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Category Archives: Holidays

February is Black History Month. It’s a good time to ask: What are you doing to make your community a better place for Black people?

Excerpt: In our fear, may we find purpose. May we leverage our collective pain and struggle to make ourselves and our communities better, Erin Jones writes.
Written by:Erin Jones
Other Categories:Civil Liberties, Education, Guest Posts, Policy Topics
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Martin Luther King, Jr.: Time is neutral, it can be used either destructively or constructively

Excerpt: Take a few moments to read this excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King's Letter From Birmingham Jail.
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Banished Words for 2022

Excerpt: Read Lake Superior State University's forty-seventh List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness -- plus NPI's additions!
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Other Categories:Humor & Satire
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Happy Thanksgiving 2021!

Excerpt: Here's what our team at the Northwest Progressive Institute is grateful for this year.
Written by:Rich Erwin
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It’s a two-for-one holiday: Happy Canadian Thanksgiving and Indigenous Peoples Day!

Excerpt: The second Monday in October is an opportunity to honor our Tribal Nations and to give thanks for our blessings with not one, but two holidays.
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Twenty years, twenty reads: Reflecting on the September 11th attacks two decades later

Excerpt: This collection of twenty interesting, thought-provoking articles and columns brings the impact of the tragedy of September 11th into clear focus.
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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In memoriam, twenty years later

Excerpt: In honor of those who died that day, we’re republishing a poem that we post annually here on The Cascadia Advocate.
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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The Declaration of Independence, two hundred and forty-five years later

Excerpt: This Fourth of July, take a few minutes to read the Declaration of Independence.
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Juneteenth ’21 at Jimi Hendrix Park: a Black-led parade, celebration, and call to action

Excerpt: Urging people advance racial equity now with real solutions, the 2nd Juneteenth Freedom March and Celebration took place across Seattle's Central District.
Written by:Bobby Aiyer
Other Categories:Civil Liberties
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Bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday clears Congress; Biden to sign it tomorrow

Excerpt: Legislation that would make Juneteenth a federal holiday has cleared the United States Congress by an extremely lopsided margin, with only a few extremist, white supremacist House Republicans in opposition.
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Other Categories:Legislative Advocacy
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Happy Easter 2021!

Excerpt: The Cascadia Advocate's annual Easter holiday news roundup for 2021, with messages from elected leaders and links to local Easter liturgical services.
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Read or watch the amazingly talented Amanda Gorman’s 2021 inaugural poem

Excerpt: If you did not get a chance to watch or listen to Gorman's stirring rendition of this beautiful composition, you can do so right now, right here.
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Read or watch Joe Biden’s Inaugural Address

Excerpt: Read Joe Biden's inaugural address, delivered Janaury 20th, 2021 in front of the United States Capitol.
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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We made it! Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have been sworn in as America’s new leaders

Excerpt: We must and should commend ourselves for all we did to fight against all of the above and reach this moment. When you're going through hell, keep going, the old adage goes. And so we did.
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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