Civil Disobedience

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Olympia to Arizona: SB1070 One Struggle United.

Arizona the "show me your papers state."

The world was flat and dry with 100+ degree heat as we cruised US-10 past Joshua Tree National Park on the last leg of our 24 hour marathon drive from Olympia to Phoenix. Last Tuesday, Media Island, in partnership with Students for a Democratic Society, sent a diverse group of Olympia activists to travel to Phoenix for Arizona Freedom Summer. Five of us, Yonatan, Angel, Leah, Johnny and I piled into the Media Island Van and took off praying that the old V8 didn't kick the dust. It nearly did- on several occasions- but we made it back to share with you all our experiences.  read more »

Join the IFCO/Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba this July!

Email cucaravan@igc.org or call 212-926-5757
Join us on a Cuban voyage of discovery! Spend 9 full days in Havana and a
neighboring province, and learn how a relatively poor country
. provides free healthcare for all its citizens
. has become a pioneer in organic agriculture and sustainable development
. is training thousands of young people from poor communities around the world
(including 122 from the US!) to be doctors, completely free of charge, at the
internationally acclaimed Latin American School of Medicine
. offers protection to all its people when natural or man-made disasters (hurricanes
or international economic crises) hit the island
  read more »

Drone protesters arrested at Tucson airshow


March 21, 2010

http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2010/03/drone-protesters-arrested-at-tucso...

"WAR IS NOT A SHOW"
BANNER-HOLDERS ARRESTED
AT DAVIS MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE
        
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Govt Threatens Tar Sands Activists with Anti-Terror Laws

by Chris Arsenault

VANCOUVER - The provincial
government in Alberta, Canada is threatening to unleash its
counterterrorism plan if activists continue using civil disobedience to
protest the tar sands, Canada's fastest source of greenhouse gas
emissions.  read more »

Port Militarization Resistance: Take 18!

PMR is up and active again because the Strikers are expected to return around the October 18-22 through Tacoma. I missed the recent meeting but if you've been to one before you know the drill. It's exciting, intense and never particularly well organized. Which might be why it survives as being one of the most unique parts of the culture of Olympia.

Indy media get ready for some raw footage of young people getting halled away by police dressed like storm troopers while large military vehicles loom in the background? Mainstream media get ready to criticize people standing up for what is obviously right if you cover anything at all?  read more »

How can we be in Solidarity with Honduran Resistance?

How do we build solidarity with Honduras? They are facing a long struggle. The coup government wants the election to be recognized and the conflict to seem over internationally. However the people are demanding more! They want a new constitution or at least some reform for now. What can we do in the US to be in solidarity with that struggle?

Marjorie Cohn: The Rules of Disengagement

The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Coffee Strong
15109 Union Ave SW, Lakewood, WA
Phone:
253-581-1565
Email:
kayak@olywa.net
Cohn, president of the National Lawyers Guild, is a leading voice demanding that members of the Bush Administration be prosecuted for war crimes. She also condemns the Afghanistan and Iraq wars as illegal under international law, which she says the united States launched illegally, not in "defense" off this country.  read more »

Are We addicted to Rioting?

An analysis of militant-street protest,
movement strategy, and the state of anarchism. Based around the G20
Pittsburgh demonstrations.

By: Ryan Harvey - September 24, 2009

The
G20 is upon us, and though BBC world news featured some of "the
troubles" in Pittsburgh, on the ground reports hardly match up with the
media-inflation, police-inflation, and activist-inflation of the actual
thing.

As is often the case, the media makes things look a
whole lot crazier than they actually are, if it's in the interests of
higher ratings. And though most Americans if surveyed would be against  read more »

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