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I.  History, memory, and pragmatism In his book One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez describes how for the people of Macondo, the most devastating consequence of the insomnia plague was the loss of memory, since a person affected by this illness sees “The recollection of his childhood (being)…

  Hugo Chávez had been dealing with serious bouts of cancer and received many treatments in Cuba. He returned in late February, 2013 to Venezuela where his condition worsened and he died Tuesday afternoon, March 5, 2013 in Caracas of a heart attack. It is a tragic loss for the…

On Tuesday evening March 5, 2013, seven of us were arrested for trespassing in the parking lot of the abandoned Washington State Fish and Wildlife Building on Washington Street, near the Farmer’s Market in downtown Olympia. In addition I was arrested on the charge of assault for allegedly assaulting State…

  A few days before the elections, a friend from the states wrote me: “Hi Lisa, all the main stream media down here has Chavez losing and ready to die. Can you give me a more accurate update on the elections?” My inbox began to fill up with similar inquiries,…

Co-op education and workshop sessions to be held in Downtown Olympia by John Baldridge In the context of recurring economic crises at home and around the world, an increasing number of people seek an alternative to the unstable, uncertain and, ultimately, amoral system that many call “late-stage capitalism.” What economic…