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Celebrating thirty-five years of nonviolent resistance to the Trident nuclear weapons system, Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action will honor two of its co-founders, Jim and Shelley Douglass, who will speak at its annual August event at the Ground Zero Center in Kitsap County, Washington. By the 1980s the Douglasses…

Congratulations Thurston County! As you probably already heard, public power is on the November ballot. We blew past the 10,734 signatures needed and turned in over 15,000 signatures to the County Auditor, who certified the Initiative without even looking at the last 2,002 signatures! Now it’s a battle between a…

Area investors consider putting their money into Olympia’s small businesses A new group of Thurston County residents is gearing up to take the “buy local” concept to a new level. Working off of a model pioneered by a Port Townsend group called LION (Local Investment Opportunities Network), the Olympia cohort…

The unreal world of Ayn Rand by Janet Jordan Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, is a thousand-page economics thesis in the form of a novel. It is the book that informed the thinking of Alan Greenspan, Ron Paul (who named his son after the author), and many other free market…

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WIP News Service WIP: It’s very exciting for Olympia to finally have a bicycle courier service. How did Star Courier come into existence? Star Courier: We all agree that having bicycle delivery services in Olympia is exciting. It’s also a logical fit for a community that supports sustainability and a…

by Carol Sipes I got a call this morning from one of the staff at Orca Books, our local independent bookstore. It was confusing to me when she introduced herself because I couldn’t imagine why she was calling. Then she told me the horrible news no cat lover ever wants…

by Chris Stegman Rocky Anderson, presidential candidate and co-founder of the Justice Party USA, will be coming to Olympia May 5 with a 5 pm speech at Traditions Café. Come early at 4:30 to meet and talk to Rocky beforehand. A catered meal will follow at a separate location at…

by Wally Cuddeford In March 2007, Port Militarization Resistance held its first protests at the Port of Tacoma against Stryker shipments headed to the war in Iraq. Attending those protests was Joseph La Sac, a videographer and student at University of Puget Sound. On the afternoon of Tuesday, March 6,…

Dr. Jill Stein, Green Party presidential candidate, will be in Olympia on Friday, May 4, for a reception on the ground floor of the Urban Onion, 116 Legion Way in Olympia, from 3 to 6 PM. Dr. Stein’s platform includes firm support for universal health care and a Green New…

by Dorothy Granada In 1978 I came to a realization of nonviolence. I was directed to the Fellowship of Reconciliation in Portland, Oregon and there my journey began in earnest. We tried to remove the death penalty in Oregon, close the Trojan Nuclear Plant, and, no less, stop the nuclear…

by Dorothy Granada The true heroes of the health care system in Nicaragua are the traditional midwives, health brigadistas, curanderos, raiceros, and other health workers in communities who respond to the pain, fevers, diarrheas, and accidents of their neighbors. These health workers live far from health facilities in remote areas…

Co-op education and workshop sessions to be held in Downtown Olympia by John Baldridge In the context of recurring economic crises at home and around the world, an increasing number of people seek an alternative to the unstable, uncertain and, ultimately, amoral system that many call “late-stage capitalism.” What economic…

by Janine Unsoeld The Thurston County Superior Court trial date for Scott Yoos, an Olympia citizen accused of a felony assault against a police officer, has been scheduled for August 13. Attorney Larry Hildes represented Yoos at the hearing held on Wednesday, April 18. Hildes took the Yoos case in…