Let’s start with a dream, sometime in the future. The dam has been removed and the river is flowing. The Marine Terminal, Percival Landing and the Yacht Club are being scoured by artesian springs and wells with minimal dredging. East Bay has been cleaned up, the upper beach has been…
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Concerned community members are running a ballot initiative to grant Budd Inlet and the Deschutes River watersheds legal rights. By granting legal standing to our watersheds, we acknowledge the intrinsic value of the natural world and its essential role in supporting life on Earth. By signing the petition, you are…
Women’s Wisdom – June 2 – 10 AM- 12PM – New Traditions. Join us as we connect through song and utilize our group wisdom to co-imagine a new culture of normalizing and honoring women’s life transformations. Enjoy being guided through exercises to release your voice, small group conversations, wisdom songs…
As people of faith and conscience, we cherish the beauty of Washington State and are committed to caring for the diversity of people and creatures who live here. Together, we can protect our communities and the environment by voting “No on Initiative 2117” in November.
Whole Washington, a grassroots coalition of healthcare professionals and volunteers, kicked off its series of Town Halls, “Let’s Make Healthcare Happen,” at the Olympia Center on April 25. Formed in November 2016, Whole Washington endorses, organizes and fights for federal and state-based universal, single-payer healthcare that puts people over profits.…
Reprinted with permission from AntiWar.com An Army officer working at the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has resigned in protest of the US’s “unqualified” support for the Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. Maj. Harrison Mann posted his resignation letter on LinkedIn and said it was initially distributed within the…
In 1986, Washington State adopted WAC 173-591 – Reservation of Future Public Water Supply for Thurston County – pursuant to the Water Resources Act of 1971. It followed the year after the legislature had passed RCW 90.44 to regulate public groundwater, which included a provision that recognized the need to…
Quality Compost Production and Recycling Gary L. Kline Clean Black Lake Alliance (CBLA) is a citizen’s group seeking an ecosystem management approach to restoring the health of Thurston County’s largest lake and its associated watershed and wetlands. Among the 5 major goals of CBLA is a call for mechanical harvesting…
Although Donald Trump, as president, proclaimed in his 2020 State of the Union address that he had produced a “blue-collar boom” in workers’ wages, the reality was quite different. Using his control of the executive branch of the U.S. government, Trump repeatedly undermined the wages of American workers by blocking raises…
No In a May 1 article (the article) in The Cooper Point Journal (CPJ), Sako Chapman falsely claimed that “TESC AGREES TO DIVESTMENT” in the headline. This has resulted in the spread of false and misleading information around the country. (On May 4, after the article had circulated widely online,…
Olympia – Approximately 350 concerned Suget Sound citizens gathered in the rain on the morning of May 4th to protest the ongoing war in Gaza. The event was organized by Palestine Action of South Sound (PASS), a group that formed in the immediate aftermath of the October 7th attacks and…
On Friday and Saturday April 26 and 27, a fairly random sample of people in downtown Olympia took a “penny poll.” Each person was given ten pennies to represent the federal budget and invited to allocate them among six jars to show how they would spend the federal budget. Here…
Either nuclear weapons kill us or we move beyond them, soon. Via mass death or the building a new security system, the nuclear age is finished. The nuclear deterrence system that the world presently relies upon for its security is rotten, evil, completely unworkable, and obsolete. It is nuclear war…
The Green Party was conceived in the 1990’s as a kind of ideal party, one free from the defects of the D’s (too warlike) and the R’s (too oppressive), and unlike either of them, one fully committed to preserving our environment. It has attracted many followers and much international success.…
“Israel’s occupation of Palestine is the longest and one of the most deadly military occupations in the world. For decades it has been characterized by widespread and systematic human rights violations against Palestinians. The occupation has also enabled and entrenched Israel’s system of apartheid imposed on Palestinians,” said Agnes Callamard,…