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IN AMMAN, PAGE 7. GREEN WEEK, PAGE 10. OPINIONS, PAGE 13. CALENDAR, PAGE 11. ·coMICS, PAGE 1s.
THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE
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ISSUE 26, VOLUME 36, MAY 22, 2008
Geoduck Fest:
No live music,
but plenty of
water fig fats
by MADELINE BERMAN
The annual Geoduck Fest was held this
past Saturday. Hosted by the Greener Organization, Geoduck Fest was intended to be
a block party-style event. Various attractions were set up on the field, including
dunk tank, slip-n-slide, temporary graffiti
wall, and garage sale. Inside the Housing
Community Center, they gave away free
sorbet, com chips, and watermelon.
It had been advertised that Officer Tony
Perez of campus Police Services would be
among those in the dunk tank. This did not
come to pass, due to the fact he was not
scheduled to be on campus that day. Regardless, there were many student volunteers to
be dunked until the tank stopped working a
few hours into the festivities. However, this
did not stop the participants from having
a good time, since everyone soon found
themselves in the middle of an enormous
water balloon and hose fight.
Geoduck Fest went well, save for some
controversy concerning the music at the
event. Originally, six bands had been
scheduled to play, three of which were
from Evergreen, including The Repeaters,
Funk Underworld, and Mighty Giant.
Melissa Turkington, Resident Director
of Programming, had begun to plan for
Geoduck Fest towards the end of winter
quarter with the intention of making it very
music-focused and similar to a battle-of-the
bands-style event. These preliminary plans
were made before the incident on February
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A CROWD OF SlTPPORTERS FOR THE SUSPENDED STUDENT GROUP STUDENTS FOR
A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY CONFRONT ART COSTANTINO
Free speech rally leads to sit-in
Students to hold slumber party in SEM I until SDS is reinstated
~y JASON
SLOTKIN,
with contributions from Madeline Berman,
Brian Fullerton & Seth Vincent
A sign made of red butcher paper hangs
in a wind9w of the- fourth floor of Seminar
l. The sign reads, "Occupied by students,
Reinstate SDS!'' in large letters.
It was hung up by members and supporters of the suspended student group
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS),
who are staging a sit-in outside the office
of Art Costantino, vice president of student
affairs.
The Rally
SDS had planned to have a rally in Red
Square. The rally was to coincide with the
final appeal to have the group's suspension
lifted before January.
Nearly 50 students gathered near the
Campus Activities Building in Red Square.
Representatives of SDS and allied student
groups took turns addressing the crowd
from a bench with a megaphone.
The speakers attempted to address the
crowd over a band, which was performing
as part of Green Week.
The crowd remained attentive to the speakers despite the Green Week festivities.
Not all of the supporters were Evergreen
students. A small group came from Revolution, a bookstore in Seattle specializing
in activist literature, in support of the
group's cause.
The rally ended with a march, which had
see RALLY, page 5
14.
KRISTINA WILLIAMS
PLANNING THE SIT-IN
SEE PAGES 10 AND 11
FOR MORE INFORMATION
ABOUT GREEN WEEK
STUDENT MATT HAMMER EATING LUNCH AND CONTEMPLATING THE OFFERINGS OF
GREEN WEEK AND SYNERGY
Once the moratorium was in place,
however, organizers continued to tentatively plan on live music in hopes that the
moratorium would be lifted by the time of
the festival. Unfortunately, the concert ban
was lifted only a day before Geoduck Fest
was set to occur, which greatly frustrated
many of the event's organizers. "I won't
call it a waste of time," says Vivien Lautenslager, a freshman and event planner,
"but I put a lot of effort into it."
Turkington had also tried to push the idea
of only having the Evergreen-based bands
play and avoid advertising off-campus, but
a week prior to the event, Phyllis Lane,
dean of student affairs, still said no.
Though unable to have the live show
they'd hoped for, the Greeners were able
to set up a stereo and sound system so
the event was not entirely without music.
As for next year's Geoduck Fest, with
the moratorium lifted and no foreseeable
obstacles, odds are that the students will be
able to have live music for their listening
pleasure.
Madeline Berman is a freshman enrolled
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Porn Week
by RAINBOE SIMS-JONES
by RAINBOE SIMS-JONES
Slightly West has the unique position of
being both a student group and a literary
journal at Evergreen. Slightly West puts
out an annual journal showcasing literary and visual art by Evergreen students,
faculty, and alumni. Because of the many
aspects of Slightly West, the group takes
different forms throughout the year.
In the fall, members meet regularly to
plan and organize how to get submissions and they meet weekly until book
construction begins in spring quarter.
This year they received between 250 and
300 text submissions, along with many
artwork submissions including drawings, paintings, photography, silkscreen,
letterpress, and collage.
After the submission deadline, they
create a giant packet of the work collected
and send it out to jurors. The jury is an
anonymous group of selected members
The purpose of both of these readings
was to publicize PRESS Literary Conference, which will be happening this
weekend.
PRESS: A Cross-Cultural Literary
Conference has been in the works for
nearly a year. The theme of the conference, which will be held at Evergreen
this weekend, May 24-25, is Activism
and the Avant-Garde. The idea came
from several members of the organizing
committee, including faculty member
David Wolach, Evergreen alumna Victoria Larkin, and Evergreen students Aaron
Shelley and Meghan McNealy. After
doing readings for KAOS, they talked
about what it would be like to have a
literary event at Evergreen. They spoke
of a need to connect to larger communities, to bring people from outside of our
campus to speak about writ-ing and the
politics of voices.
Publicity about PRESS went out to
SLIGHTLY WEST LITERARY jOURNAL
WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER
AT THE [PRESS] CONFERENCE
whose opinions, aesthetics, and critical
feedback are valued by the Slightly West
editor and group members. The jurors are
selected from writing faculty, students,
and alumni. This year's jury consisted of
eight people.
Once book construction begins, members
spend 12 to 15 hours a day working on
the layout, which is a large part of the
learning gained from participating in the
group. Members design the book layout
in the Computer lab and press the covers
in the print studio. A lot of the work
is split between the two coordinators,
Meghan McNealy and Becca Taplin.
While putting out Slightly West is the
group's main project, they also sponsor
public readings. Over the past school
year, they · have hosted four or five
readings.
The first one, which drew about 75
people, was in the Library on October
30. The most recent event, co-sponsored
by the Writers' Guild, was at the Black
Front Gallery downtown on February
29.
writing programs across the country, as
well as grassroots organizing communities, nearly all of whom were interested.
One of the writers attending PRESS is
Rodrigo Toscano, who is a New York
labor union organizer doing collapsible
poetic theatre. The full list of panels and
panelists is available at www.evergreen.
edu/writingcenter/press/.
"We have a nice well-rounded spread of
people," says McNealy. "The idea is to
get a group of people in a room but everything has been left to the collaboration of
the people whose work we selected."
Slightly West Literary Journal will be
available for pre-order at the conference.
Unfortunately, the physical copy will
not be available for sale until Week 10.
There will only be 500 copies printed,
but there will be copies available at the
Evergreen Library and Bookstores and
at libraries around Olympia. This year
the book features work from [Evergreen]
students, faculty, and alumni -almost 40
artists total.
"It's a big book and it really reflects a
writing culture," says McNealy. "It's a
culture that I think people are aware of
. . . a lot of really great work came in and
reflected that as well."
If you're interested in being a part of
Slightly West next year, this summer's
a great time to get started. They will
need volunteers to help with mailing
out copies of the journal. If you think
Slightly West is really cool, or if you just
love licking envelopes, contact Slightly
West at·sJightlywest@gmail.com.
Rainboe Sims-Jones is a junior enrolled
in an independent learning contract.
Porn Week is intended to address different angles on pornography. Alternative
pornography is contrasted with how it
exists within today's manistream definitions of masculinity. Porn week is
intended to introduce the Sex Positive and
feminist porn perspectives and the idea
that women should reclaim pornography
anti-porn feminist and author of Pornography: Men Possessing Women, the word
pornography is "derived from the ancient
Greek porne and graphos ... Porne means
'whore,' specifically and exclusively the
lowest class of whore, which in ancient
Greece was the brothel slut availat?le to all
male citizens. The porne was the cheapest
(in the literal sense), least regarded, least
protected of all women, including slaves.
SEX POSITIVE IS A MOVEMENT OR PHILOSO- .
PHY WITHIN FEMINISM RELATED TO SEXUAL
LIBERATION MOVEMENTS OF THE '70S
and steer it away from sexism, racism,
degradation, and oppression.
Pornography as a whole is definitely a
serious issue and it can be painful. "I
realize l need to be careful about how I
discuss it," says Mao Reich, co-coordinator of Women of Color Coalition and
Porn Week organizer. "I don't want to
make people think I think all porn is okay,
because there's a lot that's not okay about
it."
Many think feminist porn is about lesbians or man-bashing homosexuals. Feminist porn has the intended consciousness
of non-oppressive, non-discriminatory,
realistic depictions of sexual pleasure.
Sensuality and sex are redefined beyond
penis, vagina, and penetration.
Erotica also needs to be embraced and
redefined. The connotation of erotica is
that it is unexplicit and elitist. Anti-porn
FEMINIST PORN
HAS THE INTENDED
CONSCIOUSNESS OF
NON-OPPRESSIVE,
NON-DISCRIMINATORY, REALISTIC
DEPICTIONS OF
SEXUAL PLEASURE
feminists think the word "pornography"
is degrading and instead refer to it as
erotica; but both erotica and feminist
porn have the same philosophy. Erotica
opens the door for more possibility; for
example, one erotic film made peeling an
orange sexy and erotic.
