June 5, 2016 Sandy Robson
The Bellingham Herald reported [in “Anti-coal activists, coal port supporters clash in Tri-Cities” on June 3]: “Millennium organized employees and other supporters to tout the economic benefits of the $680 million privately-funded project.” Continue reading
May 31, 2016 Wendy Harris ACTION
[Wendy originally made this post on Whatcom Hawk, but added the following additional text when she reposted it in the Bellingham Racial Justice Coalition Facebook group: Continue reading
Story and photo by John D’Onofrio · Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Everything is covered in shit. Everything.
The ground, ferns, nettles, fallen logs and every leaf on every tree is coated with a patina of white heron droppings. […] Continue reading
Wednesday, May 11, 2016 Tim Johnson
‘WE DRAW THE LINE’: In a perfect storm of colliding media fronts, the story of the year was eclipsed by the story of the decade in a way that can perhaps only be understood as it unfolds in the story of the (new) century. Continue reading
The long, long coal train has come to a halt.
Years ago, Lummi Nation declared Kwel Hoy’!, “We Draw the Line,” and vowed the coal trains would not unload at their fishing grounds and sacred burial site, Xwe’chieXen. They called upon the federal government to honor its treaty to protect those heritage assets. […] Continue reading
Click on the graphic above to view the WA State Dept. of Health Shellfish Safety Map
May 6, 2016 Wendy Harris
We are all dancing while the Titanic is sinking. Whatcom County is the only Puget Sound county that has a complete marine biotoxin closure zone for every shellfish species, and our zone is wider and more encompassing that any other shoreline county. Continue reading
Sat, May 07, 2016, 10:18 am Dick Conoboy
Consideration of changes to Bellingham’s Comprehensive Plan now migrates to the city council for a series of work sessions, hearings and eventual approval, most likely in September. Continue reading
04/21/2016 Edgar Franks
We at Community to Community (C2C) have been in solidarity with the Boycott Driscoll’s campaign led by Familias Unidas por la Justicia (FUJ) since 2013. Continue reading
Below, are some of the campaign contributions from Gateway Pacific Terminal (GPT) interests donated to Congressman Rick Larsen’s campaigns: Continue reading
PUZZLE PIECES: Late last week, the sponsor for the Gateway Pacific Terminal project announced they would suspend the environmental review process as they await the separate determination by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers of whether the GPT project materially interferes with the tribal treaty fishing rights of Lummi Nation. […] Continue reading
noisy waters northwest 
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