Community Rights Workshop
Kai Huschke, CELDF Northwest and Hawaii Community Organizer
Why do we almost never win against corporations targeting our communities?
Simple. Corporations and their allies have been busy manufacturing a structure of law over the last 150 years that insulates these institutions and their supporters from community control.
- Why conventional activism is not up to the job for the changes needed
- Corporate controlled legal box contains our communities
- Origins of the right of local self government and corporate rights
- Building a new peoples’ movement: Community Rights
- What it will take to build and protect a viable and sustainable Gig Harbor
Residents of Gig Harbor are working to protect Puget Sound. Recognizing that we live under a structure of law and governance that makes sustainability illegal, we are joining together to explore the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund Community Rights as a strategy to create the communities that we envision. Sponsored by Citizens for the Preservation of Gig Harbor.
We Rise With Standing Rock—Seattle!
In solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s global call to action against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), indigenous grassroots leadership in Seattle calls on local Tribal Nations and our allies to march peacefully and rally on Friday, March 10, 2017. #NativeNationsRise #RiseWithStandingRock
The march starts at the Jackson Federal Building located at 915 2nd Avenue, Seattle, WA 98174 (by 2nd & Marion). Lineup begins at the federal building from 3:00–3:30 p.m. The march will proceed from the Federal Building to Westlake from 3:30–4:00 p.m., followed by a rally at Westlake Park from 4:00–6:00 p.m.
View this link for the Washington, DC details: lrinspire.com/2017/02/09/global-call-to-action-against-dakota-access-pipeline/
Key speakers will include Tribal Chairpersons & leaders, Indigenous NoDAPL Leaders, our youth, and key allies. We will also have the Sacred Water Canoe Family and other Canoe Families present.
Please bring your prayers, voices, chants, songs, drums, signs and wear your regalia! #MniWiconi #NoDAPL. Please contact Millie Kennedy at (206) 604-8494 for more information. This event is cosponsored by grassroots organizers from NdnsForJustice and 350 Seattle, and also featuring InterTribal Survival.
If you want to volunteer please contact Pam Keeley at (206) 234-9315. Please circulate widely!
Law Enforcement in the 21st Century: a Kitsap Perspective
- Sanctuary cities
- Cell-phone videos
- Police body cameras
- An opioid epidemic
- Untreated mental illness
- Distracted drivers
These are just a few of the 21st-century issues facing law enforcement officers today. How are police agencies in Kitsap County responding to these challenges? What kinds of training and equipment do they provide? And how do they find the right people for the job?
Please join the League of Women Voters for a discussion of modern policing. Bring your friends and your questions.
Our special guest speakers will be Kitsap County Sheriff Gary Simpson, Bremerton Police Chief Steve Strachan, Bainbridge Police Chief Matthew Hamner, Poulsbo Police Chief Dan Schoonmaker, Port Orchard Police Chief Geoffrey Marti, and Suquamish Tribal Police Chief Mike Lasnier.
For information:
Website: www.lwv-kitsap.org
Facebook: League of Women Voters of Kitsap County
Stand with Women Day of Action
Join fired-up NARAL members to urge your legislators to stand with women and expand reproductive freedom. We will host a Member Summit for all our members, followed by a rally on the Capitol steps and a direct action to hold our elected officials accountable.The itinerary for the day is as follows:
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Member Summit and Legislative Workshop
General Administration Building Auditorium, 210 11th Ave. SW, Olympia, WA
Facilitators: Executive Director Tiffany Hankins, Field Organizer Natalia Koss Vallejo, Lobbyist, Melanie Smith
3:15 pm – 4:30 pm Rally on the steps of the Legislative Building
4:30 pm – 5:15 pm People’s Filibuster and Closing Statements in the Rotunda
This event is free and family friendly! We will have art supplies and snacks available to keep kids entertained and there will be opportunities to create crafts, write messages to legislators, and tell your own story for adults. For more information on parking and transportation, click here.
Register for this Day of Action by clicking here!
We will have light snacks available during the member summit, however, we encourage you to eat a good lunch beforehand or bring a lunch with you if you want to fuel up before the rally. Please come dressed in warm, comfortable clothes (wear something purple if you have it!) and only bring items that you can comfortably carry with you from the General Administration building to the rally location two blocks away. Have a question? Contact us at info@prochoicewashington.org.
White Privilege: Let’s Talk
Fox Island United Church of Christ is presenting White Privilege: Let’s Talk, a curriculum developed by the United Church of Christ. This 6-week series provides an opportunity for increased awareness of white privilege and expands our commitment to racial equality and justice.
For more information about the curriculum or to download the curriculum, go to http://privilege.uccpages.org/
Information: FoxIslandUCC.org
Phone: 253-549-2420
We look forward to engaging in respectful, meaningful, and bold conversations on race and privilege. Please join us
Duration: Sundays beginning at 11:30 with a simple soup lunch, from March 5th-April 9th, 2017.