Tara Perkins:

I wanted to take a moment to reflect on my ten years of experience as a colleague of Long Hair David. I first met David when I was 19, and was just becoming involved in community organizing and social justice activism. At the time, David was running the Olympia Aids Prevention Projects (OAPP). OAPP had several harm reduction programs, including a needle exchange and a youth peer-to-peer outreach center. I began working with the youth program, where we spent weekend evenings doing volunteer street outreach distributing safer sex materials, bleach kits, hygiene kits, and . . .

by Uri Davis, Ilan Pappe, and Tamar Yaron

We feel that it is urgent and necessary to raise the alarm regarding what may come during and after evacuation of Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip occupied by Israel in 1967, in the event that the evacuation is implemented.

We held back on getting this statement published and circulated, seeking additional feedback from our peers. The publication in Ha'aretz (22 June 2005) quoting statements by General (Reserves) Eival Giladi, the head of the Coordination and Strategy team of the Prime Minister's Office, motivated us not to delay publication and . . .

by Greg Palast

"It's one thing for reporters to protect a brave whistle-blower who has taken personal risks to serve the public interest. It is another thing for reporters to collude with the powerful to punish the whistle-blower, in this case Joseph Wilson, and his wife, an innocent bystander."

-- Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect.

The only thing more evil, small-minded and treacherous than the Bush Administration's jailing Judith Miller for a crime the Bush Administration committed, is Judith Miller covering up her Bush Administration "source."

Project of the Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace

The U.S. victory in the cold war never ended the threat of nuclear holocaust. Our nuclear arsenal still includes 2,000 warheads on hair-trigger alert - ready to launch on 15 minutes notice -- each warhead has the power of 20 Hiroshimas. Russia has a similar number of trip-wire warheads aimed at us -- only their early warning system is deteriorating. Both nations register alarms daily, triggered by wildfires, satellite launchings and solar reflections off clouds or oceans.

by Noam Chomsky

In the debate over Social Security, US President Bush's handlers have already won, at least in the short term. Bush and Karl Rove, his deputy chief of staff, have succeeded in convincing most of the US population that there is a serious problem with Social Security, which opens the way for considering the administration's program of private accounts instead of relying on the public pension system.

The public has been frightened, much as it was by the imminent threat of Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction.

by Jody Suhrbier

A small group of thoughtful citizens have come together and decided that Olympia, Washington and the greater South Sound community should have an opportunity to reflect on nuclear weapons and the post-nuclear age. This summer marks the sixtieth anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, and will be a time of acknowledgment, reflection, and action as the Beyond Hiroshima Coalition presents a series of events for the community to take part in.

by Drew Hendricks

Each year, the City of Olympia spends around ten million dollars on Police, Crime Prevention, and the City's Jail. In contrast, the budget for the City Council's Police Auditor is just $20,000 per year, and that paltry amount of money is usually not all spent by the time the budget rolls over into the next year.