Whatever you want to call it - feminist
pornography or erotica - the fact remains
that it should be done in a sex-positive way. The Sex Positive movement
within feminism related to sexual liberation movements of the '70s. The word
"pornography" in itself is the depiction of
prostituting [women] and degrading them
as mere sex objects.
According to Andrea Dworkin, a famous
She was, simply and clearly and absolutely, a sexual slave. Graphos means
'writing, etching, or drawing."' The aim
of Porn Week is to bring that knowledge
to the forefront and address it.
Porn Week began Monday with a
lecture from Robert Jensen, the author of
Getting Off: Pornography and the End of
Masculinity. In his lecture, he analyzed
mainstream pornography to address
how our society conceives of masculinity. Wednesday brought Xandra Ibarra
to campus to address the pornography
debate and the under-representation of
sex workers in that debate.
If you missed out on these events and
want to come to Porn Week, come this
Thursday and Friday, May 22 and 23, for
the racier events. On Thursday from 8
to 10 p.m., there will be a screening of
two films: Hot and Bothered: Feminist
Pornography and Made in Secret: The
Story of East Van Porn Collective; both
will show in Seminar II E 1105. Friday
brings a Babeland Sex Workshop focused
on women's sexual pleasure. The workshop will be held in SEM II A2109 from
4 to 6 p.m. Discussion
topics will include
anatomy, sex toys, and
more.
If you're curious
about what else the
Women
of Color
Coalition has in store,
you can contact them
at wocc.tesc@gmail.com, or come to
their weekly student group meetings on
Wednesdays at 3:30 in CAB (Campus
Activities Building) 206.
Rainboe Sims-Jones is a junior enrolled
in an independent learning contract.
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May22, 2008
Evergreen students charged
for Port protest activities
Misdem~anor charges have been filed
against three Evergreen students who were
arrested during the Olympia Port protests
this past November.
The students charged are Shayam
Khanna, Patricia Hutchison and Kathleen
Hutchison.
Kathleen (alias Katy) and her twin sister,
Patricia, have both been charged with
obstruction of an officer.
Khanna has been charged with obstruction of a police officer and resisting arrest,
though he says he was originally arrested
for pedestrian interference. According
to Khanna, because these are just misde-
meanors, "they won't prevent [him] from
doing anything in the future ."
Khanna also says that he and other protesters have been asked to speak about their
experiences at the Port at venues ranging
from Bellingham to San Francisco. He
says, "We've been pretty effective, more
effective than other anti-war movements in
the country."
Both of the Hutchison sisters were unable
to be contacted in time for the printing of
this article.
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Friday, noon until dusk
Students can be a part of a temporary
mural reflecting on celebrating and the
events of Synergy and Green Week at the
Black Car this Friday starting, at noon
and going until the evening in the front
of C Lot. The painting theme is Dreams
of Our Common Future and is open to
everyone's creative expressions.
The organizers have three rules that
they ask everyone to abide by: the first
rule is that the art contains no words or
overt symbols; the second is to consider
how the art interacts with the artwork of
others; and the third is to consider how
all of the art together will coherently
reflect the theme.
The painting will be displayed for only
a couple of weeks with the hope of showing the school that students can create
public murals that are positive, beautiful,
expressive, and contained in appropriate
locations. Supplies will be limited, so
please bring additional brushes, paint,
and food.
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BRUCE WILKINSON
MADELINE BERMAN
Print for Breathing is on its way
The Writers' Guild has been busy this quarter, doing stuff. The stuff that they have been
doing will amount to something, soon.
Print for Breathing is that something. The
PRESS Literary Conference is that soon.
Print for Breathing is the Writers' Guild's
journal of textual awesome from 22 writers
within the Evergreen community, including
Brandon Custy.
The covers were Jetterpressed by the Guild
and Jami Heinricher at the Sherwood Press
with black and silver ink. Antlers.
"This book is shit," says Joel Morley, the
Writers' Guild coordinator. "The shit."
Print for Breathing will be hardbound by
Black Car Mural
Writers' Guild members and the general
public at the PRESS Literary Conference in
the small press room, Seminar II C 11 07 all
day Saturday and Sunday.
"It's a good idea," Morley comments. "It's
interactive, like the Blue Man Group."
The Writers' Guild doesn't want your
money, but they will take it. Printfor Breathing will be available for purchase at the
PRESS Literary Conference and all further
Writers' Guild readings.
Print for breathing. Because Print is as
important as Breathing. Sorry.
~JOEL
Flaming Eggplant going "smooth"
The process of The Flaming Eggplant
Cafe is still underway and going
"smooth," according to Flaming Eggplant
Coordinator T-Claw.
As smooth as
possible, anyway.
Earlier this year, The Flaming Eggplant,
the proposed student run cafe, ran into
some problems concerning where the
cafe would be located during the CAB
renovation next year.
The Flaming
Eggplant interim location will now be a
trailer that will be located in Red Square
near the Learning Annex. They recently
purchased the trailer from JRP Concession, a company from North Carolina for
about $50,000.
While the trailer is not "as sustainable"
as they would have liked, it will be built
in three to five weeks and delivered a
week later. They have also enlisted the
help of Fred Swift, who works with
Housing, to help their transition from a
Tier 2 Student Organization to a Tier I
Organization.
In order to get the cafe running by fall
quarter, The Flaming Eggplant still needs
to build the faryade that will go around
the trailer, design the menu, and is looking for "business savvy" people to help
with operations.
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MORLEY
CHAPMAN
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WASHINGTON CAMPUSES
Qu·estions of infrastructure in
CAB redesign
The general theme for the interior
design of the renovated Campus Activities Building (CAB) will feature warm
colors and bright accents that offset the
drab neutral colors that pervade this
campus and region.
The theme was determined at the last
CAB Redesign Committee meeting,
allowing the firm working on the redesign to get more specific with the types
of materials and colors that will be used
inside the building.
The redesign committee will be discussing the specifics of the interior design at
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According to Evergreen's project
leader, Azeem Hoose in, the committee
will also tackle some decisions about
the infrastructure of the new design.
For example, the committee will need
to decide whether or not to us'e a power
source independent from Evergreen's
on-campus utility plant, whether there
should be gas line put in for the Greenery,
and the possibility of putting in a new
geothermal heating system to replace the
school's old heating system .
These infrastructural components of the
redesign could require more money than
is currently in the budget.
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22, 2008
Sit-in to continue until SDS is- reinstated
RALLY, from cover
been planned by SDS. The group made its way
towards the Seminar I building.
SDS vs. Costantino
The crowd of students marched over to the
bJ.Iilding to talk to Costantino. They appeared
intent on making their way to his office.
"Hey, there's Art," someone shouted, as
Costantino was spotted outside of the building.
The crowd made their way toward Costantino
as he made his way towards his office. He was
soon surrounded.
Costantino attempted to shout over the crowd,
and expressed interest in meeting elsewhere to
have a discussion. The crowd seemed skeptical
of his offers. "Dirty Bureaucrat," shouted a
member of the crowd.
Costantino made his way through the crowd
and seemed to disappear.
The crowd then made their to the fourth floor of
SEM I, where Costantino's office is located.
Following the crowd were drummers, and
other marchers playing instruments. The musicians followed the crowd into the building.
Workers came out of the office, some of them
obviously irritated with the music. One worker
shouted at the drummers until they stopped.
The group moved to the fourth floor to wait
for Costantino's return, and the reinstatement of
SDS.
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Camping out
Two students sat over a game of chess on the
fourth floor of the Seminar I building. Near
them was a table covered with two-liter bottles
filled with water. Standing by the chess game
were members and supporters ofSDS.
In the hallway, the group played music while
others were on the roof playing music that could
be heard in Red Square.
At the group's appeal at 3:30p.m., coordinator Brook Stepp announced that 60 people had
staged a sit-in. "You have a perfect right to sit
anywhere you want to," said Wendy Freeman,
a staff member appointed by Costantino to hear
the group's final appeal. "Can you get food to
them and portable toilets?"
"We've got that all taken care of," responded
Stepp. The group has water and snacks, and
enough people to take breaks to go to the bath-
Update on SDS appeal
by SETH VINCENT
The second and final appeal to the decision
to suspend Students for a Democratic Society
as a registered student group was presented
to staff member Wendy Freeman at 3:30p.m.
on Wednesday, May 21.
SDS members Courtney Frantz, Stefanie
Gottschalk, and Brooke Stepp spoke with
Freeman, addressing the suspension of SDS
and the cancellation of their March 7 panel
discussion and concert.
According to Gottschalk, SDS did all they
could to address concerns voiced by Dean of
Students Phyllis Lane before the event.
According to Student Activities Director
Tom Mercado, the March 7 events were
cancelled because the group planned to
follow
see APPEAL, page 15
room or class.
At roughly 25 people, the group is taking up half
of the hallway. Walking to Costantino's office,
or most of the offices in the hallway, involves
stepping over and around the demonstrators.
"A lot of these offices are for EF. We're not
trying to get in their way," said participant
Shyam Khanna. According to Khanna, they
are only there to block Costantino from his
office.
Costantino did return to his office, accompanied by Chief of Police Services, Ed Sorger, but
the students did want to talk. Many felt uncomfortable since Sorger, like all Evergeen police
officers, was armed.
Sorger felt the~emonstration was detrimental to the group's cause, and that there were
more "peaceful" ways of getting reinstated.
He suggested meeting with Costantino "over
pizza" in the Campus Activities Building.
According to Sorger, there was no set plan for
dealing with the sit-in, since it was non-violent.
Other members of Police Services seem to have
a different impression.
" Ed's got a plan, I just don't what it is" said
Officer Tyson Forrest.
The demonstrators have laid out sleeping
bags, and have brought some comforts such as
computers and a hookah.
SDS and supporters seem intent on staying
until the group is reinstated, and the administration and police seemed increasingly frustrated
with the group. Both seem to want to talk but
seem unable to find a common forum .
"I would like to see this conversation in a larger
forum," said Freeman at the appeal meeting
with SDS members.
Jason Slotkin is a junior enrolled in an independent learning contract with the Cooper
Point Journal.
SDS seeks
support from
faculty
f(y JASON SLOTKIN
At their most recent meeting, Evergreen faculty decided to postpone
their vote on the smoking baD proposal
until fall. However, this was a minor
moment compared to a proposal to
support Students for a Democratic
Society.
Stephen Beck, a member of the
committee that sets the agenda for
faculty meetings, introduced the
proposal.
Faculty member Peter Bohmer
followed Beck with a speech saying
that in this instance faculty needed to
"oppose the administration," and then
called upon SDS members Courtney
Frantz and Stefanie Gottschalk to
address the faculty.
Beck then cited the agenda committee's decision not to have floor time
for an SDS member without having a
representative from Student Activities
present. According to Beck, this was
to hear both sides of the argument.
Frantz and Gottschalkarguedforfloor
time, pointing out that both Student
· Activites Director Tom Mercado and
Vice President of Student Affairs Art
Costantino were at the meeting.
Faculty members began to head for
the door, voicing disagreement with
the break from agenda.
see FACULTY, page 15
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weighs in on the porn debate
by CASEY JAYWORK
BOTH PRO-CENSORSHIP SOCIAL CONSERVATIVES
Yesterday, the public lecture Sex Workers as
Subjects: Rethinking the Debate on Pornography
was held in Seminar II.
Delivered by a Seattle sex worker, Xandra
Ibarra, the lecture broached topics like the tension
between feminism and pornography, female sex
workers being ·treated by pundits as mindless
victims instead of capable professionals, and the
role of power and sex within American society.
The talk was part of the larger "Porn Week"
hosted this week by the Women of Color
Coalition.
The weeklong event also included a lecture
called Getting Off: Pornography and the End
of Masculinity by author Robert Jenson on
Monday.
The lecture concerned the debate on pornography and censorship in the United States, a debate
that has been raging since the 1972 premier of the
classic Linda Lovelace film Deep Throat.
According to the Ibarra, both pro-censorship
social conservatives and anti-censorship free
speech advocates have purported to represent the
interests of the sex workers directly involved in
the creation of pornography, though neither side
has included sex workers in the debate.
"Sex workers should have been seen as subjects
during the censorship debate," she said. Instead,
they were marginalized and objectified as being
incapable of deciding their own fate .
The speaker relied extensively upon French
philosopher Michel Foucault's ideas ofthe nature
AND ANTI-CENSORSHIP FREE SPEECH ADVOCATES
HAVE PURPORTED TO REPRESENT THE INTERESTS
OF THE SEX WORKERS DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN THE
CREATION OF PORNOGRAPHY, THOUGH NEITHER
SIDE HAS INCLUDED SEX WORKERS IN THE DEBATE
of power as definitionally requiring the agency of
the oppressed.
Because ofthis agency, the possibility of"resistance" is always lying dormant in oppressive situations. Various examples of power and oppression
were presented, including racism, sexism, and
able-ism (i.e. bias against the handicapped).
Vilified in the talk was anti-pornography feminist Catherine MacKinnon, who was quoted in
1987 by the Washington Monthly as comparing
advocates of pornography to "house niggers who
sided with the masters."
The speaker characterized this statement as
"racist," and argued that MacKinnon's antipornography position was also anti-feminist,
because pornography and other sex work can be
used to expand women's autonomy over their
bodies and counter economic disparity between
genders. "[I] feel more like a prostitute when
I'm a barista than when I'm doing pornography,"
Ibarra said.
Specializing in BDSM (bondage, domination,
and sadomasochism) films, the speaker took
special issue with common perceptions surrounding power, sex work, and women.
"BDSM is a consensual fantasy of playing with
power," she said.
Ibarra also discussed the problems created by
criminalizing or regulating sex work, which
drives sex workers "underground" into more
dangerous and oppressive working conditions.
She envisioned the evolution of pornography
as a "site for resistance," using the resources of
feminist organizing to "undermine patriarchy."
" Porn Week" will continue with the films Hot
and Bothered: Feminist Pornography and Made
in Secret: Stories of an "Underground DIY Anarcho-Feminist Porn Collective" tonight from 8
to 10 p.m. in SEM II Ell05, and a masturbation
workshop tomorrow from 4 to 6 p.m. in SEM II
A2109.
Casey Jaywork is a junior enrolled in Knowing
Nature.
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Schedule in Brief
full schedule is available at evergreen.edu/writingcenterlpress
registration/small press
room: S.EM II C1107, beginning Saturday at 9:30a.m.
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cupatton
Public Readings/Performances:
"THEY ARE TRYING TO MAKE
by IMAD AHMAD
LIFE UNLIVABLE. THEY ARE
After hours of questioning and headache at the border security checkpoint, I was finally let into Israel. My travel partner
and I were split: The authorities turned him away because of
his reading material and let me in because of my family ties.
Depressed from my day of travel, I left the terminal and began
the drive to my hometown of Be ita right outside of the West
Bank town of Nablus. I began to look for a taxi with Israeli
license plates as opposed to Palestinian plates, because taxis
with Palestinian plates undergo many more checkpoints and
searches. This immediately made me think of the old apartheid
system in South Africa. If you are Palestinian, your car plates
are green with a "P" on them and if you are Israeli, your plates
are blue with an "!" on them. This makes it easy to identify
where the driver is from.
On the taxi ride to the village, I felt like I was cooking. It is
only April, but it is already an unbearable 104 degrees. The taxi
driver started to tell me about the short winter that Israel and
the Occupied Territories have experienced. This manifested
itself in water droughts and a boom in food prices.
This brings us to the important issue of water. Most oflsrae1's
water comes from the West Bank, yet the Palestinians have
no control over it. This is only one of many issues: Israel also
USING SOMETHING FROM THE
EARTH AS A POLITICAL TOOL
AGAINS.T US AND THIS IS INHUMANE. I AM NOT SURE HOW
WE ARE SUPPOSED TO LIVE"
Nations was also barred from entering the Strip from Israel,
which further hurt the people when important food and medical
supplies were unable to reach clinics, shelters, and hospitals.
In reality, Gaza has been turned into an open-air prison with
daily incursions from the Israeli "Defense" Forces, making
life unlivable for the people ofGaza who, despite international
outcry, are being choked by the border closures.
Water reduction is just one of the many tools of occupation
that the Israeli government is using against the Palestinian
people. Another problem is mobility: Palestinian towns are
Friday, May 23
Bp.m.
Semll, C1105
(Evergreen Campus)
Leonard Schwartz
Kaia Sand
Roger Farr
Mark Wallace
Jules Boykoff
Tung-Hui Hu
Laura Elrick
David Michael Wolach
Tom Orange
Zhang Er
Sunday, May 25
7p.m.
Sem II D1107
(Evergreen Campus)
Saturday, May 24
4p.m.
· Sem II, D2107
(Evergreen Campus)
Performance
The Key: Re-Visioning
Blluebeard a play
by Drue Robinson,
directed by Kate Arvin
Saturday, May 24
4p.m.
Ward's (Downtown
Olympia, 4th Street,
Next to Jake's on 4th)
Readings,
Performances, DJ
and Afterparty
Rodrigo Toscano's
Collapsible Poetics Theater
Kristen Prevallet
The Once American
Dream: An AntiAnti
War Musical by Jais
Brohinky and David
Cohen, directed
by Kate Arvin
Sunday May 25
9p.m.
Location: Ward's
(Downtown Olympia,
4th Avenue, Next
to Jake's on 4th)
Readings, Performance, and Live
Music/Afterparty
Alice Templeton
Holly Melgard
Lindsey Boldt
Andrew Csank
Moonstruck
Steven Hendricks
Kate Robinson
Jennifer Bartlett
Combinatorics Theater
I BEGAN TO LOOK FOR A TAXI WITH ISRAELI LICENSE
Panels/Workshops: May 24-25
PLATES AS OPPOSED TO PALESTINIAN PLATES,
Saturday 11 a.m.-1
p.m.: First Session
BECAUSE TAXIS WITH PALESTINIAN PLATES UNDERGO
MANY MORE CHECKPOINTS AND SEARCHES
controls their airspace, borders, and resources. The Israeli
government has announced a water reduction program in
which smaller Palestinian villages, such as mine, would have
water resources limited to them.
After a week of being in the West Bank, I felt the effects of
this program. The water output to the village was cut by 50%,
resulting in the village only having running water three days
a week. I began asking people what they thought about the
current situation. One elderly man told me that "Israelis are
cutting the water to us and taking the rest for [themselves];
are we to blame ... Mother Nature? They are trying to make
life unlivable. They are using something from the earth as a
political tool against us and this is inhumane. I am not sure
how we are supposed to live."
The Gaza Strip is even worse off. Since Hamas seized control
of the Strip in late 2007, Israel and Egypt have both closed
their borders; it is crippling the economy. With power stations
unable to receive supplies from outside the Strip, they quickly
run out of stock and are forced to shut down. The United
WATER REDUCTION IS
JUST ONE OF THE MANY
TOOLS OF OCCUPATION
THAT THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT IS USING AGAINST
THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
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cut off from everything by the establishment of checkpoints
and settlements. To move from town to town, or ~ven to leave
the area, Palestinians must go through a tedious checkpoint
process that sometimes takes hours. At times, the checkpoints
are closed, which makes it impossible to get to work or school
and acess essential services like hospitals and clinics. Israel
says these checkpoints are necessary for security but Palestinians point to human rights violations and infringement on their
sovereignty.
Because of their unwillingness to release powers to lower
levels of the government, the Palestinian National Authority
also incurs blame for the deteriorating situation. Corruption is
another major problem, which has led to the ineffectiveness of
the government. With millions of unaccounted dollars in aid
and taxes, the people have lost almost all confidence in the
Fatah-led government. As a result, the Palestinian economy
suffers and the people are expected to bear the responsibility
and hardship.
Now, Israel celebrates 60 years of independence as Palestine
mourns 60 years of the "Nakba," or the catastrophe of 1948,
in which their landscape was changed completely: Over 400
villages were destroyed and about a million Palestinians were
displaced to make way for the new state of Israel. One has
to wonder if we will see another 60 years of bloodshed, or if
governments will come to their senses. Without understanding
. each other and learning to see each other as partners in peace,
peace seems unlikely for the future .
!mad Ahmad is enrolled in an independent learning contract
in Amman, Jordan and can be reached at ArabianlOlb@aol.
com.
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Small Press
Panels for Editors
and Designers
Eraser Head,
~navia, Bird Dog,
form Petra/
SEM II C2107
Olympia Activism: Immigration
Rights, Unionism,
and the Anti-War
Movement after
the Port Protests
SEM II C2109
Radical Storytelling/
Radical Identities
SEM II C32107
Independent Media
SEM II C3109
Landscapes of
Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry &
Public Space
SEM II D2107
Saturday 3pm-5pm:
Second Session
Libraries: Bridging
Activist and Writing
Communities
SEM II C2107
Mind Parasites
SEM II C2109
The Unwritten Body
SEM II C3107
Anarchism,
Poetics, Disser:1t
SEM II C3109
Sunday 11am-1pm:
Third Session
SEM II C2107
Globalism In Literature and Globalization: Postcolinialism
and Emergent
Languages
SEM II C3104
The Rupture of
Form: Everything
You Can Do With
Text And Haven't
Yet Thought Of
SEM II C2109
Literacy Prototypes:
Negotiating Human
and Machine
SEM II C3209
The Art of the Book
SEM II D2107
Sunday 3pm-5pm:
Fourth Session
Writing from the
other side
SEM II C2107
Plagiarism: ReApprorpriation of
Language within
Educational
Systems
SEM II C2109
Liminal Poetics:
From Darragh to
Toscano, Writing
at the Edge of
Performance
SEM II C3107
Ecopoetics
SEM II C3109
Mad Libs from
the Underground:
Writing from __
(adj) words
SEM II D2107
Feminist Poetics/
Feminist Literature
Public hearing on proposed changes to ·
WAC 178-168: Library Circulation Policy.
Wednesday, May 28
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Library 3301
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Potato, mango, and orange,
oh m.y!
by BRANDON CUSTY
Today, tomorrow, and the day after that and
the week after that week, the Experimental
Theater will play host to I'm a Potato. This
performance is a compilation of about 50
Neo-Futurist plays in about 90 minutes.
The Neo-Futurists are an experimental
theater troupe, founded in 1988 in Chicago.
The group takes their cues from the Italian
Futurists of the 1920s, presenting a form of
theater based on honesty, speed, and brevity.
Neo-futurism does not buy into the suspension of disbelief- the actors play themselves
and the stage is their setting, their stomping
ground.
The plays shatter the fourth wall in their
not-so-linear progress. The messages of the
plays are open to interpretation; there is no
need to read between the lines in 4/4 time.
The program Rehearsal and Performance
adapted the Neo-Futurists' Too Much Light
Makes the Baby go Blind. The original
production was extended because it's a
breeze for the class, and more plays were
added to the original 30 in 60 minutes. You
shouldn't try this at home. The final production shows the determination and spirit of
eight weeks of concentrated work.
The plays are a multi-course meal for the
whole family, including a choice of vegetable
and some nudity for dessert. Entertainment
also abounds for a carnivore. I'm gonna
bring my black dog along - he is really,
really little. The performance is funny and
has many maudlin tales. Do what you will,
but missing this show may cause a nightmare
to surface during sleep. Don't be blindsided
-there won't be a dvd of the show, because I
am not a camera. So do not be a CAB addict
-go to the COM! Sit back and relax- and
for the love of potatoes, don't play with your
utensils. The show is free at the ET at 7:30
on May 22, 23, 24, 29, 30, and 31 . There is
also a midnight show on May 30.
Brandon Custy is a junior enrolled in
Rehearsal and Performance.
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.May 22, 2008
Sub Pop's latest sub par release 1118 Once American
Fleet Foxes' Sun Gitmt EP
There is a frightening new trend emerging
in the Seattle music scene: waves of countl)'tinged bands showing up to town and getting
signed to Sub Pop. Fleet Foxes is the latest
band to take advantage of this phenomenon.
Someone who holds high authority at Sub
Pop, the nearly 20 year-old cornerstone of
Seattle independent music, is still bummin'
over the fact that they missed out on My
Morning Jacket, and doing a poor job of
making up for it. It started with signing the
almost completely unknown Band of Horses,
and is continuing in the "almost completely
unknown" category, signing Fleet Foxes.
When's it gonna' stop? I mean, since Sub
Pop really doesn't care about signing local
bands, where were they when Jim James and
co. were looking for a good distribution deal
for The Tennessee Fire in 1999? Pavitt and
Poneman must have been already planning
Sub Pop's 20 Year Anniversary Party.
It's too bad the legendary duo didn't spend
those nine years trying to bring Kurt Cobain
back to life so Nirvana could play at Marymoor Park, which isn't even in Seattle.
It's as if Fleet Foxes know they're second
fiddle, or I guess third fiddle, to what Sub
Pop really wanted and decided not to give it
their all on this little promotional extended
play. Robin Pecknold's vocals are drenched
in reverb (of course), while the rest of the
Foxes join him on a nearly a cappella introduction track- only a mandolin plays in the
background- aptly titled "Sun Giant."
Lack of creativity is a huge issue for
Pecknold, and he tries to make up for it
by employing four-part harmonies, which
work on "Sun Giant" but quickly become
overwhelming as they appear on every song
of the album. Even with resident Sub Pop
super-producer Phil Ek's suggestions, soundboard tweaks, and encouragement, Fleet
Foxes have given us an introduction that is as
boring as it is unneeded.
Maybe with more listens to the entire My
Morning Jacket discography and Band of
Horses' Everything All The Time, Fleet
Foxes will at least be able to come up with
a good melody, clever lyrics, or something
interesting in their music by the .time their
first full length is released on June 3. The
real question is, which undeserving band
will Sub Pop pluck from obscurity next?
Dana Jewell is a junior enrolled in Family
and Poets AI ive.
by MOMMY AS VOICED
BY JAIS BROHINSKY
Friends, comrades, fellow once-citizens,
Are you tired of groveling, of pleasing, and
thanking day in and day out for the luxury
of sucking on jarred existence? Does your
stomach rumble for change as surely as
your gut twists in constipated inaction? Are
you haunted by dreams- by the dream? If
you aren't, could you even admit that you'd
had it?
My fellow once-citizens, this is a difficult
time to be alive. It grows harder and harder.
Sure, we march. We chant. We even tl)' to
hit. Where does that get us? No where. What
do we achieve? No thing. We are hushed
and quieted, and our silencing strengthens
the shushing system. But, no more. Now,
just when all of our options seem exhausted,
I've discovered a potential.
You see, I wrote a play - a rock opera,
actually. You may ask, 'What can be
accomplished with a play, a rock opera
nonetheless?'suspecting the whole time that
I've been indulging, perhaps even binging,
on some high-quality nonsense; in this
suspicion you couldn't be more wrong. I
live with the consequences of such nonsen-
sica! addiction and the truth is· that I've
never been clearer in my life.
Within a play I can do what can't be done
in the realm of 'real.' Within a play, I can
clench the fist that remains limp and flaccid
on 'real' wrists .. Within a play, I can slash
and stab with thrusts, turning 'real' arms
into hugs or respectful handshakes. I can
break impossibilities and tame them into
possibilities, even probabilities, within a
play.
All this I can do. And I will. But I need
your help. Come, join us on Sunday, May
25 in the Communications Building Recital
Hall at 5:30 p.m. Come, join us in sating
the groaning stomachs, in easing the knotted
guts. Join us and bring life to this specter of
a dream. There is no charge. Admission is
absolutely free because freedom's costs are
never monetary.
End the suffering! End the misery! End
the end of war for history!
Mommy is a character in The Once American Dream: An Anti Anti War Musical that
will be performed on Sunday, May 25 in
the Communication Building Recital Hall
at 5:30p.m. Admission is free. Mommy's
voice was brought to you by Jais Brohinsky,
an alumnus.
Animated rainforest propaganda
Fem Gully Invades our minds with frenzied, colorful indoclrinatlon
l:v TABITHA BROWN
It's the battle between all that is "natural"
all that is "unnatural." I.e., it's the battle
between men and furry animals. I.e., it's the
battle of the sexes.
