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I wanted to adress this issue in spring 2009, back when this incident occurred, but in contacting the Cooper Point Journal, I found I would be given 800 words to relate the event and the official proceedings (which involved letters addressed to Vice Presidents Art Costantino and John Hurley, and which had gone without a response for over two months by the time I decided to write this article in late May). It was not enough space for the article, and I knew I couldn’t trim it down and still explain things adequately. The other choice offered was to break the article in two and publish it in consecutive issues. I was also unwilling to do this. It’s been a very busy year, so it’s taken me until now to get this article published for the start of fall quarter.

In July, a local discovery made national news when “John Jacob,” a participant in Olympia and Tacoma activists groups, was revealed to be John J. Towery II, an infiltrator employed by the US Army. Brendan Dunn, a former member of Olympia’s Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), had made a public records request to the City of Olympia for communications concerning SDS, anarchists, and the IWW. The resultant records, coupled with investigative work, led to Towery’s outing, which in turn raised issues about a likely violaton of the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the US military from engaging in civilian law enforcement actions. What has been less publicized, however, are the portions of the records that deal with The Evergreen State College.

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.