The Cascadia Advocate is written by the staff, board, and contributors of the Northwest Progressive Institute, a netroots powered strategy center working to raise America's quality of life through insightful research and imaginative advocacy.
NPI was founded in August 2003 and is based in Redmond, Washington.
| Excerpt: | The disgraced initiative promoter has cooked up a pathetic, laughable excuse for his criminal conduct for last week. |
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| Published at: | 4:48 PM on Tuesday, February 19th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics |
| Other Tags: | Permanent Defense |
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| Excerpt: | The disgraced initiative promoter is under investigation for petty theft and pledges to "cooperate fully" following widespread media coverage of his crime. |
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| Published at: | 11:09 PM on Friday, February 15th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics |
| Other Tags: | Permanent Defense |
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| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of Crime + Punishment, an original Hulu documentary chronicling the efforts of whistleblower cops to stop illegal policing quotas. |
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| Published at: | 8:30 PM on Thursday, January 10th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Theresa Curry Almuti |
| Categories: | Media & Culture, Views & Reviews |
| Other Tags: | Films, Seattle International Film Festival |
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| Excerpt: | The authorities have arrested a suspect believed to be responsible for the bombs mailed to prominent Democrats. |
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| Published at: | 1:37 PM on Friday, October 26th, 2018 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics |
| Tags: | Criminal Justice |
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| Excerpt: | IT'S OVER. The death penalty has been ended in Washington State by court order! All death sentences have been converted to life imprisonment. Now it's time for the Legislature to change the RCWs and affirm we are a state that values justice. |
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| Published at: | 9:57 AM on Thursday, October 11th, 2018 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Breaking News, Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics |
| Other Tags: | Nondiscrimination |
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| Excerpt: | An overwhelming majority of Washingtonians would rather send convicted murderers to prison for life than execute them, a recent poll commissioned by the Northwest Progressive Institute has found. |
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| Published at: | 1:30 PM on Thursday, July 12th, 2018 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Breaking News, Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics, World Commmunity |
| Other Tags: | Human Rights, Nondiscrimination |
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| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of LA 92, a film by Daniel Lindsay and T. J. Martin that tells the story of the riots that tore apart the Southland using only archival footage. |
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| Published at: | 8:30 AM on Saturday, March 24th, 2018 |
| Written by: | Theresa Curry Almuti |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics, Views & Reviews |
| Other Tags: | Nondiscrimination |
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| Excerpt: | Legislation to abolish the death penalty moved a step closer to Governor Jay Inslee's desk today when the House Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to advance Senate Bill 6052, prime sponsored by Republican Senator Maureen Walsh. |
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| Published at: | 6:30 PM on Thursday, February 22nd, 2018 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics, Elections |
| Other Tags: | Nondiscrimination |
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| Excerpt: | Democrats still get into arguments about the merits (or lack thereof) of Hillary Clinton’s and Bernie Sanders’ candidacies for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. It’s why many of us on the left continue, inexorably, viewing contemporary events as a chance to re-litigate that contest and who was right. To say that Bernie Sanders: Guide to […] |
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| Published at: | 2:12 PM on Sunday, October 29th, 2017 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Categories: | Media & Culture, Views & Reviews |
| Other Tags: | Books, Climate Crisis, Reproductive Rights |
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| Excerpt: | If you have yet to see Ava DuVernay’s Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning documentary “13th”, you should really make plans to screen it as soon as possible. This short commentary will surely not do it justice. Kevin Gannon, Professor of History at Grandview University, who is white, sums up the challenge we as country face today early […] |
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| Published at: | 12:15 PM on Sunday, October 8th, 2017 |
| Written by: | Theresa Curry Almuti |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Media & Culture, Views & Reviews |
| Other Tags: | Film |
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| Excerpt: | Police say they have taken into custody a suspect who allegedly murdered two men who tried to stand up for two young women who were being verbally abused on a MAX train. |
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| Published at: | 11:03 PM on Friday, May 26th, 2017 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics |
| Other Tags: | First Freedoms |
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| Excerpt: | Today at noon, over one hundred people being detained in the West Coast’s largest immigration prison in Tacoma — the Northwest Detention Center — launched a hunger strike in response to inhumane living conditions at the prison. Detainees refusing their lunches circulated a letter of demand regarding violations of what most Washington residents would consider […] |
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| Published at: | 5:42 PM on Monday, April 10th, 2017 |
| Written by: | Kaylinne Shaffer |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics |
| Other Tags: | Naturalization |
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| Excerpt: | Flanked by former Attorney General Rob McKenna and Governor Jay Inslee, current Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced a major new effort to abolish the barbaric practice of state-sponsored executions in Washington, supported by a bipartisan group of legislators from each house. Declaring that it is the responsibility of leaders to lead, Ferguson said the […] |
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| Published at: | 3:08 PM on Monday, January 16th, 2017 |
| Written by: | Christian Cahua |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics |
| Other Tags: | Nondiscrimination |
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| Excerpt: | A significant victory for human rights has been won today: The Delaware Supreme Court has ruled the state’s death penalty law is unconstitutional – and the only chance at fixing it is to punt the issue to the already-divided General Assembly. The top court released its ruling Tuesday that said Delaware’s current capital punishment statute violates the U.S. Constitution by […] |
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| Published at: | 4:52 PM on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics, World Commmunity |
| Other Tags: | Human Rights |
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