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Saturday, members of the North County Resistance gathered to pay tribute to Renee Goode, a woman from Minneapolis who tragically lost her life at the hands of an ICE agent this past week. This solemn event marked a significant moment for Nehalem, drawing a crowd of 70 people, the largest ever seen in the town—to share in their collective grief and outrage.
The attendees voiced their refusal to accept the killing of Renee Goode as well as their opposition to the conduct of ICE agents throughout the United States. The gathering demonstrated the community’s strong resistance to ICE’s heavy-handed tactics, regardless of whether these occur in larger cities or smaller towns. The message from North County Resistance was clear and unwavering: the community says “NO” to ICE.
While some may dismiss the efforts of these 70 individuals, it is important to recognize that their participation reflects the sentiments of many more who may not feel safe enough to attend. For example, a conversation with a woman at the Post Office revealed she avoids public gatherings due to concerns over her skin color. This sentiment underscores the broader climate of intimidation faced by many, though the recent tragedy involved a white woman.
North County Resistance members have witnessed negative responses to their protest, such as trucks passing by in Nehalem emitting black smoke, cars and trucks hugging the sidewalk as they go around the corner, and individuals making hostile hand gestures. These actions, while within the rights of those expressing dissent, are viewed as attempts to intimidate protesters. Fewer people are expressing dissent as they pass by, and we are gaining more protesters each week and we are not giving up.
North County Resistance meets again this coming Saturday, January 17 in Nehalem from noon to 2 PM. Please join us for this peaceful protest. Thank you.
Patty
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Fascism develops in times of economic or cultural trouble. What you do is you convince folks that their troubles are caused by someone they don’t love, someone *else*. You give permission to hate. You give permission to oppress. You give permission to dehumanize and then kill, as Renee Good’s murderer did after losing control of his temper when Good and her wife declined to show him the expected terrified deference. “I say go get yourself some lunch, big boy,” he was told before the murder.
The penalty for backtalk in fascism is death. “Fucking bitch,” he spat afterwards.
But a fascist government doesn’t give you anything your family needs to be safer or more prosperous unless you’re already part of the elite. It just gives you permission to hate, and to act on that hatred, leaving you poorer and more hateful than when you started.
Come back.
Feel the love for your community.
Feel the pain of your neighbors.
Turn away from cruelty and towards care.
Help us turn back towards democracy.
Heaven save us.
Will Irace
Nehalem
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After many doctor visits, I’ve learned that I need a special treatment to address these complications. Unfortunately, this treatment, along with the necessary appointments and medications, isn’t covered by insurance. The financial burden is heavy, and I’m doing everything I can to manage these costs while staying focused on my health and future.
Any contribution, no matter the size, will go directly toward my treatment, appointments, and medicine. Your generosity will help me regain my health and independence, and I am deeply grateful for your encouragement and belief in my recovery.
Link for donation:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-crissi-heal-with-hope-and-strength
thank you,
Crissi
a modern fable.
om peace namaste
lucy brook
U.S. citizen
The Mad Stamp Collector
TIMOTHY SNYDER
JAN 11
The boy grew up in a happy neighborhood, among good friends. People shared what they had, and looked after one another. When a neighbor needed a hand with a chore, others
were there to help. If someone wanted to borrow a tool, or anything else, it was readily provided. The boy never knew anything else.
The boy liked to greet the mailman, and he took an interest in stamps. One of his neighbors, a teenager, invited the boy to come look at his own collection. The boy was delighted. “Here,” said the teenager, handing the boy the album, “borrow it for as long as you like.” And so the boy took it home. He kept it for years, for decades. As the boy and the teenager grew into manhood, the borrowed stamp collection was a sign of friendship.
As the boy aged, however, his interest in stamps grew into an obsession. He ceased to enjoy the stamps, to think about their beauty and their history. He simply wanted to possess them. He began to say puzzling things to the neighbor about the collection. Rather than seeing the loan as a sign of friendship, he seemed resent that the neighbor had any claim on the stamps at all.
One night he broke into his neighbor’s house with a gun. When the neighbor awoke, he pointed the gun and said: “You see that I can invade your house. If the stamp collection had been here instead of in my house, I could have stolen it. From now on that stamp collection is mine, and you have to admit it.”
What had the mad stamp collector done? He has the stamp collection, but of course he had it before. He wants everyone to say that now it is his possession, but no one does, least of all his neighbor. He has lost the neighborhood, and all the more important forms of cooperation. He sits at home and turns pages of the album. He writes his name in big letters on its cover.
