#Evergreen State College | Olympia | Washington

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According to Reports, Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington is The First University in The US to Fully Divest From “The Terrorist, Fascist, Apartheid, Illegal Occupier of Palestine, Genocidal, War Criminal, Illegal Regime of The Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 Isra-hell.” This Comes After Weeks of Encampment on Its Premises.

#News 🗞️ #Islam ☪️ Channel #“The Terrorist | Fascist |Apartheid | Illegal Occupier of Palestine | War Criminal | Illegal Regime of The Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 Isra-hell.” #Divest #Evergreen State College | Olympia | Washington #First University to Divest | The US 🇺🇸 #Encampment

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Yellow-Bordered Taildropper Slug

#artists on tumblr #original photographers #original photography #hiking #pacific northwest #nature #nikon #washington #pnw #orofeaiel #wildlife #yellow-bordered taildropper #slug #macro photography #forest friends #goblincore #naturecore #olympia #evergreen state college

[shipwreckedcrow]

For those that know.

A memorandum of understanding (MOU) to create a disappearing task force (DTF) in a university for divesting from Zionist supporting companies...

Is not the same as Divesting.

#gse #student encampments #evergreen state college #divest #bds #boycott #Washington #Olympia

[foulwitchknight]

#Evergreen State College #washington state #Olympia #divestment #student protests #student intifada #pro palestine #academia

[intersectionalpraxis]

"Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington becomes the first University in the US to fully divest from Israel." [@/CallForCongress on X. May 3, 2024.]

#feminist #social justice #free palestine #palestine #free gaza #freepalastine🇵🇸 #current events #current news #rachel corrie #united states #washington #evergreen state college

[radicalgraff]

Palestine solidarity graffiti seen in Evergreen state college, Olympia, Washington

#graffiti #graff #free Palestine #vandalism

[tempogrotto]

Can bear this babe showed

up after I left, but sure

she’s looking for me!

#bear #olympia #the evergreen state college #black bear #washington state

[felidthing]

WASHINGTON: Support needed for solidarity encampment april 30th

if youre in the olympia area or can get there, the evergreen state college's gaza solidarity encampment is having a rally at 11am, april 30th. the police have threatened to sweep multiple times, but the camp has negotiated for extensions. the next extension was made for 24 hours, approximately 5pm, april 30th.

the camp's main demand is for the school to divest from boeing and caterpillar inc., companies that profit from war on palestine and do direct harm. the cooper point journal (evergreen's student paper) has been reporting on the encampment and theyre who i trust most on info about this.

website: cooperpointjournal.com

instagram: @/yourcpj

please show up to the evergreen state college red square (address: Red Square, Olympia, WA 98505 || 2700 Evergreen Pkwy NW, Olympia, WA 98505) and support the encampment, support their demands, show support for palestine.

#posts #palestine #free palestine #solidarity encampments #id in alt

[generaterandom]

There’s a special kind of hatred reserved for people who are just like you.

In other news: I’m selling at a con this weekend!! If you’re in the Pacific Northwest and you’re free on Saturday, May 25th, come see me at Chibi Chibi Con! It’s an entirely free one-day convention at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. I’ll be selling this piece along with a bunch of other goodies! I hope I’ll get to see you there!

ID in alt

#generate random art #biiiiiig self promo moment but hey! that’s what the internet is for #or something #anyways #yttd #your turn to die #sara chidouin #shin tsukimi #yttd sara #yttd shin #sou hiyori #yttd sou #self promo

[typicalbrainchaos]

Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, becomes the first university in the U.S. to fully divest from Israel.

This was Rachel Corrie’s school.

“The Evergreen State College has agreed to create an “Investment Policy Disappearing Task Force” by the end of this Spring quarter, which will address “divestment from companies that profit from gross human rights violations and/or the occupation of Palestinian Territories.” Their findings will be used in the implementation of a divestment policy “to begin during Spring Quarter 2025 and completed by Spring 2026.”

[…]

“The College has agreed to make a historic statement, one that includes respecting the March 25th United Nations resolutions call for a “lasting, sustainable ceasefire.” The statement will also need to include

“an acknowledgment of the ICJ’s genocide investigation and comments about US weaponry,” which will be unprecedented in college ceasefire statements.”

#free gaza #gaza #free palestine #palestine #gazaunderattack #gaza strip #fucking hell #save gaza #freepalastine🇵🇸 #idf #evergreen #evergreen state college #rachel corrie #usa universities #usa news #usa #imperialism

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Brad Woodfin's "The Rising Tide."

