SPEAKING OUT. Maya Morales’ response to CM Lisa Anderson’s letter alleging fraud in Whatcom Democrats endorsement process by Andrew Reding and others/ Maya Morales

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Screenshot of a portion of a Reddit post written by Whatcom County Council candidate Maya Morales in response to a formal complaint submitted by Bellingham City Council Member Lisa Anderson to the Washington State Democratic Party on 9/29/2025

October 10, 2025 Maya Morales

Editor’s note: Maya Morales is a candidate running in the November 2025 election for the Whatcom County Council District 2 seat. Noisy Waters Northwest is reposting below, with her permission, the full response Morales posted on Reddit to Bellingham City Council Member Lisa Anderson’s formal complaint which had been submitted to the Washington State Democratic Party on September 29, 2025. A copy of Anderson’s complaint can be found at this Northwest Citizen link: https://www.nwcitizen.com/site/assets/files/23924/whatcom_democrats_report_final_to_state.pdf ]

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Who needs an Immigrant Resource Center if Bellingham is free of discrimination and its harms? / Noisy Waters Northwest

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Click the screenshot of a portion of a Bellingham City Council Agenda bill for their June 9, 2025 meeting to view the whole document on the COB website

June 8, 2025 Dena Jensen

Bellingham City Council is scheduled to consider a proposed resolution reaffirming the “City of Bellingham as a welcoming city” for all people on Monday, June 9, 2025. After the draft resolution recites a long list of COB measures that have been taken over the last few years that can help allow the City to incrementally become a more welcoming place for marginalized community members, the following statement in the operative section is included:

“BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City of Bellingham is a welcoming city for all people to live, work, attend school, visit and play free of discrimination, violence and systemic barriers that threaten their safety, well-being and human rights;”

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Second meeting tomorrow of Bellingham work group examining if police actions could aid ICE / Noisy Waters Northwest

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May 14, 2025 Dena Jensen

Coming up tomorrow, Thursday 5/15/25 at 5:30 p.m is the second meeting of Bellingham’s Keep Washington Working Act Work Group. There is currently only one way for community members to witness these meetings and that is in person at Bellingham City Hall, 210 Lottie St., Suite 227. There is no Zoom option available, no recordings being made, and no minutes have been posted yet from the work group’s first meeting in March. After tomorrow’s meeting, the work group won’t likely meet again until July, since their proposed schedule of meetings is every two months. The only point of contact provided for the work group is the Bellingham Mayor’s Office.

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What if we had that Immigrant Resource Center?: letter to Bellingham and Whatcom County officials / Noisy Waters Northwest

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Butterfly garlands, representing migration and created by community members, were bestowed on Bellingham City Hall in August 2022 during a call for City action to provide an Immigrant Resource Center.
The fate of the butterflies after the event was covered in the Salish Current article,
“Bringing the Butterflies Home”

March 30, 2025 Dena Jensen

I have so much gratitude for all the community efforts to call for actions from our government officials to bring home immigrants who were stolen from their Whatcom and Skagit County communities last week by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. We all need to keep speaking up until their families and friends are reunited with those who have been unjustly targeted. Here is a link to information on just some of the ways we can take action: https://www.foodjustice.org/blog/2025/3/27/update-on-farmworker-leader-alfredo-lelo-juarez

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Whatcom County Council will discuss draft letter to expand emergency shelter access this Tuesday / Noisy Waters Northwest

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Click the screen shot of content in a 1/12/2025 petition update by Tukoyote Helianthus to access his post on his blog site. The petition calls for expanded emergency shelter access this winter. Helianthus provides homeless services through his Operation Waterdrop project.

January 12, 2025 Dena Jensen

With the Committee of the Whole meeting agenda this week for Whatcom County Council, there is an attached draft letter created by one – or some – of the Council Members (there’s no attribution to the author/s on the letter so far). The letter is addressed to Whatcom County Executive Satpal Sidhu. It emphasizes the need for increasing reliable shelter for our friends and neighbors who will be losing a place to live and sleep this winter, among other things. One reason for such loss will be due to the planned sweep of the Bakerview encampment which begins this week.

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Don’t stop calling for better winter homeless shelters / Noisy Waters Northwest

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Click the screenshot of the image and headline for the December 31, 2024 petition update from Tukayote Helianthus to access the update on his petition to lower the temperature threshold for opening the Bellingham Severe Weather Shelter

December 31, 2024 Dena Jensen

It’s valuable to keep pressing officials for better homeless sheltering services. They will try to tell us they can’t do better. But over the years we have seen them at least try despite their stated limitations and resistance.

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I’m more proud than ever to be a Democrat/ Glenn Stewart

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November 30, 2024 Glenn Stewart

“I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat” — Will Rogers

I said in my post on election day that “I’m out.”  To be clear, I meant I have no intention of spending any portion of the next 4 years shouting into the darkness about how awful it is that that abomination is president.

This post isn’t about his Party, but rather mine.

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Contact City officials prior to October 24 joint meeting to urge public input on area growth / Noisy Waters Northwest

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Click the image of a Whatcom Environmental Council social media post calling for public input on City of Bellingham’s preferred growth strategy to access the post on Facebook

October 22, 2024 Dena Jensen

I sent this email today to support the letter sent by the Whatcom Environmental Council related to their post shown above:

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Bellingham officials promote dissolving immigrant board, defying approved motion and next steps / Noisy Waters Northwest

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https://noisywatersnw.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/next-steps-3.pdf
https://meetings.cob.org/Meetings/ViewMeeting?id=3112&doctype=2

October 7, 2024. Dena Jensen
How can we expect law enforcement to adhere to their documented intentions for just treatment of marginalized community members when other City officials, in an effort to try to ensure they do, can’t follow and adhere to theirs?

Tonight, Monday October 7, Bellingham City Council will be voting for a final time at their 7:00 p.m. meeting on whether to dissolve the Immigration Advisory Board. So far, the vote has been 4-2-1 to get rid of the board. This action will be the final matter of business for Council tonight.

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