Though the stamp collector is too mad to see it, he has destroyed the foundations of his own life. Until the night of the break-in, he could have borrowed anything he wanted from that neighbor, or from anyone on the block. Now every house is closed to him, and he no longer has friends, nor will ever have any. He has nothing except for his madness.
The fable of the mad stamp collector is the story of American foreign policy. It expresses the president’s approach to Greenland, Denmark, and our allies in general. There is nothing in Greenland, or for that matter on the territory of other American allies, that we could not have, if we asked. That is the nature of old, trusting relationships, and the order represented by the NATO alliance.
As matters stand right now, the United States has the use of the territory of Greenland. We have had a military base at Pituffik for decades. We now station about two hundred troops there; if we wanted to station thousands instead of hundreds, we could do so. We did during the cold war. If American companies are interested in the Greenland’s natural resources, they can sign contracts.
If we believe, as the president and vice-president keep saying, that there is a Russian or Chinese threat to the island, then we could station more troops there, or invite the Danes or any other ally to do so. Or we could ask the Danes to build another base on another part of the island. Or we could do something meaningful about Arctic security, instead of denying global warming and letting Russia build all the icebreakers.
The Danes have been among the closest allies of the United States for three quarters of a century. The base at Pituffik is a sign of that friendship. When the Americans realized in 1951 that they had urgent need of that site of Greenland for nuclear defense, the Danes readily agreed. This was one of the crucial moments in the history of NATO, the alliance that both nations had helped to found two years before.
It is the NATO alliance that enables the American presence on Greenland, and it is the NATO alliance that the United States threatens when it threatens its ally Denmark. So long as the United States and Denmark are promised to defend one another from attack, Greenland is defended by both of them, and indeed by all of the other NATO allies. If the NATO alliance ceases to exist, then Greenland immediately becomes much less secure — and, for that matter, so does every other member of the alliance, including the United States. Nothing could strengthen Russia and China more than the end of NATO.
Trump, the mad stamp collector, has everything he could possibly want, except the ability to appreciate any of it, or be appreciative of the work that others do to create it. He can gain nothing for the United States by insisting on owning Greenland, but he can lose everything which has helped to make Americans safer and more prosperous. He can lose the neighborhood.
It might seem odd to describe all of this as a fable — and I am sorry to Greenlanders for having compared their island to a stamp collection. But the fabular form is far more honest than pretending that Trump has a notion of the United States and its interests. He just wants to see a flag in the snow. He just wants his name on the album. This is nothing more than madness, and that is where we must begin.
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This month’s story is Knight Owl by Christopher Denise. Owl has always dreamed of being a knight. Children will hear how Owl’s wish comes true and the problem he faces once he is keeping watch over the castle. Beautiful illustrations and Owl’s adventure will be sure to captivate children and adults alike. The story will be accompanied by trumpet player, Scott Wagner. Afterwards preschoolers will learn more about the trumpet and take part in making their own music with provided instruments.
The free readings for children ages 2 to 5 are planned monthly in partnership between North Oregon Coast Symphony, North Tillamook Library in Manzanita, and Seaside Library. For more information visit North Oregon Coast Symphony’s website at www.nocsymphony.org.
As Oregon kicks off a general election year, Secretary of State Tobias Read is taking what he says is the OVERDUE step of cleaning up the state’s voter rolls. WOW! He is coming clean.
That process could lead to the cancellation of as many as 800,000 registrations. That’s the number of voters Read says are currently classified as “inactive” on the voter rolls. To be clear, inactive voters do not receive ballots, but their names remain on the rolls. Well – Thats is not true.
Well to be clear – on talk radio shows people call in and say they have received ballots – more than one for the same election, keep getting ballots for others mailed to their homes, etc.etc..
Trump’s Department of Justice has sued Read’s office, seeking information about Oregon voters (that litigation is pending in U.S. District Court in Eugene). Judicial Watch, a conservative Washington, D.C., foundation, sued Read’s predecessor, LaVonne Griffin-Valade, in 2024, seeking a cleanup of voter rolls (that litigation is also pending). And currently, a group seeking to end vote by mail is suing to overturn results of a transit district election in Douglas County, and hoping to use that case to discredit mail in ballots. So thats an update!!
TWO POP UP RALLIES will be held this Saturday, 1/10 to protest ICE brutality and the illegal war, from 12-2 pm in TWO LOCATIONS:
-on the overpass over Highway 6, just east of Tillamook. You can access it from Goodspeed Park on Third Street,
-at the usual location at Sue Elmore Park, to increase visibility.
