Love Letter to the Little Mixed Kid by lee 이 therese Whenever you are ready if you are ever ready just know I will embrace you welcome you with both hands arms spread wide to catch your starlight you multifaceted wonder you with your eclectic soul you can be a […]
A Union of Nobodies, Part Two
By Fiore Amore Here we stood in front of a flame-engulfed McDonald’s staring right at the inhuman face of our small-town business community. Gone was any pretense. Behold the mighty hog, a sight for the ages beyond belief. From this point forward my memory fails me. Only glimpses and fragments […]
Spoiler Warning: Bullshit Jobs, Clerks, and Capitalist Realism
By Alice McIntyre Kevin Smith’s “Clerks” (1994) is one of my comfort movies, for sure. It chronicles the misadventures of Dante (Brian O’Halloran) and Randal (Jeff Anderson), two minimum-wage retail clerks in New Jersey. After being called in to cover another employee’s morning shift, Dante has a series of encounters […]
[VIDEO] Footage from the Red Lion Hotel Incident
Embedded below is a video from the Police Surveillance Project. This video was sent to us under the suggestion that we share it. It contains commentary that advocates for a man named Lee Isaac and is critical of the actions of the authorities at the incident that occurred at the […]
Vida y Supervivencia al Northwest ICE Processing Center
Por Caroline Keane Traducción: Madeline Farías Durante la pandemia COVID-19 han ocurrido tres olas de huelgas de hambre en el Northwest ICE Processing Center (NWIPC), anteriormente conocido como Northwest Detention Center, con hasta trescientas personas. Las huelgas de hambre por parte de las personas prisioneras (migrantes y no migrantes) han […]
Rot & Resilience & Storytelling: Alithea O’Dell
By Avery Quinn Alithea O’Dell, creator of Anchorless Prints, is a 36 year-old letterpress printer and printmaker and student graduating from Evergreen this spring. We had a socially-distanced, masked conversation in her open-air garage workspace, while her close friend Kim diligently worked in the background. What led you to Evergreen? […]
A Conversation With Danielle, A Homeless Resident of Olympia
A Conversation With Danielle, A Homeless Resident of Olympia, On the City’s Response to Homelessness and the Incident At the Red Lion Hotel By Miguel Louis The following is an interview. Here is Danielle: My name is Danielle. I’m 31 years old and I’ve been homeless for going on four […]
We’re Still in a Pandemic, Nice Weather Doesn’t Change That
By Natalie “Lee” Arneson As the months drag on and the weather starts to change, a pleasant Spring emerges from the chill of Winter and an increasing number of people are beginning to go out again. Travel posts and party pictures are slowly taking over social media sites—everything we should […]
The Rising Cost of Textbooks in the US
By Brooke Lynch It should come as no surprise to any college student to hear that textbooks are expensive. The often mandatory cost of the books students use has been increasing at a staggering three times the inflation rate since around the 1970s. This rate would be alarming on it’s […]
Life and Survival at the Northwest ICE Processing Center
By Caroline Keane En español During the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been 3 waves of hunger strikes at the Northwest ICE Processing Center (NWIPC)—formerly known as Northwest Detention Center (NWDC)—with as many as 300 people participating in one and lasting at least 100 days. Hunger strikes by prisoners (migrant and […]