A Unitarian Universalist State Action Network
From the Northwest Treaty Tribes: Don’t stop eating or serving chinook salmon if you want to help recover Southern Resident Killer Whales.
It might make you feel better for a while, but it accomplishes little and makes recovering chinook even harder, by devastating the livelihoods of fishermen and their families who care most about salmon recovery. Read more here.
Federal Judge Tanya S. Chutkan ruled on Monday, September 24, that the cases filed against the Trump Administration’s revoke and replacement of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments will remain in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia—where they were filed—and that the Department of the Interior must alert the tribes at least 48 hours before they allow any ground disturbing activities on the disputed lands.
Read more here.
To researchers she is J-35. To the Native people of the Salish Sea she is Tahlequah, the young orca mother who pushed the lifeless body of her newborn calf in front of her for 17 days. The birth and death of the baby on July 24 coincided with this year’s Tribal Canoe Journey, the Paddle to Puyallup, and many took Tahlequah’s extended public grieving period as a sign to coastal Native people that their relatives from under the water were calling for help. Click here to read more.
Children caught up in our immigration system as reported by REVEAL, from the Center for Investigative Reporting. When they took my son examines the stories of two families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border and how what happened to them matches up with what the government said was supposed to happen. Click to read more.
“I felt so alone in the Detention Center. I couldn’t believe that people in my community were working to help me. I’m so grateful for help paying my bond, I never thought that would be possible. I know I would be murdered if I was deported.”
– Bellingham neighbor, upon release from the Tacoma Northwest Detention Center
http://www.whatcomcf.org/news/immigrant-relief-the-stories/