December 2006 Announcements

topic : Announcements

Works In Progress still urgently needs more help!

Can you help with content coordination, proofreading, distribution, or website management?

To find out how you can plug in, join us Sunday, Dec 10, 4:30 -- 6:00 pm, at the "Studio" (the small building behind the main house) at Fertile Ground Guesthouse, 311-9th Av SE, Downtown Olympia.

Remember, only you can keep Works In Progress going for another 16 years!

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Support Works In Progress or the Olympia 22 and get a Toy Piano

Make a donation of $50 to Works In Progress or the Olympia 22 Legal Defense and get 50 toy piano tokens, which you can trade for a toy pianoat Last Word Books, Dumpster Values, or Fire and Earth while supplies last. Please indicate that you want toy piano tokens in your donation.

http://www.toypiano.org

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Documentaries: "Affluenza" and "Escape from Affluenza"

Sunday, December 3, 6:00 pm, at Traditions Café and World Folk Art, 300 5th Ave SW

Free admission: $5-$10 donation appreciated.

This event is a sponsored by the Alliance for Democracy, South Puget Sound Chapter. The Alliance for Democracy is dedicated to restoring democratic authority over government and corporations, reviving grassroots democracy, and establishing appropriate limits on corporate influence. To find out more, visit http://www.sounddemocracy.org .

For more information, contact Jacqui at 360-236-9684 or jacquiAFD@comcast.net .

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Homeless In Olympia: A Community Forum To Educate, Agitate, and Organize

Wednesday, December 6, 7 to 9pm, Olympia Community Center, Room B

The Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace will host a community forum on Homelessness in Olympia on Wednesday, December 6, 7 to 9 PM at the Olympia Community Center, Room B. This Forum is free and open to all. Childcare will be provided, along with meals courtesy of Food Not Bombs.

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Vigil on Fourth Avenue bridge for military resisters

Saturday, December 9, 12:00 to 1:00pm

This OMJP-sponsored vigil is in solidarity with the National Days of Action for Military Resisters taking place around the country throughout the weekend of December 8-10. The purpose is to support military resisters and protest the war. The themes that we are asking people to emphasize and bring banners and signs for are: Peace on earth now! Support Lt. Ehren Watada! The war in iraq is illegal!

Justice for Suzanne Swift and other victims of command rape! 650,000 Iraqi deaths is too many! 3,000 American deaths in Iraq is too many! (By that weekend the number will be over 2900. The actual 3,000th death may well be on Christmas Day.) The American people have spoken! Not another life lost, American or Iraqi!

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ArtWROC

Saturday, December 9, 6:00 to 9:00pm

Sunday, December 10, 10:00am to 6:00pm

At Bryce's Barbershop, 118 4th Ave

ArtWROC is a celebration and sale of the work of local artists and crafters, and a fundraiser for the Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition (WROC). Buy unique gifts, enjoy local musicians and fabulous desserts, and possibly win and a handmade quilt in the raffle. WROC is a local nonprofit organization whose members are low income parents working for social and economic justice by education, empowerment and action. We can be contacted with questions or if you would like to donate art or music at 360-352-9716 or

wrocoly@wroc.org .

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Will we keep Democracy Now! on TCTV?

Please help us find community members interested in maintaining TCTV's airing of Democracy Now! It's hard to know who watches the program there, or who values having available in that medium at 5:00am 4:00pm. If you are one of those, OR if you might know someone who is, please rally them to help. Our local Media Island sponsors DN!'s on TCTV. Without community financial donations for the required expenses this successful, four-year, three-way collaboration will not continue past our 2006 contract with DISH Network. Ask around, will ya!? Are you one who can/will support this grassroots, independent, local media effort? Is your neighbor, hairdresser, grocery cashier, your accountant, your mother...? We still need only $135.

Send tax-deductable checks by Dec. 30 to:

Sandia, MII, P O Box 7204, Olympia, WA 98507

with "DN!/TCTV" on subject line.

Questions? 866-4561.

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Documentary: "Hacking Democracy"

Friday, January 5, at the Olympia Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 2200 East End Street NW

Hacking Democracy is a timely, cautionary documentary that exposes gaping holes in the security of America's electronic voting system. Bev Harris from Black Box Voting (http://www.blackboxvoting.org ) will share her views from the voting security trenches. Electronic voting machines count about 87% of the votes cast in America today. But are they reliable? Are they safe from tampering? Watch the documentary and find out!

For more information, visit: http://www.olyuu.org or

http://www.sounddemocracy.org .