Link to register: tinyurl.com/yc2hbmw2
A VIGIL will be held this Saturday, 1/10 from 5-6 pm, downtown at the Second Street Plaza, in remembrance of those who have been brutalized, shot or murdered by ICE. Bring a candle (battery operated preferred) and/or a sign, if you can.
Link to register: tinyurl.com/287k8sz2
ITCA’s MONTHLY MEETING is on Saturday, January 17th at 1 pm at the Tillamook Library. Guest Speaker: Julia Wentzel, Regional Manager of the Oregon Food Bank. Please bring donations!
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i urge you to write letters of support to Senator Jeff Merkley, also to Senator Ron Wyden and Representative Suzanne Bonamici, who are working for our citizen rights in our U.S. Congress.
this below came from Senator Jeff Merkley tonight.
om peace namaste
lucy brook
nehalem resident
U.S. citizen
Just one day after Renee Nicole Good was gunned down by ICE in Minneapolis, federal agents under the Trump Administration shot more people, this time in East Portland. I am furious.
As we wait on word on the condition of the two people shot by federal agents, I am praying for their recovery. My heart goes out to their families, who have been plunged into pain and uncertainty.
ICE has been terrorizing our communities at the behest of Trump, an authoritarian strongman. It has done nothing to make our communities safer — quite the opposite.
I am demanding full transparency on what happened, including the role of both ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and full accountability. That means an investigation that includes local and state officials.
There is no way that we can trust information coming from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) when DHS officials have repeatedly lied to the American people. Time and again, the Trump Administration has trampled on the right to due process, denied people the ability to contact lawyers and family, and moved people without telling anyone where they are, sometimes even deporting them before anyone knows where they are.
The Trump Administration claimed Kilmar Abrego Garcia had gang connections when he didn’t. He was deported — ripped away from his family — and it took a 9-0 ruling from the Supreme Court to return him home.
The Trump Administration lied to the American public about Mahmoud Khalil, claiming he resisted arrest, all because he protested the Administration’s foreign policy.
And the Trump Administration detained Jackie Merlos, an Oregonian ripped from her young children, for more than four months without ever charging her with a crime.
There is a clear pattern here: the Administration lies to the American public, denies due process to people, and terrorizes our communities with masked agents invading our neighborhoods. There is a word for stripping away fundamental rights and fairness with no protection for the freedom of individuals: fascism.
I will continue to work with the Oregon delegation in the House and Senate to make sure that ICE and the Trump Administration are held accountable.
I’ll keep working to pass the Preventing Authoritarian Policing Tactics on America’s Streets Act to require federal military and law enforcement agents to display identifying information: their agency and name or badge number.
I’ll fight to pass the Restoring Access for Detainees Act to guarantee people have the right to call family and an attorney when detained.
I will continue to hold ICE accountable for their attempts to mine DMV data to target our communities and ring the alarm bells on the Trump Administration siphoning money meant for veterans to prop up their cruel immigration agenda.
My team and I will continue to work around the clock to reunite Oregonians who have been kidnapped by ICE with their families.
And above all: ICE needs to end its dangerous enforcement operations in Oregon now. I will keep demanding that.
I know folks are angry. I’m furious. I urge you to take care of one another and to continue to SPEAK OUT PEACEFULLY. Calm and non-violent protest is a hallmark of our democracy, and your voice is a powerful tool.
I’ll keep ringing the alarm bells on Trump’s authoritarianism and keep fighting to stop federal agents from attacking our communities.
All my best,
Jeff
Join us Monday, January 12, from 2-4pm for a fun session to start your year focused on your future dreams and plans. Learn the power and magic of Treasure Maps, Vision Boards – whatever you call them.
Kathie Hightower will share information on how these fun tools can move you towards what you want.
Bring magazines to cut images/words/phrases from, and scissors, glue and poster board. We will have some supplies on hand to share, including a big box of magazines, but bring what you have. After a short intro session, we will cut and paste to our hearts desires, creating collages to inspire our futures. At the end, participants can choose to share what they discovered in making their vision board. (which strengthens the magic of them.)
Your $5 donation at the door supports the Pine Grove Community House.
i very much appreciate the accurate, historical information provided by the political historian Heather Cox Richardson.
copied and pasted here, word for word, from her 1/9/26 message.
om peace namaste
lucy brook
nehalem resident
U.S. citizen
Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S. Army personnel in the European theater of World War II. Titled Army Talks, the series was designed “to help [the personnel] become better-informed men and women and therefore better soldiers.”
