It Could Be Your Mom!!

Your help is desperately needed for people whose homes were destroyed in the winter storms in Washington State.

Right here, right now, a group of seniors and low-income people, living check to check, have had their homes destroyed and have not received any FEMA or other money to help fix it.

Can you help? Yes!

One such house was a trailer that an elderly disabled man was living in. A tree fell on the trailer crushing the back portion. He was still living in it with tarps draped on it. He had no bathroom or heat. He had no funds to replace the trailer or move. An RV was donated to him and he is happier than he has been in a long time.

Who are they?

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A Reminder, Please Join Us Tonight (Tuesday):

The Masters in Environmental Studies, Graduate Student Association presents THE 17th ANNUAL RACHEL CARSON FORUM, Tuesday, May 8th, 2007, 6 pm, The Evergreen State College, Longhouse. Join us for this longstanding community event. Your friends and family are welcome to this FREE event!

• Denis Hayes of the Bullitt Foundation will discuss The Role of Solar Energy in a Healthy, Prosperous, Sustainable Future.
• Entertainment by Olympia's own Planet Percussion Band and singer-songwriter Hank Waite.
• Light refreshments provided by Aramark!

Denis Hayes helped launch the VERY FIRST Earth Day and was voted speaker for this Rachel Carson Forum by the Masters in Environmental Studies students; Planet Percussion Band is a popular local band that has dancers, drummers, plus a lot of energy and Hank Waite is a Greener Grad with a guitar and some wonderful environmental songs!

Not much can cheer me up politically after the French elections but this is a hell of a start.

Police should be the only ones with guns

Emergencies require intelligent leadership! It is so easy to deal with emergencies if you just use knowledge properly and do the smart thing. Here is an example: criminals with guns is a real emergency.

However, we must compliment Chief Gary Michaels on his training of “officers to only use deadly force as the last possible alternative.”

We have an emergency given the rise in violence directly because of the world wars going on. So how do we protect officers so they may safely take the only shot as a last resort? Answer: You put a governor in office as a servant leader — not a dirty word like politician — who immediately signs executive orders with emergency clauses that cannot be overridden that do the following things:

• Create of a unified police force — international, federal, state, county, city.

• Ban guns, only allowing the unified police force of which chief Michaels team is a part of to have guns.

• At all ports of entry like airports, seaports, etc. require fingerprint identification as positive proof of identification.

• Computer check-in/check-out programs collect the guns (all of them) from private citizens and store them in a large weapon storage area and they may be “checked out” during deer hunting season.

That way the police can relax a bit and make good judgments before they shoot somebody they regret shooting later. Plus if they are the only ones with guns it is just common sense.

Kevin Douglas Donahoe, Olympia

The International Trauma Treatment Program is pleased to present two workshops this Spring on the treatment of complex trauma from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Various faculty from the ITTP team will be presenting on both psychotherapeutic and expressive approaches to trauma treatment. Presenters will pull from their experience working with international practitioners who are survivors of war, torture, and natural disasters and apply said techiniques to general trauma treatment approaches.

The workshops will be held in Olympia on Saturday May 12th, 2007 and Saturday June 2nd at First Christian Church from 9am - 3pm. On May 12th the workshop will focuse on Jungian, Solution Focused, and other cognitive appraoches - And on June 2nd, various forms of expressive therapies will be shared. Pre-registration is encouraged, but we are happy to take your registration at the door. Cost is $200 for both workshops. Discounts for students!

For more information, please contact Keylee Marineau at: minnaloushe2@gmail.com or call (360)352-2974

and please visit our website at: www.ittp.org