Olympia May Day Incident and Prisoner Solidarity

Hey all, one of my good friends is in jail right now and we're trying to bail him out, he was participating in a march when some rocks were thrown through bank windows and police started arresting anyone who looked like they could have thrown them (pretty much, arresting people in black). If anybody can help us out that would be really really amazing. His bail is $5000 and we have about half that right now, we're trying to get the rest by Monday. Once he goes to trial (should be within a couple of months) we'll get the money back and can pay back anybody who send us cash. It's pretty much an interest-less loan. Even a few bucks would help. We have a paypal account set up that's at the bottom of the following article that you can send contributions to. Thanks!

On May 1 there was a rally and march in solidarity with the immigrants' rights an anti-war movements with the goal of rallying support for Olympia becoming a sanctuary city. The march went to the capital and then moved downtown. Rocks were thrown through the windows of the Bank of America and US Bank which was followed by a violent response by police. Six members of the Olympia community were arrested. One, Daniel Wilson, still needs funds for his bail.

On May 1 in Olympia, WA a group of about two hundred people had a rally in solidarity with the immigrants’ rights and anti-war movements. The rally was followed with a march to the capital where activists gathered outside of the governor’s door, making their presence known and urging her to support the proposal of making Olympia a sanctuary city for undocumented immigrants. After the capital the march continued downtown, where rocks were thrown through the windows of Bank of America and US Bank, two banks notorious for their social and environmental injustices. A scuffle ensued in which protestors clashed with the police. Pepper spray and pellet guns were used on the protestors and six people were ultimately arrested. The names of the people arrested are Daniel Busby, Forrest Student, Stephanie Gottschalk, Bryan Riggins, Randall Hunt and Daniel Wilson. Busby and Student were arrested on suspicion of riot and 2nd degree theft. Gottschalk was arrested on suspicion of riot without a deadly weapon and 3rd degree assault. Riggins, Hunt and Wilson were all arrested on suspicion of 1st degree malicious mischief and suspicion of riot.

Busby, the only person with a private counsel, was released on personal recognizance. Gottschalk’s bail was set at $2500, her bail was posted Friday, and she has been released. Randall Hunt’s bail was set at $2500, his bail was posted Friday, he has been released. Student’s bail was set at $7500 and his bail was posted Friday, yet he must remain in jail until Monday when his place of residence can be verified. Bryan Riggins’s bail was set at $10,000 and his bail was posted Friday, yet he too must remain in jail until Monday when his residence can be verified.

This is where it gets complicated. Daniel Wilson’s bail was set at $5000. The $500 needed to bail him out was promptly raised, and he was set with a co-signer that had a car title to put up for the bail bond. However, the co-signer fell through and we have been unable to find another co-signer able to put up the collateral necessary (a car or property title). Due to this fact, the only option we have is to pay the entire bail, $5000. We have roughly half of the money raised and we are hard at work raising the rest. However, the people with the deepest hearts often have the shallowest pockets and the rest of the money has proven hard to raise.

We are asking for you to put up any amount of money you can spare so we can get Daniel out of jail to live his life until he can get his court situation figured out and, hopefully, justice can show its face.

The positive thing about paying the entire bail, $5000, is that that money will be returned once Daniel shows up to his first court date. ANY MONEY YOU CONTRIBUTE WILL BE RETURNED TO YOU as soon as Daniel has appeared in court, probably within the next 2 months. Money can be sent on paypal to ramblini@gmail.com .

Actions of solidarity would also be welcome.

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Zeitgeist

I just watched this film and it had a huge impact on me, I would love to get some serious discussion and deconstruction and perhaps some dumpstering for facts going on.

Watch it, you'll be glad you did.

ZEITGEIST
the movie : Official Release
www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

Zeitgeist was created as a not for profit expression to inspire people to start looking at the world
from a more critical perspective and to understand that very often things are not what the
population at large think they are. The information in Zeitgeist was established over a year long period
of research and the current Source page on this site lists the sources used / referenced.
Soon, an interactive transcript will be online with detailed footnotes and links.

It's important to point out that there is a tendency to simply disbelieve things that are
counter to our understanding, without the necessary research performed.
For example, some information contained in Part 1 and Part 3, specifically, is not obtained
by simple keyword searches on the Internet. You have to dig deeper. For instance,
very often people who look up "Horus" or "The Federal Reserve" on the Internet
draw their conclusions from very general or biased sources. Online encyclopedias or text book
Encyclopedias often do not contain the information contained in Zeitgeist. However, if one takes
the time to read the sources provided, they will find that what is being presented is
based on documented evidence. Any corrections, clarifications & further points regarding the film
are found on the Clarifications page.

