Join fellow advocates as we build momentum for the common good. REGISTER HERE Sponsored by Between the Ridges: Alliance for the Common Good, NAACP, WA Conservation Action, Asian Pacific Islander Coalition, Rural Americans United, League of Women Voters, and Poder Latinx. The day includes: Opening with Native Flute, Blessing and Land Acknowledgement Video highlighting BTR partners and the value of working together Strengthening our relationships as an Alliance Prioritizing issues we will work on together throughout the year. Skill building on advocacy and organizing Overview of status of bills in Olympia and Policy priorities at the local, state and federal level [...]

Let the City Speak is a week-long, valley-wide series of workshops, conversations, film screenings, and a free community concert featuring Quetzal, the Grammy Award–winning East L.A. band known for community-based cultural and social-justice organizing. The series of events brings together organizers, youth, artists, students, farmworker families, and neighbors to share stories, build connections and create collective music rooted in lived experience. Event Components Include Tuesday March 31, 6 pm Dinner, Collective Song Writing with Quetzal Flores, St Michael's Mission. Wednesday, April 1, 11-1 pm Documentary, Music, Q&A, Kendall Hall, YVC, Yakima Thurs, April 2, 1-3 pm Collective Song Writing Workshop with [...]