In case you haven't watched it recently
enough to have figured it out, Fern Gully is
about sex. All kinds of sex: plant sex, tree
sex, and, of course, fairy sex.
Who-hoo! It's just in time for spring quar~nd
ter (Synergy). We celebrate the synthesis of
the naturally occurring and the Promethean.
And the product is all manner of bastardized
wildlife: shrunken humans, bats with radio
antennae, a disturbingly gaseous and skeletal
sludge monster who wants to kill nature, and
an iguana (Tone Loc) that reminds me of the
Boogie Man from The Nightmare Before
Christmas and Leonard Cohen. It's Darwin's
grab-bag!
Like The Little Mermaid, Crysta belongs
to an immaculate, doe-eyed paradise of
peachy innocence and healing, surrounded
by freaks like -herself. But for some reason,
her forested enclave is overrun by grotesque
humanity, with its sinister killing machines
and unhealthy food. Imbalance occurs, social
and environmental commentary is inserted,
and terrified furry animals unite beneath the
pagan skirts of the magic fairy sorceress to
challenge our anthropocentric way of life.
Last night, to the cheers of many a Greener,,
Crysta once again destroyed the sludge
monster, and a message of happy, glowing,
environmentally conscious psychedelia was
the victor. A Dark Crystal-like tree stump
erupted with fervent light and love for everything that lives.
If you haven't seen Fern Gully in a long
time, you should. And while you're at it, tum
up the volume.
Tabitha Brown is a senior enrolled in
an independent learning contract.
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The Seventh Annual Sustainability Conference:
Synergy is organized by a non-profit coalition of
student organizers. The title of the event reflects the
belief that the solutions to the world's problems can
only be solved through collaboration, where the
whole becomes more than the sum of its parts.
Keynote speakers, workshops on native people,
cosmetic toxins, Bank of America, waste resource~~'
permaculture, introductions to climate-conscious
practices, art gallery exhibitions, presentations, and
demonstrations make up the many different actiVIties
taking place during this community.twlde event.
sound as many performances
are broadcast live over the air.
Hip Hop Congr~ss sponsors
a free painting event, where
students were invited to paint
away their troubles as part of
community-building exercise.
Events are sponsored by many
different student groups and
funded by the student S & A Board.
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May 22,2008
Activities continue throughout the week:
Thursday, May 22
John Pumilio for a Campus Carbon inventory. 1:30 - 2:30 p.m., Longhouse
Rachel Jamison on the Department of Ecology
and Green Building. 3 - 4:30 p.m., Long house
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Mitchell Joachim.
Terreform. 6- 8 p.m. Lecture Hall 1
Chern Club presents Planet Earth parts 3
and 4. 8- 10 p.m. in Lecture Hall 1
Friday, May 23
Join Martha Rosemeyer for a Canning Workshop. Farm House from 10 a.m. to noon.
Jesse Miller will present an Edible and Medicinal
Plant Walk. Meet at the Long house, 2- 4 p.m.
"Lost Film Festival" presented by lnfoShoppe.
Lecture Hall 1, from 6:45 - 10 p.m.
Photos:
Large puppets, brought to campus by the
Backbone Campaign, a Mercer Island based
advocacy group with a penchant for tonguein-cheek examinations, paraded through Red
Square in the "Procession for the Future:'
At right: Dedicated Greeners braved the
odors of a garbage audit. Of the 113
pounds of garbage they examined, 12% was
wastable, 12% was recyclabler, and 85
pounds of it, almost 76%, could
have been placed in the compost
bin.
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/llay 22, 2008
J' ·rnalism and propaganda
w the government and corporate news
tlets are reporting on the Iraq war
l!JIGAVINDAHL
As tne occupation
of Iraq continues, the
death toll rises and
rises "over there." Now,
cynical Americans and
our shameful
press
are Ignoring the ugly
news of how we haye been deceived by the
mouthpieces of the country's most powerful
institutions.
Recently, The New York Times sued the
Pentagon and then used 8000 pages of email
transcripts and records to expose illegal
covert propaganda paid for by U.S. tax
dollars.
On April20, The Times reported on its front
page that top officials working for Donald
Rumsfeld recruited military analysts to opti·::~·,,mistically sp4J the invasion and occupation
. of Iraq, even whim they suspected the information was false. Many pundits delivered
talking points on American television and
in newsoapers while working for companies
competmg for military contracts.
At the same time that many of these shills
were looking to cash in on the war and
American tax dollars, and following the
public relations advice of the Pentagon while
paid with American tax dollars. They were
being treated as reliable sources by television
networks and even National Public Radio.
NPR's Ombudsman, Alicia Shepard,
adm itted on her blog that Robert Scales, who
foun ded the defense consulting firm Colgen
in 2003, "has been on NPR 67 times, most
often on All Things Considered ... Only once
in December 2006 was Scales' relationship to
Colgen mentioned. In the future NPR should
always be transparent and identifY him as a
defense consultant with Colgen."
N PR's new guidelines for "vetting guests"
aside, the public radio network plans to
retain Scales, despite his involvement in the
Pentagon's program. The news chiefs and
on-air hosts at CNN, FOX, ABC, NBC, and
CBS have not apologized for this flagrant
violation of democratic principles.
Last Friday on my KAOS radio program ,
Digital Crossroads, author and journalism
professor Robert Jensen said, "We shouldn't
expect an institution to undermine its own
credibility, and that's what we would be
asking the corporate media to do, to report on
how they have become tools of propaganda
for the government."
While it may come as no surprise that the
managers ofAmerica's corporate newsrooms
are at best ethically challenged, the Pentagon
"covert propaganda." David Barstow of the
New York Times unveiled the Pentagon's
"message multiplier" strategies which
violate GAO legality standards because they
are covert attempts to mold opinion through
the undisclosed use of third parties.
U.S. Senators Russ Feingold and John
Kerry have written letters requesting legal
opinion from the GAO. It is unlikely any true
justice will come of this. After the Reagan
administration was caught using third-party
surrogates to promote the Contra war in
Nicaragua, promises were made to comply
in the future and no one was punished. As
of now, there are no confessions and no
promises.
"WE SHOULDN'T EXPECT AN INSTITUTION
TO UNDERMINE ITS OWN CREDIBILITY, AND
THAT'S WHAT WE WOULD BE ASKING THE
CORPORATE MEDIA TO DO, TO REPORT
ON HOW THEY HAVE BECOME TOOLS OF
PROPAGANDA FOR THE GOVERNMENT"
program clearly violates legal restrictions
Congress has been placing in its annual
appropriation bills annually since 1951 .
In an April 28 report, Center for Media
and Democracy research director Diane
Farsetta extrapolated, "According to those
restrictions, 'No part of any appropriation
contained in this or any other Act shall be
used for publicity or propaganda purposes
within the United States not heretofore
authorized by the Congress."'
The Government Accountability Office
has three definitions of "publicity or propaganda": (I) self-aggrandizement by public
officials, (2) purely partisan activity, and (3)
In an interview with Think Progress, Pennsylvania Representative John Mwiha said,
" I've gotten to the point where I now distrust
the military because they have been dishonored by these kind of untruths .. . With Rumsfeld's tenure, they distorted everything."
The covert media analyst program was
launched in 2002 to sell the invasion of Iraq.
According to Barstow's article, it was then
used to convince Americans of progress in
Afghanistan; to defend warrantless wiretapping and to whitewash Guantanamo Bay.
John Stauber of the Center for Media and
Democracy calls it "a psy-ops campaign."
At least 75 former military officers were
invited to become "message multipliers" for
the Secretary of Defense and the Pentagon.
One analyst who dared to criticize the Pentagon in a TV appearance was kicked off the
propaganda bus shortly after.
Many Americans heard so-called experts
during the build-up to the invasion. Retired
General Barry McCaffrey's comment on
MSNBC early in the war were particularly
egregious.
"Thank God for the Abrams tank, and the
Bradley fighting vehicle," he intoned. Both
pieces of hardware relied on parts sold by
Integrated Defense Technologies, on whose
board McCaffrey was sitting at the time,
according to the Nation magazine.
Amy Goodman and other independent
journalists have repeatedly called attention
to the lack of antiwar voices on the networks .
Phil Donahue and Dan Rather claim they lost
their jobs because of their lack of perceived
patriotism. Instead, the networks preferred
war coverage that relied on Pentagon talking
points, voiced over the air by surrogates.
The Society of Professional Journalists
issued a statement of collective outrage on
May 9, calling for networks to conduct ethical autopsies on their coverage and source
selection.
Meanwhile, Americans need to think critically. We are faced with government spin s
and one-sided corporate news. We can expect
no apology from either institution. The credibility gap between official statements and
reality grows right along with the deficit,
while our taxes fund lies intended to fool us
into supporting brutal U.S. foreign policy.
We should not accept the marginalization of
criticism of war, and if we continue to ignore
the real stories, the Iraq War and its death toll
will not go away.
Gavin Dahl is a senior enrolled in Evenings
with Chekhov.
n the need for effective action at Evergreen
by JEFFREY LUXMORE
Afte r spending an
enormous
amount
of time reminiscing
about my first year at
Evergreen, I came to
an astounding observation: While I truly
would m.e to commend the students
on campus who, over the course of this
school year, have tried to make a difference in our community and the world, I
can't think of any reason to do so.
Regardless of whether or not it is fair,
student activists who wish to generate
productive change must first heal the
damage that has already been done by a
small group of reckless students. While
des'erving of merit, student activists
who have earnestly attempted to make a
d' ·~ re ce this year have failed miserably.