That being said, it is my hope that people will not take what is said
in the film as the truth, but find out for themselves, for truth is not told, it is realized.

Thank you

www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

"They must find it difficult...
Those who have taken authority as the truth,
rather than truth as the authority."

- Gerald Massy -

I am an infatuated kitten

I love poi.

To all you strong, beautiful, amazing ladies out there (this means YOU!): TRY KICKBOXING!!!!

IT IS SO AMAZING

I haven't felt this good in a loooong time.

Punching is fun.

FUCK YEAH!!!

DO IT

Port of Tacoma Police Riots

I am way too tired to adequately explain this but I don't want to wait to put it up. Maybe I'll edit this in a day or so when I'm not chronically exhausted and it's not five in the morning. I've been participating in non-violent anti-war protests all week at the Port of Tacoma in response to the movement of Stryker vehicles through the port on their way to Iraq.

Last night a significant group of us went on a march to take one of the barricades. I was in the middle of the front line. We only gained about ten feet or something like that past the barricade before the riot police closed ranks, fired some pepper spray and fired rubber bullets into the crowd. The majority of people scattered (I stayed right the fuck put thank you) but closed in again, it became clear we weren't going to gain any ground so we decided to sit. We sat down, singing "all we are saying is give peace a chance", and they opened fire on us again with pepper spray pellets and rubber bullets and a fuckton of tear gas (at least 20 canisters) and gassed us out.

Needless to say it was pretty fucked up.

There was also NO MEDIA there. We got a couple indy camerafolk who captured it, videos have been filtering into the media secondhand, LARGELY THANKS TO YOUTUBE.

I would really, really appreciate it if you would take the time to watch and rate this video. Even though there's an embarrassing I'm-going-to-puke-if-I-try-to-breathe closeup of me. It would really help our efforts.

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

www.youtube.com/watch

PS I'm totally fine now just bruised

mystery box

I just had a box delivered to my door by a very nice delivery man.....this box contained two boxes. One was empty. The other contained three ENORMOUS poppyseed hamantaschen. It's from Florida. Who do I know in Florida?? Anyone? Anyone????

:) Made my day.

a moment of appreciation for living in a fucking RAINFOREST

This morning I looked outside to see a brilliant blue sky.....decided to skip the coat and by the time I was halfway to class it was starting to snow. The mass of robins who are always imperiously stomping around the field looked just as confused as I probably did. Couldn't help but start laughing at myself and managed to forget the constant peril of muddy slippiness while jumping after the snowflakes. By the time I made it to class (late) my hair was frosted with snow.....
During lunch the sky went from rain to clear and back again, as we walked from one building to another it started to rain, then sleet, then snow, then was sunny, then was raining again.....
After class I hit the trees behind my house and realized, I can decide to love it here. I can decide to immerse my spirit in the things I love about the pacific northwest and set aside my lust for the bay and for far off countries of beautiful people and warm waters and red earth for this brief time that I am here.

I love that I can walk out my front door straight into the forest and wander through giant trees for hours. I love that I can skloosh through mud with sword ferns brushing against my face and pick my salad growing wild. I love that I live right next to a beach that's a fucking NATURE PRESERVE, that I can walk across a field of live oysters, the size of my palm yet they can bear my weight as I dance on the uneven ground. I love the caves formed by massive roots in the hillside floored with the only sand on the beach, sand washed down from the hills instead of up from the waves, and I love all the stone art tucked away in those caves, and I love the geoducks that bless my feet with holy water as I walk across their sky, and I love the loons, and those funny birds whose names I do not know whose wings sound like squeaky hinges when they fly. I love waking up and looking out the window to see deer on their hind legs gnawing ivy off of trees. I love the fucking crazy weather. I love when I'm caught up in foolish worry and look up to see an eagle gliding by overhead and snap back to the present thinking hey, I can do that too! I love being surrounded by crazy feminist activists and the powerful community of women I have found myself in.

So. I'm going to try and focus on what's here, while I'm here, instead of on what isn't here. Because I'm going to be here until June and I'm not going to change that.

But Jesus. I get to live in a rainforest!

LMAO

Type "miserable failure" into Google's "I'm feeling lucky" search.

It will take you directly to the White House's biography of George W. Bush.

No joke.