November 2007 Announcements

topic : Announcements

EGYHOP needs donations!

Unofficially, this year’s blanket drive has begun. The project formerly known as egyhop, now known as Done and Done, is low on supplies. Done and Done is a 501(c)(3) non profit that does street outreach seven nights a week, 365 days a year. We are entirely volunteer-operated, and depend heavily on support from this town. Many people depend on our continued existence, and we are the only resource available in town after all the other agencies and organizations have closed their doors.

We are in extreme need of: blankets, sleeping bags, tarps, tents, candles and flashlights, socks, warm winter clothing and monetary donations!

We are always in need of: hygiene supplies, medical supplies, shoes, umbrellas, boots, rain ponchos, any kind of camping gear, and batteries.

If you would like to donate any items, please bring them by the Bread and Roses Staff House at 1320 8th Ave SE. You can also drop off donations in our marked bins on the mezzanine level of the Capitol Theater or outside the door of our Bike and Bike community bike shop (in the back of Dumpster Values at 4th and Franklin; enter through the side door on Franklin St. and look left). For more information, or for questions regarding how to get involved, please call (360) 570-0608 and leave us a message.

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Olympia Freeschool volunteer meeting

Thursday, November 1, 5 pm–7 pm

Olympia Freeschool, 610 Columbia St, Olympia

Join us at the Olympia Free School volunteer meeting and learn more about what you can do to help out! Free, delicious snacks will be provided! If you can’t make it to the meeting but would like to learn more about volunteering, contact us by phone at (360) 352-4165 or info@olympiafreeschool.org so we can decide on a better time for you! All new! Many volunteer positions with stipends and commission available! The Freeschool just published our directory of classes with over 40 free classes and events and it is printable from our website!

Visit our website http://www.olympiafreeschool.org .

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“My Name is Rachel Corrie”

Nov. 1–17, 8 pm, at The Paradise Theatre School,

161 Center Road, Chimacum, WA

Thursdays half price $5, Fridays and Saturdays $10.

Reservations: (360) 643-3493, theparadise@earthlink.net

Starring Torrey Berkson, directed by Pattie Miles Van Beuzekom, with an introduction by Gabe Van Lelyveld who was a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement in Palestine just months before Rachel Corrie arrived.

Rachel Corrie was a student at The Evergreen State College who traveled to Palestine and put herself in the middle of the most incendiary conflict of our time. The play is Rachel’s chronicle of her brief but extraordinary life.

For more info, contact Pattie Miles Van Beuzekom at theparadise@earthlink.net, or visit http://home.earthlink.net/~theparadise .

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Support rally for Planned Parenthood

Friday, Nov. 2, 10:30 am–2 pm, outside Planned Parenthood, at the intersection of Adams and Legion Way

It’s time for Olympia to take a stand! Hands off Planned Parenthood! Come show community support for the Olympia Planned Parenthood. Signs should support Planned Parenthood’s leading role in providing contraception and sex education and that this role will not be compromised. Signs will also be provided. Let’s show the bloody folks with the bloody fetus photos that their inflammatory tactics of intimidation do not work. More info: venusbot22@yahoo.com, (360) 357-7509

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film showing: War Made Easy

Friday, November 2, 7 pm

Olympia Unitarian Universalist Congregation

2200 East End Street NW, Olympia.

Hosted by the Alliance for Democracy and the Olympia Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee. Catch this movie series every first Friday of the month. Visit http://www.sounddemocracy.org.

War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the US into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations. http://www.warmadeeasythemovie.org

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24th Annual Olympia Film Festival

November 2–10, 2007

Capitol Theater, 206 East 5th Ave, Olympia

The Olympia Film Society (ofs) will present 35 feature films, dozens of shorts, live performances, more than 18 visiting artists, and free community workshops. Events (unless otherwise noted) are at the historic Capitol Theater in downtown Olympia.

The Opening Night Gala kicks off the festival on Friday, Nov. 2 at 6:30 pm. The theater is transformed into a Bollywood-esque extravaganza, igniting a block party with fire dancers, DJ and more. The film, Outsourced, a delightful Seattle-produced romantic comedy begins at 7:30 pm. Immediately after the film, there will be a champagne reception with food and live music.

This year’s blood-curdling All Freakin’ Night features 5 horror films and other ghastly activities that begin at midnight on Saturday, Nov. 10. (Doors open at 11pm.) The terror will not end until the sun rises Sunday morning. http://www.olympiafilmfestival.org , (360) 754-6670.