Their<~ tions lacked the scope or intens ity
to r:val the three major events that have
p1tte he local community against the
Ever~ en community.
Bee .e of this, productive student
a~;tion has been completely overshadowed by the counterproductive actions of
ot e.rs, it's easy to see how the community
c,
ceive the net effect of Evergreen as
tive.
n a rock goes through the window
of a bank, the community starts complaining about Evergreen. They say the school
should be shut down. They say all students
should be locked up. Some even go so far
as to suggest that violence against Evergreen students is the best approach. These
types of comments from the community
frequently appear in the Olympian editorials and Craigslist forums. Granted, the
latter is particularly lame, but it's there
and a lot of people post to it - even more
read it
Abraham Lincoln had this to say about
public sentiment: "With public sentiment,
nothing can fail; without it, nothing can
succeed."
This is one major reason student activists have failed - they tend to alienate
those they need to convince, including
both other students and local community
members. Though the local community
and Evergreen community are two different groups, the following concept is
universal and quite easy to comprehend:
Don't piss off the public! The worst thing
an activist can do is to motivate more
people against his cause than he persuades
to join his cause.
Ponder this: Let's think of President
Bush as an activist in favor of reducing
terrorism. If Bush's actions, according to
a government intelligence report, have
increased the level of terrorism, then is
Bush an effective activist? Should he
continue his actions?
So, if violent actions, such as cruiserrolling or rock-throwing, result in more
police "fascism" (or whatever peacekeeping is called these days), then should
these violent actions continue? More
than five years of war in Iraq have shown
that President Bush chooses to "stay
the course." The remaining question is
whether Evergreen students are intelligent
enough to abandon Bush's failed mantra
of "staying the course" and move on to
more effective and rational tactics.
Another reason student activists are ineffective is because they have largely failed
to provide a clear course of action. The
Bank of America issue is a good example
of this. There has been plenty of student
activity regarding this issue, including
many articles in the Cooper Point Journal
arguing against BoA. While the problem and the ideal outcome is clear (that
Evergreen should bank with a firm that
matches the college's principles), no one
has orchestrated a clear course of action to
reach this outcome.
Simply saying what should be done is
useless. That's not real activism - that's
"bumper sticker" activism and it's for
sale at every store in American, including
Wal-Mart
Don't assume the people you wish to
motivate will instinctively choose the
most effective course of action to reach
the ideal outcome - a few poorly targeted
rocks have recently shown this is not the
case. The course of action needs to be
well-researched and clearly defined.
Here's an example of one possible
course of action regarding the Bank of
America issue: Find out exactly how to
close an account at BoA and open one
at a different bank or credit union. Then
organize a giant "account-closing" week
that targets students who are customers of
BoA . Maybe even invite a couple credit
unions to campus so students could open
accounts on their lunch breaks. If students
are shown how to take action and all the
time-consuming work is done for them,
how could they refuse?
There are certainly more reasons why
student action has largely failed, but I've
identified two major shortcomings. If you
want to make a difference in the world,
then it's time to adapt. Determination is
admirable, but we do not need another
President Bush. Simply choosing to "stay
the course" is not an effective tactic.
Activism
certainly
is
hard
work, but hard work and "smart"
work are not opposing concepts.
Jeffrey Luxmore is a junior enrolled in
an independent learning contract.
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The ten you don't want, pt. 2
Men to avoid like the plague
by GERALD BLANCHARD
This is a continuation
of last week's article,
which
dealt
with
five men you need to
avoid. We had: the guy
who resembles you,
the alcoholic, the guy
proud of his member, the guy who likes
sex too much, and the guy who can't seem
to turn away from his papers. We continue
this week with the worst five imaginable.
In our generation, the Internet is popular.
I'm pretty damn sure that there will be
an Internet 2 in a short while, but that's
beside the point. Anyway, the Internet's
popularity has opened up the door for
online dating, which is the worst thing
ever. Meeting people online is TACKY
as HELL people. DO NOT DO IT. I can't
even describe my hate for it. JUST DO
NOT. DO NOT TALK TO HIM. DO
NOT MEET SOMEONE ON FACEBOOK, GAY.COM, DUST, MYSPACE,
HOTORNOT, OR SOME OTHER
WEIRD WEBSITE. DO NOT DO IT!
HOLD BACK!
5. The OVERLY Nice Guy. Have you
ever met a guy who was too nice? This
happens to me all the time and it's one of
the most annoying things. Although I love
guys that are nice, it's weird if they are
too nice. It's like they have some hidden
agenda or shit. And let's be honest: You
need a little bit of rough on your man to
keep you interested. Now, I know some of
you are saying that a nice guy isn't such a
bad thing; it is, trust me. If the guy you are
into is too willing and excited about the
prospect of a new relationship, then you
need watch it. He usually has problems
and needs constant support. So, he's a
nice guy at first, but an annoyance later.
3. The Really Hot Guy. I can't stress
enough how unimportant looks are. It's
not that I go after guys who are unattractive. It's just that I don't date people who
are insanely-good looking. It's just a blow
to your own self-esteem. Also, if a person
is insanely attractive (and if anyone gets
offended, I mean like David Beckham
hot) they usually are bad in all other areas
of life. The first thing they suck at is sex;
the second thing: relationships. Just be
watchful. Although the hot guy is really
appealing, just try to stay away from
him.
4. The Internet Boyfriend. These are
the guys you absolutely have to ignore.
2. The Guy Still in Love with His
Ex. I've experienced this problem many
ALTHOUGH THE HOT GUY IS REALLY
APPEALING, JUST TRY TO STAY AWAY FROM HIM
I REMEMBER AROUND A YEAR AGO WHEN
I MET THIS GUY; HE WAS GREAT,
BUT ON THE F1RST NIGHT HE WANTED TO
GO BACK TO HIS PlACE AND "TALK"
times. It sucks to come into the life of
someone who has just recently exited
from a long loving relationship. It makes
things so difficult because you realize this
person could never possibly love you like
he loved his previous partner. And isn't
it like a stab through your heart to realize that the person you are cuddling with
is thinking of someone else? It kills me.
And most likely, he expects to hook back
up with the person who he just ended a
relationship with. Like the saying goes,
sloppy seconds are the worst; is that a
saying? Steer clear of these romantic
past-dwellers.
I. The Guy Who Tells You He Wants
a Long-Term Relationship, but Really
All He Wants Is a One-Night Stand.
These guys are everywhere. If you want
to have a healthy, successful relationship,
stay away from them. They will sweet talk
you no end. You will be eating out of their
palm and liking it. You need to know who
these guys are. They will ask you to come
over or to go over to your place. I remember around a year ago when I met this
guy; he was great, but on the first night he
wanted to go back to his place and "talk."
What he really meant is that he wanted to
fuck, and only once. These people are just
in it for the sex (which isn't a bad thing),
but if you want a relationship, you need
to stay away from them. And if you're
like me, you have the same problem of
wondering if this one-night stand could
be a person who will be under your sheets
forever. Just be careful, they are dangerous -the most dangerous.
Now with that, you may be able to have a
nice relationship that you can be proud of.
Just ignore those crazy guys and look for
the right one, not the really hot guy with
the drinking problem, whom you met on
the internet, who reminds you all the time
he's still in love with his ex-boyfriend,
who just wants to flip over your police
car (yeah, I said it). But the good thing
about this list is if you just want a few
good hours of sex, then these are the ten
men for you!
Gerald Blanchard is a freshman enrolled
in Playing with Shakespeare. Feel free to
contact him at b/ager26@evergreen.edu.
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May 22, 2008
Workshop on police weapons
Recent tasing of
students causes
by CHRISTOPHER
GRANDE & KATHERINE
"KTEEO" OLEJNIK
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On Thursday, May 29
at 6 p.m., there will be
a workshop on police
weapons and their
effects, with an emphasis on tasers. This comes
at a pertinent time and is ...........--.,....._,..,.
relevant to Evergreen's
current climate; on
Friday, May 9 and
Monday, May 12, two
students were tased on
campus by The Evergreen State College Police Department.
There is a misconception about tasers' only
causing harm when the yictim has a preexisting condition that the ele.:tric,al current
will magnify. This is not true- t >ers can
have a multitude of negative effects on t;•e
body. These include, but are not limited
to scrapes, bruising, first, second and third
degree electrical bums, puncture wounds,
cardiac arrest, and death; according to
Amnesty International at least 245 people
have been killed by tasers.
Tasers and other less lethal weapons
are intended to replace an officer's hand
gun in places where lethal force would be
warranted. Unfortunately, this is not the
case here at The Evergreen State College.
On Friday, May 9 a TESC officer received
a complaint about a naked individual roam-
ing about Modular housing. The officer
responded to the scene and made verbal
contact with the student. The student, who
was reportedly on LSD, tried to escape
deeper into the Mods. With the aid of a
number of witnesses, the officer attempted
to physically restrain the individual. When
this was unsuccessful, the taser was implemented three times. After the third time,
there was so much electricity pulsing through
the body of the victim that the bystanders
who were aiding the officer began to feel
the aftershock because of the heavy pools
of sweat accumulating on the body of the
individual. The officer then tased the victim
a fourth and final time. The ordeal ended
with the student requiring medical attention
at a local hospital.
Again, on Monday, May 12, a student
attempting to elude an officer after being
caught drinking was tased. The shock
lasted for five seconds, until the officer saw
the victim drop to the ground.
In both of these situations, lethal force
could not be justified. Yet we see the casual
deployment of tasers here on our own
campus. As community members, we need
to keep each other safe and we need to stay
informed about the hazardous and deadly
nature of these supposed "less lethal"
weapons.
