ARCHIVE - Fall 2004 Announcements

The Patience program will schedule special topics in room 1040 of lab I on on the following Saturdays from 9am to 4pm winter quarter:

January     8
January   22
February   5
February 19
March       5
March     19

Thanks
Gary

Patience: A Survival process for an Unknown Future - Fall Announcements

INDIAN WEAVERS COOPERATIVE FROM CHIAPAS, MEXICO
HOLIDAY NATIVE ARTS FAIR!

Friday, Dec. 10
Native American Arts Fair
The Evergreen State College LONGHOUSE, 11 AM-3 PM

Monday, Dec. 13
Traditions Fair Trade Café
300 5^th Ave. w/ Water St.
Olympia, 7 PM Presentations are FREE and OPEN to the Public and will include a slideshow, Q&A, and many exquisite and very beautifully cooperative made weavings for SALE!

Join in as Olympia welcomes for the second time this year the Jolom Mayaetik Women's Weavers Cooperative from Chiapas, Mexico. Started in 1996, the Co-op has 250 women and has become a critical point of resistance for indigenous women.

Co-op co-founder Celia Santiz Ruiz will speak how indigenous women have responded to economic impacts, militarization and crushing poverty that has affect the Mexican countryside followed by the implementation of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Indigenous women in Chiapas suffer from a severe lack of access to primary education and job training. Chiapas rates dead last among the Mexican states in women's illiteracy, more than doubling the national average (28.9% Chiapas, 11.3% nationally). Traditional back-strap loom weaving is often the only profitable skill that Chiapaneca women learn. Weaving cooperatives give women the chance to market their work at fairer prices than they would receive if selling individually.

Presentation and Coop's woven goods for Sale!

Info : 360. 259-1879

WANTED:

Sports fans willing and able to take their eyes off Snoop and the Blazers and the Sonics and the Blazers long enough to support the Geoducks as they open the season with Southwest Washington's most exciting basketball rivalry.....

Friday, November 5

5:30 and 7:30 at the CRC Gym

Women's & Men's Basketball

Evergreen vs. Saint Martin's

Admission: $6 for Adults. $3 for teens 13-17, SMC students, senior citizens and military personnel. $1 for kids 12 & under. As always, Evergreen students are admitted FREE!!!!

Hi Greeners, it's Eric from the Environmental Resource Center. How's week 4 going? Anyone losing credit yet?

So this week there's a few things going on this week, and a bunch of things to plan for.
Contents of this message follow:

-Orionids meteor shower - possible trip to Rainier with EPIC
-Ancient Forest Roadshow to Evergreen next Monday!
-Campus sustainability figure Tony Cortese speaks on Wednesday
-Forest Plan revision for the Blue Mountains - possible Portland trip
-Synergy sustainable living conference - time to start planning

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This Thursday the fabulous Orionids will be making a special appearence from space! EPIC and ERC have thought of some ideas for an outdoor event on Thursday around midnight to view these beauties. One included renting a big cabin near Mt. Rainier and making a whole night of it!

*If you're interested in driving or going, email me (wozeri09@evergreen.edu), as we need to know asap if we're going to book the cabin*

Another idea included a drum circle and viewing party on the Evergreen field and hoping it won't be cloudy. Either way it'll be really cool, we'll discuss plans further on the Wednesday meeting.

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So I just got an email from the Ancient Forest Roadshow (http://www.forestroadshow.org/). This group travels around the states with a slice of a huge 420 year old Douglas fir stump, spreading awareness of the repercussions of Bush's timber polices and environmental rollbacks, and is currently collecting comments on the repeal of the Roadless Rule.

Next Monday (25th) they'll be in town and said they'd like to bring their show to Red Square! This is the perfect addition to our Roadless Rule campaign. The only thing is that we need to jump through the administrative hoops for the school to allow an event on campus, and I need help with this! If someone would like to lend a hand running around campus getting papers signed, email me back.

