As with most Americans I awoke today to the news that our nation suffered “the worst mass shooting in US history.” In Orlando, FL, an armed man entered an LGBTQ nightclub, Pulse, on their Latin dance night, and killed at least 50 people with assault weapons. He was finally stopped when law enforcement rammed through the door in a tank and killed him.
This same point was really driven home to me by Lummi Nation a couple of years ago when DOE issued its proposal for clean up of the Whatcom Waterway. In discussing the cost/benefit analysis, it started since the time of colonization. The Lummis were upset that to white people (us), history began only at the moment they arrived. Continue reading
June 10, 2016 Press Release, Familias Unidas por la Justicia
Increase Gained Not Enough
Familias Unidas por la Justicia Members Will Continue the Fight for Fair Wages and Union Contract Continue reading
Lummi tribal members reef net fishing. One of two photos included with Lummi Press Release.
June 6, 2016 Lummi Nation PRESS RELEASE
Lummi Nation praises Wash. Department of Natural Resources’ decision to uphold treaty rights and deny lease 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[Wendy originally made this post on Whatcom Hawk, but added the following additional text when she reposted it in the Bellingham Racial Justice Coalition Facebook group: Continue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
Familias Unidas por la Justicia President Ramon Torres, shown on left, Whole Foods Market Pacific Northwest Regional President Joe Rogoff, center, and Andrew Eckels, boycott organizer, right, at the May 11, 2016 Whole Foods Market store opening ceremony in Bellingham, WA. Photo credit James Leder
May 30, 2016 Sandy Robson
On May 19, 2016, I called Whole Foods Pacific Northwest Regional office and asked to speak to Joe Rogoff, President of the Pacific Northwest Region. I wanted to speak to him about the new Whole Foods Market store that opened in Bellingham, Washington, on May 11, 2016, and the protest by a delegation of farm workers and their supporters from the local community, that occurred during the store’s grand opening ceremony. Continue reading
Tue, May 17, 2016, 8:32 pm John Servais
Just posted [on NorthwestCitizen] is an article by Pat McKee on the need for a traffic study before building the new Options High. The Bellingham School District basically cheated on filling out their non dertermination form for city planning. Continue reading
Click on image to view video in the Bellingham Racial Justice Facebook Group
Lawsuit Served on Bellingham, Mayor, and Police in Racial Profiling Case
The community joins to highlight BPD’s racial profiling against Latinos, collaboration with immigration officials Continue reading
The Next Veteran Uber Driver?Mon, May 16, 2016, 5:20 am Dick Conoboy
In the days when I was a service member in the 60s and 70s, there was the usual long row of used/new car lots, pawn shops, bars, fast food outlets and pay-day lenders along the highways leading to the front gate of almost every military installation.
noisy waters northwest 
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