Currently on view at Antler Gallery in Portland, Oregon is artist Brad Woodfin's solo exhibition, "The Rising Tide."

Brad was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts in 1970. He moved to Olympia, Washington in 1991 to study printmaking and painting at The Evergreen State College. His work has been featured in solo shows in New York, Vancouver, Calgary, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Melbourne, as well as group shows and art fairs in Hamburg, London, Miami, New York and Melbourne. Brad lives and works in Montreal.

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#art #painting #brad woodfin #antler gallery

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Gabrielle Canon at The Guardian:

For about a week, the cluster of tents raised by students at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, stood in solidarity with Palestinian civilians in Gaza and with students protesting at other campuses across the US. Then, on Tuesday, the tents quietly vanished from the grassy quad at the heart of campus. There were no riot-gear-clad crackdowns from police and no assaults from masked groups to spur disbandment. Instead, Brown chose a different path: it negotiated. While semesters at other schools speed toward a violent close – complete with canceled classes and commencement celebrations, scenes of brutal yet unsuccessful attempts at quelling the protests, and aggression from opposing groups that has heightened already inflamed tensions – Brown is one of several universities that have sought a more amicable solution.

Northwestern University in Illinois, the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, Rutgers University at New Brunswick in New Jersey and the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis have also brokered agreements with students, while others, including Wesleyan in Connecticut and the University of California at Berkeley, have allowed the protest encampments to continue. . The outcomes from these divergent approaches remain uncertain; while some of the more extreme examples of suppression have been met with public shock and condemnation, protests have persisted. At Brown, students who agreed to dismantle their demonstration in exchange for a seat at the table in an upcoming meeting with the Corporation of Brown University did so knowing that a satisfying answer to protesters’ demands for divestment is far from a guarantee.

But the movement, which erupted in response to a conflict thousands of miles away, has brought one closer to home into sharper focus. The protests in support of Gaza are testing the bounds of students’ rights to free speech and shining a spotlight on the deepening political divides over the culture on college campuses. “Students are pointing out contradictions between being asked to be free thinkers and then finding themselves challenged when they think they are thinking freely,” said Dr Manual Pastor, a professor and the director of the Equity Research Institute at the University of Southern California, whose research focuses on the power of social movements.

Schools have long grappled with this balancing act, both encouraging diverse perspectives and limiting its expression in the name of safety. But these simmering tensions have come to a boil as political divides widen.

Since the start of the protests on campus last fall, conservatives have argued they’re a symbol of how an “out-of-control left” has come to dominate US campuses. It’s an issue the GOP-led House has pursued with vigor, launching an investigation into federal funding for schools where protests have lingered, and scrutinizing presidents of some of America’s most prestigious universities whom they allege have allowed an escalation in antisemitism. That intense scrutiny, and the response of prominent university donors, has incentivized some schools to take a heavier hand, Pastor said. In December, the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard were forced to resign after a heated hearing on their actions to limit pro-Palestinian protests. The president of Columbia University, Minouche Shafik, who was called to testify in April, vowed to take a strong approach. The next day, she unleashed swarms of New York police department (NYPD) officers on student protesters. Meanwhile, tensions on campuses have only intensified. That’s why some universities have tried to use this moment as an opportunity, choosing to foster dialogues around the emotionally fraught issue rather than trying to remove it with force.

[...] As the semester draws to a close, it’s also not a sure thing the encampment will be allowed to continue. Security at the school is keeping a close watch, Mogulof said, and is ready to step in if they deem campus life is being disrupted. Other schools that first prioritized dialogue have shifted course. Dartmouth, an Ivy League university in New Hampshire, scheduled several events and discussions in recent months discussing the situation in the Middle East. But on Wednesday, soon after the first tents of a protest encampment were raised, officers from the Hanover police department cleared the site, arresting 90 people including history professor Annelise Orleck, a former chair of the school’s Jewish studies department who has taught at the school for 34 years. And, some protesters have succeeded in getting their calls answered. The Evergreen State College agreed on Tuesday to set up a task force that will map out its “divestment from companies that profit from gross human rights violations and/or the occupation of Palestinian territories”. Meanwhile, the cause aligning these protesters across the country has largely been lost in the rhetoric over whether their tactics are wrong or right. While crackdowns against student protesters feed the news cycle, updates about the carnage that continues in Gaza has been pushed to the background.

The Guardian takes a look at the campuses that are allowing Gaza Solidarity Encampments and negotiations with dialogue-- rather than heavy-handed enforcement and arrests-- as the way to tackle the role of funding Israel Apartheid, such as Brown University.

