From Cincinnati to Olympia, Caitlin Roberts and Matt Fu will be traveling via Greyhound buses to promote the audio documentary “This Weapon Has Heart,” or “Este Arma Tiene Corazón,” about Honduran community radio. During this tour, they will be playing politically charged electro-acoustic music, as autococoon and 1985, as well as organizing with community radio networks.

THIS WEAPON HAS HEART // ESTE ARMA TIENE CORAZÔN

Rachel Corrie Foundation presents Peace Works 2011: Solidarity in Action, April 8-9, featuring Alice Walker
Olympia, WA – The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace & Justice will host its 2011 Peace Works event Friday and Saturday, April 8-9. Solidarity in Action is a weekend conference featuring acclaimed author and activist Alice Walker as keynote presenter. Walker will speak at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts, Friday, April 8, 7:30 p.m. on The Poet/Writer as Activist.

January 27th, 2011

Ziad Abbas, Palestinian Refugee from Dheisheh Refugee Camp in the West Bank, to Speak at South Puget Sound Community College
Rachel Corrie Foundation Joins Effort to Bring Clean Water to Children in Gaza
CONTACT:
Ziad Abbas, Middle East Children’s Alliance, 510-717-6644, ziad@mecaforpeace.org
Rochelle Gause, Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice, 360-754-3998, rochelle@rachelcorriefoundation.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 21, 2011

CONTACT: Margaret Viggiani, 206-722-6057 (office) or 206-883-3053 (cell)

SISTERS ORGANIZE FOR SURVIVAL (SOS) ANNOUNCES CAMPAIGN TO
“FLIP THE FUNDING” TO BALANCE THE BUDGET

As politicians in Olympia strive to balance an “all-cuts” budget, Sisters Organize for Survival (SOS), a campaign of Radical Women, kicks off a joint labor and community based campaign to Flip the Funding to balance the budget. Flip the Funding refers to a shift in the way funds are garnered and spent.

Halloween 2010

Start: Oct 5 2010 4:00 pm
End: Oct 5 2010 6:00 pm

Protest FBI raids on social justice activists under the guise of "material support" for "terrorism." (which in this case means solidarity work with Palestine, Columbia, and Indigenous America).

Olympia's FBI offices are at:

711 Capitol Way (Evergreen Plaza Building)

Protest there on: Tuesday, October 5th at 4PM until 6PM

http://www.olyblog.net/protest-fbi-repression

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=164587330222070

http://stopfbi.net/

This training will be composed of introductory emergency medicine, support work in radical communities, anti-oppression, folk & herbal medicines. While this will largely focus on medical needs for urban marches and actions, this training is easily tailored to wilderness spaces, your place of work, and all your favorit haunts. We teach from our own manual, with lecture, practical, and scenario-based approaches--(almost) all materials provided.

As in the past, the training will last a 3-day weekend--June 11th -13th (Fri 5-9, Sat/Sun 9-6) and we are hoping to see faces both new & old. Out-of-towners will be accommodated, as well as other needs to the extent possible. Some food will be provided. Childcare references are available upon request.

You’re invited to c community forum…

Fund Health & Schools – Tax the Rich!

Washington State needs to pass Initiative 1098. We have one of the biggest concentrations of millionaires in the U.S, but also the most regressive tax structure in the nation. While the bill Gates Juniors and Howard Schultzes pay only 3% of their income in taxes, the poor pay as much as 17% and are hit even harder by cuts to public services during budget crises!

It’s time to demand that the wealthy pay their fair share!

Thursday, September 23, 7pm
Strategizing Meeting: Mobilize to Tax the Rich!

Join the next SOS meeting to build for a community forum on October 16^th about the need to tax the rich and why people should vote yes on Initiative 1098. We’ll make calls to supporters, prep mailings, brainstorm other outreach ideas and more.

Saturday, August 28, 7:30pm

Immigrant Women Battle for a Better World
Film Showing: Made in L.A.

Latin American Solidarity Organization is pleased to present singer and activist Karla Lara, a Honduran native who will perform with local musicians at Traditions Cafe. Lara will address through her music the violence and turmoil in Honduras after last year's coup outsted the elected government of the people, along with feminist struggle in Latin America.

Joining Lara to speak will be Honduran organizers Oliver Hernan Valladares and Carmen Daly. Valladares was attacked in his country by police last year during a protest that nearly cost him his life. Daly will speak toward the recent history of Honduras before the coup and what social advancements were stunted due to the new coup government's activity in power.

Come out to Fertile Ground Guest House (311 9th Ave, next to Oly Timberland Library) on July 31 to celebrate Works in Progress 20th year anniversary with a pizza party.

The event costs $10 (discounted at $5 for WIP subscribers, $8 for WIP Facebook friends) at a gathering that will last from 6-9 p.m. Stay posted for speaker and performance updates on our Facebook page. New WIP t-shirts and merch will be available for purchase. Announcement space will also be available to all who attend.

The free community monthly newspaper released its 20th anniversary edition this May and will have fundraising events throughout the year.

Feel free to come earlier in the day to help Fertile Ground and WIP re-paint the mandala located on the nearby intersection of 8th & Adams at 5 p.m.

On the evening of July 5, Olympia will host the Pastors for Peace caravan as they begin their 21rst Friendshipment of material aid to Cuba. The caravan is intended to bring awareness to the illegal U.S. blockade on Cuba. The active blockade stems from obsolete Cold War views and a self-imposed Cuban exile community in Florida that deprive people in Cuba of food, medicine and construction supplies.

An ignited fight for reproductive freedom won abortion decriminalization in Victoria, Australia.  The struggle continues as labor, the left, and feminist movement join together to win full reproductive rights in the land down under.  Debbie Brennan’s multi –faceted eyewitness account of the historic national march for abortion rights in Sydney will be part of her presentation.