by the CPJ Auxilary Team Danbert Nobacon performing at the Solidarity Rally, photo by Sako Chapman (Evergreen, WA ) – A second call was put out last night by the Evergreen Gaza Solidarity Encampment for another rally today, April 30th, at 11am, to continue the momentum of campus support for […]
Divestment on the Horizon? Optimism and Good Faith Expressed by TESC Gaza Solidarity Encampment, Admin
By the CPJ Auxilary Team At 3:30 PM today, a bargaining team made up of Evergreen students reentered negotiations with administration to continue working towards that goal. The community gathered around the Evergreen Gaza Solidarity Encampment had continued the rally in Red Square to call for The Evergreen State College’s […]
NEW SUPPORT FOR DIVESTMENT EMERGES: Rally for the Evergreen Gaza Solidarity Encampment Reignites Negotiations
By the CPJ Auxiliary Team Speeches begin at the Rally, photo by Mj Richards (Evergreen, WA )- At 11:30am today – Monday, April 29, 2024 – students from Evergreen Gaza Solidarity Encampment extended an outward call to community to participate in a solidarity rally to protest the ongoing genocide in […]
EVERGREEN ENCAMPMENT: Bargaining Steps Back From Role
EVERGREEN ENCAMPMENT: Bargaining Steps Back From Role By the CPJ auxiliary team News Brief Gathered as a part of ongoing developments around the Evergreen Gaza Solidarity Encampment. For the previous article on the early stages of the camp, click here. After the last negotiation meeting yesterday afternoon, April 26th, in […]
Evergreen Gaza Solidarity Encampment
by the CPJ auxillary team View of the Evergreen Gaza Solidarity Encampment, photo by Sarah Swissa Within the past two weeks, many colleges and universities across the U.S. have erupted in protest responding to the ongoing genocide and scholasticide occuring within the Gaza strip. Columbia University became the first highly […]
Archive Spotlight: DAY OF ABSENCE
by Sako Chapman A Historical Perspective on the Evergreen State College 2017 Protests ORIGINS: In 1972, Dr. Maxine Mimms, one of the first Black women hired at the Evergreen State College, began the grassroots outreach that would become Evergreen’s Tacoma Campus. Mimm’s program was designed to meet the needs of […]
Gabby Davis Artist Interview
Interviewer: So, just give me a little introduction to yourself; just who you are, your year at Evergreen and what you study. Gabby: My name’s Gabby Davis, I use they/them pronouns, I am 3 years at Evergreen but I am a super senior, 5th year in college, all together, because […]
Archive Spotlight: UJAMAA SOCIETY, Evergreen’s First BSU
By Sako Chapman, February 14th 2024 THE ORIGIN: Contemporary American Minority (Fall 1971 – Spring 1972) In the first year of Evergreen, 1971, a year-long ethnic studies-type program titled Contemporary American Minorities (CAM) was hosted by Rudy Martin, Medardo Delgado, and Darrell Phare. The faculty brought an emphasis on Black […]
A Frankenstein Mash-up of Old Drafts for my Grad School Personal Statements
Writing is an act of trickery. All my work is coming at you from the wrong direction – multiple wrong directions at once. I have two modes – ideas as abstract as a dream or words wielded as a blunt instrument. I do my best when I have either the […]
RE: On-campus Palestine Actions and Information Distribution – Beldaan Solidarity Network
The genocide in Gaza perpetrated by Israeli Occupation Forces has murdered, injured, and disappeared over 100,000 Palestinians since October 7th, 2023 (WHO). Palestinians, in occupied territory and diaspora, are experiencing the destruction of their homes, primary schools and universities, places of worship, orchards, and lifeways all while the world watches. […]