Some of the most vulnerable people right here in Western Washington are the prisoners at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma. This is a privately run for-profit prison where immigrants are detained. Long before the COVID-19 came, many of us were actively protesting: most of the prisoners are not criminals (unless you think being born…
On April 1, 2020, the US Census Bureau will perform a point-in-time count of every person living in the United States. The Census, which is performed once every ten years, is a head count of every single person living in the United States. It is the primary way that funding decisions for social services– like public transportation,…
A message from Reverend Dr. William Barber II and Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis, the co-chairs of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival: So much of this country is in economic free fall in response to COVID-19, while many Americans were already at rock bottom before the virus hit. We need to ensure that…
We are facing enormous uncertainty and unknowns. Many of us float between being steady and embracing the challenge ahead of us and then drift to a place of fear. We each are searching for ease and normalcy as we navigate the consistency of change. Change is constant. Beloved, however you are doing it, you are…
Daily living and working was already dangerous and precarious for hundreds of thousands of farmworkers and immigrants before the onset of COVID-19. ICE has terrorized our communities and powerful growers have suppressed workers’ efforts to organize. Generations of environmental racism have contaminated poor neighborhoods and caused lifelong health impacts in communities of color. This pandemic…
