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May 2009
Mock checkpoint proves people don’t like to live under military occupation. Hmmm...
On Wednesday May 13th, 2009 a group of Evergreen students engaged in a street theater production that simulated an Israeli Defense Force (henceforth called the Israeli Occupation Force, or IOF) check point in Red Square. The demonstration was an attempt to raise awareness about the daily harassment that Palestinians are subjected to living under the Israeli government.
El Salvador on the eve of inauguration
In early May, the Canadian mining company Pacific Rim announced that it will sue El Salvador for the crime of not permitting it to open a gold and silver mine. This will be the first of such cases to be heard by a special international arbitration court established by the Central American Free Trade Agreement or CAFTA. This confirmation of legal action is real fucking alarming, especially when it coincides with the historic electoral victory for the people of El Salvador.
Protesting stop-loss outside Fort Lewis
Last Saturday around sixty people got together on Freedom Bridge, a highway overpass near Fort Lewis to protest stop-loss. Stop-loss is a backdoor draft that has been in place since the end of the Vietnam War. The rally began with a short march from the nearby GI coffeehouse, Coffee Strong, to the bridge, where people followed a marching band that played songs such as “Get Up, Stand Up” and “You Are My Sunshine.” After arriving at the bridge, people lined both sides, signs waving.
The future of campus food service: self-operation?
Food is one of the few issues at Evergreen that just about everyone agrees is political. Food touches every issue, from sustainable farming to indigenous sovereignty to worker solidarity to prison abolition. Even the volume of academic programs having to do with the science, politics, culture and gender of food have increased in the last few years. So its not surprising that food has been the site of the most struggles at the college.
The Flaming Eggplant Café
Evergreen under military occupation?
or...Criminal charges and lawsuit threatened against street theater performance
Campus police have suggested criminal charges and an Evergreen staff is threatening civil action against a street theater performance that occurred on Red Square on May 13.