Photo: “LWSD One-Day Walkout” by David Schott is licensed under CC BY 2.0 / Desaturated from original and resized By Alice McIntyre Over the last year, public school teachers throughout the country have had a strike wave, with teachers’ unions taking to the picket lines coast to coast. A total of nearly 300,000 teachers took action in a series of statewide strikes in West Virginia, Oklahoma, and Arizona, […]
Amazon on Fire: Political Tension & Climate Change in Brazil
Photo: Public domain photograph of the Amazon Rainforest, created by NASA By Allegra Simpkins Media was set ablaze with commentary last month, as news of wildfires in the Amazon rainforest and other areas of South America sparked controversy among environmentalists around the world. The initial panic has calmed down, but the aftermath has many people confused about global policies surrounding wildfires, […]
Structural Issues: OSHA investigating asbestos & other safety complaints
These investigations follow a Facilities Services employee lodging a number of claims including: lack of training, exposure to numerous hazardous materials, and a “Wild West Culture” regarding accountability from the administration, safety of the employees, and ecological hazards.
Socialist Trucker Joshua Collins says Hell with Heck
By Daniel. Joshua Collins is a truck driver, a democratic socialist, a small business owner and he’s running for congress – at 26 years old. Collins is challenging incumbent representative Dennis Heck in the Democratic primary. Heck, an Evergreen grad, has represented Washington’s 10th congressional district since the state legislature […]
Guns Aren’t Just for White Conservative Men
How Gun Ownership Revolves Around Power, Self-Sufficiency — Not the Liberal and Conservative Divide By Marta Tahja-Syrett. When marginalized people are deterred from gun ownership, they are actually being deterred from a particular avenue of power. This same avenue has long been utilized by the United States government, and individual […]
Wasted Advice: Our Graduating Seniors Review Tinder Bios
Wasted advice is a column written by our editorial staff while legally drunk. Presented unedited, raw, and uncut. Send questions to https://ask.fm/wastedadvice. What’s the best tinder bio? This girls tinde bio — and she’s already — listen, it’s just “I’m a top.” That’s it What’s the question? What the fuck […]
IWW Interrupts Trustee Meeting Union demands administrative cut at Red Square rally
By Mason Soto and Daniel. The Industrial Workers of the World South Sound General Education Union, or the GEU, held a rally on Red Square last Wednesday, May 8, in a call to re-open the pool and fund the arts department at Evergreen. Union members went to the Board of […]
Artist Interview: Jeweler M. Quarrels
By Brittyana Pierro. How long have you been doing metal work? 1 ½ years. How did you get into it? I was scrolling through the class catalog and nothing sounded really interesting. I’d been doing a lot of like 2d art already. So, scientific illustration and environmental science art. Everything […]
Opinion: No Equity Without Transparency
If Evergreen fails to resolve its public records problem, faculty, staff, students, and every citizen of this state should strongly consider a vote of “no confidence.”
Black Students in Low-Diversity Areas: High School Activism
By Brittanyana Pierro. The summer of 2014, I remember, was a good one. I was 15, gaining independence and had my best friend Samantha to spend the summer with. My sister Melodi was still in town before she left for college, and the two of us got to spend an entire month […]