November 2008

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.

November 2008

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.