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Feminist Volunteers! You are loved and Needed!

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Our show will air twice a week. Fridays and Mondays at Midnight on Cable Channel 22!

Our Show is called ‘The Art of Having Fun!’ – This is our weekly TV show, news program and film series. We have a PDF version and a document version of our Brochure which describes our need for volunteers. Join us and become the star that you are!

We love you all! ;)

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UPDATE ON FREE FILM MAKING CLASSES:

Dear Friends,

The Freeschool Community of Olympia, serving the community with free
classes for over 8 years, is very happy to offer free film and video classes.
We are taking registrations now.

The Freeschool Community is partnering with Olympia Fun Co-op, FemPeacePower and WeAreCascadia to make these film making classes available free of charge.

In addition, we are Working to Change the Industry Statistics of Women’s Portrayal in Media. Read more about this and learn the times, dates and locations by clicking here.

The Freeschool would like to encourage and empower self-identified
women of all sexual orientations, LGBTQI, interested in producing,
progressive media.

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FemPeacePower Announces $5,000.00 Poster Contest w/ 20 winners, No Entry Fees!

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FemPeacePower is working with the Olympia Fun Co-op (OFC) to create a new TV Show called ‘The Art of Having Fun!
In order to help announce this show we are having a poster contest. Details of The OFC Poster Design Contest are below!

$5,000.00 in Gift Certificates, Cash and Prizes will be awarded to 20 winners in the Poster Design Contest! No Entry Fees.

Entry forms found below.

All winners announced and posted on the OFC website at www.OlympiaFunCoop.org.

We will also feature the winners and some of the other
posters on our TV show, ‘The Art of Having Fun!’ that
airs on several TV channels!

Help us bring in the New Year when we announce the winners of our poster design contest!
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anarcha-feminism (thoughts on the first podcast!)

For starters, I’m so sorry I haven’t blogged for long time. I got distracted. But I am committed to the work of FemPeacePower and all its related projects. I will blog more regularly from now on! (In a month from now I will be traveling to India where I will be living in an intentional community for three months. I am especially excited to blog from there, with new perspectives and opinions to share.)

I listened to the first podcast featuring T and Ramona SkyLink on anarcha-feminism, and it got me thinking about exactly what that is and how anarchism and feminism are linked and related. I guess I just want to clarify for people what anarcha-feminism is, since I really don’t know much about it myself and am just trying to make sense of it all. Anarchism and feminism are inherently tied together because they are both all about breaking down patriarchal hierarchies and power structures. Many people think that anarchism and feminism are essentially necessary constituents of one another; they go hand-in-hand. And, as Ramona SkyLink mentioned, part of anarchism is allowing local communities and struggles to develop and grow, which can be an integral part of feminism, too.

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First Premier July 14 2009

Third try of the Premier Episode of FemPeacePower Radio podcast featuring RamonaSkyLink and IndigoClaySkylink. July 14, 2009. Discussing inclusivity of the feminist movement.

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Second try of the Premier Episode of FemPeacePower Radio podcast featuring RamonaSkyLink and IndigoClaySkylink. July 14, 2009. Discussing inclusivity of the feminist movement.

Found by clicking here.

or found here…



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FemPeacePower.org Will Interview Freeschool Community Facilitators for the 2009-2010 School Year!

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Dear friends,

The Freeschool Community of Olympia is getting ready for their 8th and 9th year of Freeschool Classes! The Freeschool would love to help publicize your class, tutor opportunity or event if it is free of charge with no donations required or accepted at the class or event.

We publicize your class (or your tutor opportunity) on our twitter account (which has over 2,400 followers and growing fast), through our Natural Learning newspaper (which has a circulation of over 5000 and through our website) which sometimes has hundreds of hits (people reading it) per day.

The Freeschool Community also works with a radio station, podcast and online film and video series here at FemPeacePower.org which will occasionally have interviews with Freeschool Community facilitators and many more activists and social justice organizers.

You can also Subscribe to our itunes stations and search for our podcast episodes in Itunes here: http://tinyurl.com/link2itunes

To Start Using the Faster, Self-Sign up Process for Giving Classes at the Freeschool Community in 2009-2010 here is what we need you to do:

[Some of these things you may have already done, so just skip to the steps you have not done].

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thoughts on the term “queer”

I’ve been thinking about the term “queer.” In the past, the word meant “strange, odd, weird,” and, I suppose, technically and literally, still does. But in recent years the word has become something entirely different. It’s been taken and reclaimed, turned around and made positive, by the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community. As I understand it, the word encompasses even more than the standard LGBT acronym. ‘Queer’ refers to anyone and everyone whose gender, sexual identity, or sexual orientation is non-normative; is weird, is different, is something “other”- pansexuals, asexuals, transvestites, intersex individuals, two-spirits, pomosexuals, hermaphrodites, etc, etc, etc. (I took a course at Evergreen recently about all of this. The theories and terms and names are still all on my mind.)

But there are issues with the reclamation of the word, and disagreements about the current and correct usage of it. One thing I’ve run across: older generations don’t necessarily like the word. They don’t buy that the term “queer” can be a positive descriptor of sex- and gender-deviant persons, that it can be reclaimed and turned positive. For these middle-aged baby boomers, who were the ones to pave the way so that my generation’s homosexuals could be out and proud, ‘queer’ was derogatory, an insult flung at them during riots along with physical objects and other slurs like “faggot” and “dyke.” They know how hurtful “queer” can be, and aren’t so sure that us younger generations taking it back and shifting its meaning to a positive, all-encompassing term, is a good thing.

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April 9th: The Empire Strikes Back: An Anti-War Teach In

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Olympia, Washington. I thought I’d pass this along.

Love for the people,
-IndigoClaySkyLink

original author: Olympia SDS

A Critical Look at U.S. War and Occupation

April 9th
7pm
Lectural 2, Evergreen State College

A Panel Discussion Brought to you by Olympia SDS

Join us as faculty members Steve Niva and Zoltan Grossman start a conversation about US war and Occupation so that we can start the conversation about what is next in the Anti-War movement.

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7 Secrets to an Extraordinary Doctor’s Visit

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Goodbye, Paraguay

Guest Post From Joe M.

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As i prepare to leave Paraguay to return to Ecuador….I need to say goodbye…..

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