The suit, filed by the ACLU and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, calls for the immediate release of detainees in Tacoma. Advocates who fear for the safety of fragile immigrants being held at the ICE detention center in Tacoma filed a lawsuit Monday demanding all detainees at high risk for coronavirus be released. The lawsuit…
On Monday, Gov. Jay Inslee called it a “patriotic act” for workers who are feeling ill to stay home. But that advice, while well-taken, has also exposed the rifts in the labor market between those fortunate enough to have health insurance and generous employment policies and the mostly lower-income workforce who don’t enjoy such luxuries….
I remembered one line in particular that James Baldwin wrote in his letter to Angela Davis while she was jailed in 1970. I was in the last and final holding cell awaiting either bail or intake to the upper level of the jail, when his words returned to me: “One might have hoped that, by…
Canada is at a critical crossroads. The Wet’suwet’en conflict brings us to a deciding moment in Canada, one that will shape the future of the nation. The divisive conflict is about land, Indigenous law, human rights and the nature of civil disobedience. . . . Indigenous resistance to encroachment on their own lands is being…
Every year, WWF activists head to Capitol Hill to meet with their representatives about pertinent conservation issues as part of Lobby Day. The future of nature is at stake. As constituents and citizens, it’s up to us to share our concerns and hopes for conservation and to hold our elected leaders accountable. We spoke with…
