Works in Progress https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Elon Musk is About to Be a Trillionaire. What is That? Can Centrism Save Us? Photo Essay: Something Evil (Perhaps) This Way Comes Three Cartoon Puns by R. Lovitt Support for general strike preparation gains traction at labor conventions Proposed Appeals Process Deters Citizen Input – Case in Point: Johnson Creek Mine Solving Stormwater – Puget Sound Green Infrastructure Summit Discuss Issues Impacting Our Community with Thurston Climate Action Team The Climate Challenge Series: Divesting from Climate Fossil Fuels Poem – Just Now by Pam Pride Cartoon – Don’t Mess With Mother Nature Cartoon – Tritium Fart – El Machete Medicare: A Challenged Program – Part I – The Current Situation Medicare: A Challenged Program – Part II – How Can Congress Keep it from Disappearing in 2034? As the Military Occupies Your Town – Give Them Flowers and a Note Who Will Defend Ordinary Working People Against Trump and MAGA? Justice, you shall pursue: Rabbi David Mivasair’s lifeline to Gaza Cartoon – Watching Genocide by El Machete Community Spotlight – October 15-December 1, 2025 Olympians Want AI Powered Surveillance Out of Our City! The Promise and the Anguish of the so-called ‘Cease Fire’: Justice advocates watch, worry and search for ways to support the people of Gaza and their allies Photo Essay and Editorial: Can We Keep Our Republic? Federal Suit in D.C. Circuit Alleges State Misled DOJ, NOAA, and the Court Over Capitol Lake–Budd Inlet—Deschutes Restoration Project Poem – To the Man With the Haunted Look by Anya Woodhall Sierra Club Oregon’s Wood Pellet Fact Sheet Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund’s “Democracy Playbook” – A Primer on Community Action Palestine Action South Sound – Help End U.S. Complicity in Israeli Genocide Not What You Signed Up For? Support Resources For Service Members Want to De-Monopoly your Organization? Islamic Center of Olympia – Building Bridges Announcement – ICE out of Olympia Welcome Blankets in City Hall Register Today for the 2026 South Sound Labor School Saving the Nisqually Delta – Author Presentation Cartoon by El Machete Poem – Solvent The Spin Cycle of Distortion/ How Media Narratives Undermine Nonviolent Movements The Challenges With Medicaid Book Review – Saving the Nisqually Delta, by Janine Gates Then This Happened 2 – Snohomish River Rights of Nature Case Update LISO: A Community Response to an Urgent Need South Sound Round Table Organizes Regional Coalition Letter to the Port Commission on a Planned Warehouse – 11/29/2025 A Better Vision for the Port of Olympia: Prosperity Through Public Space A Call to Save Works in Progress Index – October 2025 Issue Then This Happened: Updates to Previous Articles Community Calendar – December 2025 and onward… What’s happening at The JOLT? Port Commission Election Portends a New Direction for the Port of Olympia