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This Wednesday Anthony Cortese will be coming to Evergreen to speak. Here's a quick blurb on Anthony's work:

Anthony (Tony) Cortese is one of a small handful of major figures in the nation leading the campus sustainability movement. For several decades, Tony has been tirelessly advocating for higher education to become a leader in environmental stewardship. After serving as Commissioner of the Dept of Environmental Protection for the state of Mass, he became the "environmental sustainability czar" at Tufts University, and led the creation of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future and "Natural Step." For the past 12+ years, he has directed "Second Nature," a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting campuses as they move toward sustainable curriculum and practices. Tony has also walked the talk of diversity throughout his professional life and is a powerful advocate for the social justice and health dimensions of sustainability.

And here's his speaking schedule:

Noon to 1 p.m., Wednesday, October 20: “Walking Our Talk: Sustainability on Campus,” Lecture Hall I

6 to 8:30 p.m.: “Getting to YES With Sustainability,” Lecture Hall II

Among other things, Dr. Cortese is President of Second Nature, chairs the Natural Step U.S., and is an adviser to Presidential Candidate John Kerry.

This'll be a great opportunity to see how Evergreen can continue and better its "super-green" image; check it out!

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The Blue Mountains, which contain the Malheur, Umatilla, and Wallowa-Whitman National Forests in
Southeast Washington and Northeast Oregon are about to have their rights altered. The "Forest Plan" which regulates all logging and mining activity is about to be completely revised.

Now is the "public participation" period, in which the forest service is holding public meetings - which they call "community collaborative workshops." This will be a rare and interesting opportunity to see how the forest service really does it, as well as have our voices heard. The closest meeting is in Portland on November 4th -- a Thursday - from 6-9pm. If anyone is interested in helping put together a trip down there do let me know, or come to our meeting this Wednesday. For more info check out: http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/uma/blue_mtn_planrevision/

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Remember the 3-day long Synergy conference last year? Well it's happening again this year from February 9th-11th and planning in beginning now. We've had a few ideas of speakers and workshops, but we'd love to hear your ideas.

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To become a part of any of these projects come to the ERC meeting at Wednesday 1:45; 3rd floor CAB in the Pit.

-Eric Wozniak
ERC Coordinator
(360) 867-6784

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Soup House, Olympia's own organic soup company, is open for business! Their new downtown location offers organic soup, bread, sandwiches and beverages. It's the perfect downtown lunch spot. Soup House is also committed to using locally grown food from farms like Kirsop , Pigmans and Rising River. Eating at Soup House supports local food security in Thurston County. The new store is located at 406 Washington between 4th and 5th Ave next to the Painted Plate.

In addition to their new restaurant Soup House provides wholesale organic soup to many outlets including the Olympia school system. That's right, kids in Olympia public schools are eating locally grown food!

Please show your support for Soup House and help expand the local organic movement! Feel free to pass this message on.

Grow food,

Ethan Schaffer

Director
Organic Volunteers
www.growfood.org
"Educational Opportunities in Sustainability"

www.GrowFood.org

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From: Mcgee, Sylvie
Sent: Fri 10/15/2004 1:02 PM
To: All Faculty
Subject: Please announce in your programs!

Dear Faculty,

I'm writing to impose, I hope very briefly, on your time by asking that you announce in your programs that the Center for Community-Based Learning and Action has available four work-study positions. Students applying for these positions *must* have work-study awards.

Three of the positions focus on building connections between Evergreen and community-based organizations. Students will have the opportunity to develop linkages with organizations in one of three areas: community services/advocacy, sustainability/environmental action, and/or arts/culture.

The fourth position will build a website and associated databases to document the work and connections of Evergreen and the community.

The Center for Community-Based Learning and Action is a new Public Service Center that is jointly supported by Academics and Student Affairs. Our goal is to help linkages between Evergreen and the community - for purposes of learning and of service - to become more consistent, embedded in the curriculum, and accessible to both campus and community members.

Students who are interested can contact me at: 360-867-6859, or at mcgees@evergreen.edu.

THANK YOU!

Sylvie McGee, Coordinator
Center for Community-Based Learning and Action
Evergreen State College
Voice: 360-867-6859 Fax: 360-867-6553
mcgees@evergreen.edu

At this Saturday’s Friends of the Library Annual meeting,

Meet Evergreen Faculty & Student Authors of

Seventeen students dedicated the 2002-03 academic year to full-time research, analysis, and writing to produce this well crafted work intended to educate and inspire citizen activists of the future.

