Contact Faith Action Network Co-Director Paul at benz@fanwa.org if you want to try to meet with your member of Congress during August recess or your state legislators. Since these are all by phone or Zoom, see our Advocacy Toolkit for tips for online meetings. … [Read more...]
Pandemic Food Benefit Available for Low-Income Families with Students, Apply by August 31, 2020
Please get this information out to families so they can apply by August 31—only 20% of eligible families have applied: Apply online at WashingtonConnection.org or call 877-501-2233. Pandemic EBT (P-EBT) is a new one-time food benefit to help low-income families buy groceries while schools are … [Read more...]
Thank Your Mayor For Climate Leadership
Think global, act local: make a difference with the Strengthening Local Climate Commitments campaign! 198 Mayors (including Seattle's Mayor Jenny Durkan and several others in Washington state,) just released a letter calling on Congress to take bold action for climate, racial and health justice. … [Read more...]
The environmental movement is very white. These leaders want to change that.
[James] He is one of a growing group of young, diverse environmental leaders examining how racism and white supremacy have long excluded Black, brown, and Indigenous people in environmental policy, conservation, and public health issues. Their work comes as environmental groups have begun publicly … [Read more...]
To Defend NEPA, Coalition Takes Trump Administration to Court
Environmental and environmental justice groups—represented by NRDC attorneys and joined by other civil rights and environmental organizations—sued the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) today for gutting the National Environmental Policy Act, the bedrock law that requires government … [Read more...]
TRUMP’S PICK TO MANAGE PUBLIC LANDS HAS FOUR-DECADE HISTORY OF “OVERT RACISM” TOWARD NATIVE PEOPLE
IN THE FIVE BOOKS authored by President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management, William Perry Pendley rails against “environmental extremists,” endangered species protections, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and Al Gore — all of whom, in his … [Read more...]
Blood in the Water
It would be the first federal execution in 17 years. The last time the U.S. government restarted executions after a long pause — killing Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh in a newly constructed death chamber in 2001 — throngs of protesters and national press overwhelmed the city of 60,000. But … [Read more...]
Physicists: 90% Chance of Human Society Collapsing Within Decades
Deforestation coupled with the rampant destruction of natural resources will soon have devastating effects on the future of society as we know it, according to two theoretical physicists who study complex systems and have concluded that greed has put us on a path to irreversible collapse within the … [Read more...]
Gov. Inslee extends utility shutoff moratorium to Oct. 15
On Friday, July 31, one day before a 4½-month moratorium on shutting off utilities was set to expire across Washington state, Gov. Jay Inslee signed a proclamation extending it a third time. Now, until at least Oct. 15 (unless the COVID-19 state of emergency ends before then), utilities can’t cut … [Read more...]
Part 3 – Deaths in WA prisons draw scrutiny from state Legislature
series of deaths at one Washington prison has prompted lawmakers to reconsider how the Legislature monitors state prisons, despite Department of Corrections suggestions that more oversight is unnecessary. While the Department of Corrections contends it investigates every … [Read more...]
Part -2 Cancer treatment in WA prisons often too little, too late
Cancer care poses problems that prison systems are badly positioned to meet. Prisons tend to be distant from urban centers with cancer doctors, and health services afforded most prisoners don’t include regular preventive care. Beyond those practical barriers, inmates, their families and critics … [Read more...]
Part 1 – Health care in WA prisons leaves inmates waiting months or years for help
Prisoner accounts laid out in lawsuits, investigations from a new watchdog office and internal department documents obtained by Crosscut point to a pattern of delay that leaves the state’s 18,800 incarcerated men and women unable to access basic health services. Homicides and suicides in prison … [Read more...]
Faith leaders blast Trump administration’s renewed use of death penalty
“So much for the ‘pro-life’ administration,” the Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit priest and author, wrote in a Facebook post. “The taking (of) a life is always immoral. So is the taking (of) a life to punish the taking of another life. This is why the Catechism of the Catholic Church says that the death … [Read more...]
John Muir: The godfather of Seattle’s spiritual life — and a racist
We are living in a time of moral reckoning with the past. Beyond Confederate monuments and memorials, people are also reevaluating the work, beliefs and reputations of progressive figures. . . . . There has long been a critique in academic circles — and, more recently, in journalistic … [Read more...]
How To Reinvest in Communities When Reducing the Scope of Policing
Reducing the role of policing and the criminal justice system as a whole is not a radical concept and is based on the widely acknowledged idea that the justice system has taken on an outsize role in society.1 For too long, American communities have allowed—and in many ways mandated—that the criminal … [Read more...]
Systemic racism explained: Four dimensions of racism and how to be part of the solution
Racism takes many forms. Before we can be part of the solution, we first have to understand the problem. The CEO of Portland’s Center for Equity and Inclusion, Hanif Fazal, and the CEO of North Star Forward Consulting, Lillian Green, have dedicated their careers to empowering the community … [Read more...]
Most VA workers see racism against colleagues and veterans, union survey finds
Nearly 80 percent of Veterans Affairs employees surveyed by their workers union in July said endemic racism within the federal government’s second-largest organization is a moderate or serious problem, with more than half reporting they have witnessed discrimination against the veterans whom the … [Read more...]
U.S. immigration and citizenship applications will be more costly. Here are the new fees
Come Oct. 2, immigrants and foreign nationals in the United States will have to pay substantially more in fees to apply for many immigration and naturalization benefit requests. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published this week a final rule in the Federal Register that details … [Read more...]
Court Case Against Trump Immigration And Visa Ban Moves Forward
On April 22, 2020, Donald Trump issued a presidential proclamation to “suspend” the entry of nearly all immigrants to the United States. If the entry bans in the presidential proclamation continues, which might be for another four years if Trump is reelected, then virtually no employment-based or … [Read more...]
Global Food Output Runs Into Migrant Worker Woes
Groups like the Yakima, Washington-based Northwest Horticultural Council are saying they can’t find enough people to pick fruit. The heavily agricultural area has been the epicenter of a breakout in the state. Covid-19 safeguards designed to protect workers have also made it impossible for some … [Read more...]
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