Some direct asks from Deschutes residents:
Donate to the gofundme we have set up at the request of our friends who live at the encampment. They are requesting funds for accommodations while they figure out where to go next. All money will go directly to those who are being evicted on the 8th.
Call the Olympia City Council, City Manager Jay Burney, and Governor Inslee and demand they halt the sweep.
Script
“Hello, I am a City of Olympia resident and I demand you halt the eviction of the Deschutes encampment on December 8th. It is violent and murderous to remove people from the only shelter they have in the middle of both winter and the double pandemic of the coronavirus and opioid crisis without providing adequate accommodations for them. If you do not have the resources to house people, do not remove them from the only housing they have.”
Jay Burney (360) 239-7331
Cheryl Selby (360) 280-0972
Jay Inslee (360) 902-4111 dial 3 to speak with staff person
City Council Office (360) 753-8447
Donate to the gofundme we have set up at the request of our friends who live at the encampment. They are requesting funds for accommodations while they figure out where to go next. All money will go directly to those who are being evicted on the 8th.
Call the Olympia City Council, City Manager Jay Burney, and Governor Inslee and demand they halt the sweep.
Script
“Hello, I am a City of Olympia resident and I demand you halt the eviction of the Deschutes encampment on December 8th. It is violent and murderous to remove people from the only shelter they have in the middle of both winter and the double pandemic of the coronavirus and opioid crisis without providing adequate accommodations for them. If you do not have the resources to house people, do not remove them from the only housing they have.”
Jay Burney (360) 239-7331
Cheryl Selby (360) 280-0972
Jay Inslee (360) 902-4111 dial 3 to speak with staff person
City Council Office (360) 753-8447
New doxx of seattle patriot front members just dropped - the same ppl who have been tagging and stickering in Olympia
https://wanaziwatch.com/james-julius-johnson/
https://wanaziwatch.com/james-julius-johnson/
Dropping off some zines at free libraries around town. This drop is @ the west central park one. Ft some stickers
Took a break from our Regular Distro Shit to get some hot food to people who earlier today were displaced by the city so they can have a "clean downtown" for their yuppie ridden winter shopping festival.
But more important than us doing this is that YOU, dear reader, could also do it! Fuck the city, fuck the useless ass nonprofits.
Feed people, make friends, keep olympia ugly and dangerous (A)
But more important than us doing this is that YOU, dear reader, could also do it! Fuck the city, fuck the useless ass nonprofits.
Feed people, make friends, keep olympia ugly and dangerous (A)
And of course, remember that while stuff like this is always important and good, it's a bandaid to larger problems and these acts of (lets be honest not mutual) aid are wholly insufficient. Anarchists especially need to remember we are not service providers and our strength lies in building connections with people and giving them the support & resources to support themselves and fight their own fights on their own terms. There are other options than being on the receiving end of limited aid that you don't control and there is a dire need to open that path up.
Big ass fire downtown destroyed a development owned by Walker John (of Urban Olympia), a developer who owns like half of Olympia and is one of the big pushers for "revitalization" (gentrification)
A bunch of other businesses got got too.
No one was hurt in the fires, tho unfortunately it sounds like two families were displaced by the fire.
#FireToTheGentrifiers
A bunch of other businesses got got too.
No one was hurt in the fires, tho unfortunately it sounds like two families were displaced by the fire.
#FireToTheGentrifiers
Re: local anti abortion organizing.
Besides various companies that have donated to anti-abortion legislation being in Olympia/Lacey/Tumwater (Amazon, AT&T, Version, Wallgreens, Wells Fargo, etc) https://popular.info/p/these-13-corporations-have-spent
The local Catholic churches Sacred Heart, Saint George, and Saint Michaels Parish are all affiliated with the Knights of Columbus. KoC do anti-abortion organizing all around the country and locally support and help organize the yearly March for Life at the capitol. Besides these churches they have a hall - Columbian Hall (6794 Martin Way E) which they make money from through renting it out.
There is also a "pregnancy crisis center" in olympia - a place designed to trick people in crisis and discourage them from accessing abortion services. It is Options Pregnancy Clinic at 135 Lilly Rd NE.
This is just a preliminary look into this. There are multiple other groups and churches in the area that are most likely affiliated with anti-abortion organizing.
Besides various companies that have donated to anti-abortion legislation being in Olympia/Lacey/Tumwater (Amazon, AT&T, Version, Wallgreens, Wells Fargo, etc) https://popular.info/p/these-13-corporations-have-spent
The local Catholic churches Sacred Heart, Saint George, and Saint Michaels Parish are all affiliated with the Knights of Columbus. KoC do anti-abortion organizing all around the country and locally support and help organize the yearly March for Life at the capitol. Besides these churches they have a hall - Columbian Hall (6794 Martin Way E) which they make money from through renting it out.
There is also a "pregnancy crisis center" in olympia - a place designed to trick people in crisis and discourage them from accessing abortion services. It is Options Pregnancy Clinic at 135 Lilly Rd NE.
This is just a preliminary look into this. There are multiple other groups and churches in the area that are most likely affiliated with anti-abortion organizing.
OlyPD is getting body cameras. The continued normalization and encroachment of surviellance into the 'public sphere' 24/7 as well as giving the police more funding and equipment to incarcerate people needs to be actively opposed on the one hand by spreading education about how expanded police and surveillance effects us all, and on the other making opposition loud and undeniable with the long term goal of helping people develop the connections, courage, and skills to kick the police out of our neighborhoods
Oly anarchists struck at 4 anti-abortion churches.
https://pugetsoundanarchists.org/olympia-attack-on-4-anti-abortion-churches/
https://pugetsoundanarchists.org/olympia-attack-on-4-anti-abortion-churches/