Sign of the times

Andrew Engelson

21 Aug 2025

Just a sign, is all. Photo by Andrew Engelson.

Just a sign from a protest at Seattle's Cal Anderson Park earlier this year.

PubliCola reported this week that organizers of the “Revive in ’25” right-wing, anti-queer Christian Nationalist rally agreed to move their event, planned for August 30 from Cal Anderson to Gasworks Park in Fremont.

We'll still be protesting, but good they took their hate out of our neighborhood.

Cascadia Journal will resume on Tuesday next week. --AE

Detail of a totem showing a person inside the beak of a large eagle.

Cascadia today: OR & WA approve COVID vaccines + BC fails to greenwash LNG port + totem pole tour for ecology

In case you missed it, this week I wrote about how the United States' descent into fascism compelled me to think of myself not as a resident of America, but Cascadia. Hope you'll have a chance to read it this weekend. I'll be headed out

Why I no longer think of myself as American

It's been a gradual process, but I now identify as a resident of Cascadia rather than a resident of the United States. Rethinking one's identity and loyalties can be a difficult but clarifying process. For me, it has become more urgent with the election of Donald

A march with people holding a trans flag, pride flag and a sign that reads no queer liberation without trans liberation.

Cascadia today: Rural hospitals in crisis + will Canada offer asylum to trans people? + WA book awards

Loss of hospitals in eastern Cascadia begins If you live east of the Cascades and need convincing that the US no longer cares about your well-being, I suggest you read this story at Investigate West about the crisis facing hospitals in eastern Oregon. At the center of the piece is

A massive LNG tanter ship docked in a port with rain clouds and low mountains in the distance.

Cascadia today: BC all in with LNG + fucking ash borer beetles + new PDX punk act Obedient

BC approves huge LNG facility According to the Narwhal, the British Columbia government recently approved a 12-million ton liquefied natural gas facility at Ksi Lisims at the mouth of the Nass River. A joint venture between Canadian & US firms, and the Nisga’a First Nation, the project will be

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Cascadia today: OR & WA approve COVID vaccines + BC fails to greenwash LNG port + totem pole tour for ecology

Why I no longer think of myself as American

Cascadia today: Rural hospitals in crisis + will Canada offer asylum to trans people? + WA book awards

Cascadia today: BC all in with LNG + fucking ash borer beetles + new PDX punk act Obedient