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Climate Action Day: Step It Up 2

Saturday, November 3, 2007, 1–5 pm

First Christian Church, 7th and Franklin, Olympia

To call for leadership on global warming, a coalition of local groups will host a second Climate Action Day event. The event will build on Step It Up’s April 14 rally that produced more than 1,400 events in 50 states, the largest global warming event in US history.

Participants in the rally will call for real leadership on global warming including Four Key Priorities: (1) Cut co² by 80% by 2050; (2) cut greenhouse gas by 10% in 3 years; (3) no new coal-fired power plants; and (4) establish a Green Job Corps. Speakers include: Mayor Mark Foutch, City of Olympia, Sister Mimi Maloney, Lara Whitely Binder, Karin Kraft, Jacqui Brown Miller, Holly Gwinn Graham, Hedia Adelsman, Terry Williams, and an honoring of Billy Frank, Jr.

For more info, contact Jack Zeiger at (360) 943-5112 or Jackzeiger@comcast.net. Also, visit http://www.stepitup2007.org .

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Dahr Jamail and Suheir Hammad: “Beyond Occupation”

Sunday, November 4, at 5 pm

Capitol Theater, 206 E. 5th Ave, Olympia

Dahr Jamail will be speaking from his new book, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq. He is described by Howard Zinn as “a superb journalist,” whose reporting “takes us past the lies of our political leaders, past the cowardice of the mainstream press, into the streets, the homes, the lives of Iraqis living under US occupation.”

Suheir Hammad is a Palestinian spoken word Hip-Hop artist, best known for her award-winning performance in Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam on Broadway (2003). She has published three collections: Born Palestinian, Born Black; Drops of This Story; and Zaatar Diva. Her passionate performance captures cultural resistance to war, occupation, prisons, racism, dispossession, and gender inequality, while demonstrating the amazing ability to survive, to love, and to maintain hope through times of struggle.

This event is a benefit for The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice and the kick-off for the “Advocating Activism” documentary series in the Olympia Film Festival. For more info on the work of The Rachel Corrie Foundation, visit http://www.rachelcorriefoundation.org .

Read an interview with Dahr Jamail in this issue.

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POWER events for November

Parents Organizing For Welfare and Economic Rights

Volunteer meetings every Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 in the power office, 701 Franklin St SE, Olympia (in the Payne Room of the First Christian Church)

Call to Artists! We are seeking donations of arts and crafts for Artpower, our annual celebration and sale of art and crafts, December 8 and 9.

Artists may keep up to 50% of the proceeds. Contact power at: (360) 352-9716, or toll free at (866) 343-9716, welfarerights@riseup.net .

Moms’ Night Out: Voter discussion, Monday, November 5, 5:30 at the First United Methodist Church, 1224 Legion Way SE. Join us for a potluck at 5:30, activity from 6–8. Bring the kids, we have on-site child care! Join us on Election Day Eve to share what you know about the candidates and the issues and hear what others know.

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Planning meeting for Peace Works 2008

Monday, November 5, 7 pm

Traditions Café, 300 Fifth Ave sw, Olympia

The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice is beginning now to plan Peace Works 2008. Peace Works ’06 was a successful international conference; Peace Works ’07 was two theatrical events...what will Peace Works ’08 be? Please join us to help develop ideas and a vision for this exciting event scheduled for next spring.

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Radical Caring website builder’s convergence workshops!

Thursday, November 8, 4:45 pm–6:45 pm

Olympia Freeschool, 610 Columbia St, Olympia

Join us as we radically work to improve Olympia Freeschool’s new website with social networking, interactive photo album, video, and online radio capabilities!

Everyone is welcome and Drupal experience is preferred but not required. For more info go to http://www.RadicalCaring.org and click on “Calendar.”

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Veterans panel on the perils of militarism: from Iraq to Lakefair

Friday, November 9, 7pm

Olympia Community Center, 222 Columbia St nw

In recognition of Armistice Day (Veterans Day) the Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace (omjp) is sponsoring a panel discussion on militarism’s expression and effects, in our community and globally. A panel of local veterans, including from the current Iraq War, the Vietnam War, and the 1991 Gulf War will specifically address the attempts to militarize community events such as Lakefair and discuss why such moves and militarism in general are dangerous and should be resisted, and what the alternatives could be.

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Protest Tacoma ICE

Friday and Saturday, November 9 and 10, at 11 am

Gather at the designated green zone at S. 17th and Pacific, on the corner and in the grassy park across from the art museum.

