With COVID, things are still quiet, but I wanted to share a few updates from the Underground, and a few things that we've been up to.
2021 U.S. Census Redistricting: Exploring Watershed Based Voting Districts
Every 10 years, the United States completely erases current voting district borders, and creates new ones using census data that has tracked demographic changes over the past ten years.
How these districts are drawn is incredibly important, and in many states, is used as a tool of disenfranchisement, racism, and reinforcing voter disparities. Ensuring a fair voter redistricting process is one of the most important ways to ensure equity, transparency and accountability in our democratic institutions. This process is currently underway, and voting commissions are being formed to explore the best way to redraw these districts.
Share Your Cascadia! Link to Google Form
Investigate West Launches new "Decarbonizing Cascadia" Series
“Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia” is a yearlong reporting initiative led by InvestigateWest, in partnership with Grist, Crosscut, The Tyee, the South Seattle Emerald, The Evergrey, and Jefferson Public Radio.
Cascadia Open Education Summit coming up in British Columbia and online, April 27-29
Regional Influence. Global Impact.
The Cascadia Open Education Summit is a unique three-day, internationally attended event where thought leaders come together to share groundbreaking ideas, research, and best practices for using open educational resources (OER). Their delegates include government officials, faculty, academic administrators and leaders, educational developers and technologists, librarians, instructional designers, student support staff, and students.
The 8th annual Summit will be digital and will be a mix of live and pre-recorded sessions delivered through the virtual platform provider, EventMobi. The event follows on the 2019 Cascadia Open Education Summit which took place in Vancouver, B.C. on April 17 & 18, 2019, co-hosted by Lumen Learning, Open Oregon Educational Resources, and the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC).
Cascadia Open Education Summit welcomed people engaged in higher ed-focused open education initiatives, including students, faculty, librarians, instructional technologists, administrators, and other campus leaders.
For More Information, Check Out:
Https://Cascadia.Bccampus.Ca/
First Climate Assembly in the United States starts today!
Executive Summary: Cascadia in 2021
We Demand Free and Fair Elections - a Joint Statement by the California National Party, Decent Fed Project, Cascadia Department of Bioregion and New England Independence Campaign
INFOGRAPHIC: What is the Cascadia Political Movement you would like to see?
Cascadia Masks are in!
Bioregionalism: Regaining our Sense of Place by Erik Haugland - From the Archive
Launching the Cascadia Underground: Welcome to the Lab
From the Archive: Bioregional Congress of Pacific Cascadia 1988
Anti-Racist. Anti-Fascist. Always Cascadian BULK Stickers. PRE-ORDER
For Pride, we are proud to present our Cascadia Pride flag redux featuring the Philadelphia Pride flag.
Join a Cascadia Work Group
We are excited to announce that we are creating several work groups from our Envision Cascadia Conference, and would love to invite you to join us. We had more than 150 people register for 8 different sessions that took place over 2 weeks in which people gathered to explore how we can best build the Cascadia movement, and we are very excited to keep this momentum going.
#Cascadia trending after #WestCoastPact announced by governors
After Washington, Oregon, and California governors announced the launch of a Western States Pact in the face of a federal government unwilling to act on COVID-19 relief, #Cascadia , #Calexit and #Secession quickly began trending on twitter and other social media platforms.
