December Announcements
author : WIP
by WIP
Twenty-six Prosecuted for Non-Violent Womens' Solidarity Action: Legal Defense Funds Urgently Needed to Ensure Access to Legal Support!
All amounts are extremely helpful. Donations should be made out to "Port of Olympia Legal Defense Fund" and mailed to: Legal Defense Fund, PO Box 295, Olympia, WA 98507 – 0295, or via the web: http://www.olypmr.org/donate.html
Donations can also be deposited directly into the Port of Olympia Legal Defense Fund account by visiting the Thurston Union for Low Income People (TULIP) Cooperative Credit Union branch located inside the Olympia Food Co-op Eastside Store, 3111 Pacific Avenue.
Note: The Port of Olympia Legal Defense Fund was incorporated as a non-profit organization with the Secretary of State of the State of Washington.. The Port of Olympia Legal Defense Fund's UBI number is: 602-619-196. Unfortunately donations for the purpose of legal defense are not tax-deductible in the US.
The Freeschool Is Looking for Partner Organizations to Share Space in Olympia
The Freeschool is considering working with several other organizations and sharing the cost of a house, or transforming a downtown warehouse into a shared space (as was successfully accomplished by the Rhizome Collective http://www.rhizomecollective.org
). If we receive enough interest, we will begin holding public forums in January 2008.
The Rhizome Collective operates out of three warehouses on Allen Street in East Austin. These warehouses and the 1/3 acre on which they sit make up the Rhizosphere. In addition to housing the collective, the Rhizosphere is used as a space for the development of urban sustainability practices. The Rhizosphere hosts space for organizations such as Austin Indymedia, the Austin Zine Library, the Inside Books Project, which ships reading material to prison inmates, Bikes Across Borders, and Food Not Bombs.
If you are interested please send us an email by visiting the Freeschool Community's website at www.Freeschoolunity.org and click on 'contact.' Thank you. You can also call us from 11am-11pm, 7 days a week at (360) 539-8008 and we would love to talk with you.
POWER Tampon Action
Tuesday, December 9, 10 a.m. lobby restroom of the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) Community Services Office (CSO), at 6737 Capitol Boulevard South, in Tumwater.
Members of POWER (Parents Organizing for Welfare and Economic Rights), an Olympia based welfare rights organization, will put free, donated tampons and menstrual pads in the women’s bathroom at the welfare office lobby to bring it up to the same standard of other Washington state governmental buildings. POWER members and volunteers have noticed that free tampons and pads are available in most of the state offices they visited on the capitol campus and beyond, and for twenty-five cents at local state colleges; however there is nothing available in the bathroom the state provides to women who receive services from DSHS. “The fact that there is not even a quarter machine in the welfare office bathroom speaks to inequity so often faced by the low-income members of our state,” said Lindsay Day, POWER intern. “In this case, it appears that the cost of poverty for low income women is both their dignity and health.”
Oly Economic Revival at Fertile Ground
Economic revival potlucks will be held the first 3 Tuesday evenings in December (2nd, 9th and 16th) at Fertile Ground (311 9th Ave SE) to generate ideas for how the community can band together during these tough economic times. Also a new yahoo group called Oly Economic Revival is open to anyone who wants to join.
Community Currency called Life Dollars can be part of your economic tool kit. Systems like Life Dollars are already in place and functioning throughout America and the rest of the world. http://fourthcornerexchange.com
Life Dollars began in Bellingham in 2002 and has over 700 members around the state of Washington. There’s no script to carry, just a debit/credit database online where buyers and sellers record their exchanges. There's an added bonus for those who still have their old Sound Hours in their drawer. The exchange rate is one Sound Hour per one Life Dollar. Just mail them in with your membership form.
More info: Gail Di Marzo 360 352-2428
New Orleans Activist Mailik Rahim speaking in Olympia
Wednesday, December 10, 7 p.m., Traditions, 5th and Water Streets, Olympia
Community organizer, former Black Panther and longtime housing and prison activist Malik Rahim will be speaking in Olympia on Wednesday evening, December 10th, 7 PM at Traditions (5th and Water).
Malik Rahim was raised in New Orleans' Algiers neighborhood; he founded and operated the Algiers Development Center and Invest Transitional Housing. He is co-founder and outreach organizer of "Housing is a Human Right" in San Francisco, California and co-founded Common Ground Relief in September 2005. Mailik was awarded the Thomas Merton Award for 2008. alik Rahim's visit to Olympia will come just days after results from his run for a Louisiana congressional seat in the House (on the Green Party ticket) are known.
This is a free event, though donations will be accepted at the door. Sponsored by OMJP, BRICK and Media Island International.
Documentary Film: Rebuilding Hope
Wednesday, December 10th, at 7 PM, at The Olympia Center, 222 Columbia St. NW.
In 2007, author and filmmaker Jen Marlowe accompanied three young men on their return to Sudan to find surviving family-members. Marlowe will present her work-in-progress documentary film about this journey, Rebuilding Hope at a pre-screening/fundraiser sponsored by the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice, which will include Q&A with the filmmaker.
REBUILDING HOPE features Gabriel Bol Deng, Koor Garang and Garang Mayuol who as young children were forced to flee South Sudan in 1987 when militiamen led violent attacks on their villages. Crossing the country on foot, they reached safety in refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya and in 2001 came to the U.S. as part of a large group of Southern Sudanese young men nicknamed “Lost Boys.”
Proceeds from the evening will support completion of the film. Proceeds from the completed project will go to healthcare and education projects in Sudan initiated by the three young men featured in the film. For further information, contact Jen Marlowe: jenmarlowe@hotmail.com, (202) 375-3492
Picket the Post Office
Monday, January 12, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Downtown Post Office, 900 Jefferson Street, Olympia
The Olympia Local of the American Postal Workers Union will be holding an informational picket to call for the Postal Service to bring fired Union President Clint Burelson back to work and to bring the outgoing mail operations back to Olympia. The community is invited to join us in our efforts.
Fundraiser for Coffee Strong with Jim Page, folksinger, commentator
Saturday, January 10, 8 p.m., Coffee Strong, 15109 Union SW, Tillicum
Tacoma (between I-5 exits 122-123 in Subway Bldg
Coffee Strong is currently only the second GI Rights Coffeehouse in the United States. This was put together by Veterans Against the Iraq War. Located near the gate to Ft Lewis, it gives current and veteran GIs a place to get information on their rights, resisting deployment, working with Gay Rights in the Military, resources, medical and mental health issues. More info on the work is at GIVoice.org.
Jim Page has long been a Northwest favorite as he skewers with wit and precision assumptions, sheds light on injustice, and uses word plus song to call to action. He has been a longtime advocate of a peace strategy and against the wars in Vietnam and the two Iraq Wars. Page’s calls to action are heard in concerts around the world.
Tickets $15: GIs Free 253-581-1565 or Chris Lunn 253-863-6617
ARTIST & Ancient Victorys info: Chris Lunn, Ancient Victorys, POB 7515, Bonney Lake, WA 98391 253-863-6617 ChrisLunn @ Comcast.net, Coffee Ground & GI Rights info 253-581-1565
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