On March 24, 1945, the topic for the week was “FASCISM!”
“You are away from home, separated from your families, no longer at a civilian job or at school and many of you are risking your very lives,” the pamphlet explained, “because of a thing called fascism.” But, the publication asked, what is fascism? “Fascism is not the easiest thing to identify and analyze,” it said, “nor, once in power, is it easy to destroy. It is important for our future and that of the world that as many of us as possible understand the causes and practices of fascism, in order to combat it.”
Fascism, the U.S. government document explained, “is government by the few and for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political, social, and cultural life of the state.” “The people run democratic governments, but fascist governments run the people.”
“The basic principles of democracy stand in the way of their desires; hence—democracy must go! Anyone who is not a member of their inner gang has to do what he’s told. They permit no civil liberties, no equality before the law.” “Fascism treats women as mere breeders. ‘Children, kitchen, and the church,’ was the Nazi slogan for women,” the pamphlet said.
Fascists “make their own rules and change them when they choose…. They maintain themselves in power by use of force combined with propaganda based on primitive ideas of ‘blood’ and ‘race,’ by skillful manipulation of fear and hate, and by false promise of security. The propaganda glorifies war and insists it is smart and ‘realistic’ to be pitiless and violent.”
Fascists understood that “the fundamental principle of democracy—faith in the common sense of the common people—was the direct opposite of the fascist principle of rule by the elite few,” it explained, “[s]o they fought democracy…. They played political, religious, social, and economic groups against each other and seized power while these groups struggled.”
Americans should not be fooled into thinking that fascism could not come to America, the pamphlet warned; after all, “[w]e once laughed Hitler off as a harmless little clown with a funny mustache.” And indeed, the U.S. had experienced “sorry instances of mob sadism, lynchings, vigilantism, terror, and suppression of civil liberties. We have had our hooded gangs, Black Legions, Silver Shirts, and racial and religious bigots. All of them, in the name of Americanism, have used undemocratic methods and doctrines which…can be properly identified as ‘fascist.’”
The War Department thought it was important for Americans to understand the tactics fascists would use to take power in the United States. They would try to gain power “under the guise of ‘super-patriotism’ and ‘super-Americanism.’” And they would use three techniques:
First, they would pit religious, racial, and economic groups against one another to break down national unity. Part of that effort to divide and conquer would be a “well-planned ‘hate campaign’ against minority races, religions, and other groups.”
Second, they would deny any need for international cooperation, because that would fly in the face of their insistence that their supporters were better than everyone else. “In place of international cooperation, the fascists seek to substitute a perverted sort of ultra-nationalism which tells their people that they are the only people in the world who count. With this goes hatred and suspicion toward the people of all other nations.”
Third, fascists would insist that “the world has but two choices—either fascism or communism, and they label as ‘communists’ everyone who refuses to support them.”
It is “vitally important” to learn to spot native fascists, the government said, “even though they adopt names and slogans with popular appeal, drape themselves with the American flag, and attempt to carry out their program in the name of the democracy they are trying to destroy.”
The only way to stop the rise of fascism in the United States, the document said, “is by making our democracy work and by actively cooperating to preserve world peace and security.” In the midst of the insecurity of the modern world, the hatred at the root of fascism “fulfills a triple mission.” By dividing people, it weakens democracy. “By getting men to hate rather than to think,” it prevents them “from seeking the real cause and a democratic solution to the problem.” By falsely promising prosperity, it lures people to embrace its security.
“Fascism thrives on indifference and ignorance,” it warned. Freedom requires “being alert and on guard against the infringement not only of our own freedom but the freedom of every American. If we permit discrimination, prejudice, or hate to rob anyone of his democratic rights, our own freedom and all democracy is threatened.”
Come join us for Yoga with veterans, with Molly and with Janet. It’s fun, healthy, complementary and will limber you up. Everyone is welcome. Molly and Janet are excellent teachers.
Here is the info:
Yoga with Molly
Day – Monday
Time – 10:45 PST
Place – Tillamook YMCA
If you can’t join in person, you can still zoom in via the following link.
us06web.zoom.us/j/85009203244?pwd=kewlp3KzlW0sKcbRbW8m3xMy0t5yOA.1
Yoga with Janet
Day – Wednesday
Time – 10:30 PST
Place – NCRD in Nehalem
If you can’t join in person, you can still zoom in via the following link:
us02web.zoom.us/j/82315818270
See you there.
Brian