Puget Sound Sage

Friday Oct 31 at 4pm! 🎃 This Halloween, experience spine-chilling thrills with our guided Ghost Stories Tour in the historic CID. Get to know our neighbors, dead and alive! 👻 Learn about the stories that have shaped the past 100 years and imagine our #Next100Years! RSVP ➡️ bit.ly/CID-Ghosts

Poster announcing the Rooted in Place: King County Candidate Forum including the date and time, October 24th from 3-5pm. Head shots of the 4 invited candidates feature in the center of the poster

Please Join us for the Rooted in Place: King County Candidate Forum on Friday October 24th, 3-5pm

Invited Candidates: Claudia Balducci (Executive), Girmay Zahilay (Executive), Steven Kwon (5th District), Steffanie Fain (5th District)

Register here: bit.ly/seatac-forum

Town Hall Seattle | Town Hall Seattle A vibrant gathering place in the heart of Seattle, Town Hall fosters an engaged community through civic, arts, and educational programs that reflect — and inspire — our region’s best impulses:…

They will discuss how community leaders, local government and academia can use joy and storytelling to build relationships and actualize climate resilience strategies. Learn more about the upcoming One Seattle Climate Action Plan Update, including how you can get involved! RSVP townhallseattle.org

Join Town Hall Seattle, Juneau Street Resilience Pod, and the City of Seattle’s Office of Sustainability and Environment for an evening with climate justice leaders who are reimagining our climate future in Seattle and beyond. Sage's Climate Policy Manager Debolina Banerjee will also be on the panel

Aunties Lead the Way Sound Transit plans to build a new Lightrail Station in or around the International District. Come take a walk with the neighborhood aunties and learn how their thoughts on the impacts of the…

We will meet at Hing Hay Park at 4pm! RSVP at bit.ly/3Iv6juF

Thursday 9/25 at 4pm! Join the aunties of the Chinatown-International District as they take you through a tour of the neighborhood, hear their visions of growing the CID for the #Next100Years for families, workers and community, and why they chose North/South as the best option for the new station

This Saturday we're celebrating TEN YEARS with fellows from the past, present, and future! Our Community, Our Shine: A CLI 10th Anniversary Celebration will honor the leadership of those who have graduated from the CLI over the past decade.

RSVP at bit.ly/cli10th

Comprehensive Plan talking Points COMP PLAN TALKING POINTS FOR COUNCIL Please take what you need and make them your own. It’s not meant to be a script. Join us September 12th for virtual testimony at 9:30 am or in-person testimony…

(3/3) and to build the 60,000 units of NEW affordable housing we need over the next 20 years.

Talking Points for Public Comment on Friday areprovided by our friends at Interim CDA: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Comprehensive Plan talking Points COMP PLAN TALKING POINTS FOR COUNCIL Please take what you need and make them your own. It’s not meant to be a script. Join us September 12th for virtual testimony at 9:30 am or in-person testimony…

address many of our communities needs, it does address some important aspects of Equitable Development and Environmental Justice that deserve our communities support. We demand that the city council do better to truly fight displacement in all of our communities (2/3)

If we aren't planning for our community, someone else is. This is the last public hearing on the Comprehensive Plan and our City Council needs to do better on anti-displacement. On Friday, the City Council will decide on over 100 amendments to the Comprehensive Plan. While this plan does not (1/3)

A poster announcing a Community Painting Event of the Lane St. Stairwell hosted Friends of Little Saigon. Friday September 5th from 2-5pm and Saturday September 6th from 9am-12pm. There's a QR code to sign up and an image of the stairs side be side a simulated image of the stairs painted.

Please join Friends of Little Saigon Friday September 5th and Saturday September 6th for a community painting event to brighten up the Lane St Stairway in Little Saigon!

Sign-up here www.signupgenius.com/go/10C054BAE...

and the advisory board has been appointed! We're ready to make sure the King County EDI has dedicated funding to support community development projects in years to come. Also big appreciations to Senator Saldaña and Councilmembers Dembowski, Mosqueda, and Baron for celebrating and supporting EDI!

Thank you to everyone who celebrated with us last week on the launch of the King County Equitable Development Initiative (EDI), a huge victory for our coalition!!

After three years of organizing, we won initial funding, got a bill in Olympia passed paving the way for future funding, (1/2)

We will likely see even more aggression by Trump and ICE against immigrant communities in the coming months. Who, how, and why we push back matters for our human rights and local democracy.

Read the full statement in our blog

We call on the city mayors, public prosecutors, county executives and the Governor to fulfill their promises to not aid and abet ICE or military troops enforcing ICE actions. Protecting our immigrant communities involves more than non-support of ICE – it requires proactive strategies.

in blatant defiance of an existing court order issued by a federal judge. Per the judges order, the plane was diverted and Tuan and others now currently being held in Djibouti in a shipping container, shackled by their feet under U.S. custody. This is cruel and inhumane.

As the Trump administration continues to wield unprecedented and egregious attacks on our immigrant communities, Governor Ferguson must take bold action and stop our cooperate with ICE. On May 20th, Tuan and seven others were put on a plane to South Sudan in an attempted "third country" deportation,

We are encouraging individuals to sign on to demand that Governor Ferguson stand up against the Trump Administrations attacks on immigrant communities by 1) Pardoning Tuan and 2) Stopping the collaboration between DOC and ICE.

Sign the letter at: tinyurl.com/BringTuanHome

Sage staff supporting Fred Meyer and QFC workers across the region for better wages, better staffing, and better stores, during last week's @ufcw3000.bsky.social action!

Join us at Uncle Bob's Place (417 8th Ave S) on Fri Mar 14 9:30 am OR Thurs Mar 27 6pm for an Immigrant Know Your Rights Session!

The session is free and open to the public, food and drinks will be served! If you need language interpretation, please register using the QR code or link

Supporting our partners at UFCW 3000 and the REI Union in rejecting REI's corporate slate of candidates in the upcoming board elections! If you are an REI member, you can support by voting NO at ourrei.com

Remember that you need to vote YES on Prop 1 *AND* Prop 1A by Feb 11th!

Prop1A creates a new tax on the wealthy which will generate an additional 2000+ units of affordable housing in 10 years, while Prop 1B diverts $10 million a year (for only five years) from the existing Jumpstart payroll tax, taking it away from other affordable housing builders and community orgs