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November 2008
by WIP staff
Gloria La Riva is a presidential candidate for the Party for Socialism and Liberation. She is on the Washington state ballot after a successful signature drive which obtained over 500 signatures during Olympia's Pride Parade earlier this year. La Riva is a long-time activist who has participated in many humanitarian trips to Cuba and brought awareness of the case of the Cuban 5 as coordinator of the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five. She is currently employed as president of the Typographical Sector, Media Workers Union, Local 39521, CWA. She was in Olympia on Oct. 20 and . . .
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by Janet Blanding
As the city council moves towards enacting an upzone of the isthmus between Budd Inlet and Capitol Lake, with a final vote expected on December 9, citizens in opposition have continued to resist this unpopular proposal. Friends of the Waterfront, Oly Vision 20/20, People for a Participatory City and the Olympia Park Foundation are all continuing to make plans and deliberate on strategies for preserving Olympia’s character despite the current city council’s disregard for the will of the public.
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by Stop the Checkpoints Committee
Incensed at Border Patrol roadblocks that stop every car and check drivers’ nationalities, over 200 demonstrators took to the streets on Sept. 20 in Port Angeles, Washington. It was the third and largest protest yet by residents on the Olympic Peninsula, a rural area of rain forests and waterways in the northwest corner of the state. Access is primarily by ferry boat or by Highway 101, which loops around the peninsula.
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by none
October 6, 2008
Dear Mayor Mah and Olympia City Council Members,
Thank you for your letter of June 26th responding to our request that you organize a citizen’s taskforce to investigate the actions of members of the Olympia city police during the February 15, 2008 incident on our campus.
We are disappointed that you and the Council have decided not to establish a citizen’s taskforce. We fear that what happened on our campus is not, as you suggest, “a unique and unfortunate occurrence”, but rather a reflection of what City Manager Hall described in his letter of June 11th the “tensions . . .
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by Phan Nguyen
On Oct. 24, 2008, the Olympian website posted a news flash that the The Thurston County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office had filed charges against 26 activists, stemming from arrests made at the Port of Olympia during antiwar protests on Nov. 13, 2007. The following day, Oct. 25, the Olympian printed the names of all those being charged in the front page of the South Sound section. As of Oct. 30, none of those being prosecuted have received notice of charges from the county.
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