Monthly Archives: December 2011

Washington State’s Dept. of Enterprise Services (DES) has begun abatement proceedings by issuing a notice of eviction effective midnight tonight to those squatters currently camping on the Capitol’s Heritage Park grounds by the lake. Steve Valandra, a DES spokesman, assures … Continue reading →

Ever wonder what really goes on in homeless encampments and at the Occupy Olympia Heritage Park site where so many homeless have congregated on the coattails of sympathetic political/community activists? Most news gathering organizations take a few photo-op shots and … Continue reading →

Sammy Speaks Out Sammy, a welding student with a dream, organizes a boycott in solidarity with the greater Occupy movement and organized labor working at the nation’s ports. His articulate pronouncements and observations regarding modern labor as well as the … Continue reading →

Our youth and politically active seniors seeking social justice may have a naive faith in government remedies, but there’s no doubt they’re on the right side of history. The squalid conditions the dispossessed are forced to endure, the police brutality … Continue reading →

WeLFAre The 99% Occupy Olympia has some compassionate motivated souls in the rain besotted encampment at Heritage Park. Many are destitute and homeless. It’s not an easy life or one most would choose. Yet there’s a certain dignity in the … Continue reading →