This Fourth of July, take a few minutes to read the Declaration of Independence.
Category: Holidays
Juneteenth ’21 at Jimi Hendrix Park: a Black-led parade, celebration, and call to action
Urging people advance racial equity now with real solutions, the 2nd Juneteenth Freedom March and Celebration took place across Seattle’s Central District.
Bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday clears Congress; Biden to sign it tomorrow
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.
Happy Easter 2021!
The Cascadia Advocate’s annual Easter holiday news roundup for 2021, with messages from elected leaders and links to local Easter liturgical services.
Read or watch the amazingly talented Amanda Gorman’s 2021 inaugural poem
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.
Read or watch Joe Biden’s Inaugural Address
Read Joe Biden’s inaugural address, delivered Janaury 20th, 2021 in front of the United States Capitol.
We made it! Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have been sworn in as America’s new leaders
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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Nonviolent direct action is what makes negotiation possible
Take a few moments to read this excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King’s Letter From Birmingham Jail.
Banished Words for 2021
Read Lake Superior State University’s forty-sixth List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness — plus NPI’s additions!
NPI bestows its highest honor, the Lynn Allen Award, on the late Tony Lee (1948–2020)
The former Solid Ground Advocacy Director, known affectionately as the “conscience of the Legislature,” is the eighth person to become a Lynn Allen Award Honoree.
In memoriam, nineteen years later
In honor of those who died that day, we’re republishing a poem that we post annually here on The Cascadia Advocate.
The Declaration of Independence, two hundred and forty-four years later
This Fourth of July, take a few minutes to read the Declaration of Independence.
Earth Day turns fifty as the world community grapples with the novel coronavirus pandemic
Earth Day, one of our favorite days of activism, has turned fifty. Here are some great articles you can read and videos you can watch to commemorate the occasion.
Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Injustice must be exposed… to the light of human conscience”
Take a few moments to read this excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King’s Letter From Birmingham Jail.