. No one listened and the march continued down MLK before heading towards downtown. The crowd, mostly made up of anarchists and...
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The march began at People’s Park and then passed through the Hilltop neighborhood as it made its way toward downtown. The 60 marchers first defied the cops and took to the streets, but then the cops forced them back onto the sidewalks. The marched targeted Wells Fargo Bank for its shareholdings in the GEO Group, the corporation that runs the for-profit detention center. When demonstrators reached Wells Fargo, the role of cops as defenders of private property/capitalism was crystal clear.
The building was cordoned off, and robo-cops lined the plaza, clubs drawn. Later, the march attempted to cross the 11th Street Bridge to get...
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Michael Randall Ealy Social Justice Foundation 9th Annual Luncheon and Meeting
We are asking for your testimony on the theme "JENA IS EVERYWHERE!"
Cross burnings, nooses, severed doll heads ... public displays of openly racist symbols are not limited to small towns like Jena, LA. But neither is the fight-back! Please come to this meeting to share with us your experiences confronting racist intimidation and/or indignities. As economic hard times cause many to look for scapegoats, we need to show racists and their silent supporters that their actions are not welcome ... here, Jena, everywhere!
Light lunch will be served; donations requested
For more info:
Michael Randall...
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Poor People's Solidarity Needed:
Attend Tacoma City Council on May 6 and let them know the King Shelter is a valuable community resource!
Stop Tacoma Gentrification: Attend Tacoma City Council on May 6 and let them know the King Shelter is a valuable community resource!
If you'd like to help prevent the King Shelter from being shutdown, please attend the City Council Meeting.
Tuesday, May 6
5 PM (meetup at 4, if you can)
Council Chambers,
First floor of the Tacoma Municipal Building
747 Market Street
Community members are asked to share their opinion on why the King Shelter is a valuable resource...
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