The Process of Change

Healing Fort Bragg
Tanda Blu Bear Tanda Blu Bear

Healing Fort Bragg

Tanda Blu Bear

Excerpted from her speech May 17, 2024,

Town Hall, Fort Bragg

Tanda Blu Bear is of the Kashia Band of Pomo Indians of the Stewarts Point Rancheria, a Federally Recognized Tribe located in Sonoma County, California. She is the founder and executive director of Women With Bows and an indigenous activist.

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Guest House “Facts” Collide With History
Carol Furey & Phil Zwerling Carol Furey & Phil Zwerling

Guest House “Facts” Collide With History

A recent flyer labeled “Just The Facts” produced under the aegis of the Fort Bragg-Mendocino County Historical Society of Fort Bragg for distribution to visitors at the Guest House Museum purports to set the record straight on the naming of the City while simultaneously claiming to be neutral on the current renaming efforts.

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Thoughts on the Citizen’s Commission
Christie Olson Day Christie Olson Day

Thoughts on the Citizen’s Commission

I’d like to tell you a little about my experience serving on the City Council’s citizens’ commission, share a few thoughts I developed during that work, and then ask everyone, pro or con, to think about some of the ideas that underlie this controversy.

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What James Baldwin Can Teach Us
Adriana Narro Adriana Narro

What James Baldwin Can Teach Us

.. Baldwin says, “It is the innocence which constitutes the crime.” Then continues, “You must accept them and accept them with love, for these innocent people have no other hope. They are, in effect, still trapped in a history which they do not understand and until they understand it, they cannot be released from it.”

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