2007 Issues

December 2007

Sandy Mayes - Blocking the Strykers: Thirteen days of war resistance at the Port of Olympia - Zoltan Grossman - The Real Enemy: Silence and Passivity -- Reflections on the Port Protests in Olympia - Kyle Taylor Lucas - OlyPMR Women's Caucus takes direct action for global human rights - Janet Blanding, T. J. Johnson - Outgoing City Councilmember TJ Johnson speaks truth from power: Taking on OPD, the Olympian, and more - Peter Bohmer - Two Weeks That Shook Olympia - Rob Richards - How the Olympian helps shape the City Council: In its campaign against Meta Hogan, the Olympian pursues a lead that it invented - Diana Arens - Hollywood's unplanned baby boom: Waitress, Knocked up, Juno - Daisy Ouye - DU weapons cause depleted health: IVAW speaks out - Marco Rosaire Rossi - Reflections on the anniversary of the Genocide Convention - Daisy Montague - A personal account of the women's action at the Port of Olympia - Sergei Holmes - Life, Liberty and the pursuit of property: Delectable quotes from the philosophers of the Olympian's online comments pages - December 2007 Announcements

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November 2007

Mark Jensen - Misreporting the war and not reporting the anti-war: Britney Spears not sighted at Seattle anti-war rally - Brian Nicholson - Olympia Film Society votes in favor of democracy, nothing changes - Jeremy Scahill - State to Blackwater: Nothing you say can and will be used against you in a court of law - State settles over arrest of activist: Justice finally served . . . sort of . . . and late, as always - Janet Blanding, Pat Tassoni - Interview with Pat Tassoni: So what makes him so special that he can walk around downtown without a license anyway? - Daisy Ouye - Nothing Defeats Wa He Lut - Marco Rosaire Rossi - If you can't beat 'em, scare 'em: How the Bush administration helped get CAFTA passsed in Costa Rica - Marco Rosaire Rossi - Why the United Nations isn't in Burma - Kevin Zeese, Dahr Jamail - Interview with unembedded reporter Dahr Jamail - November 2007 Announcements

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October 2007

Janet Blanding, Meta Hogan - Exclusive Interview with Meta Hogan: Mayoral candidate explains what Olympia could be - Phan Nguyen - Brian Baird went to Iraq and all he got was a burqa from Afghanistan - Curt Pavola - A political Dear John to US Rep. Brian Baird - Janet Blanding - The Fight to Suppress Reproductive Rights Heats Up: Tides Turn as Birth Control Prices Rise, Stormans Supporters Get Cruel - Chris Beug - Manium Collective vs. City of Olympia: Out of Nowhere, the Bureaucracy Cries Sprinklers - Brendan Funtek, Rick Fellowes - Local Organizer Discusses Islands: Cuba and Media - Adam Broomfield - Update on the Revolution at the Olympia Film Society - Monica Peabody - Update on Welfare Organizing: POWER to the people - Brendan Maslauskas Dunn - Living Anarchism: The Story of George Sossenko - Frances Hogan - Opposing the attack of Iran: A Green Party Delegation Report to Sen. Patty Murray's Office - Daisy Ouye - Remembering and Recognizing Injustice Today - October 2007 Announcements

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September 2007

Wally Cuddeford - The Violent Saga Rages On: Police Brutality in Olympia and Beyond, How to Fight Back - Olympia Film Society Projectionist and Volunteer Walkout: Out of Focus: Workers Disagree with Board Decision - Zoltan Grossman - Speaking Different Languages: How the Peace Movement Works with the Military Community - Janet Blanding - Stormans bring the legal flood with Alliance Defense Fund Ralph's attorneys: Not locally grown - Joshua Frank - The weeds of Willapa Bay: A Real Grass-Roots Conflict - Marco Rosaire Rossi - Eavesdropping on an Airplane - Drew Hendricks - The effectiveness of violence and the trails of Empire - Port Militarization Resistance - PMR Claims Victory with Lakefair Halt, Expansion - Carolyn LaFond - Fed up with bloody fetus photos: Planned Parenthood supporters resist obscene demonstrations - Daisy Ouye - False accusations and unstable compacts: An update on the situation at Frank's Landing - Daisy Ouye - Meditators Assemble from Diverse Backgrounds - Linda Averill - Change To Win: Where Are the Changes For Labor? - September 2007 Announcements

