Crews huddle in the morning to hear instructions, then prune trees, tie up branches and replant orchards, often in close proximity to one another. Those who want to wash their hands — vital workplace safety in the age of the novel coronavirus — need to bring soap from home, and until recently their … [Read more...]
Submit a Letter to the Editor Defending Our Environmental Laws
The Center for Biological Diversity has an online program for writing letters to the editor for local and regional newspapers. Take a few minutes and draft a letter to the editor for your newspaper. Pick an environmental issue that is important to you–there are many to choose from. This … [Read more...]
Western WA Fellowship of Reconciliation Spring Assembly: Peace and Justice in a Time of Coronavirus, May 2, 2020, online
MAY 2 SPRING ASSEMBLY. We are excited to announce that the WWFOR Spring Assembly planners have come up with plans for a no-contact Spring Assembly on May 2. Thank you, planners! Mark Your Calendar! Tell Your Friends! Peace and Justice in a Time of Coronavirus Saturday, May 2, 2020, 9 am - … [Read more...]
Watch Climate Alliance for Jobs and Clean Energy COVID-19 Solidarity Webinar/Take Action
Thank you to the over 200 supporters who joined our COVID-19 Solidarity Webinar on April 7th. If you weren’t able to join us live, you can watch the webinar recording here! We know that the impacts of both the climate crisis and COVID-19 are disproportionately felt by lower-income, communities of … [Read more...]
King County Cities’ Climate Action
People for Climate Action coalition is pushing ahead with educational programs to bring city officials and the general public in King County up to speed on the sort of actions that cities can take to reduce our climate change impacts. PCA holds frequent webinars on climate actions, and you can … [Read more...]
Mass Poor People’s Assembly & Moral March on Washington Going Digital! June 20, 2020
The Mass Poor People’s Assembly & Moral March on Washington on June 20, 2020 will not be postponed but will be transformed! We are going digital! We will hold the largest digital and social media gathering of poor and low-wealth people and people of conscience in this nation’s history. The … [Read more...]
Urgent Action Needed to Help Imprisoned Immigrants
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 … [Read more...]
For Fair Representation Affecting Schools, Housing, Community, Complete the Census
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 … [Read more...]
Sign Poor People’s Campaign Petition to Demand a Moral Response to the COVID-19 Crisis
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 … [Read more...]
Demand Immediate Protection for Farm Workers in WA State
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 … [Read more...]
The Farm Workforce Modernization Act Does Not Solve the Farm Labor Dilemma
"Familias Unidas por la Justicia, Community to Community Development, CATA, Farmworker Association of Florida and UFCW, who unite in the Food Chain Workers Alliance — vigorously oppose H.R. 5038." "A close reading of H.R. 5038 leads me to the same conclusion. If we want to end this country's … [Read more...]
STANDING ROCK SIOUX TRIBE PREVAILS AS FEDERAL JUDGE STRIKES DOWN DAPL PERMITS
Washington, D.C. — A federal court today granted a request by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to strike down federal permits for the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline. The Court found the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers violated the National Environmental Policy Act when it affirmed federal … [Read more...]
Trump Blasted for ‘Morally Bankrupt’ Multibillion-Dollar Big Oil Bailout Proposal
Climate advocacy groups responded with swift condemnation Thursday after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he will recommend that President Donald Trump ask Congress for as much as $20 billion to purchase oil in what Barron's reported "would essentially equate to a bailout of the U.S. oil … [Read more...]
Bristol Bay organizations argue EPA lawsuit should move ahead
The Defense Alliance is comprised of Bristol Bay Native Association, United Tribes of Bristol Bay, Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association, Bristol Bay Reserve Association and Bristol Bay Economic Development Corporation. These Bristol Bay Tribal and fishing organizations are working … [Read more...]
TO SHARE OR NOT TO SHARE?
“It’s both a risk and an opportunity for indigenous peoples,” said Preston Hardison, policy analyst at the Tulalip Tribes Natural Resources Treaty Rights Office in Washington state. According to Hardison, many elders feel that they’d like to help the world heal, but they want their knowledge to be … [Read more...]
How Native Tribes Are Taking the Lead on Planning for Climate Change
Across North America, other indigenous communities are stepping up to formulate and enact climate action plans to protect their way of life. In 2019, the Karuk tribe of northern California released its climate adaptation plan with a recommendation to return to prescribed burning, an old idea that … [Read more...]
Feds Reject Calls To Remove 4 Snake River Dams, A Plan Aimed At Saving Salmon
The Snake River dams in Washington would stay in place under the federal government’s preferred plan for the Columbia River System. On Friday federal agencies released a draft plan to manage the 14 dams in the Columbia River System, including the four Lower Snake River dams. The U.S. Army Corps … [Read more...]
Indian Country’s COVID-19 syllabus – Updated Daily – Bookmark it!
Get detailed and up-to-date information and various news items on the impacts of COVID-19 in Indian Country. Read updates and more info here. … [Read more...]
STANDING ROCK SIOUX TRIBE RETURNS TO COURT IN LEGAL CHALLENGE TO DAPL
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe remains steadfast in its commitment to protecting the water flowing through its unceded ancestral lands from the irreversible consequences of a crude oil spill. In 2016, the Tribe adopted a resolution supporting individual or collective activities that respect and … [Read more...]
Why Native people ‘need to count’ in the 2020 census
After decades of historical undercounting, Washington’s nonwhite communities hope the results of this year’s census will boost access to critical resources. Of those frequently undercounted, Native people have been the most underrepresented racial group in the final reports. In 2010, the U.S. … [Read more...]
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