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March 2018
Lauren Danner at Great Old Broads for Wilderness
Come meet Lauren Danner, author of Crown Jewel Wilderness: Creating North Cascades National Park, and discover the story behind Washington’s spectacularly majestic third national park. She chronicles how concern over natural resource agency policies—one favoring tourism development and the other promoting logging in national forests—plus conservationists’ activism and skillful political compromise, eventually led to its creation 50 years ago in 1968. Lauren Danner
Find out more »Lauren Danner at Inklings Bookshop
Come meet Lauren Danner, author of Crown Jewel Wilderness: Creating North Cascades National Park, and discover the story behind Washington’s spectacularly majestic third national park. She chronicles how concern over natural resource agency policies—one favoring tourism development and the other promoting logging in national forests—plus conservationists’ activism and skillful political compromise, eventually led to its creation 50 years ago in 1968. Lauren Danner
Find out more »Kit Bakke at Third Place Books – Seward Park
After a 1970 protest at Seattle’s downtown federal building turned violent, authorities arrested seven Seattle Liberation Front members–including a University of Washington professor and students. They faced federal conspiracy and intent to riot indictments, but the real issue was Americans’ freedom to organize and protest. Kit Bakke, author of Protest on Trial: The Seattle 7 Conspiracy, will discuss the chaotic trial, surprising tactics used by the FBI and judicial system, what it meant for the young activists, and why it still…
Find out more »April 2018
Kit Bakke at Café Louvre (with Andrea Dunlop)
After a 1970 protest at Seattle’s downtown federal building turned violent, authorities arrested seven Seattle Liberation Front members–including a University of Washington professor and students. They faced federal conspiracy and intent to riot indictments, but the real issue was Americans’ freedom to organize and protest. Kit Bakke, author of Protest on Trial: The Seattle 7 Conspiracy, will discuss the chaotic trial, surprising tactics used by the FBI and judicial system, what it meant for the young activists, and why it still…
Find out more »Kit Bakke at Burien King County Public Library (with Elise Hopper)
Meet Kit Bakke, author of Protest on Trial: The Seattle 7 Conspiracy, who will be discussing her fiction book from another publisher.
Find out more »Celebrate Indie Bookstore Day with Kit Bakke at Elliott Bay (plus music by The Rejections and Trailing Spouses)
After a 1970 protest at Seattle’s downtown federal building turned violent, authorities arrested seven Seattle Liberation Front members–including a University of Washington professor and students. They faced federal conspiracy and intent to riot indictments, but the real issue was Americans’ freedom to organize and protest. Kit Bakke, author of Protest on Trial: The Seattle 7 Conspiracy, will discuss the chaotic trial, surprising tactics used by the FBI and judicial system, what it meant for the young activists, and why it still…
Find out more »Kit Bakke at University Bookstore
After a 1970 protest at Seattle's downtown federal building turned violent, authorities arrested seven Seattle Liberation Front members--including a University of Washington professor and students. They faced federal conspiracy and intent to riot indictments, but the real issue was Americans' freedom to organize and protest. Kit Bakke, author of Protest on Trial: The Seattle 7 Conspiracy, will discuss the chaotic trial, surprising tactics used by the FBI and judicial system, what it meant for the young activists, and why it…
Find out more »May 2018
Kit Bakke at Literary Voices
Meet Kit Bakke, author of Protest on Trial: The Seattle 7 Conspiracy as part of Literary Voices. Tickets (for entire event): $150 per person or $1,500 per table.
Find out more »Kit Bakke at Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum
After a 1970 protest at Seattle’s downtown federal building turned violent, authorities arrested seven Seattle Liberation Front members–including a University of Washington professor and students. They faced federal conspiracy and intent to riot indictments, but the real issue was Americans’ freedom to organize and protest. Kit Bakke, author of Protest on Trial: The Seattle 7 Conspiracy, will discuss the chaotic trial, surprising tactics used by the FBI and judicial system, what it meant for the young activists, and why it still…
Find out more »June 2018
Kit Bakke at the Washington Women’s Foundation
After a 1970 protest at Seattle’s downtown federal building turned violent, authorities arrested seven Seattle Liberation Front members–including a University of Washington professor and students. They faced federal conspiracy and intent to riot indictments, but the real issue was Americans’ freedom to organize and protest. Kit Bakke, author of Protest on Trial: The Seattle 7 Conspiracy, will discuss the chaotic trial, surprising tactics used by the FBI and judicial system, what it meant for the young activists, and why it still…
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