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August 2007

Aaron Hartwell - Local opposition keeps warships away from Lakefair - Jane Troutbeck - Dismantling our Constitutional rights - Seth Manzel - Getting out: A soldier's guide to early separation - Janet Blanding - Resisting the illegal occupation of Iraq from the inside - Wally Cuddeford - Veteran status as privilege - Mark Jensen - Charges dismissed for 13 Port of Tacoma activists - What were the police thinking? - More and more activist dismissals! - Gar Lipow - The First Amendment prevails, despite efforts by the "free press" - Stonewall Youth - Promoting tolerance for GLBTQ youth - Marco Rosaire Rossi - The Responsibility of Our Generation - Molly Gibbs - Recent events in support of Palestine - Appeals court hears case against Caterpillar for deaths and injuries in Palestinian home demolitions - August 2007 Announcements

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July 2007

Phan Nguyen - Oly 22 -- case dismissed! War, spies, politics, and extortion, but The Olympian editorial board just sees another Paris Hilton - Stryker Brigade fatalities: the consequences of militarization of our ports - Rochelle Gause - G8: Kings on tour, never mind the poor - Brendan Funtek - Cuba: A nation forgotten - Drew Hendricks - Transit, lies and videotape: Who's behind the cameras? - Pat Tassoni - How many car crashes can state patrol ignore when protecting Nazis? - Marco Rosaire Rossi - Making Stalin proud: Renewed repression of Guantanamo Bay prisoners - Robert Whitlock - Creative nonviolence and hostile protest behavior - Daisy Ouye - The Olympian's handling of topic: Potentially harmful - July 2007 Announcements

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June 2007

Changes at Works In Progress - Monica Peabody - What's up with WROC? Welfare rights organizer explains next steps for Olympia - Leslie Cushman - Camp Quixote III -- getting started - Jeff Berryhill - The lessons from 40 years of occupation - Mark Jensen - Tacoma prosecutors busy themselves with Port cases - Janet Blanding - A downtown Co-op for Olympia at last? - Pat Tassoni - Paying the price of political prosecution: Assessing the damage of the Oly 22 - Gail Johnson - Olympia City Council rejects Bush/Cheney impeachment - dj megawatti, Drew Hendricks - Free Radio Olympia suspends operations due to FCC harassment - Daisy Ouye - The swoop on Frank's Landing - Erin Genia - The "war on terror" strikes Chechnya with a deathly silence

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May 2007

Phan Nguyen - City council rejects Rafah sister city, dialogue - Khaled Nasrallah - An email from Rafah - Sami Awad - From Palestine to Virginia Tech - Gail Johnson - Impeachment: A Continuing Wild Ride - Janet Blanding - Judgment Day for Ralph's: The pharmacy board supports women's access to emergency contraception - Daisy Ouye - Support the truth: Depleted Uranium disclosed - Janine Gates - The Iraqi civilian casualty number -- how many? - Muhammad Ayub - Baby steps towards building bridges in the community - Two arrested at Indian Island protesting Trident submarine - Mark Jensen - Judge orders City of Tacoma to provide police 'rules of engagement' - Marco Rosaire Rossi - When will we start listening to Murray Bookchin? Facing up to global warming as a reality, not an abstraction - May 2007 Announcements

