The Walla Walla County Democrats hold meetings on a regular basis. Newcomers are always welcome! You will find specific dates listed on our calendar, but the meetings are held the second Tuesday of every month at 6:30 p.m. The meetings are both in person and virtual. We meet in person in the board room of the Walla Walla School District Building, 364 S. Park St., Walla Walla. Zoom meeting links are regularly sent to our email list. If you would like to be added to our list or simply join one of our meetings virtually, please contact us for details or sign up for our mailing list here.
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Protejiendo Nuestras Raíces: Un Proyecto de Salma Anguiano
A documentary film screening featuring anonymous migrant workers in the Walla Walla Valley.
Saturday, May 7 at 4:30pm at Gesa Power House Theatre
FREE EVENT! City councilman Gustavo Reyna will facilitate an interview with Salma Anguiano before the film screening. Food and refreshments will be served afterward.
Growing up in a migrant working community Salma Anguiana often saw many injustices and unsafe working conditions faced by people in her community. During her first year of college, Anguiana embarked on a journey to advocate for the community she grew up in. She formed Protejiendo Nuestras Raices, and began advocacy efforts to address the unsafe working conditions that people like her parents faced in the workplace. Through this effort she also hoped tocreate spaces for people in our communities to speak their truths.
The event is cosponsored by the Walla Walla Immigrant Rights Coalition (WWIRC), the Colectivo de Arte Social, The Listeners Project: Queremos Escucharte, the Whitman College and Northwest Archives, the Associated Students of Whitman College, Project Pericles, and Hernandez Immigration Law, LLC.
From organizer Pro Choice Walla Walla: After the leaked SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe v. Wade we are at great risk of losing our reproductive rights. Abortion access saves lives and affects all of us. Overturning Roe v. Wade will outlaw abortion in a majority of states, the consequences of this will be detrimental. We cannot and will not stand for this. Stand with us on May 8th at 1:00pm in front of the Land Title Plaza in Walla Walla on Main St. for all of us whose rights are on the line. It is especially important to show our support for Roe v. Wade now more than ever.
Facebook event page: https://www.fac
The Supreme Court is prepared to end the constitutional right to abortion by overturning Roe v. Wade. We’re prepared to fight like hell to protect our rights. Join us for an event in downtown Walla Walla to show that people support abortion access and we won’t back down! Make a sign, bring a friend, and spread the word!
Zoom meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86055131402?pwd=SFVvUDF2UkEyTlAzYmR0OVBCM2Yxdz09
An event of the Ag and Rural Caucus of the State Democratic Central Committee
Water Rights Adjudication: Theory, Yakima Experience, and the Nooksack Anticipation
Mary Verner, Department of Ecology: Theory
Tom Ring, veteran of Yakima adjudication: Experience
William Clarke, Whatcom County, Ag Water Board: Anticipation
Water Rights: The FundamentalsLet’s start at the beginning. Who has rights to use public waters and how did they get them? This is the business of water right adjudication. And the Department of Ecology, working for the state, is boss. Except that the state is a latecomer to claiming jurisdiction, about a hundred years. And except that only the courts can really adjudicate water rights.
Confused? Aside from one-on-one adjudications, there has been only one general basin adjudication, the Yakima. It took forty years. It wrapped up in2019. It is known by its court title: Ecology v Acquella.
Next up is the Nooksack (WRIA-01). Are landowners in Whatcom County looking forward to forty years of litigation?
Our meeting on 23 June takes up water right adjudication, the experience in the Yakima basin, and the anticipations in the Nooksack.
Demonstration to protest the reversal of Roe v Wade. Organized by Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho. Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/3259419164295108/