MARCH 25--
Celebrate the promise of spring and the commitment to end hunger in our
community with THE GLEANERS COALITION. There will be food and music,
childcare and activities for everyone. Plant seeds in starter pots,
commit to grow a little extra in your garden for the hungry. Make plans
to spend a summer day on a beautiful farm, picking fresh
food...Volunteers Keep All They Need And Share What They Can...Learn
more about what the gleaners are up to and how you can help...
Saturday March 25th, Noon -
3pm,
at United Churches, 110 11th
Ave SE and Capitol Way.
Contact Barry: 360-705-2375,
barry@gleanerscoalition.org
--- "Zaragoza, Tony" <zaragozt@evergreen.edu>
wrote:
> Bulletin of Community and
Campus Events and
> Organizations Announced at
Community to Community
> Dialogue
>
> TONIGHT-- Olympia-Rafah
Sister City Project benefit
> dinner and report back by
delegates recently
> returned from Rafah
(Rochelle Gause and Serena
> Becker)
> 2/26 5PM Eagles Hall (4th &
Plum) $10-30 sliding
> scale. Several donated
tickets also available for
> low-income folks. Call if
you want one 867-0290
> (Therese or Tom)
>
> IMMEDIATELY--Looking to
volunteer with a grassroots
> advocacy and social justice
organization in your
> community? WROC, the
Welfare Rights Organizing
> Coalition, is a non-profit
organiztion made up of
> low-income members and
their allies. WROC needs
> you!: We have a lot of
exciting opportunities:
> media, legislative, welfare
witness program,
> language interpreting,
organizing, and outreach.
> Interested? contact WROC at
(360) 352-9716 or email wrocoly@wroc.org
>
> IMMEDIATELY--Bread and
Roses is also looking for
> committed volunteers.
> Contact B & R at 754-4588.
>
> MARCH 1--Health Care for
All (OMJP health care
> group) Meeting
> Wed March 1 7:30 PM Oly
Free School (610 S.
> Columbia)
> Guest Speaker Chris
Lindberg, Statewide coordinator
> Health Care for All
>
> MARCH 1--The Evergreen
Bolivarian Circle Meeting Wed
> March 1 5PM (and every Wed)
in Sem 2 D2105 at TESC
> Olympia Campus. The
Evergreen Bolvarian Circle aims
> to foster community
awareness of current political
> and economic trends in
Latin America especially
> Venezuela and to structure
the group around
> participatory and
democratic methods of decision
> making. Contact Jake at
Gujag2002@yahoo.com
>
> MARCH 3--Speaker John Ross
on Zapatista Struggle in
> Chiapas Friday March 3rd
12:30-2, Evergreen Sem2
> D1107
>
> TESC Center for Community
Based Learning and Action Neighborhood
> Action Week will bring
students out to work side-by-side on projects
> identified by neighborhood
groups: clean up, rebuilding,
> walkability efforts, etc.
Got a mess in your
> community? Give Vicki Faust
a call 867-6866 or
> e-mail faustv@evergreen.edu
>
> MARCH 7--Olympia Movement
for Justice and Peace
> (OMJP) Meetings 7PM Wed
March 8th & Wed March 22nd
> at the Oly Free School (610
S. Columbia)
>
> MARCH 15--Community Bike
Shop: Egyhop/Done & Done
> Shop opening around March
15th. Downtown.
> Free bikes and educational
bike maintenance space
>
> MARCH 19th--March against
the war on Iraq and the
> costs of war Sunday March
19th 1:30 PM at People?s
> Park in Tacoma (MLK Way and
19th) check OMJP for
> more info.
>
> MARCH 20-25 Creative
Intervention Week
> A week-long Art Festival
Showcasing Homeless and Low
> Income Folks? Art and &
Talents
> March 20-25 at Yes Yes in
Olympia
>
> MARCH 20--TESC students
will be helping to put
> together a discussion
exploring the possibility of
> having a South Sound Social
Forum offering a space
> for all the individuals and
groups working for
> social and economic justice
to discuss and share
> strategies to create a more
just and equitable South
> Sound. We will have a
discussion about public space
> and the need for a viable
and inclusive Downtown
> area. March 20th as a
kickoff for the week long
> Creative Intervention
Festival.
> Contact bredansisland@yahoo.com
or 360 789 2308
>
> JUNE 28th-JULY 2,
2006--TESC Labor Center, Oly, WA
> presents: Summer School for
Union Women & Community
> Activists
> Leadership School focusing
this year on building
> alliances with immigrant
workers, the effects of globalization and
> outsourcing on workers. For
more info contact and to find out about
> scholarships call Nina
Triffleman (360) 867-6055 or
> e-mail trifflen@evergreen.edu