Posts by adminsusan
Thurston-Santo Tomás Sister County Association, Olympia WA and Santo Tomás, Nicaragua
Thurston Santo Tomás Sister County Association PO Box 561, Olympia WA 98507 (360) 943-8642 Olympia’s sister city relationship with Santo Tomás, Chontales, Nicaragua, has its roots in the era of the Contra War in the 1980s. It strives to engender peace and heal the effects of U.S. aggression and economic oppression through people-to-people exchanges and…
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Olive Tree ~ Carrie Ziegler with Darien Brown, Alicia Martinson
http://imeu.net/news/article006919.shtml PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTIST BIOS Hitham I. Kayali, This Week in Palestine, Nov 4, 2000 The Israeli occupation has specifically targeted this plant due to its symbol of identity for Palestinians and its economic benefits. Since the second Intifada, more than half a million olive trees have been uprooted from Palestinian lands. Palestinian…
Read More800 Ceramic Leaves: Olympia Community and Youth, Facilitated by Holly Graham, Erin Genia and Alicia Martinson; Produced by Marion Pollman
Tile Workshops and Participants -2008 Spring Arts Walk -2008 Mothers Day @ Traditions -2008 YMCA Eco- Jam Conference -June 13th, 2008 – Tiles painted at McLane Elementary School by 5th grade classes of teachers Steve Eggleston and Hilary Davis, facilitated by Librarian Nancy Hamilton. -June 25, 2008 – Tiles with members of the Olympia Storyteller’s…
Read MorePalestine Community Network
Image coming soon Palestine: One Land, One People, One Destiny Second Palestinian Popular Conference: Together, Restoring our National Institutions, Reclaiming our Rights, Empowering our Community October 29-31, 2010 The Westin Chicago Northwest 400 Park Boulevard Itasca, IL 60143 (10 minutes from Woodfield Mall; 25 minutes from O’Hare Airport) http://palestineconference.org/wp/ http://popular.palestineconference.org/about/ The US Palestinian Community Network…
Read MoreJohn Halaka
http://www.johnhalaka.com/ Artist Statement I consider myself an activist artist whose creative work serves as a vehicle for meditation on personal, cultural and political concerns. I create allegorical images in my paintings and present personal narratives in my films, in order to raise questions, for myself as well as for the viewer, about some of the…
Read MoreNipponzan Buddhist Temple
l http://www.dharmawalk.org/ http://nichirenscoffeehouse.net/directory/U-W.html http://faculty.washington.edu/kendo/myohoji.html http://katzjustice.com/DojoDC.htm INTRODUCTION TO NIPPONZAN MYOHOJI Nipponzan Myohoji was founded by the Most Venerable Nichidatsu Fujii, known as “Fujii Guruji”. He was born on August 6, 1885 in Japan, and was ordained a Buddhist monk of the Nichiren sect when he was seventeen years old. Until the age of thirty-one years, Fujii…
Read MoreJoe Sacco
Please Click to enlarge http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=267&Itemid=82 Interview: Joe Sacco By Laila El-Haddad Ajazeera.Net When it comes to the world of cartooning, Joe Sacco is considered a luminary. Sacco, who is hailed as the creator of war-reportage comics, is the author of such award-winning books as Palestine and Safe Area Gorazde. His latest work, Footnotes in…
Read MorePeter Schumann of Bread and Puppet Theater
http://breadandpuppet.org Cheap Art Philosophy The Cheap Art movement was launched in 1982 by the Bread and Puppet Theater in direct response to the business of art and its growing appropriation by the corporate sector. With this fact taken into account art becomes: “political whether you like it or not…” Cheap Art hopes to reestablish the…
Read MoreRichard Castaneda
http://www.richardcastaneda.com/ Richard Castaneda’s work exhibits the uneasy tension of cultural identity, living within a paradoxical paradigm of what it is to be “Native American” in a pan-American landscape. His personal experiences as a Pima Indian roaming to and from his reservation and observing everything else in between, informs his art and cultural perspective. As a…
Read MoreHOMEY, SF, CA
http://www.homeysf.org/ What is HOMEY’s? The mission of HOMEY remains to transform the lives of at-risk youth and community members in San Francisco, inspiring them to not only choose a path of education, self-sufficiency and non-violence, but to also strive towards stability in their physical, mental and emotional well-being. HOMEY fulfills its mission by providing participants…
Read MoreEGYHOP Emma Goldman Youth and Homeless Outreach Project
Egyhop Audio The intention of this piece is to provide a permanent visual of what our group does every night. The outreach worker on the bike is anonymous, because the cart and bike speak for themselves about the work EGYHOP does, and are the most easily recognized parts of our organization. Ask anyone downtown about…
Read MoreThe Resurrection of Wesley Everest, Mural Centralia WA
Agitprop News: Special Centralia IWW Mural Issus (text below) http://www.kclabor.org/artcreatenewlabor.htm Labor Advocate Online Art Can Help Create a New Labor Movement The following article is based on a speech by Mike Alewitz, Artistic Director of the Labor Art and Mural Project (LAMP.) It was delivered to the Collective Bargaining Convention (CBC) of the American Association…
Read MoreORSMP at the US SOCIAL FORUM~ A THOUSAND PALESTINE SOLIDARITY TREES BY 2011
"The Mural Speaks", Dedication, May 8th 2010
Please Click on Image to see Entire Image THE MURAL SPEAKS- Video #1 THE MURAL SPEAKS- Video #2 May 8th 2010, The Mural Speaks The Olympia Rafah Solidarity Mural Project was formally dedicated and celebrated with music, dance, spoken word, poetry and tasty snacks. Hundreds gathered on the corner of State and Capital streets to…
Read MoreBreak the Silence Mural and Art Project, USA
www.breakthesilencearts.org BTS works across movements- using culture to create alliances as well as perceptual ‘ruptures’ or ‘disturbances’ wherein people have the opportunity to see connections that they had not seen before, and to imagine new possibilities. BTS works in partnership with a wide range of organizations, from mental health programs in Gaza, to environmental organizations,…
Read MoreLeonard Peltier
http://www.freepeltiernow.org/welcome.htm Peltier audio Leonard Peltier An innocent man, Leonard Peltier was wrongfully convicted in 1977 and has served over 30 years in federal prison despite proof of his innocence�also despite proof that he was convicted on the basis of fabricated and suppressed evidence, as well as coerced testimony. The United States Courts of Appeal have…
Read MoreIBDAA, West Bank, Palestine
IBDAA- To Make Something Out of Nothing Image by Jos Sances, http://www.josart.net/ From Wikipedia with additions: The Ibdaa Cultural Center is a grassroots community-based project in the West Bank‘s Palestinian Dheisheh refugee camp. The name, “Ibdaa,” (ابداع) is translated from Arabic as “creation” or “creative ability” – “To Make Something Out of Nothing.” Since being…
Read MoreBreaking the Silence, Israel
http://www.shovrimshtika.org/index_e.asp Breaking the Silence is an organization of veteran Israeli soldiers that collects testimonies of soldiers who served in the Occupied Territories during the Second Intifadah. Soldiers who serve in the Territories are witness to, and participate in military actions which change them immensely. Cases of abuse towards Palestinians, looting, and destruction of property have…
Read MoreRachel Corrie Center for Children and Youth, Gaza, Palestine
Participant information coming soon.
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