Cascadia Democratic Action's Cascadia Day poetry reading went so well in May we've decided to start a monthly spoken word and performance series! It's called Subduction, after the geological process in which a coastal tectonic plate sinking deep below the continent creates the volcanoes,
Trump's trade war on Canada will hurt Cascadia After a week of negotiations between the US and Canadians failed, Donald Trump has announced he'll impose 50% duties on a range of Canadian imports, and prime minister Mark Carney said Canada would respond with equal tariffs of
Hunger strike at Tacoma ICE camp ends The Stranger reports that a hunger strike by 140 detainees at the the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma has ended after GEO and ICE have said they'll improve meal quality and consistency. The strike was called by immigrants held at the
The Tacoma prison camp is a grim place, situated between a maze of railroad tracks and surrounded by razor wire. It looks exactly like what it is: a concentration camp where 1,500 people are held, many indefinitely.
Seattle and Portland have become safe havens from places passing restrictive anti-trans laws.
Cascadia – Oregon and Washington together – paid $51.5 billion more in taxes than were returned back to our region in funding in 2025.
After a talk last night in Seattle by Bank of North Dakota CEO Don Morgan, I came away even more convinced that Oregon and Washington should make creating public state banks a high legislative priority.
The Trump regime is systematically destroying protections for Oregon and Washington's forests and moving to triple logging of public lands in Cascadia.
ICE is desperate to push forward its deportation effort and please their fascist little president.
Observations on news, politics, and the arts in the Pacific Northwest.
The Tacoma prison camp is a grim place, situated between a maze of railroad tracks and surrounded by razor wire. It looks exactly like what it is: a concentration camp where 1,500 people are held, many indefinitely.
Lawsuit in OR challenges feds expanding grazing Oregon Capital Chronicle reports that the environmental group Center for Biological Diversity has filed a lawsuit in federal court in Oregon opposing the Trump regime's plan to vastly expand cattle grazing on 24 million acres of Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Member of Congress visit Tacoma ICE camp Oregon Live reports that two Democratic members of Congress from Cascadia, Maxine Dexter of Portland, and Emily Randall, whose district includes Tacoma, paid an unannounced visit to ICE's Northwest Detention Center this past weekend. The ICE detention camp was the focus
Tribe works to save endangered sunflowers stars KUOW reports on work wildlife biologists and the Samish tribe are doing to breed and release sunflowers stars, which have been devastated by a bacterial pandemic that has wiped out 5 billion of the Pacific coast creatures. Members of the Salish Sea tribe
Concern that ICE camp in Tacoma will be sold to feds KUOW reports on speculation that ICE is looking to purchase the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma from the private company GEO Group. The ICE camp, which has been at the center of hundreds of complaints of unsanitary food, inadequate
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Seattle passes junk fee ban + $300K trans assistance The Seattle city council was busy yesterday, unanimously passing mayor Katie Wilson's rental junk fee ban as well also unanimously approving a $300,000 addition to the supplemental budget (introduced by council member Alexis Mercedes Rinck) that would assist trans
Seattle and Portland have become safe havens from places passing restrictive anti-trans laws.
Vote on Seattle rental junk fee ban today The Seattle city council will vote this afternoon on a proposed ban on, junk rental fees, including charges for things like pet rent, fees for in-unit appliances, cleaning of common areas, and other excessive fees. It would also require landlords to
Thanks again to all who donated in Cascadia Democratic Action's bottled water and N-95 mask drive. Wash Masks mutual aid is coordinating with Latinos en Seattle to ensure masks are getting to people who need them in the Spokane area, and they sent along this message to
In case you missed it, I was on the CityCast Seattle podcast last week talking about how our region could benefit from a state bank: more funds for affordable housing and low-cost student loans, more certainty about disaster relief, and keeping money in Cascadia instead of with mega banks.
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