Oly Poster Project

The Olympia Poster Photo Blog is maintained by volunteers with the mission of announcing new Olympia events, (by posting the event poster before the date of the event, if possible), and archiving and preserving them for posterity.

Here is a list of the current contributors.

• Cosmo Spacely - Clubside Breakfast Time Podcast
• Terry Z - Olympia Coffee Roasting / The Cupping Room / EspressoParts.Com

If you would like to contribute to the project by sending in a scan of your poster(s) please send e-mail to ( olyposterblog — at — gmail.com )

These guys have tackled a seriously cool project, so check out their blog for the beginnings of a sweet poster and flyer archive from Our Fair City! Plus they liked my sidewalk flyer.

HOW OLD IS THE GRAND CANYON? PARK SERVICE WON’T SAY

Evidently this has been proven to be a hoax, thanks Ranger X! See comments for more details. Guess I should dig around a bit more before I post hearsay.

This is simply ridiculous. Faith-Based National Parks? I can't believe scientists and park rangers can put up with this fucking nonsense. I know how the Grand Canyon was really created. It was created in 1925 by the Flying Spaghetti Monster. When asked for the reasoning behind such an undertaking, his holiness the FSM replied: "'Cause I fucking felt like it. Screw those Young-Earth Creationists, it was all me! Dude, I could totally go for a cephalopod right now."

Orders to Cater to Creationists Makes National Park Agnostic on Geology

Washington, DC — Despite promising a prompt review of its approval for a book claiming the Grand Canyon was created by Noah's flood rather than by geologic forces, more than three years later no review has ever been done and the book remains on sale at the park, according to documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).

“In order to avoid offending religious fundamentalists, our National Park Service is under orders to suspend its belief in geology,” stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch. “It is disconcerting that the official position of a national park as to the geologic age of the Grand Canyon is ‘no comment.’”

Best Reporting on the Recent Stryker Brigade Protests at the Port of Tacoma

Don't worry, any Last Word customers that get jailed or imprisoned are welcome to hold onto their in-store credit or transfer it to a relative or friend. We will also ship books, files, razors, LSD, copies of the Koran, porn or whatever else you want during your stay behind the bars we don't like to frequent. (Just kidding! Really... Jesus Christ what are you doing?!? Ow! OH MY GOD! Stop hurting my arm, please! No... Not the Patriot Act! Nooooooooo!!!!!!)

Tacoma Stryker Protests -- Important Direct-Action Against the Occupation -By noemie maxwell

Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace - excellent coverage and links

Street medics denied access to Tacoma protest - no backpacks allowed inside the protest zone??!!?!! What the fuck?



Democracy Now's coverage

United for Peace of Pierce County's coverage

What KLTV had to say after the ship left - this is what Fort Lewis News linked to

The Columbian's coverage of Strykers in Iraq

Seattle PI's coverage of Fort Lewis Strykers being attacked in Diyala on March 16th - "filled with soldiers from the Fort Lewis-based 2nd Infantry Division's 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment."

Funny, this link doesn't work anymore, though the story was there a few days ago...MEDIA CENSORSHIP!

Fort Lewis News

Bush Joke

Found this on Zardozz News Service.

Big Postal Changes Don't Sit Well With This Independent Bookseller

This does not bode well for the independent book world, good old HR6407, Bush's Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act: Bush's Postal Signing Statement - Great, so now they can just open our mail without a judge's warrent?

" No letter of such a class of domestic origin shall be opened except under authority of a search warrant authorized by law, or by an officer or employee of the Postal Service for the sole purpose of determining an address at which the letter can be delivered, or pursuant to the authorization of the addressee.

The intent of Congress seems to be to ensure that domestic mail remains a private communication. But in the signing statement, President Bush said he would ignore the law and 'conduct searches in exigent circumstances.'

What is an "exigent circumstance"? It's a legal term, and it means, in lay terms, "emergency." Interestingly, Attorney General Gonzales noted in 2005 that only in a rare circumstance could the government open mail in 'an emergency.' "

Could you be a little more confusing?

More here: Fight Bush & management's attacks on postal workers!

Add to that Boing Boing's disturbing/funny reportage of the sudden absence of clocks in 37,000 of our nation's post offices and I smell an over-arching conspiracy. Or maybe my girls just have shit in their diapers again.

But I've always considered postal employees to be the pinnacle of government workers and members of the least corrupt and most efficient government organization on the planet. No wonder Bush wants to take power away from them too, he must be jealous!

Seriously though, when my rebellion gets rollin' I'm recruiting all the postal employees right off the bat. Get them and the dock workers and the young parents and you've got yourself a revolution!

Evergreen Infoshoppe Gets A Firm Foothold in 2007

This gang of ass-kicking rebel Evergreeners have been working at this for a few years now and it seems they've gotten it off the ground! Nice work everybody. Let us know how we can better knit The Infoshoppe, Last Word and the 'Zine Library together. I'll pop in and check out your new pad one of these days. - Sky


Earlier this month, a student-run non-profit infoshop celebrated its grand opening at The Evergreen State College (TESC) in Olympia, Washington. Using the guise of a state funded student group, volunteers of The Evergreen Infoshoppe were allotted over $4,000 to purchase radical books, zines, and videos for their lending library and resource center. After only a few weeks of planning, the Infoshoppe now hosts an ever-growing collection in a permanent, centrally located and nearly autonomous location.

Scumbags

Pretty low, but also pretty sly. Makes one wonder how many other huge and already-evil corporations have similar programs and schemes in place.

Thanks Boing Boing.