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The NW Detention Center (NWDC) is the region's largest immigration detention center. It is owned and run by the for-profit prison corporation GEO Group. Detainees from across the NW are taken to the NWDC by I.C.E. where they are held captive prior to deportation. Like some 1,300 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails, there are over […]
Join Evergreen State College on Thursday, May 18th, 7:30pm for a presentation by Naomi Klein, the author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate. The talk will be held at the College Recreation Center and doors open at 7pm. in downtown Olympia. For tickets and more information, see here.
Join us for a very special presentation this Friday, May 19th, 6 PM at Orca Books in downtown Olympia. Evergreen's Dr. Sarah Eltantawi will be talking about her new book Shari'ah on Trial: Northern Nigeria's Islamic Revolution. We are very excited to be co-sponsoring this event and hope all can join us. RSVP here!
Internationally known historian and author Dr. Ilan Pappé is a native son of Israel and a former senior lecturer of history and political science at Haifa University. Since 2008 he has been on the faculty at the University of Exeter, U.K. The author of 12 books, Dr. Pappé is well known for his scholarship and […]
The award-winning film Junction 48 will screen at the Grand Cinema in Tacoma, in conjunction with Tony Zaragoza's class Back in the Days: History through Hip Hop. This is one of only two showings in the PNW. Junction 48: Palestinian rapper Kareem and his singer girlfriend Manar struggle, love and make music in their crime-ridden neighborhood and […]
