One Moment of Successful Activism – Ramona Bennett
Imagine my surprise when I heard myself read into the Congressional Record as one of the nine most radical, militant, bloodthirsty Indians in the country. I was the only woman to make the list.
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Hard Rain Printing Collective – Part 2 – By Don Martin
We had been in the Division Street shop for a couple of years. Struggling, cold, and damp. Honing our skills. Learning from mistakes. We learned about printing standards and the allowable percentage of flawed prints or undercounts. We paid dues to the Graphic Arts International Union, in support of workers in the trade. It meant we could print a “union bug” on our work.
Part 2: Joining the Faculty at Evergreen – By Llyn De Danaan
SCHOOL Part 2: Joining the Faculty at Evergreen By Llyn De Danaan (Continued from Part 1: Finding My Place in the Universe)
Goodbye to Richard Nixon – 1974 – By Steven Kant
VIGNETTES Goodbye to Richard Nixon – 1974 By Steven Kant
Hard Rain Printing Collective Part 1 – By Don Martin
Indeed, it was the concept of workers seizing the means of production that inspired Grace and me to investigate the idea of running a worker-owned print shop. In the days before cell phones and the internet, print media was how we communicated, how we announced our events and rallies and theatrical productions, how we debated political change. We wanted to be pamphleteers. Thomas Paine and the Wobblies were our inspiration.
Topless Inventory – By Beth Hartmann
There was a new rule at the co-op. It was a warm summer, and men were regularly coming into the store without shirts on. Now this was troublesome for some of the women who saw inequality and male privilege in this display.
Fleeing Minnesota and Coming to Olympia- By Pat Holm
I don’t believe we thought we were being radical by starting a coffeehouse. What was radical was our politics and being hippies from Seattle. We had all lived at and attended the University of Washington . . . and coffeehouses were a big thing in the U District among students and faculty. Olympia was a small conservative town in 1964. Family life dominated. Churches were the main place people had for gathering. Saint Martin’s College was here but it had nothing like a coffeehouse. The four of us created the Null Set coffeehouse, but we couldn’t have done it without the support and backing of the Unitarian Fellowship.
Car-Nation – By Pat Holm
I was a puppeteer for many years, an art form I used in teaching to engage, entertain, and educate. In the late 1980s I worked at the Department of Ecology as a transportation coordinator to get people to drive less, take the bus more, walk more, and bike more to work. With this in mind I came up with the idea to do a giant puppet show
Finding the Beach House Where I Still Live After 55 Years – By Pat Holm
A couple more roofs appeared to the left of these two cabins. I found out later that these four cabins were all built at the same time, about 1929, by a group of four family friends in Centralia. The designs were all very similar. Apparently many men were out of work back then, so the cost of building was very cheap. Inside all of the houses was the same wainscoting wood on the walls. The outsides were all cedar planking. The families came to stay in these cabins in the summer. Recently, a Mr. Noreen had purchased two of them and was renting one out.
Wild Days of Experimentation – By Pat Holm
Our music and what we wore were the things most visible to other generations. Lots of creativity was going on in our relationships and our denial of materialism. Times “were a changin’.”