By Chloe Marina Manchester On January 30, 2017 Washington State Attorney General, Bob Ferguson, and Governor Jay Inslee filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump, in his capacity as president, Homeland Security, The United States of America, and several high ranking members of the Trump administration, include acting Secretary of State, […]
The Fight to Defund DAPLSeattle City Council Drops Wells Fargo to Support DAPL
by Tari Gunstone On Wednesday February 8 the Seattle city council voted unanimously to break partnership with Wells Fargo in handling their city’s annual funds of nearly 4 billion over concerns of the bank’s funding of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in addition to questions regarding the bank’s transparency and […]
Olympia Women’s March Attracts Crowds, Controversy
By Jon Fitzgerald On January 21, people on every continent gathered in a series of women’s marches as a declaration of unity and power. The marches, spawning from the original event planned for Washington, D.C., gained massive momentum as over three million people worldwide participated in what is now being […]
Evergreen “Welcomes” New Chief of Police Chief Brown Discusses Protests, Fears, and Plans for Future
By Jasmine Kozak-Gilroy On January 11, 2016, the new Evergreen chief of police, Stacy Brown, was set to be sworn in. Brown, who graduated from the college in 2006, was hired out of the Lewis County Deputy’s office where she had been working for 20 years, the last seven of […]
Trump Inauguration Prompts Protests & Demonstrations What’s Going Down in Olympia
By Felix Chrome Nationally and locally January 20 seems to have the potential to be a wild, action filled day, with a wide variety of events planned. There have been calls for protests and demonstrations of various forms to take place across the country on inauguration day, many using the […]
Women’s Basket Ball Coach Faces Allegations of Discrimination Students Criticize Administration Inaction
By Jennifer Hicks In October of this year POC Talk was contacted by a Evergreen Student and former Geoduck Basketball player about alleged racism and harassment they experienced while on the basketball team here at Evergreen. The reason for this request was that they felt that the school lacks transparency […]
Fracking Sands Shipment Blocked from Leaving Port of Olympia 12 Arrested in Police Raid of the Train Track Encampment
By Chloe Marina Manchester On November 11, a group of anti-fracking protesters, collectively dubbed Olympia Stand, blocked a train coming from the Port of Olympia carrying frackings sands, or proppants. The train was successfully blocked on that first day, then protesters erected a blockade where they camped on the tracks […]
Northwest Post-Election Protests Many Express Fear, Anger, and Frustration
By Rachel Carlson, Chloe Marina Manchester, Tari Gunstone, & Felix Chrome Since the election of Donald Trump it seems like the meme-worthy craziness of 2016 is only set to continue into the new year. This year has been characterized by contentious battles and increasingly disparate rhetoric on issues from police […]
Initiative-837 Rally for Safer Policing
By Tari Gunstone Around 200 people gathered on the steps of the Capitol on Thursday, October 22 to demand accountability for police violence, specifically against black lives and native lives in Washington state. The gathering focused on promoting Initiative-837 (I-837), which would rephrase a Washington statute that makes it incredibly […]
City Rejects Emergency Storm Shelter Volunteers Step in to Fill the gap in Services
By Jon Fitzgerald Last week, members of the community started contacting members of City Hall to open up a shelter for the coming wind and rainstorm, which was expected to have up to sixty mile an hour winds and large amounts of rain. Despite calls for a shelter to open […]
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