2008 Issues

September 2008

Janet Blanding - Tear It Down! Signature deadline looms for initiative to unmake the mistake - wip - announcements - TJ Johnson - Bringing Back the Nukes - Patty Imani - Freedom Bridge Liberated!Reflections on Fort Militarization Resistance in Tacoma - Daisy Ouye - Ninety-nine reasons Not to Rezone: Objections to the Urban Waterfront Rezone and Height Amendment Proposal - Necashaw Montgomery - Greeners react to Evergreen compliance of privacy abuse - Molly Gibbs - Local activists challenge democracy’s demise - WIP - Olympians go to "Gitmo on the Platte." - Daisy Ouye - American Gandhi Returns From India

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August 2008

Janet Blanding - Gagged by the City Council - WIP News Service - Announcements - Necashaw R. Montgomery - Peace activists stage war games at Lakefair - WIP News Service - Interview with Fred King, Capitol Campus Design Advisory Committee Chair - People for a Participatory City (PPC) - Gentrification is Only One Way to Develop A City - 20/20 Vision Olympia - New Olympia grass-roots group promotes full-scale, community-based, and non-local professional planning effort for downtown to begin in 2009. - Port Militarization Resistance - Communities rally to prevent militarization of public port - Billie Burlock - Activist Summer Project: I-69 - Daisy Ouye - Bernie Meyer, The American Gandhi - Ashley Harrison - Exciting work continues on the Olympia–Rafah Mural Project - Andrew Robbins, Hudson Munoz, and Ashley Harrison - The Iraqi Student Solidarity Committee seeks funds to sponsor Iraqi student at Evergreen - Janet Blanding - Hard Times in Oly - Mike Whitney - Reality Check: The Democrats are the Real Problem

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July 2008

WIP News Service - No quarters from RVs - Olympia Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) - A Victory for free speech with SDS reinstated - WIP News Service - announcements/events - Mike Coday - Gag order, subpoena at Evergreen recieves full compliance - Patty Imani - Four More Peace Activists Targeted for Prosecution - Mike Coday - The City of Olympia Plans for Sea Level Rise - Janet Blanding - Ithmus Be the Place - Marco Rosaire Rossi - The Refugee Hypocrisy of Western Countries - Jami Williams - Who is "we" if I am not "us"? - Bill Quigley - The Big Lock-Up: Arrests for War Resistance Rise Again - Sergei Holmes - George Carlin, US radical 1937–2008 - WIP News Service - WIP staff branches out in baking world - Members of TESC faculity - Dear Mayor Mah and Olympia City Council Members. . . .

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June 2008

WIP News Service - New charges against Nov. 2007 Port protests - Peter Bohmer - Reflections on May Day, 2008 in Olympia - Olympia PMR - Sisters Targeted, Victims of Police Abuse - WIP News Service - June announcements - - Works In Progress Distribution Sabotage: Request for Community Policing - TJ Johnson - The Current City Council and who's pocket they're in - Christa Kilduff - May Day 2008: Revolutionary Discipline & The Politics of Fun - Janet Blanding - Cyber-Organizing: Local Activists Go Online - Mike Coday - Challenging the guiding principles on "riot control" - editor - TESC ALUMNI PETITION IN SUPPORT OF SDS and THE EVERGREEN WAY - Student Power and the Sit-in at Evergreen - Marco Rosaire Rossi - Victory Does Not Give Rights: The Colombian/US Invasion into Ecuador - Noah Sochet, Olympia Port Militarization Resistance - No justice, no phony "dialogue - Nicholas Pace - Reverend James Lawson Speaks at Traditions - Cindy Sheehan Press Release - . . .and CINDY SHEEHAN TO SPEAK IN OLYMPIA - Nicole Lamb - Project: Transitions Unveiled - Jon Kempe - Day Laborer Organizing - Bernard Roddy - Evergreen Hosts Immigration Conference - Marco Rosaire Rossi - Israel and the United States: A Case of Arab Holocaust Denial - - "Folksinger, Storyteller, Railroad Tramp Utah Phillips Dead at 73" - Marco Rosaire Rossi - A “Perfect Storm” or A Manufactured Crisis? Understanding the Global Food shortage - WIP News Service - Grow Your Own