Tacoma has the biggest “Homeland Security” Detention Center in the Northwest. They have been tearing apart families, separating children born here from their parents and loved ones that were not. Sixty-four people have died in these detention centers since 2004, and just recently about three hundred people were made ill from the food given in the Tacoma Detention Center. In the designated green zone only 100% legal forms of protest will be taking place! Bring puppets, musical instruments, signs, banners, creativity and passion.

Visit: http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/smashtacomaice

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Power up! Put your money where your heart is!

Saturday, November 10, 3–5 pm

Olympia Community Center, Room B

222 Columbia St nw, Olympia

Michelle and Derek Long of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies and Sustainable Connections of Bellingham, and Jon Ramer of the Interra Project in Seattle, will share their ideas about how to launch a successful Buy Local Campaign in the South Sound Region. These ideas include coupon books, community rebate cards, and more.

Elements of a Buy Local Campaign consist of buying products from businesses that: share your values, provide employees with meaningful living wage jobs, and offer customers useful non-toxic, free trade, greenhouse gas-reduced, quality products. This workshop will bring together business leaders and residents working within their organizations and communities for this region and beyond. Please come and take part because your choices are making a difference. For more information, contact Karin Kraft at (360) 754-5352.

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First Annual Anti-Sweatshop Film Fest

Films will all start at 7 pm on consecutive Monday nights at Traditions Café, 300 5th Ave sw:

Nov. 12: China Blue, (2006, 88 min.)

Nov. 19: A Killer Bargain, (2006, 57 min.)

Nov. 26: Made in LA, (2007, 70 min.)

Sponsored by the South Sound Clean Clothes Campaign, a community anti-sweatshop campaign since 2000. The film festival exposes the safety, inhumane conditions, and environmental consequences of sweatshops, and organizing by workers for better conditions. There will be information on what we can do to support efforts to improve conditions, promote sustainability, and obtain products from sweatshop-free sources. The films are free but donations will be accepted to cover costs. For more info, call (360) 705-2819.

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Northwest Women of Color and Their Allies Summit

From November 9 to 11

The Korean Women’s Community Services Center

123 East 96th St, Tacoma, WA 98445

Hosted by the Korean Women’s Association with the National Organization for Women and a variety of community organizations. As part of the Summit, the Labor Education and Research Center at TheEvergreen State College will be hosting a panel, “Women of Color in the Labor Movement,” on Saturday, Nov. 10, from 2:30–4 pm. There are also many other excellent panels and speakers on issues ranging from civil/immigrant rights to media activism. For registration and event info, go to http://www.nowseattle.org/nwwoca , email nwwoca@gmail.com, or call (206) 448-7348 x 334. Complete workshop descriptions are also posted on the Labor Center website at http://www.evergreen.edu/laborcenter . Follow the link under “Events.”

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film showing:

The Next Industrial Revolution and the Birth of the Sustainable Economy

Wednesday, Nov. 14, 7 pm

Traditions Café, 300 Fifth Ave SW, Olympia

Video followed by discussion. This free event is cosponsored by the Interfaith Works Earth Stewardship Committee and Earth Care. More information is available at http://www.Interfaith-Works.org or (360) 357-7224.

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two films: Corporate Lockdown and Granito de Arena

Friday, November 16, 7 pm

Olympia Unitarian Universalist Congregation

2200 East End Street NW, Olympia.

Hosted by the Alliance for Democracy and the Olympia Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee. Catch this movie series every first Friday of the month, http://www.sounddemocracy.org .

Corporate Lockdown is a 22-minute documentary examining the role of prisons in society as a private corporation enters into the management of an Ontario adult correctional facility. “My intention in making Corporate Lockdown was to contribute to the current discussion within the mainstream about the privatization of the first adult correctional facility in Canada. Corporate Lockdown takes a deeper look at the real agenda behind the increasingly global prison industrial complex.”

Granito de Arena (Grains of Sand): For over 20 years, global economic forces have been dismantling public education in Mexico, but always in the constant shadow of popular resistance...Granito de Arena is the story of that resistance – the story of hundreds of thousands of public schoolteachers whose grassroots, non-violent movement took Mexico by surprise, and who have endured brutal repression in their 25-year struggle for social and economic justice in Mexico’s public schools.

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Book signing by Jules Boykoff and Kristian Williams

Friday, November 16, at 7 pm

Orca Books, 509 Fourth Ave East, Olympia

Jules Boykoff is professor of political science at Pacific University and the author of Beyond Bullets: The Suppression of Dissent in the United States.

Kristian Williams is an activist, a member of Portland Copwatch, and author of Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America.

For more information, call (360) 352-0123.