Christopher Grande and Katherine
"KteeO" Olejnik arefreshman both enrolled
in The Art Of Non-Violent Political Action
and Approaches To Healing.
Limited options
by TRAVIS GREER
What options are
we given within this
modem culture? I say,
none but slavery. We
are institutionalized by
the systen.· from birth.
We are ·horoughly
schooled in the ways of modernity, never
taught how to sustain ,... ~~-;lves from our
land base; we are pum ,ed by the violent
arm of authority for fighting back and
attempting to create autonomy amongst
a violent culture of slavery. In his essay,
Lets Destroy Work, Lets Destroy the
Economy, Alfredo M. Bonanno explains,
"The essence of this new slavery is that
life itself has been mortgaged to the
interests of capital." Self-determination
involves having the ability to provide for
oneself and being informed enough to
do so. Modem education teaches us to
be bureaucrats and police, scientists and
servants. Bonamio says the reclamation
of our lives, of our time and space comes
out of more than "robbing banks or reappropriating goods"; it comes from already
having our own projects in motion, from
creating militant autonomous communities
based on self-defense and sustainability.
As a generation, we should probably
ask ourselves, what kind of future are
we striving for? Industrial capitalism
obviously has been in complete disorder and will not stop destroying life, so
where do our priorities lie? Do we want
to continue assimilating, or, as Bonanno
suggests, fight back and "learn methods
to help us survive the oncoming collapses
of ecological and economic systems, and
lessen our dependency on profit-motivated
institutions and all the mental control that
comes with them?" Taking these factors
into consideration, a good idea would
be to understand how to live without
dependence on the wealthy man's grocery
store and the slum lord's property, to live
free from the shackles of the work-based
cash economy. Check out Rewilding: A
Primer for a Balanced Existence Amid the
Ruins of Civilization by Green Anarchy
and the Wildroots Collective. The Sabot
Infoshoppe, in Lib 3303 (on the third floor
of the Library) has this information and
other great resources for free; stop in and
get informed!
Crawling
Towards
by CASEY JAYWORK
A buddy of mine told
me once about when he
was in Iraq, "I seriously
thought about not going.
I figured, 'I'm pretty
sure this is bullshit, and
certainly not worth dying
for.' But what it came down to was that these
guys that I'd trained and lived and sweated
with, they were my brothers. I reckoned, 'If
there's a chance that me there will help keep
them being alive, then I guess I'm going."'
'"Course, the legality of deserting came into
that decision, too."
I remember hearing on NPR last year of a
group of WWII veterans -Nazi and American - who met socially, attracted to the way
each member was uniquely capable of understanding the group's shared experiences on
opposite sides of a conflict that was anything
but personal.
My Iraq buddy told me, "I can't say I felt a
whole lot of ill will towards the guys we were
fighting. It was like, 'I'm here to do my job,
and you're here to do your job, and hopefully
we won't have to fuck each other up too bad
in the process.'"
This blows my mind. Being raised on war
movies filled by nameless, Ore-ish enemies,
I thought you were supposed to hate the
soldiers on the other side. It would seem like
the most natural emotion in the world to have
towards someone who's trying to kill you.
Yet somehow, there are these veterans who
simply don't, which makes me suspect there's
some vital aspect of all this I haven't considered. Maybe they've experienced something
so much bigger than themselves that hatred
seems not only petty and wrong, but pointless. Like how questions of which football
team is superior become irrelevant when
you're three seconds away from a fatal car
wreck- maybe looking one's own mortality
square-on relegates questions of who's right
or wrong and who's good or bad to obsolete
see nee.
I've never been about to die the way that
these men were. But maybe if I had been,
I could begin to appreciate the blessing of
being alive- incapable offeeling anything but
goodwill towards anything that feels, hopes,
hurts, or laughs. Maybe it's not one's own life
that flashes in front of the eyes the moment
before death, but some sort of understanding
"I CAN'T SAY I FELT
A WHOLE LOT OF
ILL WILL TOWARDS
THE GUYS WE WERE
FIGHTING. IT WAS
LIKE, 'I'M HERE TO
DO MY JOB, AND
YOU'RE HERE TO DO
YOURJOB, AND HOPEFULLY WE WON'T
HAVE TO FUCK EACH
OTHER UP TOO BAD
Travis Greer is a sophomore enrolled in
an independent learning contract.
IN THE PROCESS"'
SO, AS I CRAWL
TOWARDS ENLIGHTENMENT - TOWARDS
KNOWING MORE
OF GOD, TOWARDS
BECOMING LESS OF
A ROCK AND MORE
OF A GEM- I MIGHT
LOOK TO THE ATTITUDES OF THESE
FORMER SOLDIERS
FOR GUIDANCE
of Life, of the experience of being alive.
Maybe it's distilled empathy.
And maybe that's what we're all working
towards, whether we know it or not. Chuck
Palahniuk has a short story in which reincarnation turns out to be literally true: The
world acts like a giant rock-tumbler, rolling
us around through all the pain and anguish
until we tum into something that can't be hurt
anymore, until we become gems.
I don't get much out of that story when it's
taken literally. But I am convinced that the
world is bigger than I am, bigger than my ability to conceive of it or talk about it rationally,
and maybe I can call that God: the Otherness
that's beyond me in all of its inconceivable
wonder. Maybe I can call that divine.
Maybe that's what faith can be: contemplating the ineffable, trying to feel it even though
you can't effit.
One of the "religious" ideas I'm most
attracted to is the Buddhist concept of
enlightenment. I mean, by definition, I can't
conceive of what it's like to be enlightened
until I am. Put that way, enlightenment sounds
a lot like death: the activity of ceasing to be
what one is, an experience fundamentally
unimaginable to me insofar as I am myself. Is
this destruction, or growth?
And- boom- we're back to reincarnation,
at least as an allegory, if not a literal description of reality.
So, as I crawl towards enlightenment
- towards knowing more of God, towards
becoming less of a rock and more of a gem
-I might look to the attitudes of these former
soldiers for guidance. It's hard, of course,
to bear in mind the divinity swimming and
pulsing through every conscious being, even
when mortality isn't staring me in the face
but day-to-day monotony is. But, as Spinoza
wrote, "All noble things are as difficult as
they are rare." Or, as in Les Miserables, "To
love another person is to see the face of God."
Put in this light, the Christian notion of sin
and temptation becomes less insulting: It's an
attempt to expand the boundaries of my own
existence, rather than a slavish obedience to
some asshole in the sky.
This, then, is the charge at which I will fail
and fail again, but toward which I might edge
a little closer on the days when I am at my
best. And maybe I will learn to love you a
little better, God willing.
Casey Jaywork is a junior enrolled in
Knowing Nature. Feel free to contact him at
burch_9030@yahoo.com.
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SDS asks for faculty support
FACULTY , jrom page 5
The floor was then opened for faculty discussion, and at least one person voiced sympathy
for Beck, saying it was unfair for Beck to enforce
the agenda alone.
Another member cited an earlier announcement
at the meeting by student Justin Shephard. The
faculty then allowed both students two minutes
to announce an upcoming event.
Frantz started with an announcement, but then
began to go into detail about SDS's suspension.
By the time Frantz and Gottschalk started their
announcement, a large amount of the faculty
were already leaving.
Gottschalk finished by proposing that the
faculty support SDS. However, there was no
longer enough faculty members present to vote
on a proposal by the time the students finished
speaking.
Jason Slatkin is a junior enrolled in an individual/earning contract.
Book donations needed for Kenya library
Hassan Guyo, the Founder and Executive
Director of the Village Hope Association is
currently fundraising for the Village Hope
Association. The Village Hope Association is
a community based non-profit organization
dedicated to promoting girls' education and
women's empowerment in marginalized rural
communities in Kenya. Currently, the Village
Hope Association is engaged in providing
books, school supplies, and fundraising in order
to establish the first libraries in four isolated
schools in rural Kenyan villages. You can help
take the next step on this journey! Become a
member, donate books or school supplies, donate
dollars, buy a raffle ticket! Every little bit helps.
There will be a table outside of the Tavis Smiley
event this Friday, stop by to find out more.
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CERISE PALMANTEER
George Jackson Brigade members to speak on campus
On Tuesday, May 27 Ed Mead and Mark Cook,
former members of the George Jackson Brigade,
will return to the Evergreen State College
campus to speak about their experiences inside
the revolutionary 1970s organization.
The George Jackson Brigade formed in the
crucible of prisoners' rights organizing, which
came out of the civil rights movement and mass
anti-war protests of the '60s. In its three-year
existence it claimed II bombings, as many
bank robberies, and one prisoner liberation.
Targets included the Department of Corrections, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and
the Bureau of Indian Affairs, as well as different corporate offices. In the Brigade, women
took center stage, queers challenged straights,
convicts communicated with college students,
and a black man enthusiastically aided whites.
The story of the Brigade takes place against a
backdrop of the domestic activism of Black,
Chicano, Native American, gay and white prisoners, and armed struggle in the U.S., Canada,
Central and South America, Africa, Asia, and
Europe. This event is sponsored by The Sabot
lnfoshoppe, MEChA, CISPES, and SDS, and
will take place at 7 p.m. in Sem II A II 07. See
you there!
For more info on the George Jackson Brigade:
http://www.gjbip.org/index.htm.
~EMILY
IMHOF
SDS n1akes second appeal
APPEAL, .from page 5
the panel discussion on the San Francisco 8 with a benefit show that would
raise money for an off-campus group,
which is against college policy. SDS was
also publicizing that night's potluck offcampus, which is also against policy.
