3-day ‘Walk to Protect and Restore Our Salish Sea’ plans Friday night rally in West Seattle

A three-day advocacy walk that starts downtown tomorrow afternoon will head to West Seattle for a rally Friday night. Here’s the announcement we received:

Protectors of the Salish Sea, the Salish Sea Whale Sanctuary, and Orca Network, are co-sponsoring:

WALK TO PROTECT AND RESTORE OUR SALISH SEA

Tomorrow, Friday, July 7, 2017, 2 PM to July 9, 6 PM

Starting at Myrtle Edwards Park (3130 Alaskan Way)

DAY 1 – Friday, July 7th
2:00 PM: Meet and rally at Myrtle Edwards Park – Traditional territory of the Duwamish Nation, then launch our Walk to Protect our Salish Sea. We will walk in song and blessings of our drums as well as the blessings of Jingle Dress dancers leading us to the Duwamish Longhouse (4705 W Marginal Way SW).

6:30 to 8:00 PM: Walkers arrive and we rally, eat, and rest for the night. Dinner provided.

DAY 2 – Saturday, July 8th
7:00 AM: Breakfast provided at Duwamish Longhouse.
8:00 AM: Depart on our walk to Saltwater State Park, 25205 8th Pl S, Des Moines, where we will participate in a water blessing ceremony and song.

From there, the walkers continue to a nearby church, and on day 3, Sunday, they plan to go from Des Moines to Tacoma for a rally at the site of a proposed LNG facility. Organizers say they also are using the walk to advocate for the proposal to retire the orca Lolita (aka Tokitae) in her Pacific Northwest habitat after 47 years of East Coast captivity.

3 Replies to "3-day 'Walk to Protect and Restore Our Salish Sea' plans Friday night rally in West Seattle"

  • Ron Swanson July 6, 2017 (4:34 pm)

    Pretty misguided protest target if you ask me: getting as much of the local maritime traffic as possible to switch to LNG from diesel should be a major priority –  pollution from nasty high sulfur marine diesel fuel is a major threat to the local environment.  

    Consider the outrage over the VW diesel cheating scandal, then consider that a large marine diesel is burning fuel with 100X more sulfur than road diesel and pumping as much smog forming NOx into the air as thousands of even the cheating VW cars.  And that’s if everything is working as designed and nothing spills into the water.  Gross. 

  • Dean Fuller July 7, 2017 (4:33 pm)

    Salish Sea?

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