February 2008 Announcements
topic : Announcements
Help Iraq vets start a coffeehouse in Tacoma
The concept of opening a GI coffeehouse near Ft. Lewis is becoming a reality. The Seattle and Tacoma Chapters of Iraq Veterans Against the War are raising money to open a GI-run coffeehouse near the Washington base. Coffeehouses have traditionally served as anti-war headquarters and have been integral in creating an anti-war GI movement. Only $5,000 is needed before the coffeehouse can open. If you can send $10 or any amount of money to the GI voice project in Tacoma, we can open a center of GI resistance.
Checks must be made to: Seattle Iraq Veterans Against the War and the memo must read: GI Voice Project. Please send all tax-deductible donations to: GI Voice Project, 5506 Detroit Avenue, SW, Lakewood, WA 98499.
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Donations needed for WIP for Prisoners
Seeking donations to help fund Works In Progress subscriptions for folks who are incarcerated.
We have a list of prisoners in various parts of the country who normally receive a complimentary monthly subscription to WIP. Due to our restricted finances we have not had enough postage to cover all of the papers to prisoners over the last several months. For about $10 per month each of the prisoners can receive their WIP. Please consider donating to the postage fund that allows incarcerated men and women to be gifted with the news from our fine, independent, all volunteer run publication. Send checks to Works In Progress Prisoner Subscriptions, P.O. Box 295, Olympia, WA 98507
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The LA-8 Case, Civil Liberties & Jewish-Arab Solidarity
Saturday, Feb. 2, 7 pm The Evergreen State College;, Lecture Hall 1; Sunday, Feb. 3, 2 pm Traditions Café 5th & Water
“Voices in Exile: Immigrants and the First Amendment” (1988, 30 min)
Since 9-11 and the passage of the USA Patriot Act, balancing civil liberties with national security is a major concern. “Voices in Exile” follows an astonishing 20-year deportation case against Palestinians in Los Angeles that foreshadows current government use of “secret evidence.” This riveting video examines plans for rounding up Arab Americans, reminiscent of the WWII internment of Japanese Americans.
Michel Shehadeh is one of the defendants and leading respondents in the landmark Los Angeles Eight case, the longest running political immigration case in US history. Recently all charges were dropped by the government against the LA 8 after twenty-one years of legal struggle.
Shehadeh’s writings have appeared in many publications, such as the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Al-Jazeera net and Al-Adab magazine.
Joan Mandell is an award-winning filmmaker whose films, Tales from Arab Detroit, Gaza Ghetto, and Voices in Exile, are widely taught on US college campuses. Mandell has taught film and video production, international film history and media literacy at the University of California/Irvine and the College for Contemporary Studies, Detroit. As a Jewish-American, she will also speak about the history of Jewish-Arab solidarity in the struggle for Civil Liberties and Palestinian Rights.
Sponsored by Evergreen’s SESAME and The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace & Justice
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Greg Palast videos on TCTV
Sunday, February 3, 10 p.m.
The documentary series “The Big Picture” seen on Thurston Community Television, cable channel 22, will feature videos by Greg Palast in February and March. The series, sponsored by the Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation runs every Sunday at 10 p.m..
The February program will be “The Election Files” revealing evidence of election fraud in 2000, and 2004, and predictions of fraud in 2008 (one hour). It will be followed by a program about the presidential election in Mexico, 2006, (15 minutes)
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POWER public speaking training
Monday, February 4, 5:30 p.m., United First Methodist Church, 1224 Legion Way SE, Olympia.
Attend POWER’s Public Speaking Training to get pointers in effective story telling. We start at 5:30 with a potluck and have onsite childcare.
POWER is an organization of low-income parents and allies advocating for a strong social safety net while working toward a world where children and care giving are truly valued, and the devastation of poverty has been eradicated.
Parents Organizing For Welfare and Economic Rights, 701 Franklin Street SE Olympia, WA 98501, 360-352-9716 or 866-343-9716, welfarerights@riseup.net, http://www.myspace.com/parentsorganizing
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Protest at Wal-Mart Lobby Day
Wednesday, February 6, 10 a.m. to noon, Senate Rules Room, State Capitol, Olympia, WA
February 6th is Wal-Mart Lobby Day. Wal-Mart managers will be meeting in the Senate Rules Room. Protesters will be meeting outside the Rules Room.
