July 2006

by Eric Chase

Olympia, Washington is once again in the international spotlight. Having been the focus of much media attention in the past few years with stories of Rachel Corrie and Captain James Yee, the Olympia City Council's stand on making the capital city a nuclear free zone and uninviting the USS Olympia, a nuclear powered submarine, into the port, to the recent Green Scare grand jury investigations into environmental direct action, Olympia seems to be the hot bed of anti-establishment, or at least of anti-US foreign and domestic policy and probably not a very likely candidate of a . . .