WITH WARMER WEATHER COMES MOSQUITOS! WITH SUMMER APPROACHING I THOUGHT I’D SHARE THIS AGAIN

Have you noticed the Mosquitos are already out! Here is a homemade trap to help keep you and the kiddos from being a blood donor!!!

When: Wednesday, May 14 at 3:00pm – 7:00pm

Where: Lecture Hall 1 @ TESC

What:  Schedule:
3:00 Shadow of Lucasville
4:00 Q&A call-in with death row prisoners
5:00 Behind the Badge

The Shadow of Lucasville film screening!
On tour with The Shadow of Lucasville, a new documentary film by D Jones about the 1993 prison uprising in Lucasville Ohio.

The Shadow of Lucasville revisits the 1993 uprising at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, one of the longest in U.S. history, while exploring the fight for human rights and media exposure through inmate uprisings in response to mass incarceration and dehumanization supported by the prison industrial complex. The film will be followed by conversation with death-sentenced survivors of the uprising, who will be calling in from Ohio’s super-max prison.
If you’d like to host one or both of these projects in your town, PLEASE contact Ben at insurgent.ben@gmail.com. We like to spend two nights in each city, when possible, but are also happy to present the film and the play, back to back in one evening.

The trailer for Shadow of Lucasville: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJHOU2st_mk

Behind The Badge: A Theatrical Examination of Police and Prisons in America (5pm-7pm)
What does it mean to be a compassionate, dedicated, humane police officer in the country with the world’s highest incarceration rate and a continuing tradition of racial injustice?
Insurgent Theatre brings audiences behind the badge of a neighborhood liaison officer, using stripped-down interactive theatre and a radical analysis to peer into the inner life of a man in blue.

Bio of Group:
Insurgent Theatre strives to connect performing arts with radical struggles, to make theatre that is relevant, engaging, challenging and useful for those who confront the US police state and global capitalist empire. We’ve been making original theatre since 2003 and frequently touring the country since August, 2008.

When: April 22 – May 1, 2014 Starts at 8:00 am, Ends at 11:55 pm.

Where: At various locations (e.g. Media Island, Sylvester Park, West Side Park, POWER, etc.) in the Olympia area and nearby locales.

What: EARTH DAY TO MAY DAY!
22nd: Tuesday, Earth Day
9-11AM: Coffee and CommuniTEA (Media Island International, MII)
12-2PM: Seed Bombs and Guerrilla Gardening (MII)
1:30PM: Port Plaza Earth Day Rally!
2-5PM: Bee at the Procession Studio!
5-6:30PM: Oly Community Media Convergence (MII)
6:45-7:15PM: Rally at City Hall for a Carfree City!
7:30PM: Kickoff Earth Day to May Day! (MII)
9PM: KOWA show (MII)

23rd: Wednesday
9-11AM: Coffee and CommuniTEA (MII)
Evergreen Earth Fest 2014
4-6PM: Banner Making (MII)
6:30-8PM: OMJP Spokes Meeting on Global Climate Convergence, POWER Office

24th: Thursday
9-11AM: Coffee and CommuniTEA (MII)
4-6PM: Street Theater Rehearsal (MII)
6-10PM: Grand Strategies (MII)
5-8PM Climate Solutions Event at their office

25th: Friday: ARTSWALK
9-11AM: Coffee and CommuniTEA (MII)
3-10PM: Bil Fleming art opening (MII)
5:30PM: Critical Mass, converge at the West Side Park
7PM: Revolutionary Street Theater and Spoken Word at the Rafah Mural

26th: Saturday: ARTSWALK
10-Noon: Solar Power 101, S. Sound Solar, Tumwater
11-4PM: Anti-oppression workshops (MII)
1PM: Food Not Bombs (Library)
4:30PM: Procession of the Species
8PM: Potluck Celebration of the Species! (MII)

27th: Sunday
11-2PM: Global Climate Convergence Benefit Brunch/ Media Island Past, Present and Future (MII)
2-4PM: Green Party presents “Climate Chaos and the Need for a 3rd Party” (MII)
4-6PM: Earth Day to May Day Mural Painting (MII)

28th: Monday
9-11AM: Coffee and CommuniTEA (MII)
10AM: Energy healing (MII)
5:30PM: Port Commissioner Meeting, Tumwater
5-7PM: Womyns Tea Circle (MII)
7PM: Traditions, 6th Extinction potluck, movie and discussion

29th: Tuesday
9-11AM: Coffee and CommuniTEA (MII)
3-5PM: Good Meetings Training (MII)
5-7PM: Banner Making (MII)
7PM: Reflections and Art on Occupy Olympia & OWS (Sylvester Park)

30th: Wednesday
9-11AM: Coffee and CommuniTEA (MII)
Noon: Free Yoga (MII)
4PM: Chalking Dissent, Bank of America
5-6PM: Anarchist Art Market: Zines, Buttons, Patches and More (MII)
7PM: Traditions, “Fighting for a Living Wage”

May 1st: MAY DAY
9-11AM: Coffee and CommuniTEA (MII)
12-3PM: May Day Festival
3PM: Bus to Seattle (MII)
7PM: Traditions, IWW Movie, potluck and discussion
9PM: KOWA, IWW sing-along (MII)

OFS Environmental Film Fest April 18-20
May 7th: 6:30PM: OMJP, Wrap Up and Reflections, POWER office

The Global Climate Convergence for People, Planet and Peace over Profit is an education and direct action campaign beginning this spring with “10 Days to Change Course” running from Earth Day to May Day.

