Tacoma SDS

There have been 5 meetings now on confronting attacks on Free Speech by police
authorities in Tacoma and Pierce County. Many have been disturbed by progressively
worse and blatant harassment, arbitrary arrests and unnecessary violence against
citizens engaged in 1st Amendment activity. Now is the time to make a principled
stand and reopen our political space.

The next meeting will take place at 6:30 PM. Tuesday (11/11) at:
Tully's Coffee - www.tullys.com
764 Broadway, Tacoma

PLEASE ATTEND AND SUPPORT THIS IMPORTANT STRUGGLE.

Further background:

On Wednesday, May 21st the Olympia chapter of Students for a Democratic Society will hold a rally for free speech leading up to our last and final appeal with The Evergreen State College administration regarding our student group’s suspension. The rally will start at 3pm in Red Square at Evergreen. All community members are welcome to attend this. Now is the perfect time that our comrades, allies and supporters from Olympia, Cascadia, the US of A and beyond put pressure on the Evergreen administration to reinstate SDS as a student group, with full funding, complete rights and no strings attached.

Four protesters were arrested and charged with "disorderly conduct" after members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) staged a mock-raid with Jason Hurd, member of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW).

Comrades and dear Friends, I write to you tonight to relay the events that have been curiously unfolding at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, over past thirty-six hours. On Tuesday morning, February 12th, the widely-popular and progressive Gene R. Nichol, President of the College, tendered his resignation, following a decision by the Board of Visitors to not renew his contract (set to expire at the end of the academic year).

Joe La Sac will be speaking at King's Books, 218 St. Helens Ave., Tacoma, WA at 7 pm on Friday, January 19th. He will be part of a speaker's series that is being produced by United for Peace of Pierce County, and sponsored by King's Books.

Note: The corporate media is framing this story with even more vile police spin than usual.
Example (Washington Post title): "Aiming to Agitate, Florida Student Got a Shock"

Tacoma SDS presents Radical Film Night each Friday at 7:30 PM at 808 N. Union (across from the University of Puget Sound).

Showing October 12, Berkeley in the Sixties (1990)

This fast-paced documentary captures the decade's major events -- the birth of the Free Speech Movement, civil rights marches, anti-Vietnam War protests, the women's movement, and the rise of the Black Panthers -- with their full immediacy and passion. Dramatic archival footage and music is interwoven with present-day interviews with the people who gave the 60s its radical reputation.