#Ceasefire NOW Protests #Colleges #Gaza Solidary Encampments #Gaza Genocide #Israel/Hamas War #Campus Protests #Israel/Hamas War Protests

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Happy Holidays from the Forest 🎄

#artists on tumblr #original photographers #original photography #hiking #pacific northwest #nature #nikon #washington #pnw #orofeaiel #happy holidays #forest #landscape #fog #foggy #christmas tree #olympia #evergreen state college #festive #tree

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Rachel Corrie - March 16, 2003, Rafah

Corrie was born in Washington state (US) in 1979. After graduating from Capital High School, Corrie went on to attend The Evergreen State College. She took a year off from her studies to work as a volunteer in the Washington State Conservation Corps, where she spent three years making weekly visits to mental patients.

While at Evergreen State College she became a "committed peace activist" arranging peace events through a local group called "Olympians for Peace and Solidarity". She later joined the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) organisation in order to protest the policies of the Israeli army in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

She had gone to Gaza as part of her college's senior-year independent-study proposal to connect Olympia and Rafah with each other as sister cities. While in Rafah on 16 March 2003, she joined other ISM activists in efforts to prevent Israel's demolition of Palestinian property, where she was crushed to death and killed by an Israeli bulldozer.

Following the incident, the Israeli military investigated itself and found that Corrie's death was the result of an accident due to the cab's alleged limited visibility.

In 2005, Corrie's parents filed a civil lawsuit, charging the Israeli state with not conducting a full and credible investigation into the case and therefore holding responsibility for her death. However, an Israeli court rejected their suit in August 2012 and upheld the results of the military's investigation, ruling that the Israeli government was not responsible for Corrie's death.

An appeal against this ruling was heard on May 21, 2014, but was ultimately rejected by the Supreme Court of Israel on February 14, 2015.

RIP

#ideas #my screenshots #screenshot #thoughts #life #change #mindset #Washington #washington state #Olympia #Amanda Corrie #human rights #Gaza #rafah #Israel #IDF #Palestine #Palestinians #March #2003 #remember #martyr #orange vest

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A-T-2 237 Supreme Cool Beings - Who's That?

The first release on Calvin Johnson's influential K Records. Distributed on cassette Survival Of The Coolest was recorded from a live Evergreen State College KAOS-FM broadcast on Calvin's show "Boy Meets Girl" in the Olympia area of Washington. K Records was initially founded purely to support and distribute this recording of Olympia band Supreme Cool Beings... until 1983

#1982 #Supreme Cool Beings #indie pop #k records #calvin johnson #Olympia #washington #usa #80s music #everyday #record collector #cassette #Youtube

[commodifyme]

what classes do you recommend taking at the evergreen state university in olympia washington?

what an excellent question that really helps me see how much the work i've put into creating a recognizable brand has paid off! it's genuinely exciting to me every time one of you messages me saying you're considering evergreen for college or that you chose it as your college because you heard me talk about it on the podcast.

anyway, don't know how far you are into your research or admission journey so this might be something you know already, but technically evergreen doesn't have classes. it has "programs" which are like classes, but if you're a full time student you usually only get to take one at time (or two maximum if you are like i was as a student and broke/insane). and there's usually more than one professor teaching it but not always. it seems like since i graduated there are more normal sized classes, but idk why you would want to do that if you're already at evergreen. go big or go home.

it has been some years since i was a student but this was at least true when i was: the professors teaching the program make more of a difference to your experience than the actual subject material. you're going to be in seminar 2-3 days out of the week, you want someone who knows how to organize and facilitate group discussions where your classmates actually use those multi-hour blocks to talk about the reading. i was often afflicted by classmates who not only refused to do the reading, but also insisted on taking up valuable airtime going into long-ass hypothetical scenarios or initiating debates about the "inaccessibility" of said reading in order to distract from how they hadn't actually read it to even know whether or not it was accessible.

fortunately this was mostly curtailed by the faculty teaching my classes! shout out to them. if you're a first year student, i would also avoid the social justice-y themed stuff until at least after your first quarter so you can scope out which professors know how to hold their own in a classroom that will contain at least one person with the most ridiculous beliefs you've ever encountered in your life.

it doesn't look like professor eirik steinhoff (who deserves all credit and all thanks from me for all time) is teaching anything this fall but i will always recommend him before anyone else, regardless of your area of interest.

i did peep the academic catalogue, so in no order, here are some that look interesting to me or with faculty i can vouch for. i'm assuming you're asking for fall! sorry if you aren't. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

#big soy naturals