Daily Digest: ICE abducts Spokane man, Nick Brown is busy & honoring missing Indigenous women
Good morning! Here's your wrap-up of news, environmental reporting, and arts from across the Cascadia bioregion. If you appreciate this newsletter, please help support it with a $5 monthly subscription. Thanks!
ICE arrests Spokane immigrant with no criminal record
RANGE Media report that ICE agents last week violently captured Martin Diaz, a resident of Spokane who had been going through legal channels to get his green card and has lived in the US since he was a toddler. Diaz was taken to the Kootenai Detention Center in Idaho, where many immigrants arrested in Washington are ending up. Investigate West reports that Owyhee County in western Idaho has entered into an agreement to assist ICE in arresting and detaining undocumented immigrants.
WA AG Nick Brown has sued Trump 13 times
The Seattle Times profiles Washington state attorney general Nick Brown, whose 13 lawsuits against Trump administration policies – including cuts to federal agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, and threats to human rights such as limits on gender-affirming care for transgender people – rival the pace of his predecessor, Bob Ferguson.
Red Dress Day remembers murdered Indigenous women
Today is the 15th annual Red Dress Day, which draws attention to and remembers murdered and missing Indigenous women across Canada. CBC reports on a range of events across British Columbia today and notes that 63% of Indigenous women have suffered some form of sexual or physical assault.
Massive earthquake could put Cascadia underwater
As if the news in the region wasn't bad enough, a report at Oregon Capital Chronicle says a new scientific study shows that mega quake in Oregon and Washington could leave more than 17,000 people in a flood plain.
"From My River to Your Sea"
At the Capilano Review, you can read Salia Joseph's short essay "From My River to Your Sea," a meditation on the ancient village of X̱wemelch’stn, where the river meets the sea, and Joseph's feelings of solidarity with the people of Palestine.
--Andrew Engelson