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April 2007

"Olympia 22" case ends in mistrial; reveals surveillance of activists - Sandy Mayes - With your $upport Works In Progress is moving forward - T. J. Johnson - Waging Peace: From Protest to Resistance - Shoji Niihara - A message of solidarity from Japan: Your resistance is ours - Steve Niva - Rachel Corrie's detractors seek to silence message of Hope and Peace - Jennifer Loewenstein - Letter to the Olympia City Council in support of the Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project - Port Militarization Resistance - Citizen's Injunction to Halt the Shipment of Military Material to Iraq - Mark Jensen - Tacoma municipal court proceedings better than an operetta: Tacoma 23 and attorneys defend the right to dissent - Wally Cuddeford - Port of Tacoma: Eleven Days of Resistance - David Krieger - Worse Than the War - Ross Reynolds, T. J. Johnson - Interview with TJ Johnson - Marco Rosaire Rossi - The people Of Italy say no to US imperialism - Alan Maass - The Legacy of an Unreasonable Man: Why Ralph Nader Took a Stand - April 2007 Announcements

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March 2007

Molly Gibbs, Port Militarization Resistance - Port Militarization Resistance: We must act locally and directly to stop the US Occupation of Iraq - Ray Kavick - First week at Camp Quixote - Tony Zaragoza - The Poor People's Union declares victory and prepares for the next stage - Janet Blanding - Domestic Partnership: A First Step Toward Marriage Equality - Brendan Williams - Brendan Williams Sponsors Domestic Partnership Bill - T. J. Johnson - Olympia City Councilmember TJ Johnson responds to the Council's resolution to end the US Occupation of Iraq - Port Militarization Resistance - Applying the tools of democracy at the Port of Olympia: Port Militarization Update - Marco Rosaire Rossi - Why we need reparations for Iraq: Iraq can enrich itself and the world with its potential - Sergei Holmes - End the war with George Bush jokes - Peter Bohmer - End US imperial wars! - Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition - Harsh sanctions for families on welfare - Ann Wright - Mistrial declared as Army's case flounders: Watada follows military rules on dissent - Jeff Paterson - How Lt. Watada and the GI resistance movement beat the Army - Ehren Watada - A letter from Lt. Watada to supporters

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February 2007

Sandy Mayes - Next time, we'll be ready for them: Port Militarization Resistance returns to defend the Port of Olympia - Janine Gates - Lt. Watada speaks out in Olympia - Tribunal challenges Iraq war with truth - Jeff Paterson - Army drops activist subpoenas for Lt. Watatda court martial - Sarah Olson - Why I Object to Testifying Against Lt. Watada - Marco Rosaire Rossi - How to outlaw homelessness, and not the homeless - Gail Johnson - Why removing Bush and Cheney matters - Drew Hendricks - We must stand against the largest exporter of terror: the US Empire - Kathy Kelly - "Leave now or you will die like a dog." Wrapped around a bullet - Rochelle Gause - Unbreakable dignity: Report from the Zapatista International Encounter - Mickey Z. - Nader still in the crosshairs - Joshua Frank - Offering a response to Senator Webb: What the United States really needs to hear

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January 2007

Janet Blanding - Ralph's Thriftway lone Plan-B holdout despite losses - Wally Cuddeford - Fort Lewis punishes soldier for exposing sexual assault - Peter Bohmer - Ending homelessness as a new standard for Olympia - Rochelle Gause - Oaxaca repression stems from US pressure to exploit - Ralph Nader - Resist the privatization of our Postal Service: Nader echoes Clint Burleson about the pitfalls of corporatizing the USPS - Citizens' Hearing to put Iraq War "on trial" - Watada pre-trial vigil for supporters - Indian Island defendants to appear in court - Human Rights Watch - NGO admits errors in statement of Gaza situation - Marco Rosaire Rossi - Money for health care, not for war - Aleta DeBee, Dave Zink - David Korten's latest book reviewed - Joseph P. Kennedy II - Yes, oil from Venezuela - Free School Winter Classes 2007 - Oh, So that's why I need a gun! The NRA plays Nostradamus and gives us a glimpse of the end times - January 2007 Announcements

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