On January 21st, 2025, the annual Farm Workers Tribunal took place for the 12th year in a row in downtown Olympia. The Farmworker’s Tribunal day has been known to be a day of bringing together farmworkers and speaking to congress members of their working conditions in hopes of enforcing policies […]
Washington State Legislature Headlines 2025
Cooper Point Journal January With the commencement of the new year, Washington State enters the 2025 legislative session. Two prominent figures enter the legislative session this year–Cyndy Jacobsen and Phil Fortunato. Cyndy Jacobsen is a State Representative for the 25th district whose prefiled bills seek to heavily attack trans rights […]
Introducing SEASME!
Hello! We are representing the new student group SESAME (Students Educating Students About The Middle East)! Coming winter quarter we will be a fully recognized group with Student Activities. First, an apology if you saw our flyers and couldn’t find us, much like the rest of the college, our marketing […]
Lilly Bay
January 12, 2025 January comes each year, renewing the land of sunlight one minute more each day. Resolutions are made, new habits adopted, sprouting life begins to incubate below the rigid ice of midwinter. As students start conceptualizing their next endeavors for the new year, they may ask themselves “What […]
In Defense of Evergreen
By Alex Kawaguchi I think it is common among my peers to have a love/hate relationship with our institution of education. When someone I knew came to tour our beloved Evergreen, the first thing they asked me was, “What is the worst part about it?” and I laughed and said, […]
Riverwater At Summer’s End
By: Iggy Rey Cello Once upon a time in the 1980s there lived a car salesman who went to a conference about environmental science. This man lived in the Yelm school district, and talked up the idea of setting up a program to teach kids about the natural ecology of […]
November 7th, 2024 – 10 am, The Parkside Cafe Avian Keizer Artist Interview
by Soap KhanCPJ: Could you please give us some background on who you are as an artist?Avian: I grew up always wanting to do art but not really finding art that I wanted to do and that Icould do, especially in traditional youth education is very much, like, you do […]
Honoring Our Queer Ancestors!
by Aster Hall Having taken place on November 20th this year, I’d like to celebrate Trans Day of Remembrance by remembering the stories of Sylvia Rivera, and Marsha P. Johnson. Us gays owe whatever liberation from the closet we have to these fierce queens. They are both maybe best known […]
Evergreen Welfare Check
Gas Leak On October 17th, 2024, at 11:19 am the first notice of a gas leak was sent through the RAD notification service via text message reporting that Police Services “has advised that all residents evacuate away from housing and head to upper campus.” This text was followed up by […]
The HCC Comes Alive: Halloween Shows
By: Ella Colwell The Housing Community Center is seeing a resurgence in student organized events. October 30th and November 2nd, 2024, were big moments for the life of the HCC (Housing Community Center), which once was a spot with big events held on behalf of encouraging community between students. Just […]