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Support Black Owned Businesses: The Seattle Black Pages

Here in Seattle, in honor of Black Business Month, an awesome group of folks has stepped up to create the Seattle Black Pages, a directory of black and minority owned businesses that every person can support.

Recently, their successful Kickstarter allowed them to raise more than $12,000 from 770 backers, and the directory includes more than 100 businesses.

If you support Black Lives…

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#Black Pages #blacklivesmatter #business #directory #Seattle

Bioregionalism: Connecting and Activating Generations

Shared Zoom Call with special guests from Planet Drum Foundation & the Terran Collective. Thursday, September 3rd 2020 at 5-6:30pm

Bioregionalism is about getting to know a place and its myths, mysteries, terrain, history, relationships, culture, and ecological processes. Numerous visionaries and scholars have written that the bioregion presents a manageable and ecologically appropriate scale…

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#event #Hylo #interview #Judy Goldhaft #Planet Drum

Bioregional Congress of Pacific Cascadia 1988

BOB BENSON 1977 Binda Colebrook

On April 7-10, 1988, approximately 140 people gathered at the Breitenbush Retreat Center in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon. The people came primarily from western Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia — the place coming to be known as Pacific Cascadia — and worked as peers for three days to articulate a broad collection of visions, values, and plans on a…

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#1988 #Bioregional #Breitenbush #Cascadia #Congress #pacifica

Interview with Theo Slater & the California National Party

Theo Slater and The California National Party

Abstract:

I had the opportunity to conduct a very pleasant and informative interview with Theo Slater, the co-founder of the California National Party. They are an independence party based in the American state of California. Currently, they have their eyes set on becoming officially recognized as a Californian political party so they can…

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#California National Party #Cascadia Underground #CNP #Theo Slater

CALEXIT Movement repositioning for 2024 Independence Referendum

As we near the 2020 election, Calexit is repositioning itself for an independence referendum to take place in 2024, which will prompt the beginning moves of devolution, which would ultimately take place in 2032.

The movement for California to secede from the United States began in 2014, with organizers taking their inspiration from YES Scotland referendum which also took place that year. After…

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#california #Cascadia #Secession #YesCalifornia

Thank you for supporting the Cascadia Underground!

Hi all,

I want to take a moment and say thank you! for being our first patrons of the Cascadia Underground. With your support, we are already 20% to completing our monthly fundraising goal, and we’ve only just begun.

We are excited to partner with Horizon Books, one of Seattle’s longest running independent used bookstores. We’ll be located in the heart of Capitol Hill, and using the front half…

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The Survivors Will Be Bioregional

I want to talk to all of you today about the humans that survived the current planetary predicament.

How did they organize their lives? What was the key to their success?It is no secret that we are in the midst of a severe period of ecological collapse. The exploding human population lay flat on its growth curve for hundreds of thousands of years until the invention of industrial agriculture.…

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#Environment #Regeneration #sustainability

Arts of Resistance, Arts of Connection with Lauren Holloway Sunday July 25th

We are excited to share that the next Arts of Resistance, Arts of Connection talk will feature Lauren Holloway, a Seattle-based metal, paint, apparel, and mixed media artist. She is a long-time teaching artist and nearly four years ago founded the Art of Resistance & Resilience club at Franklin High School that she advises and provides art instruction.

“It’s hard enough to see the news…

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Cascadia Underground Proud to Partner with Horizon Books for the Creation of an Independent Media Center in Seattle, WA

We are excited to announce that we are creating an Independent Media Center in the Capitol Hill Neighborhood of Seattle.

Starting in August, the Cascadia Underground will have a place to live in a space that’s more than just a website. So far, we have secured partnerships with local leaders from the worlds of politics, advocacy, non-profit work, community service, and activism, all of whom…

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#Cascadia Underground #Patreon #Seattle

Salmon Nation. Re-Imagining our Connection to Place as Nature State, not Nation State.

In late 2019, Salmon Nation, a new website and organization emerged to explore a new way of thinking around communities, resources, development and government within our shared bioregion. It is based around one core principle – that communities from California up through Alaska and the Yukon have physical connections that transcend arbitrary human borders.

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#bioregion #Cascadia #First Nations #Nation #Salmon

Cascadia Biodiversity Watch: Visualizing Dynamic Landscape Connectivity a Finalist for Salazar Conservation Prize

A potential program, Cascadia Biodiversity Watch, has been selected as one of five finalists to advance in the Colorado State University’s Salazar Center’s Connectivity Challenge. The full project, Visualizing Dynamic Landscape Connectivity, is a first of its kind planning and spatial tool for the Cascadia bioregion. It would be built using Google Earth and other open source tools, provide…

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#Biodiversity #Cascadia #Colorado #Conservation #Salazar

Unmarked US Military Deploy in Portland, Oregon.

Unmarked US Military Deploy in #Portland, Oregon. #PortlandProtests #BLM #PDXProtests

The United States has deployed federal soldiers from the U.S. Marshals Special Operations Group and Customs and Border Border Patrol Tactical Unit to Portland, Oregon.The move comes against the wishes of local and state officials, and federal personnel have been caught on camera using unmarked cars to abduct citizens, dispersing protesters with tear gas unrelated to federal property, and has…

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#PDX #Portland #Protest

Cascadia: A Haven for Non-Binary People in an Otherwise Hostile Country

Did you know that 66% of the U.S. does not recognize non-binary people?*

In the vast majority of the country, non-binary and gender non-conforming people are not legally protected from denial of housing, fair treatment, or being fired from their jobs** – and that doesn’t include the microaggressions that might come with, say, keeping your job but making much less than one’s peers or being…

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#Cascadia #LGBTQ #non-binary #Nonbinary

Cascadia Environmental Courts: Design Proposal Featured at this years Virtual Design Festival

At the first ever Virtual Design Festival, students and schools from around the world presented their visions for how architecture, and our human cultures can adapt and respond to the extraordinary circumstances facing our societies right now.

Five architecture students from the University of Oregon were chosen to present their visions of a Center for Democracy and Environmental Justice as…

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#Cascadia #court #environmental #Eugene #Nicklaus McGuire #project #University of Oregon

Voices of the Revolution: Diaz Love

Diaz Love. Activist. Livestreamer. Non-Binary (They / Them)

For our second Voices of the Revolution we are featuring Diaz Love. During the Capitol Hill Occupied Protests, Diaz Love grew a large following from just being down in the CHOP, and camping their with their medley assortment of rescued dogs. They slept in a tent, and had their van there.

While many other livestreamers and…

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#BLM #CHOP #Diaz Love #Seattle

Vandalism

Vandalism: An action causing deliberate destrucution of or damage to private or public property.

The mayor’s newest order executed the First of July called for the immediate clearing out of the Chop, both residents and atwork. Coming here for the first time this year you’d have no clue of what once laid here. Caution tape surrounds all entrances of what was once known as an autonomous zone is…

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#Cascadia #Op-ed #Seattle

New 'Cascadia' Field Guide will use Indigenous Classification rather than Western Taxonomy

New ‘Cascadia’ Field Guide will use Indigenous Classification rather than Western Taxonomy

In the first ever ‘Cascadia’ field guide, local experts, poets and artists are working to create a literary field guide for the Cascadia bioregion. This area is defined by the watersheds of the Fraser, Columbia and Snake rivers, and stretches from Mt. St. Alias in the north, to Cape Mendocino in the south, and as far as Yellowstone in the East. A bioregion is a territory defined by natural…

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#book #Cascadia #Field

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