Barack Obama used his eulogy at the funeral for Rep. John Lewis on Thursday to compare President Donald Trump's sending of federal officers to quash protests in Portland, Oregon, to the tactics of George Wallace, the segregationist Alabama governor who sent state troopers to violently break up … [Read more...]
Portland protesters set police building on fire and clash with authorities
Seneca Cayson, a black business owner who helped lead peaceful gatherings in downtown Portland, worries that incidents of vandalism and taunting of law enforcement by a tiny minority of the many thousands of white protesters turning out distracts from the main aims of the Black Lives Matter … [Read more...]
Misleading Name for Anti-Muslim Group: “Alliance of Persecuted People Worldwide” (APPWW).
An important notice from Elizabeth Maupin of the IssaquahSammamishInterfaithCoalition, Friends, deception is a major issue in our times. Sometimes we are presented with legislation with misleading titles, and sometimes with organizations with misleading names. One of those organizations is a … [Read more...]
Black pastors and activists want Central District land as reparations
“I call it reparations, because if it's not reparations, it becomes sort of charitable, you know, and it's not a charitable offer. It's a payment for a debt,” said Donald King, a professor of architecture at the University of Washington who has lived in the Central District for approximately 40 … [Read more...]
Defunding Seattle Police by 50% proving complicated for council
On Friday, council members for the first time offered specific proposals and timelines for cutting the department’s budget and creating alternative systems to prevent violence and provide community safety. They also urged Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best to prioritize responding to violent crimes … [Read more...]
How to Be an Effective Online Ally for the Social and Environmental Justice Fight
As climate activists, we can't fight the climate crisis without considering the systemic impacts that environmental racism and White supremacy have on the frontline communities most affected by pollution and our warming world. Over the last few months, many around the world have taken time to … [Read more...]
FEDERAL AGENTS AT PROTESTS RENEW CALLS TO DISMANTLE HOMELAND SECURITY
Criticism of DHS has accompanied the department through its existence, most recently when former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen became the face of the Trump administration’s brutal policy of separating children from their parents at the southern border. Calls to abolish U.S. … [Read more...]
Omar, Sanders Lead Bill to End Destructive Taxpayer Subsidies for Fossil Fuels
YES Omar and Sanders!!! Trying again to get something through Congress. End Polluter Welfare Act (Text of the bill at: https://omar.house.gov/sites/omar.house.gov/files/Bill%20Text%20-%20EPWA.pdf) "It is outrageous that the federal government has exploited a pandemic to throw even more public … [Read more...]
Call to Action from King County Equity Now-Reinvest SPD Funds into Community
Last week, Decriminalize Seattle and King County Equity Now presented a plan to reinvest 50% of SPD’s remaining 2020 budget into pro-community, pro-safety measures. Specifically, we proposed reinvestments in four categories (described in more detail below.) Replace current 911 operations with a … [Read more...]
What to an American Is the Fourth of July?
On this Fourth of July, the rest of us—and our wealthy white male allies—should be celebrating our ongoing struggles for freedom and not celebrating as if we are free. We should be celebrating our disobedience, turbulence, insolence, and discontent about inequities and injustices in all forms. We … [Read more...]
8 Washington counties carry a racist legacy in their names
Confederate statues are being pulled down, one after another, spurred by Black Lives Matter protests across the country. The likenesses of other historic figures with problematic histories have been toppled, vandalized or removed, too, including those of the conquistador Juan de Onate in New Mexico, … [Read more...]
Seattle activists share their vision for Black trans pride
In recent years, trans issues have broken into the mainstream. It didn’t happen overnight; it’s been a long time coming. Trans activists have been at the center of the fight for LGBTQ rights since before Stonewall, decrying discrimination and violence against their peers for … [Read more...]
Yakima County farmworkers called ‘sacrificial lambs’ of pandemic
Yakima County has the highest per capita rate of COVID-19 infections on the entire West Coast, a distinction the community leaders blame on a slow response from the governor and state and local officials to demands for stronger health and safety protections for agricultural workers. The Central … [Read more...]
The Fight for Equitable Access to Water and Electricity Has Never Been More Urgent
In few U.S. cities is the burden of high utility bills more apparent than in Detroit, which conducted the largest residential water shutoff in the country’s history in 2014. Since then, some 140,000 local residents have faced water shutoffs due to skyrocketing water rates, a 35 percent poverty rate, … [Read more...]
The Fullest Look Yet at the Racial Inequity of Coronavirus
Latino and African-American residents of the United States have been three times as likely to become infected as their white neighbors, according to the new data, which provides detailed characteristics of 640,000 infections detected in nearly 1,000 U.S. counties. And Black and Latino people have … [Read more...]
Share Your Unemployment Story to Leverage Economic Aid
In this time of pandemic and economic crisis, Congress is more out of touch than ever. With public health restrictions keeping lawmakers from meeting in-person in their communities, far too many are only seeing this crisis through the news. We at Town Hall Project are convinced that if our … [Read more...]
I Am a Book Critic. Here’s What Is Wrong With “Black Lists” — and What Is Good.
Political and creative false choices dog this country: that books by Black people or about race are for didactic purposes only, separate from the demands of form, poetics, genius, and even delight. And so, as an antidote to all the political falsehoods, consumer pitfalls, and creative lapses that … [Read more...]
Police Condemned for Charging Peaceful Environmentalists With ‘Terrorizing’ in Louisiana
"These charges are mere retaliation in response to the critical work done by Louisiana Bucket Brigade," said Scott Eustis, community science director at HealthyGulf. "Formosa Plastics is a serial offender of the United States Clean Water Act, and discussing their criminal record with executives and … [Read more...]
Creative Justice – A Program for youth most impacted by the school-to-prison-(to-deportation) pipeline.
CREATIVE JUSTICE USES ART AS A VEHICLE TO: Prepare young people to be leaders in community and the workplace; Amplify youth voice as a source of community transformation; Promote teamwork, collaboration, and community engagement; Help lift up the power of young people … [Read more...]
The future of Capitol Hill’s protest zone may lie in Seattle history
Seattle’s history reveals many times when buildings have served as symbols for civil rights struggles. The current local movement, driven by Black Lives Matter demonstrators advocating for social and racial justice, echoes other times when multiracial coalitions claimed buildings and land as a form … [Read more...]
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