Are Portland sweeps increasing homeless death rate? Street Roots has an excellent, detailed report looking at the rates of death of people living without shelter in Multnomah county (which mostly encompasses the city of Portland) and the data are sobering: the Portland area has one of the highest rates of
Thousands turn out for No Kings marches across Cascadia In a defiant message to Donald Trump on the occasion of his sparsely-attended Soviet-style military parade, More than 100,000 people turned our for No Kings protests across Cascadia. The Seattle Times reported that more than 70,000 marched from Cal
Good morning! Here's the latest news from and impacting Cascadia (there's a lot!). If you missed it, be sure to read my latest essay, In Favor of Civil Disobedience. Hope to see some of you out in Cal Anderson Park in Seattle tomorrow. Stay safe, everyone.
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Support my newsletter for just $5 per month Like others in my generation, as a child, I was sometimes spanked. It wasn't a regular occurrence, something only used in exceptional circumstances. But when it happened, it was terrifying. I remember times locking myself in the bathroom to escape
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Good morning. I'm sending out a correction to this morning's Cascadia Journal newsletter. We reported that the Port of Seattle is seeing a 26 percent decline over last year, but the Port's dashboard is not current for 2025, and the 26 percent decline that
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California resists as migrants fear reporting harassment Good morning! Things got heated in California over the weekend, as protests in Los Angeles against ICE raids broke out and Trump activated the National Guard (and California sued to stop him). Cascadia watched with intense interest and was relieved that Washington governor
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Good morning! If you haven't already, read my essay this week about how Cascadia should get work to get rid of ICE and counter the Trump administration's illegal and cruel immigration crackdown. Also, in case you missed it, I won an award from the local chapter
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