Saturday April 14: Participate in Olympia’s March for Science!

April 9, 2018 GlenAnderson Climate, Conservatism and Right Wing, Energy Issues (Also see Oil, Climate, Environment), Environment, Governmental Abuses, Human Rights, Olympia area, Our Current Political Crisis (in addition to Trump and Trumpism), Science, Young People 0

11:00 a.m. at Washington State Capitol steps.
Hear a few brief speakers.
11:45 Proceed down Capitol Way, turn left (decision pending on whether to turn left on Legion Way or 5th Ave), and enter Heritage Park.
Visit informational booths until 2:00 p.m..

• Stop the denialism and corruption that interfere with honest science and good public policy.
• Demand that public officials respect honest science and enact evidence-based public policies.
• Human beings and our natural environment need this!

Background and more information:

• The head of the U.S.’s Environmental Protection Agency does not “believe” in climate change and works to dismantle research.
• Top appointees in many federal agencies are hostile to honest science.
• Years ago Congress prevented the The Center for Disease Control from studying the health effects of gun violence.
• Science is our best tool for understanding our world as it really exists – regardless of what is politically or economically expedient to believe.

We cannot allow ‘alternative facts’ to become the new normal. The March for Science continues to champion robustly funded and publicly communicated science as a pillar of human freedom and prosperity. We unite as a diverse, nonpartisan group to call for science that upholds the common good, and for political leaders and policymakers to enact evidence-based policies in the public interest.

In April 2017 5,000 persons rallied and March at Olympia’s March for Science, as part of a nationwide day that included marches in many local communities. High school students were active in the planning and the march, along with people of all other ages. For 2018 we’re back at it again!
Science requires public knowledge and support. Silence interferes with good science.
Our fight to define, defend, and change reality is not over and not forgotten. We are just beginning.
The Artesian Rumble Arkestra led the way in 2017, and they’ll do it again in 2018.

Website: marchforscience.olympia@gmail.com
Blog: https://marchforscienceoly.wordpress.com/
E-mail: marchforscience.olympia@gmail.com
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Since the late 1960s Glen Anderson has devoted his life to working as a volunteer for peace, nonviolence, social justice, and progressive political issues. He has worked through many existing organizations and started several. Over the years he has worked especially for such wide-ranging goals as making peace with Vietnam, eliminating nuclear weapons, converting from a military economy to a peacetime economy, abolishing the death penalty, promoting nonviolence at all levels throughout society, and helping people organize and strategize for grassroots movements to solve many kinds of problems. He writes, speaks, and conducts training workshops on a wide variety of topics. Since 1987 he has produced and hosted a one-hour cable TV interview program on many kinds of issues. Since 2017 he has blogged at https://parallaxperspectives.org He lives in Lacey near Olympia WA. You can reach him at (360) 491-9093 glen@parallaxperspectives.org