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May 2008

WIP News Service - Vision Without View, Sound Without Music - WIP News Service - OLY 2012: The Future Looks Like Astroturf - WIP - May Announcements - Tobi Vail - From “Hippest Town in the West” to ghost town - Leon Janssen - Briana Waters: Guilt By Association - Craig Oare - Sadie’s Heron - Nicholas Pace - Legendary civil rights leader brings teachings to Olympia - Monica Peabody - POWER boosts funds, hosts Mother’s Day picnic - Daisy Ouye and D K Ouye - Beloved Peace Activist Riad Elsolh Hamad, Dead at 55: Another Victim of the “War on Terror” - Eyewitness - May 1: Eyewitness Report of May Day Mêlée - - The Thurston-Santo Tomás Sister County Association welcomes its 9th Community Delegation from Santo Tomás, Nicaragua

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April 2008

WIP News Service - Condo outbreak at downtown waterfront approaches - by Erika Marquez and Molly Porter of Bridges Not Walls - Building Bridges, Not Walls; Local coalition prepares historic immigration conference - Janet Blanding - Velma Stewart: A mother’s story about recruitment approaches - Olympia Civil Liberties Resource - Tacoma jury unjustly convicts Briana Waters of arson - Olympia Civil Liberties Resource - Nicaraguan delegation to visit, present in Olympia - Olympia Civil Liberties Resource - Founder of “School of the Americas Watch” speaks in Olympia - Finn Cottom - Queer Theater Magic 2008 - Tim Wise - Who should obama apologize for next—rosa parks? Of national lies and racial amnesia - Americans United for Separation of Church and State - AU brief rebukes Ralph’s pharmacy religious claim - April 2008 Announcements

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March 2008

Tony Zaragoza - Eyewitness Accounts of Valentines's Day Dead Prez Event - Olympia Civil Liberties Resource - Briana Waters' Trial in Tacoma and the Impact on the Olympia Community - Pete Bohmer - Comments on Dead Prez concert events - Chris Allert, Jen Marlowe - Interview with Jen Marlowe - Therese Saliba - LA-8 Defendant and Filmmaker Discuss Civil Liberties Victory at Evergreen Film Fest - Seth Manzel - The Role of Military Families in GI Resistance - March 2008 Announcements

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February 2008

Chris Allert, Susan Greene, Lisa Nessan - Muralists bring Palestinian experience to Olympia - Daisy Ouye - Frank's Landing Reopens Smokeshop, Restores Funding - Anne Fischel, John Regan - Cananea Mine Strike: Grupo Mexico wants canaries, not workers - Sergei Holmes, Alison Bodine - Canada gets picky: An interview with a banished U.S. activist and former resident of Canada - Ashley Harrison, Matt Lester - Evergreen's Iraqi Student Project - Candace Milne - Kucinich withdraws, What now? - Marco Rosaire Rossi - From Annapolis to Gaza: A Cycle of Meaningless Negotiations and Harsh Repression - Tillman Clark - The Subprime Mortgage Crisis - POWER - POWER endorses: Four bills you can support to attempt to lessen poverty in Washington. - February 2008 Announcements

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January 2008

Phoebe Blanding - When they come for the schoolkids, resist! Confronting the reality of military recruitment in local, national schools - Army of None comes to Olympia - Brendan Funtek - At the newsroom: What happened and what did not happen - Marit Knutson - Why Counter-demonstrate for Women's Health? Former resident sheds light on current fight for rights - Pat Tassoni - Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Poor people's summit and march on the capitol to end poverty - Marco Rosaire Rossi - The right to housing in New Orleans - Mark Foutch - Parting words from the mayor to the activist community - January 2008 Announcements

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