By Sylvie Delaney On the dark, rainy evening of February 21st, I sought light and cover and found both — in more ways than one — at the conversation taking place at the Capitol Theater. Dr. Angela Davis, long standing freedom fighter and progressive scholar, held a talk at the […]
Farmworkers Tribunal
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 […]
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 […]
Recap of Evergreen’s Student Forum
By Grace Selvig The CPJ will be working to make the full transcript of this event available to the community in the coming days. The following Q&A’s are not presented in chronological order. On April 10th at 2pm in Purce Hall, members of the Evergreen Administration sat down to answer […]
Things Long Since Passed–Of Pre-Covid La Voyeur, street urchin punks and a me that cared
Chris Tanner Hello new friends, strangers, and those whom I should remember the name of by now but can’t quite seem to, preoccupied as my brain always is with whatever bubbles, broils or just rots inside it–for example, this ensuing nonsense. At the tail end of January, I went to […]
GSU Town hall
The GSU town hall happened last month, on February 28th, in the Daniel J. Evans Hall Lobby. Open for all students to join and to express comments, questions and concerns that they have regarding the school. No admin were invited in order to “hold a safe space for students to […]
Theatre Speaks Louder Than Words
tick, tick… boom, the performing arts at evergreen, etc. Tick, Tick… BOOM! is a show born out of passion and anger–anger at the systems that said it wasn’t possible, anger at the systems that provided empty praise and gave no support, anger at the systems that ignored. I’m not only […]
Studying abroad by myself through an Evergreen ILC was one of the best decisions I have made at this school. I want to tell CPJ readers about it.
My first Dispatch from Greece Monday, October 9 I have been in Greece for three weeks: eleven days in Athens, and ten days on the island of Chios. In Athens, I went to a punk rock show at the Agricultural University of Athens and saw what Evergreen could be. The […]
Cursed Items at the Trade Blanket? It’s More Likely than You Think…
by prize-winning teller of truths Hero Winsor At the most recent trade blanket, Greeners swapped a variety of items. Makeup palettes were exchanged for chachkies, chachkies were traded for ancient cassette tapes. This may seem harmless; however, according to a few students, more sinister items had been obtained during the […]
José Goméz Farmworkers Justice Day: Cultivating Community For Liberation
By Natalie “Lee” Arneson On May 3rd, The Evergreen State College celebrated the 16th José Gómez Farmworker Justice Day. The opening ceremony, beginning at 10am, was held in Evans Hall with speeches from Kara Briggs and Evergreen faculty members Prita Lal and Alice Nelson. Briggs’ speech was a timely and […]