The xenophobic boo-scary crowd managed to keep the Oly+Rafah Sister City Project from getting official recognition for its good works of increasing understanding between peoples. Way to go.
“In keeping with its commitment to open government, the Olympia City Council is pleased to provide online access to live and archived City Council meeting videos, minutes, and agendas.”
• The meeting’s Agenda
• The background material that will be presented for our item (which seemed to have not been read by the majority of the council).
• Video of the meeting available here. (Warning: some freaky, racist anti-Arab statements lie within, as well as a lot of powerful statement in support of ORSCP)
• Or paste this into iTunes under the podcast section>subscribe to podcast
to have it download to your computer: http://olympia.granicus.com/ViewPublisherRSS.php?view_id=2
• Minutes of meeting available here.
Flickr photos of the meeting are here: Link
Some blogging on the vote:
• What This Town Needs
• Gabi Clayton ~ Inside the outsider
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