| Excerpt: | June 6th is an opportunity to remember all who were involved in the Normandy landings. The success of the operation set the stage for the end of Hitler's Third Reich and the liberation of occupied Europe. |
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| Published at: | 12:44 PM on Thursday, June 6th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Holidays |
| Tags: | D-Day, Lessons from History |
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Category Archives: Holidays
Today is the seventy-fifth anniversary of D-Day — the day of the Normandy landings
April 10th will henceforth be celebrated as Dolores Huerta Day in Washington State
| Excerpt: | Washington State has a new holiday, recognizing a pioneering labor leader and civil rights activist who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Saturday, March 23rd, 2019 |
| Written by: | Caitlin Harrington |
| Categories: | Holidays |
| Tags: | Dolores Huerta Day |
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Banished Words for 2019
| Excerpt: | Read Lake Superior State University's forty-fourth List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness. |
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| Published at: | 8:30 AM on Tuesday, January 1st, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Holidays |
| Tags: | Banished Words, New Year's |
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This Sunday, NPI will honor late activist Alex Hendrickson with a Lynn Allen Award
| Excerpt: | Gifted activist and leader Alex Hendrickson died suddenly in early December 2018. Learn about NPI's plans to honor her with a Lynn Allen Award. |
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| Published at: | 1:15 PM on Friday, December 14th, 2018 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Events |
| Tags: | Lynn Allen Awards, Winter Holiday Party |
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In memoriam, seventeen years later
| Excerpt: | Today is the sixteenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks, which destroyed New York's World Trade Center, damaged the Pentagon, and claimed the lives of thousands of innocent Americans. In honor of those who died that day, we're republishing a poem that we post annually here on The Cascadia Advocate. |
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| Published at: | 5:46 AM on Tuesday, September 11th, 2018 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Holidays |
| Tags: | September 11th Remembrance Day |
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The Declaration of Independence, two hundred and forty-two years later
| Excerpt: | This Fourth of July, take a few minutes to read the Declaration of Independence. |
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| Published at: | 9:00 AM on Wednesday, July 4th, 2018 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Holidays |
| Tags: | Fourth of July |
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Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Anyone who lives inside the U.S. can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds”
| Excerpt: | Take a few moments today to read this excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther Kingr, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail, in which he explains that no American can be considered to be an outsider within the boundaries of their own country. |
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| Published at: | 9:15 AM on Monday, January 15th, 2018 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics |
| Tags: | Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Nondiscrimination |
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Banished Words for 2018
| Excerpt: | Read Lake Superior State University's List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Misuse, Overuse, and General Uselessness for 2018, plus NPI's additions. This year, we're banishing "Alternative Facts", "Thoughts and Prayers", "Zero Sum Game", "Hive Mind", "Woke", and "Not/Shouldn't Be a Partisan Issue". |
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| Published at: | 11:16 PM on Saturday, December 30th, 2017 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Holidays |
| Tags: | Banished Words, New Year's |
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The Declaration of Independence, two hundred and forty-one years later
| Excerpt: | Take a few moments this July Fourth to read the Declaration of Independence. |
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| Published at: | 9:00 AM on Tuesday, July 4th, 2017 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Holidays |
| Tags: | Fourth of July |
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Happy Easter 2017!
| Excerpt: | If you are observing the Easter holiday today, please accept best wishes from all of us at the Northwest Progressive Institute. Easter is the most significant holy day for Christianity’s many denominations, although not all of them are celebrating it today. Passages like the following excerpt from the Gospel of Matthew (28:1-10) are commonly read […] |
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| Published at: | 5:57 PM on Sunday, April 16th, 2017 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Holidays |
| Tags: | Easter |
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The Declaration of Independence, two hundred and forty-three years later