Sign up now @ http://globalclimateconvergence.org/contact/

Together we can harness the transformative power we already possess as a thousand separate movements for justice, rising up against the global assault on our shared economy, ecology, peace and democracy. The accelerating climate disaster, which threatens to unravel civilization as soon as 2050, intensifies all of these struggles and creates new urgency for collaboration.

Clearly the time for unified action is NOW.

The Convergence creates a unifying call for a solution as big as the crisis barreling down on us – an emergency Green Economic Transformation through a Global Green New Deal including universal jobs, health care, education, food and housing security, economic and political democracy, demilitarization, an end to deportations, and 100% clean renewable energy by 2030.

Sign up to begin organizing for the continuum of justice from Earth Day to May Day 2014 Wave of Action in your community, and share this event with your friends.

Find Earth Day to May Day organizing meetings and events in a city near you:

http://globalclimateconvergence.org/calendar/

Has your organization endorsed the Convergence yet? Find out here:

http://globalclimateconvergence.org/about/whoweare/

Official records of CIA’s post-9/11 Torture exist:

The government should release it.

US Senator & Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman Feinstein

The Senate Intelligence Committee has completed a landmark 6,000-page report detailing its investigation of the CIA’s post-9/11 interrogation program. It reportedly debunks the claim TORTURE was necessary to save American lives. But, Americans can’t read the report unless the Committee votes to make it public, and the CIA is fighting to keep it secret. We’re pressing President Obama and the Senate to release the report so that an essential national reckoning can begin.

Click –> SIGN THE PETITION

U.S. Interrogator Says: You Deserve the Truth about Torture

I’ve made my career as military intelligence officer, responsible for leading interrogations in multiple theaters against some of our toughest adversaries. So when I say I oppose torture, it’s not only because it’s unlawful and un-American, it’s because it doesn’t work.

History has repeatedly demonstrated that torture produces unreliable information, increases the will to resist, creates more enemies, and divides vital alliances. The strategic consequences of torture can last for generations.

Far too often in recent years, the public discussion of this issue has been driven by self-serving comments by former officials who authorized torture after 9/11, but who have never conducted an actual interrogation in their lives. We need to change that.

Will you join me in calling for the Senate intelligence committee to release its already adopted study on the post-9/11 torture program?

As you may know, this study is the culmination of five years of investigative work by the committee. It’s over 6,000 pages long and based on a review of over 6 million pages of official documents.

In short, it has the potential to set the record straight on torture.

Please join me in urging the Senate intelligence committee to take action to have its study released.

It’s time the conversation about torture be driven by facts, not innuendo and partisan interests.

Urge the Senate intelligence committee to release its study on the post-9/11 CIA interrogation program so Americans can finally know what was done in their names.

Sincerely,

Colonel Steven Kleinman, USAFR

Military Leaders Speak Out on Torture Report:

After a multi-year review of CIA interrogation and detention policies in the years after 9/11, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) has produced a 6,000-plus page report that documents torture committed by the CIA and the resulting consequences. The committee will vote soon on whether to declassify it. Below is a letter from some of the nation’s most respected retired military leaders detailing why the American people deserve to see this report and calling on the committee to release it.

As former leaders of American Armed forces, we understand what it means to take the fight to the enemy—and we know what it takes to prevail. Together, we have hundreds of years of combined national security experience. We know that American ideals are what separate us from our enemies. Our values as a nation are assets in the fight against terrorism.

By authorizing torture after 9/11, government officials compromised our ideals and mission.

Many pundits and former officials continue to mislead the public about the morality, legality, and effectiveness of torture, leaving Americans in a state of confusion.

But now, we have the opportunity to set the record straight.

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has produced a 6,000-plus page study of the post-9/11 CIA interrogation program, which it adopted in a bi-partisan vote. According to committee chair Senator Dianne Feinstein, the study shows that torture was more widespread and brutal than the public was led to believe—and was ineffective in producing critical intelligence.

Now the Committee will vote to decide whether Americans will be allowed to know what’s in the study.

Through internal investigations and congressional oversight, the military has confronted its role in this dark chapter of our history. The CIA now has an opportunity to do the same.

Americans deserve the truth about what was done in our names and what—if anything—was gained from it.

This is a national security imperative. We urge members of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to vote for release of the study so that all Americans will know the truth about this important national security issue.

Join us in calling for the release of the report on torture.

When: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 @ 3:00 – 6:00 pm

Where: SEM II E1105 @ TESC

What:  This workshop will look at the ways the prison industrial complex not only specifically targets folks with disabilities but also actively props up ableism. We’ll also explore how ableism widens the pipelines (such as the school to prison pipeline) that help to create the PIC, by creating paths and norms in terms of who is criminalized, prison return rates, and notions of violence, justice and bodies. This workshop aims to help participants build a deeper understanding of both ableism and the prison industrial complex so that we can all move forward with clarity and motivation to link up prison abolition and disability justice work in shared struggle.

If we build it, they will come.

Those who reject this fundamental principle of life reject life itself.