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The Art of Cartography

Looking at the blank canvas of a new map: merely a rough outline—what to...
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IPRA – Making Peace in Trinidad

The International Peace Research Association gathered May 17-21, 2023, in...
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Give BIG 2023 Cascadia Poetics LAB

Thanks to those folks who have supported is via Give Big in the past and...
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Rescue and Revival of a Seattle Legend: Carletta Carrington Wilson Interprets James Washington Jr.

Carletta Carrington Wilson discusses Poem of Stone & Bone in honor of James W. Washington Jr.

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Salt Spring Island Reading

The board of the Cascadia Poetics Lab had its spring 2023 board retreat...
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ARTSFUND Community Accelerator Grant

We are proud to announce that we are a recipient of a Community...
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Heavy Lifting Art Book (Feilcia Rice, Theresa Whitehill)

It is a collaboration that’s a book, but not a book that you’d bring to...
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Toward Cascadian Independence: For the Life of the Place as a Whole

What end does politics serve? Surely it must serve ends beyond itself. Why seek greater bioregional autonomy? For self-determination. Yes, but what purpose in turn shall that value serve? None some may say, it’s self-justifying. But then it becomes an absolute unto itself which can be used to justify many different things, some questionable. Why not come right out at the beginning and say what you’re really for?
The primary purpose of seeking greater bioregional identity and autonomy is to serve the life of the place and its people as a whole. Indeed, the primary purpose of Politics is to serve the life of the place and its people on many levels in an equitable and sustainable way.

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AWP Off-Site Events

AWP Off-Site readings with Seattle Poets

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E. Richard Atleo in Seattle & a 2005 Interview

With the assistance of the Center for World Indigenous Studies, I had the...
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Toward Cascadian Independence: For the Life of the Place as a Whole

Toward Cascadian Independence: For the Life of the Place as a Whole

by | Mar 26, 2023

What end does politics serve? Surely it must serve ends beyond itself. Why seek greater bioregional autonomy? For self-determination. Yes, but what purpose in turn shall that value serve? None some may say, it’s self-justifying. But then it becomes an absolute unto itself which can be used to justify many different things, some questionable. Why not come right out at the beginning and say what you’re really for?
The primary purpose of seeking greater bioregional identity and autonomy is to serve the life of the place and its people as a whole. Indeed, the primary purpose of Politics is to serve the life of the place and its people on many levels in an equitable and sustainable way.

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