By Sylvie Chace The evening of May 1 brought with it broken glass and clashes with the police, a time-honored tradition in the Northwest. Nine were arrested after the march, which police dubbed ‘a riot’, snaked through downtown, blocking traffic and damaging some property. A little after 6 p.m. demonstrators, […]
Update on Detention Center Hunger Strike
By Jasmine Kozak-Gilroy On April 15, the Tacoma News Tribune published an opinion piece by GEO Group vice president James Black regarding recent protests against the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in which he claimed, “The center has a longstanding record providing high quality, culturally responsive services in a safe, secure […]
Education First on Campus
By Jasmine Kozak-Gilroy The EF, or Education First, campus is tucked away on the fourth floor of the Seminar I building, sharing floor space with the relocated Office of Sexual Violence Prevention (OSVP). For Evergreen students who haven’t visited OSVP in its new location, the school is all but invisible, […]
Self Care When you Want to Scream
Constantly being immersed in conversations about race and injustice will take its toll. The first time I took an African American history class, I started self harming. I found it completely overwhelming, just trying to deal with the pain caused by constantly thinking about the long list of traumas Black […]
Grasping at the Echoes: An Interview with Phil Elverum Mount Eerie’s “A Crow Looked At Me” and the Struggle of Articulating Real Death
By Jeremy Bertsche “It’s dumb,” sings Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum on the first track of his devastating, heartfelt new record, “A Crow Looked At Me”, “and I don’t want to learn anything from this.” Yet just as quickly as the most thematically naked track, “Real Death,” eschews the saccharine and […]
Trial for Andre & Bryson Begins
By Chloe Marina Manchester The trial for brothers Andre Thompson and Bryson Chaplin, two young black men who were both shot by white Olympia Police Officer, Ryan Donald, in May 2015, finally began Monday, April 10, almost two years after they were shot. Both Thompson and Chaplin survived the shooting […]
Northwest Detention Center Detainees go on Hunger Strike Supporters Set Up Camp Outside the Immigration Detention Center
By Felix Chrome On Monday, April 10, inmates at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma Washington began a hunger strike in protest of what they consider to be inhumane conditions in the Detention Center and unjust long detainment periods prior to seeing a judge or being assigned a court date. […]
Hidden Marine Treasures Evergreen Debuts New State of the Art Aquarium Facility
By Val Arias If you dare enter the labyrinth that is the connected basement of LAB I, II and the Arts Annex, you may happen upon a remodeled wing of this eerie space. Located directly one floor below the biology and chemistry lab spaces on the first floor of LAB […]
City Finalized Downtown Design Guidelines
By Jasmine Kozak-Gilroy Recent events like the removal of the parklet in front of Burial Grounds and the wall a local business owner built around her neighboring spice shop have peaked my curiosity about the City of Olympia’s downtown Strategy and the city’s priorities for downtown. On Wednesday, April 12 […]
Rising Spring Convergence Conference Brings Discussion of Pipelines, Colonization to Campus
By Sylvie Chace The Black Cottonwood Collective is hosting the Rising Spring Convergence, an event spanning three days, from April 21 to the 23. The Rising SPRING (Stopping Pipelines and Resisting Infrastructure on Native Ground) Convergence is an event and opportunity to listen to and learn from indigenous water protectors. […]
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