Photo: The Internationalist by Alice McIntyre The Cooper Point Journal has, over the course of several years, documented struggles against police violence in our community on and off campus. It has documented police surveillance of students and made the public aware of the increasing militarization of Police Services at Evergreen, […]
Dear Evergreen: Your Native Students Are the Solution, Not the Problem
Illustration Courtesy of Toby Syrett
Graduate Feature: Skokomish Artist Bunni Peterson-Haitwas Finishes Evergreen Studies Ready to Follow Her Heart
Photo courtesy of Bunni Peterson-Haitwas
Downtown Protests Demand Justice for Victims of Police Brutality
Faces have been blacked out in order to protect the identities of protesters. by Jacob Anderson-Kester CW: Police Violence Protesters in Olympia have been organizing and responding to the broader national concern towards police brutality and discrimination against Black people and people of color. The protests come in light of […]
‘Booksmart’ Is a New Classic Teen Movie
Cast of “Booksmart” at SXSW Film Festival by DannyB Photos / CC BY 2.0
White Action: White People’s Only Chance at Collective Liberation Is Direct Action
This piece is the third and final part of the series “White Emptiness.” Click here for parts one and two. The universally dehumanizing experience of whiteness, white supremacy and white culture must be interrupted through anti-racist action. As I have discussed in the second edition of this series, we must […]
API Heritage Month: Community Members Making Waves in the World
by Natalie Arneson As May nears its end, the outpouring of social media posts celebrating Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month, and the members of these communities, covers Instagram and Facebook feeds. Amid the spike in racism and racially motivated violence due to COVID-19, seeing the flood of love […]
Alyssa Giannini: Artist Interview by Jacob Anderson-Kester
Photo: Art by Alyssa Giannini Alyssa Giannini is an artist based in Olympia whose sheer body of work so far into this life is incredibly prolific and diverse. I was struck by their true uptaking of what DIY ethos entails — hands in all types of art, big and small, […]
A Matter of Life and Death: Facing Pandemic, Workers Fight for Health and Safety
“Strike-MayDay2020-Seattle” by Flickr user Backbone Campaign is licensed under CC BY 2.0 by Alice McIntyre The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the world into an unprecedented social and economic crisis. The Washington Post reports that bosses have responded to the economic downturn with massive layoffs and furloughs, resulting in a soar […]
“The Lighthouse” Film Review
“Pigeon Point Lighthouse (2016)” by Frank Schulenburg, sourced from Wikimedia Commons, is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 by Miette Deschenes Isolation, as many are learning right now, affects everyone differently. Some people find power, strength or peace in solitude. Others find it lonely, sad or uninspiring. For the characters in […]