#PublicTransit 🚋 advocates, #cyclists 🚲 & #Urbanists throughout #Washington state needed to provide online public comment for the WSDOT’s Highway System Plan, which will seek to promote walking & #cycling and reduce vehicle 🚙 miles traveled.
@von I am a Californian, I've visited Washington for some mountain biking, And I really enjoyed my time in the Cascades; Angels Staircase was amazing in the fall, with the golden larches blazing.
I read a book once that I really enjoyed, Of Men and Mountains. It was written by William O. Douglas, a Supreme Court justice, about his outdoor life as a young man in Washington state. It really did a great job of describing the place and time, the outdoors, the environment, the nature. I enjoyed it quite a bit.
Today in Labor History August 11, 1894: Federal troops drove over 1,000 jobless workers from the nation's capital. Led by Charles "Hobo" Kelley, an unemployed activist from California, and Jacob Coxey, they camped in Washington D.C. starting in July. Kelley's Hobo Army included a young journalist named Jack London and a young miner-cowboy named Big Bill Haywood. Frank Baum was an observer of the protest and some say it influenced his Wizard of Oz, with the Scarecrow representing the American farmer, the tin man representing industrial workers and the Cowardly Lion representing William Jennings Bryan, all marching on Washington (Oz) to demand redress from the president (the Wizard). 650 miners, led by a "General" Hogan, captured a Northern Pacific train at Butte, Montana, en route to the protest. The Feds caught up with them at Billings, forcing a surrender, but a few eventually made it to Washington.
More to come soon, but I successfully completed the most intense and challenging hike in my life up Bootjack Peak (https://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/bootjack-mountain) this past Thursday. 3,900 foot climb to one of the most incredible vantage points of the Central Cascades including a big view of Mt. Rainier. My body is sore. It feels like I ran a marathon. Good thing my stay has a hot tub.
Calling all queer creatives in the #Bellingham#Washington area! Come join our own Leigh Hellman tomorrow for an afternoon of practicing, performing, and connecting at the Queer Writers Workshop.
Saturday, October 7th from 1-3 PM at Make.Shift Art Space, 306 Flora St.
Registration is $10 but no one is turned away—Please email [email protected] if funds are a barrier to attending.
to have a 95% discount valid on everything. It may be combined also with the discount of the entire discography. It works only on the desktop website, not on the mobile bandcamp app.
"The Well-Being of Indigenous Communities in the Pacific Northwest: Anthropometric Evidence from British Columbia’s Jails, 1864-1913", new working paper from Ian Keay & Kris Inwood https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4544077
Today in Labor History August 19, 1916: Strikebreakers attacked and beat picketing IWW strikers in Everett, Washington. The police refused to intervene, claiming it was federal jurisdiction. However, when the strikers retaliated, they arrested the strikers. Vigilante attacks on IWW picketers and speakers escalated and continued for months. In October, vigilantes forced many of the strikers to run a gauntlet, violently beating them in the process. The brutality culminated in the Everett massacre on November 5, when Wobblies (IWW members) sailed over from Seattle to support the strikers. The sheriff called out to them as they docked, “Who is your leader?” And the Wobblies yelled back, “We all are!” The sheriff told them they couldn’t dock. One of the Wobblies said, “Like hell we can’t!” And then a mob of over 200 vigilantes opened fire on them. As a result, seven died and 50 were wounded. John Dos Passos portrays these events in his USA Trilogy.