Moving audio interview by Eleanor C. With Kurt Russo of Lummi Sovereignty and Treaty Protection Office and Howard Garret of the Orca Network on Sk’aliCh’elh (Tokitae/Lolita). … [Read more...]
Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery
DoD-Unmasking the Domination Code.5.3.20r1 THE DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY Unmasking the Domination Code Sunday, May 3, 2020 / Time: 1:00 – 3+ pm Online Screening via Zoom This hour-long film and production by First Nation Peoples examines the effects of an ancient doctrine traced to … [Read more...]
Lifting the Voices of Farmworkers through Community Organizing.
More than 3 million migrant and seasonal farmworkers are estimated to harvest food in the United States. Farmworkers help provide the majority of the food people in America consume, harvesting produce, maintaining dairies, and working in the meat industry. Farmworkers make a substantially lower wage … [Read more...]
US Sanctions on Venezuela and Iran before and during COVID-19 and Organizing Our PNW Community to Make Humane PolicyUS Sanctions on Venezuela and Iran before and during COVID-19 and Organizing Our PNW Community to Make Humane Policy
Featured Speaker Dan Kovalik Sunday May 3, 3 - 4:30 pm. Register for Zoom webinar here. Dan Kovalik is a professor of international human rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and the author of several books, including Plot to Overthrow Venezuela: How the US Is … [Read more...]
Urge Your Congress Member to Protect Snap in Next Relief Packages
As conversation begins for the 4th Coronavirus relief package, we need your voice to urge your members of Congress to prioritize funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The exponential rise in unemployment, hunger in our state and nation has skyrocketed and food lines … [Read more...]
Join the Campaign to Replace Puget Sound Energy with a Public Utility District
The Yes to EKC PUD (East King County Public Utility District) Coalition Building team, for the Yes to East King County PUD campaign, is currently collecting signatures to get a measure on the ballot in November to replace Puget Sound Energy (PSE) with a public utility district (PUD) in northeast … [Read more...]
UUA Presents: Reset UU the Vote, May 12, 2020, online
Join us LIVE for a special update from UU the Vote. This event will feature musicians from across the country, a message from UUA President Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray, and opportunities for you to get involved and make meaningful impacts in 2020!Join a nation-wide virtual choir! Music is … [Read more...]
The Whale Bowl
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LNI & DEPT OF HEALTH MUST FOLLOW FARMWORKER LEADERSHIP WITH EMERGENCY RULES
Dear supporters, C2C has been sounding the alarm about substandard and often nonexistent health and safety protections for farmworkers, most notably with regard to the dangers of pesticide exposure, for 15 years. For the last month, we have been begging the state to implement emergency rules to … [Read more...]
AS LONG AS GRASS GROWS
The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock: The story of Native peoples’ resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call for environmentalists to learn from the Indigenous community’s rich history of activism Author: Dina … [Read more...]
The Problem with Wilderness
The American environmental movement is rooted historically in ideas about pristine wilderness, free from human presence, that replicate colonial patterns of white supremacy and settler privilege. Native-led movements are changing the script. (UU World Magazine) DINA GILIO-WHITAKER | 3/1/2020 … [Read more...]
NW Immigrant Rights Project Suggests Three Ways You Can Support Immigrants Right Now
Tell Congress to Include Immigrants in the Next Relief Package Congress's COVID-19 relief efforts have excluded many immigrants from their public health and economic stimulus policies. With Congress likely to pass additional legislation as soon as next month, it is time to speak up! Our partners … [Read more...]
Did You Miss Backbone Campaign’s Deep Dive into Ideas for Local Resilience? Catch Up Here
Backbone Campaign took a deep dive last week into solutionary ideas for local resilience when we interviewed Judy Wicks - an expert on local living economies - and a group of time bank experts last week. You can watch the Time Bank Conversation Here Backbone Campaign believes that Time Banking is … [Read more...]
Cities Climate Action Webinar: Focus on Buildings, May 2, 2020, online
Buildings have a big impact on climate, and cities can shrink that impact. Find out how at this event! Saturday, May 2, 9:30 - 11:00 am PDT. Additional Q&A: 11:00 - 11:30 am PDT Join us to hear Vincent Martinez and Erin McDade, national leaders in this field, describe the work that their … [Read more...]
Buy Stamps to Keep US Postal Service Viable for Election
The 2020 election is a watershed moment for our country. We need to have mail-in election ballots with hard copy paper trails--which means we need the Postal Service. Today the Postal Service is in financial trouble due to decreased revenue from business advertising because so many businesses … [Read more...]
The Wild: NW tribes’ legacy, and power, of telling a good story
The Lummi have been telling stories for thousands of years. "I am a Lummi tribal member and it's been taught to me that we are the lactamish people. We are survivors of the flood," Lisa says. The Lummi people are born storytellers and in many ways natural environmentalists. As Lummi … [Read more...]
Amid pandemic and Pilgrim anniversary, Wampanoag face new threat
Unitarian Universalist Association calls for urgent action to support Native American tribe that first welcomed its Pilgrim religious ancestors 400 years ago. ELAINE MCARDLE | 4/17/2020 he Wampanoag, the People of the First Light, were the first Native American nation to give … [Read more...]
The Condor and the Eagle: Earth Day Screening, Discussion
The Condor & The Eagle Documentary Film Screening & Discussion Wednesday, April 22nd, 6-8 pm Pacific / 7-9 Mountain / 8-10 Central / 9-11 pm Eastern Sliding scale suggested donation: $10-50+ (all are welcome regardless of ability to pay) Close out Earth Day with this award-winning … [Read more...]
US: Address Impact of Covid-19 on Poor
The COVID-19 outbreak in the United States has put a spotlight on economic inequalities and a fragile social safety net that leaves vulnerable communities to bear the economic brunt of the crisis, Human Rights Watch said today. US policymakers will need to consider these underlying inequalities in … [Read more...]
‘Cancer Alley’ Has Some of the Highest Coronavirus Death Rates in the Country
As predominately Black communities in the polluted areas along the Mississippi from New Orleans to Baton Rouge face heightened risks from COVID-19, the EPA has suspended enforcement of the environmental rules designed to protect them. Some government agencies are beginning to acknowledge the … [Read more...]
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