After a long pause in enforcement against camping, the City of Olympia is resuming the practice of sweeping encampments on public property, particularly those which are most visible and near downtown. The city originally halted its practice of sweeps in September, after the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals determined that…
Posts published in “Issue: March 2019”
What it means to send drug addicts to prison in Washington Of the 18,000 people in Washington state prisons, maybe as many as 30-35 percent are there because of drug addiction. They could have been arrested for possession of a “controlled substance,” convicted of buying, selling or even sharing drugs;…
Promoting homelessness one eviction at a time: Even if you’ve never been evicted, we can all agree that three days is not enough time to access housing assistance resources or find a new place to live. None of us want to see another family or individual in the traumatic situation of housing instability....
By the time you read this, you will know which film won Best Picture of the year from the Academy of Motion Pictures. Personally, I have my fingers crossed for Black Panther. But while I don’t yet know the winner (I’m typing this with 14 inches of February snow on…
Removals and renewals: On February 20, the Washington State Conservation Commission held a hearing and unanimously decided to remove two supervisors of the Thurston Conservation District Board...
Conservation Districts have their own special election. All registered voters in Thurston County that live within Conservation District Boundaries are eligible. Parts of Yelm, Rainier and Tenino do not qualify. Those eligible may vote in person at TCD’s poll-site election on March 26. The poll-site will be open between 8…
Kira Davis never met King Thomas III, but she felt a connection to him that she couldn’t explain. “I just felt like he was there with me,” she said. “We were the same age. He was a true kid with passion, just like me.” King was shot and killed during…
Every one deserves your attention: Allie told the story of Owen Propes, a toddler in Tesuque, New Mexico, pictured on Facebook stuffing a tiny fistful of cereal—or maybe Goldfish crackers—into his mouth....
Venezuela in context: When the worker Nicolás Maduro was re-elected as President of the country on May 20, the international right wing unleashed all its demons....
Cuando el obrero Nicolás Maduro fue reelecto Presidente del país el 20 de mayo pasado, la derecha internacional desató todos sus demonios.
Cutting through the bullshit...
Julián Assange es un personaje de su tiempo: concibe y practica su profesión el periodismo basandose en principios como la libertad de expresión e información, la transparencia del ejercicio del gobierno, y ademas utiliza los recursos tecnológicos que caracterizan a la revolución de las telecomunicaciones, revolución que ha transformado las…
Julian Assange is a character of his time. He conceives and practices journalism based on principles such as freedom of expression and information, the need for transparency in the exercise of government, and the use of technological resources that characterize the telecommunications revolution, a revolution that has transformed the ways…
I was a Marxist and didn’t know it. A few weeks ago, my good neighbor told me he’s a Marxist. When asked what that meant, he said among contemporary political figures, Bernie Sanders’ viewpoint, though basically socialist, aligns well with Marxist philosophy. Supporting Bernie’s platform but ambivalent about his run…
A couple years ago I found myself in the kitchen of a white working-class organizer with decades of food service and movement building experience. Airen’s eye rolls, laughter, cursing, and ability to cook, strategize movement work and build relationship all at once offered me a place to reflect on the…
“We came to work. I know I’m not getting asylum because they don’t give you asylum for hunger,” a young migrant from Honduras told a reporter. “But us on the caravan would rather die fighting than sitting in Honduras waiting to starve or be killed.” A history of US intervention…
This morning my roommate told me that people, when they are screaming, bleeding to death in Iraq, usually scream about their families. Their wives, children, parents. He says he saw it on the internet. A website with movies taken by soldiers over there. Shows what war really is, he said,…
As truth seekers, we trudge through youth and try to learn the ways of this world. We see a messed up world and wonder how thinking humans continue to tolerate the ridiculous state of affairs. Our common sense tells us that we can have a much better world —a world…
The March 2019 interview on “Glen’s Parallax Perspectives” series explains a scheme proposed by real estate developers and investors that will seriously hurt the Olympia area unless we stop it now. Two guests—Judy Bardin and Jim Keogh—explain the so-called “Missing Middle” scheme (scam?) to vastly increase zoning and bigger buildings…
South Sound General Education Union On November 7, 2018, the Industrial Workers of the World South Sound General Education Union delivered a demand letter to the administration of the Evergreen State College calling for: The immediate end to the hiring process of another campus police officer; The immediate hiring of…
Conservation District Election.... UFO Summit 2019... Water for People... Olympia Lobby Training... TCD Women's Brunch... FOR’s Annual Fundraising... Robotics for Kids!... STAY WOKE rally... Rural Water Challenges... Spring Forage and Feast... Gala for SideWalk... WEC's Annual Gala... Run Like a Fool... More...
For March, we invited articles on justice in all its dimensions. Inside these pages, you’ll find articles that question the basis of actions and proposed actions at the local, state and international levels...
#Unchecked executive power is deadly: Federal officials have disclosed that they secretly shipped radioactive plutonium to Nevada in spite of the state’s vehement opposition....