by Ralph Nader

Attention please, good people! Adjust your routines and come to the aid of your country and your children with your thoughtful patriotism. Don't just hope for impeachment, demand the resignation now of the mad hatters in the White House: George W. Bush and Richard Cheney.

Already, a large majority of you do not consider this shifty duo trustworthy. By more than two to one you disapprove of Bush's war in Iraq. Similar majorities believe this is also a President whose administrative incompetence--note the post-Katrina debacles compared to his promises last September in that . . .

by Mark Jaffe

This spring the Thurston Santo Tomás Sister County Association (TSTSCA) will be welcoming our eighth delegation from our sister city in Santo Tomás, Chontales, Nicaragua. Our guests, Rosa Aura Segura, Facunda Zeledón Nuñez, and María Salvadora Gonzalez, will be in Olympia from April 19th until May 11th.

by Patty Mosqueda

Nearly two weeks in El Salvador, including elections day on March 12, was an intense learning experience for nine delegates from Olympia (many from The Evergreen State College) who participated in a tour organized by the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES). The nine Olympians -- part of a delegation of 27 people from various cities in the United States -- acted as international elections observers, and also met with social action groups to understand political and economic conditions in El Salvador. To no one's surprise, most of the "learning" was . . .

by Jeremy Scahill

Slobodan Milosevic is characterized in the obituaries as the "Butcher of the Balkans." If that is the story you want to read about, please go to almost any other media outlet and read it again and again. Some are now suggesting that death is Milosevic's final revenge, that he "ended up cheating history" by dying before judgment was passed. But the world has already passed judgment on Milosevic and what is being cheated by his death is history itself.

by Chris Stegman

Initiative I-937 is collecting signatures across Washington to get clean, renewable energy on the November ballot. The initiative will help Washington's economy, environment, and rural communities by requiring electric utilities to purchase 15 percent of their power from new renewable resources by 2020 and improve the energy efficiency of homes and businesses.

by Erin Genia

On March 11, 150 people participated in the "Real Security for All" demonstration in Tacoma, which linked the injustices of US immigration and deportation policies with our aggressive foreign policy, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Participants marched from the Northwest Detention Center to the Pacific Northwest National Security Forum, a military conference focused on the future of the armed forces. Erin Genia, the coordinator of Olympia Amnesty International and one of the event's organizers, gave the following speech at the demonstration.-- Alice . . .

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