CN! project Rain City Slam presents it’s 2019 Grand Slam featuring legendary poet Wil Gibson. This is Rain City Slam’s most fierce competition of the year!
Did you know that we support grassroots projects in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana?
Join us, other awesome Cascadians, and climate activists around the world in signing the petition asking the Nobel Foundation Board to create a new Nobel Prize for the Fight Against Climate Change NOW!
Great Northwest Productions, a CN! nonprofit family member, presents an art & music series, filmed & recorded in unique locations throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Nourishing Neighbors is a "pay-it-forward" program that lets patrons of local businesses donate towards the next meal for a community member in need.
The Cascadia Innovation Corridor Conference brings together business, academic, and government leaders from both sides of the border to explore new strategies for the region to come together, maximize our shared competitive advantages, and elevate our global economic position. It's your chance to engage with regional, national and international experts on how we can work together to strengthen Cascadia's position as an international hub for innovation, spur job creation, and enhance our already high quality of life.
This is an article recently written by Ryan Holmes, the founder and CEO of Hootsuite, for Inc 500. It concisely sums up the attraction of Cascadia as a bioregion, as well as the logic behind opening up lines for the movement of people and ideas across borders. To read the article on the Inc 500 website please click here
This is the Cascadian flag.
So much is engrained within this one piece of fabric.
Empowerment. Inclusivity. Bioregionalism. Resilience.
An understanding that arbitrarily drawn borders DO NOT define us as a people and culture.
A belief that we CAN and WILL do better as a community and bioregion, by envisioning and enacting change at the local level, and facilitating growing interdependence that better represents and sustains the social, cultural and political boundaries that define our region.
A movement that is setting up a new framework for localized, bioregional thinking that strays from current systems of power and oppression- that can and will provide an alternative pathway to addressing systemic injustice of which we all live in and are a part of. This includes continuing to work closely with local native tribes in our efforts, by following their lead, to make sure that Cascadia as a movement does not repeat the same colonial patterns of the past and present.
Most of all, this flag stands for inclusivity and an unstoppable, intensely passionate drive to keep learning from each other, to keep progressing forward, and to continue standing in solidarity with those who have been marginalized and oppressed within our current institutions and system.
This flag's creator, Alexandre Baretich, declared that this flag shall NOT be used for hate, exploitation, or against the values or principles of bioregionalism.
CascadiaNow! was horrified by the acts of hate that took place in Charlottesville this past weekend. Though they took place outside of our bioregion, this hate-filled rhetoric can be heard across the country, including here in the PNW. We will not be intimidated and draw courage from not only those Virginians marching against racism and hate, but also from our fellow Cascadians that mobilized in Seattle to defend against the threats to our most vulnerable and marginalized communities. CascadiaNow! pledges to keep up this momentum by showing up, offering our resources to those who need them, and continuing to provide an open platform and eager willingness to start and continue hard conversations around systemic oppression, hate, nationalism, and intolerance.
We don this flag as a symbol and a commitment- a commitment that we Cascadians will organize, mobilize, ally and continue to show up and stand in solidarity with not only our fellow Cascadians, but with those across the country, in the face of racism, xenophobia, and white supremacy.
We will continue to reject hate, white nationalism, and bigotry.
We will continue to hold this flag high, and will stand with and in supporting roles of those whom, for far too long, have been threatened by hateful, othering rhetoric. Just as the flag's enduring Doug Fir that stands strong and true, we will face hate head on with endurance, defiance, and resilience.
We hope everyone is having a great August, and encourage you to read up on two upcoming events, the 4th Annual Acoustic Festival in Seattle and our Planning Camp-out for next year's convergence, at the Mount Rainier Ranch!
If you are a Seattle area massage therapist available to be a part of awesome CN! community project, The Duncan Conncetion, by donating an hour of time at their End of Summer Party August 27th, 3-4PM, in Seattle, please contact tiana@duncanconnection.org!
