Monthly Archives: March 2023

Posted inCivil Liberties, Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics

VICTORY! Washington State House votes to ban military style assault weapons

by Andrew Villeneuve

“The House today put pub­lic safe­ty above the inter­est of the gun lob­by,” Attor­ney Gen­er­al Bob Fer­gu­son said. “The dev­as­ta­tion of mass shoot­ings extends far beyond the casu­al­ties and injuries. Mass shoot­ings trau­ma­tize entire com­mu­ni­ties. We must stop sell­ing these weapons of war in Washington.”

Posted inCivil Liberties

Manka Dhingra’s youth-inspired bill to ban gender-based price discrimination advances

by Andrew Villeneuve

SB 5171 is youth-inspired leg­is­la­tion that Dhin­gra, a North­west Pro­gres­sive Foun­da­tion board­mem­ber, intro­duced in part­ner­ship with civi­cal­ly-ori­ent­ed stu­dents from Lake Wash­ing­ton High School in Kirk­land. If passed, it will stop retail­ers from charg­ing Wash­ing­to­ni­ans (espe­cial­ly those who iden­ti­fy as female) extra for prod­ucts mere­ly because they are mar­ket­ed to a par­tic­u­lar gender.

Posted inPolicy Topics

Washington nonprofits’ email systems breached by phishers in March 6th attack

by Andrew Villeneuve

The Microsoft-based email sys­tems of sev­er­al Wash­ing­ton-based non­prof­its and at least one trib­al nation were breached today in what appears to the North­west Pro­gres­sive Insti­tute team to be a well-exe­cut­ed, alarm­ing mass phish­ing cam­paign tar­get­ing insti­tu­tions that serve the peo­ple of the Pacif­ic Northwest.

Posted inPolicy Topics

Senator Maria Cantwell weighs in against ConocoPhillips’ Willow Arctic drilling project

by Joel Connelly

The poten­tial dev­as­ta­tion to Arc­tic ecosys­tems, from cli­mate dam­age, “is irre­versible and irre­spon­si­ble to future gen­er­a­tions,” said Cantwell. “Oil com­pa­nies already have record prof­its and access to drilling rights on mil­lions of acres of pub­lic lands which they should be using to meet our cur­rent fos­sil fuel needs.”

Posted inPolicy Topics

Firearm Industry Responsibility/Gun Violence Victims’ Access to Justice Act clears Senate

by Andrew Villeneuve

“This leg­is­la­tion pro­vides account­abil­i­ty for a gun indus­try that has too often failed to take nec­es­sary pre­cau­tions to pre­vent guns from get­ting into the wrong hands,” Gov­er­nor Inslee said. “Indus­try neg­li­gence costs lives — this bill lets the indus­try know we won’t abide this sta­tus quo any longer.”