By Chloe Marina Manchester The trial for brothers Andre Thompson and Bryson Chaplin, two young black men who were both shot by white Olympia police officer, Ryan Donald, in May 2015, has been delayed again, with no new date set and no judge assigned. Thompson and Chaplin were shot by […]
Dreamer Arrested, Detained in North West Detention Center Lawyers Allege ICE Falsified Gang Affiliations to Justify Detainment
By Jasmine Kozak Gilroy On February 10 Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrested and detained 23 year old Daniel Ramirez Medina, an immigrant and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient who has been living in the United States since he was seven years old. Ramirez Medina was first […]
Evergreen Updates Policies on Undocumented Students Administration Responds to Pressure from Students and Community
POC Talk was contacted by a student who has requested to remain anonymous, representing the undocumented student support group, an informal organization working on campus and with the Evergreen administration to support undocumented and immigrant students. Recently they have met with the president George Bridges to discuss their demands to […]
Faculty Hiring at Evergreen Hiring Continues as Planned Amidst Faculty Equity Drama
By Jasmine Kozak Gilroy The Evergreen State College is currently hiring eight regular faculty members to teach undergraduate programs. Parallel to the hiring process, the new Diversity and Equity council has released their Strategic Equity Plan, which has ignited underlying tensions among staff, culminating in an ongoing stream of passionate […]
Fuck Civility? Letter to the Editor
By Connor Quisenberry First off, let me say that I do not mean to offend anyone, or intentionally counter the opinions or beliefs of any group of people. I am writing this because I believe that the opinion piece from the February 1, 2017 issue of the Cooper Point Journal, […]
Police are Not Our Friends
By Georgie Hicks We received a letter to the editor by Connor Quisenberry in response to an opinion piece about the new Evergreen Chief of Police Stacy Brown. We do not want the discourse about whether or not police are bad to continue indefinitely, but did not want to publish […]
Horoscopes March 1
By Sylvie Chace This week packs in a lot of emotional depth for the signs. A solar eclipse and new moon in the watery sign of Pisces closes the series of Pisces eclipses from the last 2 years. This will be a time of awakened empathy and understanding of ourselves […]
Kenny Neal Cover Artist
By Ruby Love Kenny Neal is a Junior at Evergreen, currently studying painting and drawing in the program Art/Work. His four-part series of abstract paintings, titled “The Probable Fall of the Earth into the Sun,” was inspired by the Fauvism movement and graces this issue’s front and back covers! Originally […]
Fuck Civility! Student Response to Police Chief Stacy Brown’s Comments on Campus Protest
By Georgie Hicks The last issue of this publication included an interview of Stacy Brown, the new Evergreen chief of police. Within that article Brown made several comments that I found unacceptable and in need of dissection. Brown says that in her time as a student at Evergreen–she graduated in […]
The Fight to Defund DAPL
By Tari Gunstone On Wednesday February 8, the Seattle city council voted unanimously to divest the city’s annual funds of nearly four billion dollars from Wells Fargo over concerns of the bank’s funding of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in addition to questions regarding the bank’s transparency and integrity. The […]
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