"Defending Wild Washington blazes a new trail for understanding the land and those who love it. I wish every state had such a thorough, thoughtful overview of the citizen conservation movement.” - Dave Foreman

SATURDAY OCT, 16th 9:30 AM
SEMINAR II, ROOM A-1107

By unanimous decision of the student authors, all royalties from the book will be donated
to conservation education here at the Evergreen State College.

Two sessions of yoga are now offered weekly during Fall Quarter in Room 116 of the Campus Recreation Center, from 12:00 until 1:00. On Mondays, Allessandro Rutigliano will lead class members in Gentle Yoga; on Fridays, he will lead students in Flow Yoga. Everyone is welcome for either or both sessions. The classes are free, although donations will be appreciated. For more information, contact Alessandro (rutale25@evergreen.edu).

Dear Friends: (Please help us pass this invitation)

This Thursday October 7th. will be the Peru presentation by Mino, the Delegate, Leader of the Jungle Community Ashaninka of Marankiari Bajo in Peru.

Why do we think Mino's presentations is important?
Because, his community has ACCOMPLISHED so much with so little, and with so many obstacles in their path toward a BETTER LIFE.

WHEN? OCTOBER 7TH - FROM 1:00 PM TO 2:30 PM
WHERE? Cedar Room in the Longhouse Learning Center

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire-0826412769
Intelligence Reframed by Martin Gardner-0465026117
A People's History of the U S by Howard Zinn- 0060528370
The Art of Changing the Brain by James E. Zull-1579220541
Native American Testimony-Peter Nabokov- 0140281592
Teaching to Transgress by Bell Hooks-0415908086
Choice Theory by William Glasser- 0060930144
Decolonizing Methodologies by Linda Tuhiwai Smith-1856496244
Natives and Academics by Devon Mihesuah- 0803282435 Genocide of the Mind by Marijo Moore-1560255110
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy by Steven C. Hayes-1572309555
Methodology of the Oppressed by Chela Sandoval-0816627371

Dear Friends: (Please help us pass this invitation)

This will be the last presentation( for a while) by Mino, the Delegate, Leader of the Jungle Community Ashaninka of Marankiari Bajo in Peru.

The next presentations will be at the Community halls of several Indian Tribes. And later, in November we will be back under the sponsorship of World Affairs Council to make more presentations at other localities.

Why do we think Mino's presentations are important?
Because, his community has ACCOMPLISHED so much with so little, and with so many obstacles in their path toward a BETTER LIFE.

Since 1996 the Ashaninka community (1,747) has been using COMPUTERS and INTERNET.

Some of their accomplishments:

more than 34 young people attended college, from this number, more than 6 have completed their education. The others are still in college or have stopped (for lack of funds) but intend to finish,

The IDCR of Canada helped them to start a radio station that serves several communities. 14 young people were trained to be trainers in radial programs,

The Telefonica of Peru used their place as an experimental pilot project for Satellite conexion,

Since February of 2004 they have electricity,

They have signed 37 agreements at national level,

They have signed 3 international agreements (including ECIE),

The Ashaninka women are the "pillar" of their community. The women have several wonderful initiatives all ably managed by them. (Quipunet is helping one of these initiatives),

And many more accomplishments........ to numerous to mention all,

We think they are a wonderful example of what can be accomplished here, with our Latino community, specially with our project "EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES" that takes so many examples of the Ashaninka endeavors!

Come and listen to Mino's presentation and get motivated, then, listen to William and what ECIE (Electronic Communication and Information Exchange) dreams of accomplishing here in our area, where we have less obstacles, and SO MUCH MORE to work with.

WHEN? SEPTEMBER 7TH - FROM 6:30 TO 8:40 PM
WHERE? TACOMA MAIN LIBRARY: 1102 TACOMA AVE. TACOMA, WA 98402 (for directions go to www.mapquest.com <http://www.mapquest.com> ) Or From I-5 take exit 132 (City Center) stay in left lane, take exit that says 15th ave. Go straight up until you see Tacoma Ave. Take a right. Library is on left side of the street. Plenty of free parking (after 6PM) on parking lot on the left side of Library. At Library go to the Olympic Room.