Frantz, Gottschalk and Stepp spoke to
how SDS attempted to resolve those problems by removing fliers that stated there
would be a benefit show and potluck, and
even offered to cancel the benefit show
portion of the night.
Reasons for holding the event
The group felt that they tried to meet the
demands set by Lane so that they could
hold the event. Because the reasons for
the suspension were unclearly explained,
Stepp said that SDS members felt targeted
because of their involvement in Olympia
Port protests earlier in the year, and
because of the mood on campus since the
violence after the Dead Prez show.
Stepp said that using the that they originally booked for the night didn't warrant
suspension. "It's important to clarify that
SDS did not break into the room," said
Stepp. Organizers for the event had keys
for the room, said Stepp, and the door was
unlocked.
Stepp said that the group felt, as students,
they had a right to use the space.
San Francisco 8 panel
The panel could not be rescheduled,
according to Frantz, because the filmmakers of a San Francisco 8 documentary
and members of the San Francisco 8 had
already purchased tickets to fly from Cali-
fomia for that date. ·
SDS had already set up a contract with
the speakers who were scheduled for the
panel, and felt obligated to follow through
with their agreement, said Stepp.
SDS decided to go ahead and hold the
two events, the panel discussion anq. the
benefit show, after being told by Phyllis
Lane that the events were to be cancelled.
According to Mercado, SDS was
suspended because they held those
cancelled events.
Current status of suspension
Originally the suspension was to last
until January 2009. After SDS made their
first appeal to Mercado, the suspension
was shortened to the end of the 2008
spring quarter, with probation lasting until
January 2009.
Freeman will notify the group by June 4
of her decision.
Student support for reinstatement of
SDS
Members of the student groups
SESAME, Umoja, CISPES, MeCHA,
and others were present at Wednesday's
appeal.
And, as the group met to discuss the
appeal, a number of SDS members and
other students commenced a protest
outside of Art Costantino's office in
Seminar I. The group plans to continue
the sit-in until SDS is reinstated.
Seth Vincent is a junior enrolled in an
internship with the Cooper Point Journal.
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: Geoduck Union CAB 3rd
: Floor Pit, 4 to 6 p.m.
: Flaming Eggplant CAB
' 108, 4 to 6 p.m.
Student Video Garners Alliance
CAB TV Lounge 3rd
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Women of Color Coalition
, CAB 206, 4 to 5 p.m.
Wednesdays
Amnesty International
CAB 320, 12:30 p.m.
ATF Appearing Task Force on
Anti-Oppression CAB 320, 1 p.m.
Bike Shop 2 p.m.
Center For Sustainable Entrepreneurship SEM II C31 07, 2 p.m.
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EARN Evergreen Animal
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CAB 320, 5:30p.m.
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: SEM U A3107, 12:30 to 2 p.m.
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: Group SEM II A31 05, 1 p.m.
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: CII07, I to 3 p.m .
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; 3rd Floor TV lounge, 5 p.m.
; Hip Hop Congress Library
: Proper Room 3303, 4 to 5 p.m.
; MEChA CAB 320, 4:30p.m.
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Academia
Everyone is welcome to come
hear Masters of Environmental
Science student Sarah Haque
present her thesis research on
Thursday, May 22 in LH 2 from
4to 5 p.m.
gift certificate to the Bookstore.
PRESS: A Cross-Culture Literary Conference on writing and
activism, organized by Evergreen students and featuring
poets and community organizers
from across the country, will
be held Saturday, May 24 and
Sunday, May 25 . Starting at
9:30 a.m. on Saturday, you can
register on site in SEM II C 1107.
Opening remarks will be held
in SEM II C1105 at 10 a.m. on
Saturday.
Think your bad character is
causing environmental degradation? So do we! Join the Phrontisterion for their last event of the
year. "Slow Down, You Move
Too Fast: Sophrosyne in the
21st Century," a lecture featuring faculty members Andrew
Reece (Classics) and Krishna
Chowdary
(Physics),
will
explore connections between
Greek philosophy, the law of
conservation of energy, and your
recycling bin. Thursday, May
29,7 p.m. LH 2. Free.
"A Night of Solidarity" by Iraqi
Student Solidarity Committee
will be held at the Old K Records
Building, corner of Cherry St.
and Legion Avenue, on Friday,
May 23 at 7 p.m.
Arts & Culture
Future
Bring Your Sons and Daughters
to Work Day is Thursday, May
22. School-aged kids are invited
to spend the day at work with
you to get a better idea of what
you do. A welcome event is
scheduled from 9 to 9:15a.m. in
the Longhouse. Detailed information, including meal tickets
for the kids and the schedule
of activities, will be available.
Please contact x5342 with any
questions.
The Art Contest for the
Academic Calendar is accepting
artwork through Friday, May 23 .
Please submit your artwork to the
Academic Deans Office, SEM II
D41 07. The contest is open to all
registered students. Submissions
will be posted for public review
in the Bookstore during weeks 8
& 9 ofthis quarter. The winning
entry will be used for the 08/09
Academic Calendar cover. The
winner will also receive a $100
Issues
Due to the smell of fumes from
the annual CRC gym floor refinishing project, the main entrance
to the CRC will be moving to
the pool breezeway doors from
Tuesday, May 27 through Thursday, June 12. The CRC will be
closed for Graduation and Super
Saturday and will re-open at 12
p.m. on Monday, June 16 for
summer hours.
The Labor Education and
Research Center, the Center for
Community-Based Learning and
Action, and Bridges Not Walls
are cosponsoring "Community
Dialogues on Immigration:
Train-the-Trainers," facilitated
by Angela Omulepu, Northwest Federation of Community
Organizations (NWFCO), and
Maru Villapando, Washington
Commun ity Action Network
(WCAN) on Saturday, May 3 1
from II a.m. to 5 p.m. in SEM II
D II 07. Training is free and open
to the public. Space is limited.
Applications are available in the
lobby of the Labor Center, SEM
II E2115. For more information
contact Samira Shirdel, (360)
507-4821.
The Olympia Zine Gathering
will be held Sunday, June 1 from
4 to 6:30 p.m. at the Olympia
Free School, 610 Columbia St.
There will be open readings,
zine trading, and a potluck. This
is a free event for everyone who
is interested in DIY publishing.
Porn Week
Events
Hosted by Women of Color
Coalition: two films, Hot and
Bothered: Feminist Pornography and Made in Secret: Stories
of an Underground DIY Anarcho-Feminist Porn Collective
will be shown on Thursday, May
22 in SEM II EII05 from 8 to
IOp.m.
On Friday, May 23, come
have an orgasmic time with a
Babeland Sex Workshop on
women's sexual pleasure from
4 to 6 p.m. in SEM II A21 09.
Provides honest, fun, sex-positive education to help create a
more passionate world. Open to
all.
Synergy &
Green Week
Events
Workshops and Speakers:
Thursday, May 22
I 0 a.m. Dave Sansone on
crisis.
the global food
Longhouse.
II a.m. Dave Sansone on edible
forest gardens. Longhouse.
Noon . Jesse Miller with an
edible and medicinal plant
walk. Meet at Longhouse.
1:15 p.m. John Pumilio on
the campus carbon inven~ory.
Longhouse.
2:15 p.m. Mo Tobin from
the Olympia Food Co-op.
Longhouse.
2: 15 p.m. Dept. of Ecology
green building with Rachael
Jamison. Longhouse.
6 p.m. Dr. Mitchell Joachim on
terreform . LH 1.
Friday, May 23
10 a.m. Martha Rosemeyer
with a canning workshop.
Farm House.
Noon. Bio-diese1 project. Farm
House.
1 p.m. CAB redesign workshop
with DLR group Solarc. SEM
IICII05.
2 p.m. Jesse Miller with an
edible and medicinal plant
walk. Meet at Longhouse.
Movies:
Thursday, May 22
"Plant Earth" Parts 3 and 4 at 8
p.m. in LH I . Presented by the
Chemistry Club.
Friday, May 23
"A Winter's Tale" at 4 p.m. in
SEM II C 1105. Presented by
DEAP.
Lost Film Fest with V J Scott
Beibin at 6:30 p.m. in LH 1.
Presented by Sabot lnfosquat.
Music:
The Red Square Concert
Series will be held Thursday,
May 22 and Friday, May 23
from noon to 2 p.m. Thursday
will feature Jimmy Lou and the
Funk Underground. Friday will
feature OJ Roz and OJ Luva
J. KAOS will be broadcasting
live from noon to I p.m. each
day as well as giving away
COs from II :30 a.m. until 2
p.m . each day. Hosted by the
Evergreen Musicians Club.
It's time for· f~_n, and
we're your ride!
Intercity Transit is your ticket off
campus! Your Evergreen student 10
is your bus pass on all local routes
to plenty of fun destinations. Grab
a pizza or take in some music, go
biking, shopping, whatever! Give
us a call or go online for more
information.
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Las Mamalogues was an intimate
storytelling event that kicked off the
Immigration and Border Dialogue
Conference last weekend.
Integrating vivid music, memories,
and active and imaginative dialogue,
one faculty member and four upper
division women of color honored the
audience by sincerely sharing their
own experiences and insights.
The stories traced cross-cultural,
personal stories of immigration and
maturation of mothers and daughters.
The subsequent concluding discussion only skimmed the sentiments
and interest evoked in the audience, a
discussion that only hints at the potential scope of Las Mamalogues' impact.
-SAMANTHASERMENO
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