Tacoma SDS

Project Earth, a student-led environmental group at UWT, will be hosting Ecuadorian activist Leonardo Cerda. Leonardo Cerda is running a campaign to raise awareness about food sovereignty, indigenous resistance, and local cooperatives in the areas around the Amazon River. Cerda has been active in the environmental movement since age 14, and his story of activism will be an inspiration for people interested in climate change.

Activist poet David Smith-Ferri, whose newly released book, Battlefield without Borders (Haley’s Publishing), portrays his encounters with Iraqi people and the events that have shaped their lives over the last eight years will appear at King’s Books, 218 St. Helens Ave., Tacoma on Friday, February 29th at 7pm. He will be giving a multimedia presentation, with poetry and slideshow from trips to Iraq and Jordan. Through poetry, stories, and slides, Smith-Ferri will attempt to bring the people he has met into our presence.

A new breed of struggle is flowering in the Northwest anti-war movement. Its aim: to stop public ports from being used for export of war materials. Activists in Washington state are evolving from demonstrators and lobbyists into direct actors against the war masters, blocking streets and facing arrest as needed.