Tacoma SDS

Bush to visit Bellevue to raise funds for Dave Reichert.

You Are Cordially Invited To A Reception Featuring President George W. Bush honoring Congressman Dave Reichert

Monday, August 27, 2007
Hyatt Regency Bellevue
Grand Ballroom
900 Bellevue Way NE
Bellevue, WA 98004

Donor Registration Opens at 2:00 p.m.
Donor Registration Closes at 3:00 p.m.

We are encouraging folks to start getting set up and in place around NOON to avoid police road closures, sidewalk closures and traffic. Be prepared to stay until 4pm...

Tacoma Sixth Avenue Business District invites you to Labor Day Coffee & Conversation at Origin 23 (Firehouse Coffee), 3518 Sixth Avenue and Union Avenue, Tacoma.

Michael Honey, University of Washington, Tacoma, Haley Professor of Humanities, will speak on his acclaimed new book Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign (New York: WW Norton, 2007), and current race and labor relations.

Critical Mass in Tacoma! Critical Mass is a fun bike ride to promote riding bicycles as an alternative to driving cars. Dress up, decorate your bike, wear a helmet, and bring lights in case you're out after dark! Every last Friday of the month, 5:30 pm. Meet at the S. I Street and 6th Avenue corner of Wright Park in Tacoma.

The Pierce County Chapter of the ACLU presents Ronald Magden, a retired Tacoma Community College professor. Dr. Magden will be speaking at the Tacoma Public Library. He has been described as a Tacoma historian, labor historian, maritime historian, and expert on West Coast port matters. He was an original faculty member at Tacoma Community College and the author of books such as Furusato: Tacoma-Pierce County Japanese, 1888-1977.

Olympic Room. Tacoma Public Library
1102 Tacoma Ave. S.
Tacoma, WA

For more information, contact pierce@local.aclu-wa.org

Last week, Congressman Brian Baird announced his position switch on the occupation of Iraq. Following a recent trip to the region (his 5th), he has gone from opposing the 'surge' to supporting it (thru next Spring).

Last week in Vancouver over 500 attended a Baird town hall meeting, the overwhelming majority were vehemenently opposed to his position switch.

In Longview, hundreds attended a similar public meeting with similar results. Why didn't Brian Baird hold a public meeting in Olympia? We think we know why.

All are welcome to attend the regular meetings of Tacoma SDS.

Mondays at 8pm
3rd floor of the Library in the McCormick Room
University of Puget Sound

Independent journalist Karen Button will be at UPS on September 11, 2007, 6:30pm to 8:00pm in Rausch Auditorium at the Univeristy of Puget Sound, to talk about the massive Iraqi exodus and the resulting humanitarian crisis in
Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. She will also talk about effects of the
Iraqi Diaspora on the region, as well as touch on Lebanon's recovery from
last year's war. Her talk will be followed by a Q&A/discussion.