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Arts & Culture

Cascadia shines for the World Cup

As World Cup soccer fans have flooded Seattle and Vancouver for matches, it's brought an energy an excitement to Cascadia's two largest cities.

Protesters march holding signs that say Trans Rights Now and Trans Rights are Human Rights. One person holds a bullhorn

Cascadia today: Seattle hearing on trans civil emergency + BC seaweed farms on the rise + humorous dad memoir by Nisga'a author Jordan Abel

Good morning. I'll be traveling the Friday through next week, and this daily news roundup will be replaced with some brief book notes – I'll be updating you on what I've been reading during my Cascadia Summer Book Bingo challenge. Want to join the fun?

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Cascadia today: El Niño to hit Cascadia + giving land back to tribes in PDX + a map of Seattle's hip-hop history

Good morning to everyone except ICE and US district judge Reed O'Connor, who sentenced eight anti-fascist protesters yesterday to more than 450 years of prison sentences for participating in and organizing a protest at the ICE facility in Prairieland, Texas. The extreme sentences are part of the

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Cascadia today: Feds cancel WA meeting vote-by-mail + AK cruise kills whale + the moody art of Takao Tanabe

Good morning! If you're new to Cascadia Journal, welcome! I write this newsletter every day, bringing you an opinionated roundup of news, environmental reporting, and arts & culture coverage from across the Cascadia bioregion. I also write weekly articles and essays about what's great about Cascadia

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,

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Arts & Culture

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.

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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

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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

A guy stands behind a podium in a brick-walled bar in front of a full crowd of Cascadia supporters.

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&

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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

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