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Iraqi Student Solidarity Committee Community Forum
Wednesday, February 6th at 3 p.m. at the Evergreen State College, Seminar II, A1107
The Iraqi Student Solidarity Committee (ISSC) at The Evergreen State College has been working since October, 2007 to get the Evergreen State College to accept and pay for the tuition, room and board for three Iraqi students beginning in September 2008 and until they obtain their degree. The US war against Iraq has devastated the educational system in Iraq and Iraqi refugees are severely restricted from getting higher education in Syria and Jordan, where there are almost two million Iraqi refugees. This student led proposal is part of a national movement, the Iraqi Student Project ( http://www.IraqiStudentProject.org
) to get US universities to open up their campuses to Iraqi students. The Evergreen faculty support this request as do over 700 students who have signed a petition in support. The Evergreen administration has not yet responded to our proposal. We invite everyone to an Evergreen and Olympia community meeting on what we should do to attain this proposal and how to get involved in this campaign. For more info: email sesame@evergreen.edu, or call 360-867-6724
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Author Susan Wicklund, reading from “This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor”
Wednesday, February 13, 7 p.m. at Orca Books, 509 E. 4th Ave, Olympia
Susan Wicklund, National NOW Board Member and abortion doctor, will be at Orca Books on February 13th, 2008 at 7:00pm reading from her new book This Common Secret: My Journey as An Abortion Doctor. Through this book tour Dr. Wicklund hopes to educate and widen the participation of diverse women and the men who love us around women’s health issues and especially the politics of reproduction/abortion in the current social and political landscape.
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It All Starts At Home—Housing & Homeless Advocacy Day
Thursday, February 14, 8:30 a.m. at United Churches, 11th and Capitol Way in Olympia
This year we will use Housing & Homelessness Advocacy Day to ensure that policymakers in Olympia understand the foundational role that a home plays in education, healthcare, jobs and transportation. Our message, “It All Starts At Home,” is all about the connection between affordable housing, supportive services, tenant protections and manufactured housing preservation and the ability of a family to succeed, of a senior to thrive and of a child to reach their potential.
Register online with the Washington Low Income Housing Alliance at http://www.wliha.org
. Childcare and lunch available. You will receive additional instructions & details via email after you register.
Call Pat with the Thurston County Tenants Union if you have questions about any of these events or are looking for scholarships to attend them: 360-943-3036 or tctu@tenantsunion.org
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POWER lobby day
President’s Day, Monday, February 18th, 10 a.m. First Christian Church, 701 Franklin Street SE, Olympia
Join us at 10 a.m. for onsite childcare, lunch, training and will meet with legislators. Please let us know you are coming at 352-9716 or welfarerights@riseup.net.
POWER is an organization of low-income parents and allies advocating for a strong social safety net while working toward a world where children and care giving are truly valued, and the devastation of poverty has been eradicated.
Parents Organizing For Welfare and Economic Rights, 701 Franklin Street SE Olympia, WA 98501, 360-352-9716 or 866-343-9716, welfarerights@riseup.net, http://www.myspace.com/parentsorganizing
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Robin Hahnel on economic justice and socialism in Latin America
Wednesday, February 27, 1 p.m., Seminar 2, A1107, The Evergreen State College, (on: The Present and Future of Economic Justice and Socialism in Venezuela)
Orca Books, 509 E. 4th, Olympia, 7 p.m. (on: The Present and Future of Economic Justice and Socialism in Latin America)
Robin Hahnel, a professor of economics at American University in Washington, D.C., is one of the most thoughtful and insightful political economists in the United States. In the books he has authored and coauthored Looking Forward, the Political Economy of Participatory Economics and most recently, Economic Justice and Democracy, Robin Hahnel has written in depth about strategy towards and vision of a participatory economics society as a necessary and desirable alternative to capitalism. He has studied the politics and economics of many countries in Latin America, most recently Venezuela in which he visited and gave lectures in the summer 2007.
Sponsored by OMJP, SDS, Center for Radical Education (CRE). For more information, contact Peter Bohmer, bohmerp@evergreen.edu, 867-6431
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