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ICE ramps up kidnappings in Puget Sound region
ICE is desperate to push forward its deportation effort and please their fascist little president.
Immigration
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Portland's effective pushback againt ICE
The ICE facility in Portland is a surreal place. Tucked in a gentrified neighborhood full of apartment towers, a bike trail along the Willamette River, and on Old Spaghetti Factory restaurant, the graffiti-tagged building feels like an enemy outpost in an otherwise peaceful, vibrant city. The site is generally
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Imagining Cascadia as a postnational nation
The idea of Cascadia has always been a bioregional concept rather than a nationalist project. But the current authoritarian and constitutional crisis is the United States has forced those of us who live in US states within the Cascadia bioregion to consider alternatives to remaining within the US framework. I
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Protesting ICE's cold-blooded murder
Cascadia responded quickly to the news that an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good, a 37-year-old single mother, in Minneapolis yesterday. A noisy protest of several hundred people in Seattle gathered outside the federal building downtown last night and called for an end to ICE's
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They took a father from his child
In the art of writing fiction there's a concept known as the "inciting incident," a moment early in a story when the main character is confronted with a shock or sudden change that then drives the rest of the narrative . It's a useful concept
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Deport ICE from Cascadia
Sign up for the free newsletter One day after a crowd of protesters defied a raid by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in a Latino neighborhood of Minneapolis, and several days after another crowd shouting "Shame!" surrounded ICE agents attempting to detain people at two restaurants