Tacoma SDS

The Battle of Khimki
Wednesday, August 25th 7PM at M11

The Battle of Khimki: Russian anarchists take on fascists, the
government & the mafia in the fight to stop a highway.

Ecologists, anarchists, and antifascists in Russia have been fighting
to stop a new toll highway from being built between Moscow and St.
Petersburg. A reroute of the highway will destroy a forest near the
town of Khimki, outside of Moscow, where governmental and private
figures stand to profit handsomely off the selling of land and the
building of commercial centers along the highway.

Beyond Patriarchy is a gathering intended to provide information, support, and healing surrounding all forms of oppression through a radical and feminist perspective. Patriarchy is a system of domination which privileges masculinity and enforces strict, exclusive, and unequal gender roles, and which interlocks with racism,homophobia, transphobia, ablism, xenophobia, and all other forms of oppression. Patriarchy affects people of all genders in our interpersonal relationships and everyday lives.

March called to show solidarity with those charged for 2007 Women's
Action at the Port of Olympia.

Labor Day 2008
Monday, September 1

The Pierce County Central Labor Council will conduct a 10:30 a.m. memorial service at the gravesite of IWW labor activist and songwriter Ralph Chaplin to celebrate his life and accomplishments. Chaplin is most well known for writing the song "Solidarity Forever." Chaplin's grave is located at Calgary Cemetery, 5212 70th Ave. West.

Fore more info contact the Pierce County Central Labor Council
3049 S. 36th St. #201
Tacoma, WA 98409
253.473.3810
pcclc@pcclc.org

Three Seattle activists and one Portland activist involved with Team Victory, FNB, SSN, SDS and other projects also arrested yesterday at the DNC demonstrations in Denver. They are Marianne, Nicole, Rik (from Seattle) and Scott (from Portland). Charges include interference, failure to disperse, disobeying an officer, as well as other more questionable charges including loitering, begging, and throwing missiles.

Bond set at $530 each and three are out as of 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. Please contact 206-600-1473 for more updates

Three Olympia activists and one Portland activist who have been involved with PMR and SDS at one point or another and groups and community organizing projects too numerous to list were arrested yesterday at the DNC demonstrations in Denver. They are Wally Cuddeford, Lillia Lassiter, Jeff Berryhill and Mary Sackley (from Portland). They were each charged with several offenses, including loitering, interfering with police, etc.

The bail is $530 each and we already have a few hundred. If they are not bailed out, they will remain in the Denver jail until September 2nd or 3rd. Please, please call Kelly Beckham if you can help out in any way. We need money. 360-561-6568

tear it down

Women for peace bicycle ride continues in Syria
The Associated Press
Published: May 6, 2008

DAMASCUS, Syria: Some 300 women activists from 28 countries have begun the second leg of a 12-day bicycle ride in what has become a yearly event to campaign for peace and highlight the plight of Arab women.

The riders from the "Follow the Women" organization left Damascus on Tuesday and will travel to Jordan before ending in the Palestinian territories on May 14. The women began their journey in the Lebanese capital of Beirut on May 3.

Poor People's Solidarity Needed:
Attend Tacoma City Council on May 6 and let them know the King Shelter is a valuable community resource!

Tacoma-Olympia Mayday Calendar 2008: NOTE: UPDATED

OLYMPIA:
Noon Mayday Rally —Sylvester Park (Legion & Capitol Way, Oly)
2 PM Olympia March

TACOMA: (NOTE: UPDATED)
7 PM Working Families, Not War program—1911 Pacific Ave. Washington State History Museum, Tacoma
8:30 PM Candle-light Vigil at Federal Courthouse, 1717 Pacific Ave.

Background:

PRESS RELEASE: POLICE BRUTALITY AT KNOLL AID.
Today a peaceful celebration in defence of public space at [the University of British Columbia] was violently quashed by the RCMP. This press release was written on April 5th at 1 a.m. with limited available information. All the events discussed herein have been either captured by camera or can be corroborated by multiple eyewitness accounts.