August 2008

by Billie Burlock

From anticipating port shipments to preventing the naked gentrification of our downtown, activists in Olympia have a lot on their plates right now. An important project, however, is drawing a number of Olympia activists away from home during the summer months.

I-69 is an existing route that, if fully expanded, will stretch 2000 miles from Canada to the Atlantic Corridor Highway of the Plan Pueblo Panama in Mexico, completing the ominous pan-American NAFTA superhighway: a vital piece of the free trade infrastructure that would further exploit workers and land for the primary . . .