Seattle Embassy - Meeting Notes - January 09, 2020

Meeting Notes 

Date: 01.09.2020

Attendees: Trevor, Brandon, Jay, Alex (Remote), Aaron (Remote)

Meeting Opener/Land Recognition: Brandon - A great recognition of the watersheds of Wallingford where we are meeting at. And the indigenous names of the local bodies of water. (Lake Union, Green Lake, Sammamish, Duwamish & Green) 

Recap: Aaron presented an offer from Dog House Leathers to use their meeting room for Cascadia events for free. 

Jay is feeling better after the NYE plague. Brandon also caught the plague, but is starting to feel better.  

Trevor has been working on a “2019 in Review” for the State of Cascadia 

Jay has been working on data for the State of Cascadia 

Branon has been working on bioregional mapping. 

Aaron has been looking around the parking lot and is looking forward to events in 2020, and would love to analyze which events we should have this upcoming year. Also, thinking about how we get out information. 

Alex has mainly been working on the Chinook Wawa and website updates. Lots of going for Wikiwalks and Google Translate to get more information about the other separatist movements. 

Wouldn’t it be skookum if in 2020…

Jay: Wouldn’t it be skookum if in 2020 there was an official printed Cascadia Voting Pamphlet that folx could return to us with a vote/State of Cascadia? 

Wouldn’t it be skookum if in 2020 there was a Cascadian Arts Festival? 

Wouldn’t it be skookum if in 2020 there was a Cascadian Quilt Festival? 

Aaron: Wouldn’t it be skookum if in 2020 there was more outreach to through specific communication and documentation channels. 

Wouldn’t it be skookum if in 2020 Greta Thurnberg named Cascadia the coolest place on the planet.  

Alex: Wouldn’t it be skookum if in 2020 there was a Cascadia centric take on the news cycles. A stronger focus away from the corporate news cycle. 

Wouldn’t it be skookum if in 2020 if the Cascadia movement doesn’t lose steam after the general election. 

Brandon: Wouldn’t it be skookum if in 2020..

• More Cascadian brands

  • DOB as a platform (governmental body) to get people active. 

    • Restart the Yes Cascadia Page / Campaign to get 

    • Cascadia Bioregional Party / Direct Democracy, Bioregionalism 

    • Cascadia Upraising / More platform 

    • Cascadia Underground / Media Outlet, Print Journal 

    • Cascadia Study Group 

Trevor: Wouldn’t it be skookum if in 2020 we successfully had more video/audio media going out.

Updates from Brandon:  

Mighty Network hosting our own social media network. Researching participatory platforms 

Something we do as a kickstarter every quarter. 

Brandon going to Sacramento for the CalExit conference. Weekend of February 3rd.  

Doing a bioregional mapping project with his Mom; a bioregional atlas of Vashon. Launch on March 15th. 

Meeting with Judy at the Planet Drum foundation. 

Cosmopolis property got the grant for the culvert removal. 

Working with a group of organizers for an event in Tacoma around the Art of Resistance. This will be sometime in October.  

Start doing a regional organizing conference calls. Start a delegative system/spokes council. Have another call for new members. Aaron would like to collaborate around how to make new members feel welcome. 

Seattle Embassy - Meeting Notes - December 19th 2019

Date: 12.19.2019

Attendees: Trevor, Brandon, Alex (Remote

Meeting Opener/Land Recognition: Trevor

Recap: How to Vote Cascadian Guide has emerged as a model project. Let’s do it again.

Wouldn’t it be skookum if in 2020…

Alex - Wouldn’t it be skookum if in 2020 there was a huge ground swell of interest in Cascadia?

Brandon - Wouldn’t it be skookum if there was a 2030 Cascadia World’s Fair between Seattle, Vancouver & Portland to feature Cascadian innovation?

Trevor - Wouldn’t it be skookum if there was a CONIFA World Cup hosted in Cascadia. Having a high speed rail to connect the three cities would be perfect. 

A discussion around what should be in the HOUSE PARTY pack ensued. 

Alex is formatting a blog post on “How to vote Cascadian”

Trevor is making an Otter recording of his introduction to the Department of Bioregion 

Brandon is defining what the HOUSE PARTY pack will be like. 

Discussion about what an active DOB groups looks like

• Hold a regular meeting 

• Take notes 

• 3 people 

  • Need to sign Diplomat policy guide

• Anybody who wants to be a diplomat or start a department

  • Must agree to terms 

  • Must watch the video 

• Hold an event sign-up

• Designate 1 person to act as a point person

• Be clear about fundraising 

• Partnerships 

• Social Media 

  • Shared access

  • Policies 

    • How we handle complaints, abuse or concerns 

    • Disbanding process 

    • Removal process 

• Provide Templates to people. 

Alex proposed creating thank you packs for businesses and organizations that have represented and supported the Cascadia movement. 

Alex and Brandon formatted the How to Vote Cascadian Guide and published it.

Trevor edited a script for a Department of Bioregion Introduction video, read it aloud and took feedback. The goal is to create a video of around 10 to 15 minutes that is evergreen and cab be used when folx would like to volunteer, become organizers.

Seattle Embassy - Meeting Minutes - 24 October 2019

Date: 10.24.2019

Attendees: Trevor, Brandon, Wesley, Jay, Uriah, Matthew, Alex (Remote), Aaron (Remote),  

Intros around the table

What we’re up to: 

• Trevor is working on back end stuff. 

• Jay is rocking the unsexy backend with forms and efficiency

  • Also working on an art project around bioregional food 

• Brandon

  • Forms for Diplomat Handbook

  • Newsletter going out within the week

  • Shirt designed for our members

  • Database work

  • Meeting with David Danos

    • Indiegenous sign language

• Matthew

  • Political Organizing

    • Initiative 502

  • Union organizing around Seattle

  • Moved back to Jet City 2 or 3 weeks ago

  • Politician Outreach - Legislative Department? 

  • Candidate forum sponsored by Cascadia 

• Yogi Uriah

  • Building relationships with businesses around U District & Wallingford

    • Top10 Toys

    • Choco Canyon

  • Scheduled a meeting with the U District Chamber of Commerce  

• Wesley

  • Outreach to Native Communities in the region

  • Focus towards Cascadia from National People’s Party 

  • What sort of dialogues can we have around colonization and decolonization? 

  • Reached out to three friends

    • Haida Friend

    • Lead advocate for Missing & Indigenous woman in Cascadia

    • Habanaki from Squaxin Tribe 

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi_Hilbert

• Alex

  • Working on Chinook Wawa word of the day

  • Adding content to website for different Independence Movements 

• Aaron

  • Seattle’s all latinx museum 

    • Working on a blog

    • Nearly 1 million latinx residents of Seattle

  • Looking at the Department of Ed through a social justice lens

Wouldn’t it be skookum if? 

• Alex: 

• Trevor: 

• Jay:

• Brandon:

• Aaron:

• Wesley:

• Yogi Uriah:

• Matthew: