If you or a loved one are experiencing domestic or sexual violence and would like help, the StrongHearts Helpline offers assistance from within an indigenous cultural context.
If you or a loved one are experiencing domestic or sexual violence and would like help, the StrongHearts Helplineoffers assistance from within an indigenous cultural context.
This week we speak with Yakama tribal member Jenny Slagle about some brutal, vital topics:
The disproportionality with which our indigenous neighbors go missing, experience sexual violence, and end up murdered
The structural poverty, ongoing genocide, and racist disregard that has allowed systemic failures to go unremarked-upon for decades.
The deeply personal impacts for families whose loved ones go missing.
As part of its lobbying efforts, The Washington Coalition for Police Accountability convinced a lawmaker to alter a bill the organization believes would weaken law enforcement accountability.
GEO Transit, which carts immigrants from Spokane to Tacoma for deportation, had its lawyer call the requester to make sure ‘you’re not gonna hurt my peeps.’
Many organizers asking the state for police justice reforms are based in Spokane — home to some of the highest rates of police violence in the US — and want stronger state oversight of local agencies.
ICE protesters facing federal charges made a hard choice, but some fear a chilling effect: ‘They want to frighten people so they are afraid to use their First Amendment rights.’
As rumors swirling online stoke fear about the re-issuance of the Essential Services letter, USPS leaves Spokane and national postal workers in the dark.
As lawmakers debate how to rein in these cameras, sheriffs, civil rights groups and transparency advocates are clashing over how much access is too much
