Cascadia today: OR needs more heat pumps + opposing a BC gold mine + queer Seattle writers to read this summer

Good morning, and happy belated summer solstice! Enjoy the the sunny evenings – it's important for Cascadians to stock up on vitamin D before the Big Dark of winter! If you're looking for some good news from the Pacific Northwest and haven't read it yet,

Coast Salish Indigenous canoes inspire little poetry bookcases in Auburn & Muckleshoot land

Mateo Quispe, the poet laureate of Auburn, led the creation of little libraries of Indigenous poetry and placed them in community spaces across Auburn and Muckleshoot lands.

Cascadia today: Feds to put back ocean monitors + Seattle hotel workers strike + Jeff VanderMeer at home in Portland

Happy Juneteenth! Looking for ways to enjoy the holiday that celebrates Black freedom, art, and culture? Here are some events across Cascadia today and through the weekend: The South Seattle Emerald has a great guide to Juneteenth in central and South Seattle & South King county. The Juneteenth Oregon Festival

Cascadia today: Celebrate Juneteenth across Cascadia + feds to triple logging in Blue mountains + addressing crime in Little Saigon

Good morning, friends! Tomorrow is Juneteenth, so have a look further into today's newsletter to find out about celebrations of Black freedom, arts, and culture Friday and through the weekend across Cascadia. And to mark Juneteenth, take a moment to read Donovan Scribes' essay at the Portland

Cascadia today: Spokane wildfire forces evacuations + Portland cop funding campaign is lying + BIPOC birding groups

Good morning! I'm in Portland today, having meetings with Cascadia activists and enjoying the train ride on the Amtrak Cascades. It's an essential connector between the cities of Cascadia, and the line recently reduced travel times from Seattle to Vancouver BC by ten minutes, after border

Cascadia today: Shooting at Blaine border + Spokane balks on data center ban + let tribes manage public lands

Good morning, friends. If you haven't yet read the New York Times piece that profiles the growing movement for Cascadia autonomy, please take a moment. "The revolution begins with a poetry reading," Anna Griffin said of our Cascadia Day event at Vermillion, and then went on

Cascadia today: Cascadia separatism in the New York Times + Seattle sweeps encampments for World Cup + poetry by Lue Hughes

Good morning, friends. This past weekend, I returned home from a lovely backpacking trip to Snoqualmie Lake to learn the New York Times published its profile of Cascadia Democratic Action and our efforts to start the conversation on independence for Cascadia. The reporter, bureau chief for the Pacific Northwest, who&

Cascadia today: Cascadia vote-by-mail threatened + OR is getting older + Fantagraphics celebrates 50 years

Good morning, friends! Just a reminder that you can find all of Cascadia Journal's features on our home page under the tab Cascadia features. You'll find pieces about a Portland city council candidate who supports the idea of Cascadia, returning Indigenous names to Cascadia's

Cascadia today: World Cup a tourism dud for Cascadia + 10k apply for Seattle social housing + Portland's queer saints

In case you missed it, yesterday I wrote about Jeremy Beausoleil Smith's campaign for Portland city council: he's a Gen Z democratic socialist and project manager at Portland State University who's supportive of Cascadia autonomy: "Let's get the idea out there,

Jeremy Beausoleil Smith runs for Portland city council supporting the idea of Cascadia

Smith spoke with Cascadia Journal about his campaign as a democratic socialist who's open to the idea of soft secession – and potentially, a Cascadia independence referendum.

Cascadia today: Seattle bans data centers + tiny BC owls under threat + Seattle's Crocodile music venue saved

Good morning! Interested in volunteering to help Oregon and Washington move forward on Cascadia autonomy? Sign up for email alerts from Cascadia Democratic Action, our partner organization and a grassroots organization leading the movement toward independence for the Cascadia bioregion. Seattle votes to ban data centers for one year The

Cascadia today: Ferguson warns of austerity budget + Tofino prepares for tsunami + taking buses to trails

Ferguson warns of cuts to WA budget Washington State Standard reports that Washington governor Bob Ferguson's budget director sent a memo to state agencies alerting them to plan for "significant shortfalls" in the upcoming biennial budget process and that projected revenue will "not provide sufficient