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Women’s Voices from the Holocaust

The performance, The Ruins of Memory: Women’s Voices of the Holocaust highlights the experiences of Jewish women throughout the European continent who navigated their way through a horrific time in the 20th century. It’s performed by Tales of the Alchemysts Theatre at Taproot Theater this Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  You can find more information on the event here.

Producer: Yuko Kodama

Laura Ferri

Laura Ferri

Photo: by Michael Loggins

Incorporating Lushootseed Language Into Life

 
Michelle Myles is Snohomish from Tulalip, and is a Lushootseed Language Teacher at Tulalip Heritage High School in Tulalip, WA through the Tulalip Lushootseed Program. Myles describes how she talks with students about incorporating Lushootseed (a language spoken by a number of Coast Salish tribes in this region) into life today.

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Reawakening Lushootseed Language: Language Warriors

Lushootseed  is the language spoken by Coast Salish tribes in the greater Seattle region. In 1819, Congress passed the Civilization Fund Act to assimilate indigenous youth to western culture.  The policy authorized forcible separation of indigenous children from their families to be sent to boarding schools, where they were to be stripped of their language, culture and religious practices.  It wasn’t until the 1970’s that this practice was outlawed.  Today, members of these communities are reawakening their native language through educational programs.

KBCS’s Laura Florez spoke with Lois Landgrebe, of Snohomish, Stillaguamish, Duwamish and Nez Perce descendants, and a Lushootseed educator at Quil Ceda Tulalip elementary school in Tulalip, Washington through the Tulalip Lushootseed Program. Landgrebe describes what it means to be a language warrior.  

Producers: Laura Florez, Yukiko Arichi and Yuko Kodama

 

Lois Landgrebe

Lois with drum

Christian Rhetoric in Politics: Dr. Obery Hendricks

 
A New York Times article from April titled “The Growing Religious Fervor in the American Right” is about the increase in Christian prayer, music and rituals incorporated into right-wing conservative rallies.  The challengers of laws to protect abortion and LGBTQ communities often put forth particular beliefs they attach to Christianity. 
 
 
Hendricks describes how the Christian conservative right frames their opinions.
 
Dr. Obery Hendricks is part of an event this Saturday in Seattle.  Details are below:

White Christian Nationalism and the Midterms Elections 

On November 6th, 2022, 4pm PST at the Rainier Art Center, located 3515 S Alaska St, Seattle, WA 98118, Valley and Mountain Fellowship will host a dialogue between Rev. Dr. Obery Hendricks, author, Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith and Dr. Anthea Butler, author, White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America. The topic is White Christian Nationalism and the Midterm Elections. The dialogue will be moderated by the Right Rev. Dr. Edward Donalson, III, author, #BlackLivesMatter: Toward an Intersectional Theology.  The event will be livestreamed on the Valley and Mountain YouTube page.   

As congressional hearings into the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol come to a close and the rise the Neo-Nazi organizations in our nation, the mid-term election are proving to be as contentious as ever.  Equally, candidates around the country are trafficking white Christian nationalism.  With each passing election, fringe political ideas become more and more mainstream.  Simultaneously, white supremacist ideas at work in Christian practices must be contended with.     

Valley and Mountain Fellowship’s Center for Faith, Art, and Justice in partnership with the Innovation Vitality Team of Pacific Northwest Conference of the United Methodist Church

has invited scholars, clergy, and activists working at the intersection of race and faith to share their wisdom to our broader communities.   This dialogue is the first in a series entitled “Set us free from fear: Faith, White Supremacy, and  Politics”.  

Dr. Anthea Butler, Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought and Chair of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania.  In White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America, Butler reveals how evangelical racism, propelled by the benefits of whiteness, has since the nation’s founding played a provocative role in severely fracturing the electorate. 

Rev. Dr. Obery Hendricks is a Visiting Professor of Religion, Columbia University. In his recent book, Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith, Hendricks challenges the right-wing evangelical misuses of the Bible that are embedded in their rabid homophobia, their poorly veiled racism and demonizing of immigrants and Muslims, and their ungodly alliance with big business against the interests of American workers.

Rev. Dr.  Edward Donalson, III, Assistant Clinical Professor and Director of Doctoral Ministry, Seattle University, School of Theology and Ministry.  In #BlackLivesMatter: Toward an Intersectional Theology, Donalson examines the implicit theological aspects of the largest protest movement in the United States since the Civil Rights Movement. 

Expulsion of Tacoma’s Chinese Residents in 1885

On Saturday, Hundreds of people walked from Tacoma’s Tollefson Plaza to the Chinese Reconciliation Park for the annual Walk for Reconciliation Against Racism. The event was to observe the day about 200 Chinese residents in the Tacoma area were forcibly removed in 1885.  KBCS’s Yuko Kodama has this story.

Lotus Perry, Chinese Reconciliation Project Foundation Board Member and Volunteer

Rinrada Hui and father, Cho Ryong Hui

Rinrada Hui

Mak Fai Kung Fu Lion Dancers

Food prepared for walkers at the end of the walk

Chinese Reconciliation Park

 

KUOW workers picket for higher wages

 
Public radio personalities, reporters and producers are putting up a fight for better pay. KBCS’s Yuko Kodama reports from Seattle’s University District.
 
 

Seattle’s CID and their reason to fight the homeless shelter expansion

Last week, King County scrapped their plans for a homeless shelter expansion on the edge of Seattle’s Chinatown International District (CID). Listen to why elders from the CID came out in numbers to protest another homeless shelter in this neighborhood and what they demand now.

Taking the Racism Out of Teaching English Writing

 

KBCS highlights a progressive approach to teaching college writing classes. A method of teaching college level writing titled Anti-racist Writing Assessment Ecology was adopted by 62 faculty at 30 out of the 34 Washington community college and technical colleges (at the time we were working on this story).  The methodology is meant to address and minimize what some educators are considering a culturally colonized education environment.

Dr. Asao Inoue is a Professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University. He developed the Anti-racist Writing Assessment Ecology and wrote the book, Writing Assessment, Social Justice, and The Advancement of Opportunity. Dr. Inoue talked about the approach and what inspired him to create it.

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Bellevue protest to support Iranian Women

 

Hundreds gathered in Bellevue over the weekend to protest in solidarity with women in Iran.  KBCS was there and gathered voices and sounds from the event.

 

 

Repatriation of Mexican Americans in the 1930’s

Imagine being a US Citizen and being deported to a country where you don’t know anyone. This happened in the 1930’s here in America.

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