Plug Into Your Progressive Community!

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The Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation's AUGUST TCTV program -- "Teenagers Work for Peace & Justice" debuts THURS AUG 2 at 9:00 p.m. and repeats every THURS at 9:00 p.m. and every MON at 1:30 p.m. on TCTV cable channel 22 for cable subscribers in Thurston County.

Four politically savvy teenagers and a mentor from the Western Washington Fellowship of Reconciliation are the guests. Glen Anderson from Olympia FOR is the host.

A program description will appear soon at www.olyfor.org

Alliance for Democracy, SPS Chapter -- 1st Annual Membership Meeting and Board Election
Sunday, August 5th
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

Specifics:
Music, food, and friends
Tally Board nominations and votes
Announce and welcome new Board of Directors
Officer Reports
Discuss results of membership survey on our goals for next year
Go to the Town Hall Picnic and Candidate Forum!

At the home of Jacqui Brown Miller
1348 Bridle Ct., SE, Olympia WA.

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The Heart of Africa is a presentation of the faculty of the International Trauma Treatment Program (ITTP)

Early this past winter, four faculty members of the ITTP traveled to Uganda to conduct trainings, workshops, and to work with internally displaced people in refugee camps while collaborating with a local Ugandan relief organization, Pilgrim. Together, ITTP and Pilgrim created relationships and experienced great moments of collaboration.

Please join us for an evenng of photos, stories, and celebration.

For more information:
(360) 352-2974
Email: ittpolympia@gmail.com

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Come to a Volunteer meeting of the Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition at the WROC Office. All are welcome.

Website: http://wroc.org

Email: wrocoly@wroc.org

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Monthly Meeting of South Sound Clean Clothes Campaign, an Olympia group opposing sweatshops and supporting workers' rights. Please join with us in a coalition to urge our Governor to join with other state Governors in sweatshop-free state purchasing. 7:00 to 8:30 pm www.southsoundcleanclothes.org

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The Washington Health Security Coalition is proud to sponsor a 6-hour workshop to identify a common set of core principles among those in health care reform and to craft a purposeful language to communicate that identity.

The workshop will include elements of these steps:
• identifying central, over-arching principles that unite groups,
• creating powerful, engaging language that link together these
principles,
• learning how media serve as an “echo chamber” for political
messages, and

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Know all You Can Know Youth Summer Camp - ages 16 - 21

Corporate Military Power and our Future
Three Day Event
South Puget Sound Community College, details upon registering
Minneart Center for the Performing Arts
2011 Mottman Rd SW
Olympia, WA

$50-85 fee.

Food, music, guest speakers, lively debate, film clips, write and sing chants. Register NOW!

contact Molly at kayck@olywa.net

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ON MONDAY, JULY 2 at 7:00 p.m. at the Olympia Center, our 2 Democratic Senators will participate with healthcare specialists in a forum discussing local healthcare concerns. There will be time for questions, answers and discussion following the panel presentation. WE NEED TO BE THERE TO EXPRESS OUR OWN BELIEFS AND CONCERNS--about the negative influence of "Big Pharma" on congressional decision-making, the plight of our uninsured neighbors and any other issues we would like addressed. Go to http://www.theolympian.com/html/services/forms/healthcare.shtml to submit your questions in advance.

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With heightened U.S. security along the California, Texas, and New Mexico borders, each day thousands of migrants attempting to enter the United States are being diverted into the treacherous terrain of Arizona’s brutal desert. The perilous journey, which can take up to four days, has caused a dramatic rise in the number of migrant deaths. Those who make it through – the undocumented immigrants who live and work in the U.S. – invoke a wide range of impassioned responses over human rights, culture, race, class, and national security.

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The Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends shows a recruiting day at Venice Beach in California, a Marine boot camp in 2002, just months prior to the Iraq Invasion, scenes from combat in Iraq, and interviews with returning soldiers and their families. http://thegroundtruth.org/soldiers.html