| Excerpt: | If you are observing Passover, which ends tonight at sundown, please accept best wishes from all of us at the Northwest Progressive Institute. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Saturday, April 7th, 2018 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Holidays |
| Tags: | Passover |
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Category Archives: Holidays
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, Policy 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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Banished Words for 2017
| Excerpt: | Every year since 1976, Michigan’s Lake Superior State University has released a thoughtful and humorous “List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness”. Here is the 2017 (and forty-second annual) edition, for your reading enjoyment on this New Year’s Eve: YOU, SIR - Hails from a more civilized era […] |
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| Published at: | 8:00 AM on Saturday, December 31st, 2016 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Holidays |
| Tags: | Banished Words, New Year's |
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The Declaration of Independence, two hundred and forty years later
| Excerpt: | In accordance with tradition, we are reposting the text of the Declaration of Independence here on The Cascadia Advocate for your enjoyment. The Declaration was primarily authored by our third president, Thomas Jefferson, who drew heavily on the thinking of Enlightenment philosophers such as John Locke to persuasively lay out the case for the independence […] |
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| Published at: | 9:15 AM on Monday, July 4th, 2016 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Holidays |
| Tags: | Fourth of July |
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Happy Easter 2016!
| 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 John (20:1–9) are commonly read […] |
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| Published at: | 10:00 AM on Sunday, March 27th, 2016 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Holidays |
| Tags: | Easter |
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Martin Luther King, Jr.: We have a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws
| Excerpt: | Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and like we do every year in honor of Dr. King’s memory, I’m posting an excerpt from his Letter From Birmingham Jail. In these passages, Dr. King is explaining that not all laws are created equal. Laws are made by humans, and humans unfortunately have a long history […] |
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| Published at: | 9:04 AM on Monday, January 18th, 2016 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Civil Liberties, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Nondiscrimination |
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Banished Words for 2016
| Excerpt: | Every year since 1976, Michigan’s Lake Superior State University has released a thoughtful and humorous “List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness”. Here is the 2016 (and forty-first annual) edition, for your reading enjoyment on this New Year’s Eve: SO — So the word that received the most […] |
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| Published at: | 9:48 AM on Thursday, December 31st, 2015 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Holidays |
| Tags: | Banished Words, New Year's |
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Happy Veterans Day 2015!
| Excerpt: | Today we pause to thank the many brave men and women who have valiantly served our country in the armed forces, defending this great nation so that the rest of us may go about our lives freely and peacefully. We at NPI are especially grateful for the service of our own Rick Hegdahl (U.S. Navy […] |
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| Published at: | 1:51 PM on Wednesday, November 11th, 2015 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Holidays |
| Tags: | Veterans Day |
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In memoriam, fourteen years later
| Excerpt: | Today is the fourteenth 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. Two thousand one, nine eleven […] |
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| Published at: | 5:46 AM on Friday, September 11th, 2015 |
| 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