The Freeschool Community of Olympia is Looking for Partner Organizations
to share space.  Click on the photo to learn more.

The Freeschool Community of Olympia, serving the Olympia, Washington area for over 7 years, has partnered with several progressive organizations to form the Peace Communities.  Among the many progressive organizations that have joined the Peace Communities thus far are the Mutualist Project members of the Z Media Institute (ZMI) 2007 Alumni, the Olympia Ecovillage/We Invite You, The Beauty of Barter, Imagine Seven, the Organizers of the Fifth Annual A World Beyond Capitalism Conference and organizers of the Do-It-Yourself Multimedia Creation Center.  We also have had conversations with the Evergreen Infoshop about possibly sharing a space and we welcome more Campus and Student-run organizations.  Peace Communities is looking for More Partner Organizations to work towards Sharing Space in Olympia.  We would like to work with several other organizations or progressive businesses to share the cost of a house, or transform a downtown or West Side warehouse into a shared space (as was successfully accomplished by the Rhizome Collective www.rhizomecollective.org ).

The below quote is from the Rhizome Collective wikipedia page:

"The Rhizome Collective is a consensus-run 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based on Austin, Texas, USA. The collective was founded in 2000 and operates an Educational Center for Urban Sustainability and a Center for Community Organizing." 

"The Rhizome Collective operates out of three warehouses on Allen Street in East Austin. These warehouses and the 1/3 acre (1,300 m²) on which they sit make up the Rhizosphere. In addition to housing the collective, the Rhizosphere is used as a space for the development of urban sustainability practices."

"The Rhizosphere hosts space for organizations such as Austin Indymedia, the Austin Zine Library, the Inside Books Project, which ships reading material to prison inmates, Bikes Across Borders, and Food Not Bombs."

In addition to rental space, Peace Communities will also offer the use of free-of-charge shared webhosting space, help designing a website for your group, free-of-charge announcement space in our newspaper, "Natural Learning" with a circulation of 5,000 issues, 24 hours access to a feminist library and a secure room with a women's empowerment audio/video studio equipment.  To see a small list of some of the recording and audio equpment that the freeschool currently has please click here: PDF Flyer or Document Flyer.

The idea to create a housing and community space collective in Olympia, has been in the research, cost analysis and forming process for almost two years.  It is our desire to now rent a space as early as Spring 2009.

We welcome all individuals, organizations and progressive businesses to participate in these conversations.  We are grateful for help that we receive from all individuals and organizations, however, on order to maintain our education independence we are not accepting applications from government groups, religious groups or multinational corporations.

"If you are interested please send us an email by visiting the Freeschool Community's website at www.Freeschoolunity.org and click on 'contact.'  Thank you.  You can also call us from 11am-11pm, 7 days a week at (360) 539-8008 and we would love to talk with you.

"If you are interested please send us an email by visiting the Freeschool Community's website < www.Freeschoolunity.org and click on 'contact.'  Thank you.  You can also call us from 11am-11pm, 7 days a week at (360) 539-8008 and we would love to talk with you.

 Keep working for a better world everyone.

 Love, Solidarity,

 -Freeschool Members

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