It’s been said that education is what you are left with after forgetting everything you learned in school. And unfortunately for us, American history books already forgot to mention a few things: like human beings inhabiting North America for over 20,000 ...
8 Feb 2015 - Stephen Quirke
What does Portland's plan for new fossil fuel operations mean for the Columbia River Gorge and beyond? In September, Mayor Charlie Hales announced that he had a new customer at the Port of Portland – the Pembina Corporation. Pembina, based in Canada, ...
27 Mar 2015 - Stephen Quirke
Pacific Northwest tribes hold their ground against the fossil fuel industry’s encroachment Two months ago, I wrote about the Port of Portland’s plan to build propane export facilities, investigated the problem of “bomb” trains and the blast zone around th ...
16 Jun 2015 - Stephen Quirke
Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the ‘bomb’ train Is our weather getting funny? Some bushes and flowers started to bloom near the end of January this year, and in the spring cherry blossoms were blooming weeks early. This capped a winter with ...
30 Jun 2015 - Stephen Quirke
Native Americans are battling hate groups along with environmental degradation in their fight for the Columbia River Gorge When it comes to environmental destruction, Northwest tribes typically have the most to lose. It should come as no surprise, then, ...
20 Aug 2015 - Stephen Quirke
COMMENTARY | State and tribal officials throw a wrench in the corporation’s water-bottling plan Gov. Kate Brown just made a game-changing intervention in Nestlé’s ongoing effort to bottle public water in Oregon. Soon after receiving three letters of oppos ...
12 Nov 2015 - Stephen Quirke
COMMENTARY | Successful protests show indigenous nations can use education about Columbus to win new respect and support “In fourteen-hundred and ninety-three, Columbus stole all he could see.” – Christopher Loewen, “Lies My Teacher Told Me” On Oct. 7, Po ...
19 Nov 2015 - Stephen Quirke
COMMENTARY | He spent a lifetime fighting for Native Americans and their home “I don’t believe in magic. I believe in the sun and the stars, the water, the tides, the floods, the owls, the hawks flying, the river running, the wind talking. They’re measure ...
31 Dec 2015 - Stephen Quirke
Seattle’s Delta 5 was first to argue in U.S. court that civil disobedience was necessary to slow down climate change On Jan. 15, Snohomish County Judge Anthony E. Howard handed down sentences to five people who say our political system is rigged to destro ...
21 Jan 2016 - Stephen Quirke
Vancouver, Wash., exhibit commemorates 1864 Sand Creek Massacre This week, the Clark County Historical Museum in Vancouver, Wash., unveiled an exhibit of Native American artwork commemorating an American massacre. The exhibit, “One November Morning,” feat ...
11 Feb 2016 - Stephen Quirke