As protests sparked by George Floyd’s death entered their chaotic fifth day, social media filled with images and video of police officers using batons, tear gas and rubber bullets to quell crowds—but some squads joined in with Saturday protesters to express their stance against police brutality and … [Read more...]
Hate Map by State – Southern Poverty Law Center
Washington (30) Hate Groups Statewide Asatru Folk Assembly (Neo-Volkisch) Atomwaffen Division (Neo-Nazi) Crew 38 (Racist Skinhead) Feuerkrieg Division (Neo-Nazi) Northwest Hammerskins (Racist Skinhead) Pacific Northwest Wolfpack Kindred (Neo-Volkisch) Patriot Front (White … [Read more...]
Man arrested following rash of verbal attacks on Asians in Seattle
Police arrested a man following a rash of verbal attacks against people of Asian descent this past week. Police have said it appears the racist comments are related to the pandemic. The arrest came after Seattle Police got several calls about an Asian couple walking with groceries, when a man … [Read more...]
Seattle Police Department investigating officer’s handling of bias incident at Home Depot
The department's Office of Police Accountability is reviewing what happened after a man called 911 to report being the target of anti-Asian slurs. He says the responding officer was dismissive of his complaint, despite the department recently urging the public to report bias … [Read more...]
U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Pass 100,000
The U.S., with less than five percent of the world's population, accounts for nearly a third of its coronavirus deaths, according to NPR. It has by far the highest death toll of any country in the world, and the virus that causes COVID-19 has now killed more Americans than every military conflict … [Read more...]
How White Backlash Controls American Progress
The backlashers have been out in force at recent anti-social-distancing protests, which have been dominated by white people proclaiming that public-health measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 are robbing them of their birthright of liberty. Making the connection to prior backlashes explicit, … [Read more...]
Seattle artist fights anti-Asian racism in the Chinatown-International District
In mid-April, a Chinatown-International District restaurant owner witnessed a group of men with dark sunglasses and face coverings plastering stickers with slogans like “America First” and “Better dead than red” in the neighborhood. The Seattle Police Department’s Bias Crimes Unit is … [Read more...]
Race and the Quarantined City
Lately, the coronavirus has got me thinking a lot about the racial dynamics of containment. Under the quarantine, much has been made of Americans’ regulated lack of mobility. But our cities have long kept their black residents contained and at the margins. Populations trapped in place are easier to … [Read more...]
Sign Petition in Support of the Natural Disaster and Emergency Ballot Act of 2020
Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson need your help to make sure all our voices are heard in November. They, along with their friend, Michelle Obama, co-chair When We All Vote, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to closing the race and age voting gap. "Yes, we had COVID-19. Yes, we made the … [Read more...]
Everyone Should Be Able to Vote, Especially in a Pandemic
The COVID-19 crisis puts workers, immigrants, LGBTQ individuals, Black and Brown people, and the most vulnerable among us at great risk. They are on the front lines of the crisis. While DI partners and allies are working day and night to protect their respective communities, President Trump is … [Read more...]
Women, minorities shoulder front-line work during pandemic
As America tentatively emerges from weeks of lockdowns, it is becoming clear that the pandemic has taken its toll on workers who have been on the front lines all along. They have been packing and delivering supplies, caring for the sick and elderly, and keeping streets and buildings … [Read more...]
US Sanctions on Venezuela and Iran before and during COVID-19 and Organizing Our PNW Community to Make Humane PolicyUS Sanctions on Venezuela and Iran before and during COVID-19 and Organizing Our PNW Community to Make Humane Policy
Featured Speaker Dan Kovalik Sunday May 3, 3 - 4:30 pm. Register for Zoom webinar here. Dan Kovalik is a professor of international human rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and the author of several books, including Plot to Overthrow Venezuela: How the US Is … [Read more...]
‘Cancer Alley’ Has Some of the Highest Coronavirus Death Rates in the Country
As predominately Black communities in the polluted areas along the Mississippi from New Orleans to Baton Rouge face heightened risks from COVID-19, the EPA has suspended enforcement of the environmental rules designed to protect them. Some government agencies are beginning to acknowledge the … [Read more...]
Coronavirus Death Rates Are a Direct Result of Environmental Racism
Along with other forms of systemic inequality, environmental racism can cause many of the underlying conditions that make the virus particularly dangerous for black and brown communities. “We’ve known literally forever that diseases like diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and asthma are … [Read more...]
The US Has Neglected Indian Country for Years. Now Comes a Pandemic
Nationally, health experts and tribal leaders are sounding the alarm that Native Americans are particularly vulnerable to the spread of COVID-19. Native Americans are more likely to live in overcrowded and intergenerational housing, lack access to running water, and experience health disparities … [Read more...]
“IRRESPONSIBLE AND DANGEROUS”: U.S. DEPORTS HAITIANS DESPITE CORONAVIRUS RISKS
Despite these concerns, and the U.S. government’s own public advisories, which emphasize the need to “avoid all international travel due to the global impact of Covid-19,” the U.S. deportation flight proceeded as scheduled. Yet seven of the Haitians on board were removed at the last minute. Among … [Read more...]
CONSERVATIVE OPERATIVES FLOAT PLAN TO PLACE RETIRED MILITARY, POLICE OFFICERS AS GOP POLL WATCHERS ON ELECTION DAY
The idea is a reprise of once-illegal Election Day “ballot security” intimidation tactics, intended to challenge voter registration and remove voters from the rolls. At a strategy session in February attended by conservative donors and activists, several people expressed a specific need for … [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...]
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...]
The Tornillo 16: Reflections on Migrant Detention and Incarceration at the U.S.-Mexico Border
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 this hour, … [Read more...]
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