Joe Biden is holding a fundraiser tonight in Seattle in an hour(4PM today). Joe tried to be sneaky and didn't release his itenerary until the last minute today.
a couple of updates and fixes have been made at the data center and the bunnies have had their greens. thank you being on this instance and supporting each other! #fediverse#community#seattle#ff#followfriday
It’s been 1 year since Seattle’s Mayor signed a racial and social justice law, placing its existing Race and Social Justice Initiative under the city’s office of civil rights and charging the whole city government with ‘implementing change toward ending institutional racism.’
Oh, and joining Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, and all these other big tech CEOs and "AI" promoters is #Seattle's own mayor (and ShotSpotter promoter) Bruce Harrell.
These are the people who we are supposed to trust to develop policies on "AI’s Responsible Development" and to "Promote Safe and Secure Use of AI".
Today in Labor History April 26, 1862: Congress passed the Anti-Coolie Act of 1862. They also called it, "An Act to Protect Free White Labor.” The law was one of a series of xenophobic laws enacted specifically to block the immigration of Chinese to the U.S., particularly to California. Laws like this encouraged anti-Asian violence like the Los Angeles anti-Chinese riot of 1871, the San Francisco anti-Chinese riot of 1877, the Denver Chinatown riot of 1880, the Eureka Chinese expulsion of 1885, the Rock Springs Massacre of 1885, the Tacoma pogrom of 1885, and the Seattle anti-Chinese riots of 1886. You can read my full article America’s Long Sordid History of Anti-Asian Violence: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2021/03/21/americas-long-sordid-history-of-anti-asian-violence/
Today in Labor History April 26, 1862: Congress passed the Anti-Coolie Act of 1862. They also called it, "An Act to Protect Free White Labor.” The law was one of a series of xenophobic laws enacted specifically to block the immigration of Chinese to the U.S., particularly to California. Laws like this encouraged anti-Asian violence like the Los Angeles anti-Chinese riot of 1871, the San Francisco anti-Chinese riot of 1877, the Denver Chinatown riot of 1880, the Eureka Chinese expulsion of 1885, the Rock Springs Massacre of 1885, the Tacoma pogrom of 1885, and the Seattle anti-Chinese riots of 1886. You can read my full article America’s Long Sordid History of Anti-Asian Violence: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2021/03/21/americas-long-sordid-history-of-anti-asian-violence/
I finally made the trek to meet Bruunidun. She’s a #ThomasDambo giant #troll making her home next to Puget Sound in Lincoln Park in West Seattle. Idun is playing a troll sized flute to call home native #Orcas.
@MelodyWainscott
Lincoln Park in Seattle is amazing. My home town. Decades ago, there was a population of escaped parrots that had made the park their home, and you could hike the nature trails looking for these random gangs of parrots. Don't know if that's still a thing. #Seattle
"But Choe’s heavily edited video didn’t show what happened next: After leaving the parking lot, three witnesses say, Choe assaulted one of the people who had prevented him from getting closer to the migrants, punching her in the face repeatedly and sending her to the ground."
from #StandingTogether Instagram page
standing.together.english
"We are a grassroots Jewish-Arab movement fighting for peace, equality and social justice in Israel/Palestine."
2 events on April 13 in #Seattle
1 in #Vancouver on April 17
Speaker: Uri Weitman, an organizer for Standing Together.
Seattle Public Library’s participation in the Books Unbanned program is going well.
“So far, cardholders ages 13 to 26 have checked out 137,000 digital books, according to SPL representatives.” #Seattle
How SPL's Books Unbanned card is fighting censorship
Today in Labor History April 10, 1941: Police burned down Seattle's largest Hooverville. Hoovervilles were shanty towns set up by workers impoverished during the Great Depression to protest the policies of President Hoover. Seattle's Hooverville was first constructed in 1931 and encompassed 25 city blocks. The police had burnt it down twice before, but each time, residents had rebuilt it. There were other symbols of poverty that were named after President Hoover. For example, a Hoover blanket was a blanket made of old newspapers. A Hoover flag was a pocket turned inside out. And Hoover leather was old cardboard used to line the insides of worn-out shoes.