Good morning, friends! This week I wrote about how the union of employees at REI, the Cascadia-based outdoor gear co-op, joined with more than 70,000 co-op members to stage a boycott of REI to protest its unfair labor contract and union-busting practices. North America's largest consumer co-op,
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Faced with several years of profit losses, REI co-op has started to act like a typical profit-hungry corporation.
Good morning, friends! Here's your daily roundup of news from across the Cascadia bioregion. If you appreciate Cascadia Journal, please consider getting a paid subscription. Everything you read here, including my weekly articles and essays, is paywall free. Your paid subscriptions make this possible. And to my generous
Faced with several years of profit losses, REI co-op has started to act like a typical profit-hungry corporation.
it’s time for the people of Oregon and Washington to consider a radical but rational solution to authoritarianism: separation from the United States.
As Cascadia moves toward asserting its autonomy and independence, we should consider restoring the older, Indigenous names to the volcanoes of our bioregion.
A study released by Seattle Cruise Control estimates that each year, pollution generated by Seattle's cruise business is equal to about half of Seattle's entire annual greenhouse gas emissions.
The Trump regime last week quietly killed the US Forest Service.
As Washington and Oregon face numerous economic threats, including the real possibility of recession, disastrous flooding, continued wildfires, and massive cuts to the federal budget by the Trump administration, it's time to consider an idea that's been gaining traction in blue states hit hard by Trump&
Observations on news, politics, and the arts in the Pacific Northwest.
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Good morning friends. If you haven't yet read the piece I wrote with Drew Alcoser, It's time for Cascadia Independence from the US, please take a moment. Those of us who believe it's time for Oregon and Washington to go their own way are
it’s time for the people of Oregon and Washington to consider a radical but rational solution to authoritarianism: separation from the United States.
Good morning! If you haven't read Eugene Weekly's interview with me about the Cascadia autonomy movement, take a few minutes to give it a read. They did a good job covering the start of CDA's campaign for independence for Oregon and Washington: "Andrew
Good morning! Just a reminder that I'll be attempting to read 24 books about Cascadia or by Cascadia authors this summer, and you're welcome to join me. My first is Rough Trade by Katrina Carrasco and it's a fabulous historical novel about a gang
Good morning! Well, I guess it's official: I'm more of an organizer and activist than a journalist. I was interviewed by Eugene Weekly about Cascadia Democratic Action, bioregionalism, and how we need to start working toward real autonomy for Oregon and Washington. Give it a read!
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Good morning! I'm back from a lovely backpacking trip near the Gray Wolf river on the Olympic peninsula – it was the perfect time to go, with Pacific rhododendron and fairly slippers in bloom. Highly recommended – it's good to take a step back from the world and
Good morning! Summer is just around the corner, and that means it's time to grab some books to read on the beach, out on the porch, or in a campsite. Shamelessly stealing an idea from Seattle Public Library, Cascadia Journal and Cascadia Democratic Action are hosting a summer
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Good morning! Thanks to all who came out to the Cascadia Day Poetry Explosion in Seattle, and the Gathering Cascadia event in Portland. We had a packed house at Vermillion, and more than 100 people showed up at Taborspace in Portland to celebrate the resilience of our bioregion. Clearly, people
Good morning, friends! Last night's Cascadia Day celebration of poetry at Vermillion on Capitol Hill in Seattle was a fun, moving, and profoundly inspiring event. Thank you to Vermillion for hosting, and to poet and Cascadia Poetry Festival organizer Paul Nelson for bringing together such a talented group
