Leah Sottile, Author at High Country News https://www.hcn.org A nonprofit independent magazine of unblinking journalism that shines a light on all of the complexities of the West. Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:06:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.hcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-HCN_Logo-Monogram_White_Sq-2-32x32.png Leah Sottile, Author at High Country News https://www.hcn.org 32 32 229054741 The passion of the Mormon feminist https://www.hcn.org/issues/56-12/the-passion-of-the-mormon-feminist/ Sun, 01 Dec 2024 08:30:00 +0000 https://www.hcn.org/?p=329893 Covers from Exponent II over the years.

For 50 years, ‘Exponent II‘ has made the LDS Church squirm. It has no plans to stop.

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]]> 329893 What the Bundy Bunkerville standoff foreshadowed https://www.hcn.org/issues/56-10/what-the-bundy-bunkerville-standoff-foreshadowed/ Tue, 01 Oct 2024 07:45:00 +0000 https://www.hcn.org/?p=328303 Eric Parker from central Idaho aims his weapon from a bridge as protesters gather by the Bureau of Land Management’s base camp near Bunkerville, Nevada, in April 2014.

Ten years after the impasse between the Bundy family and the BLM, the doctrine of white oppression is widely embraced.

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]]> 328303 Hate groups in western Washington echo the past https://www.hcn.org/issues/56-6/how-western-washington-history-explains-the-rise-of-hate-groups/ Sat, 01 Jun 2024 07:55:00 +0000 https://www.hcn.org/?p=325550 Kyle Wheeler at Dancing Swallows Big Gay Bird Sanctuary and Memorial Pond in Chehalis, Washington.

The bigotry displayed when white supremacists disrupted a Pride celebration in Centralia repeats a pattern that dates back to 1919.

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]]> 325550 Oregon’s Greater Idaho movement echoes a long history of racism in the region https://www.hcn.org/issues/55-8/north-extremism-oregons-greater-idaho-movement-echoes-a-long-history-of-racism-in-the-region/ Tue, 01 Aug 2023 08:00:00 +0000 https://www.hcn.org/north-extremism-oregons-greater-idaho-movement-echoes-a-long-history-of-racism-in-the-region/

Instead of fixing Oregon, the Greater Idaho movement seeks to leave it. White supremacists are on board.

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]]> 226256 James Watt, Ted Kaczynski and power over lands https://www.hcn.org/articles/extremism-james-watt-ted-kaczynski-and-power-over-lands/ Tue, 13 Jun 2023 08:00:00 +0000 https://www.hcn.org/extremism-james-watt-ted-kaczynski-and-power-over-lands/ A photo of Ted Kaczynski positioned in the window of a member of the Eugene, Oregon activist community. It reads “Be Like Ted.”

The legacies of the two recently departed men are intertwined.

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]]> 194552 The 90-foot sentinel of Butte, Montana https://www.hcn.org/issues/55-3/people-places-the-90-foot-sentinel-of-butte-montana/ Wed, 01 Mar 2023 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.hcn.org/2023/03/01/the-90-foot-sentinel-of-butte-montana/

What does a statue dedicated to mothers reveal about women’s rights?

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]]> 121820 How a trail in rural Oregon became a target of far-right extremism https://www.hcn.org/issues/53-7/north-extremism-how-a-trail-in-rural-oregon-became-a-target-of-far-right-extremism/ Thu, 01 Jul 2021 08:00:00 +0000 https://www.hcn.org/2021/07/01/how-a-trail-in-rural-oregon-became-a-target-of-far-right-extremism/

To understand the state’s urban-rural divide, start by looking at Yamhill County’s proposed walking trail.

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]]> 121343 Did James Plymell need to die? https://www.hcn.org/issues/53-3/north-law-enforcement-did-james-plymell-need-to-die/ Mon, 01 Mar 2021 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.hcn.org/2021/03/01/did-james-plymell-need-to-die/

How homelessness is criminalized in small cities and towns across the West.

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]]> 121206 As a plague sweeps the land, zealots see a gift from heaven https://www.hcn.org/issues/52-8/extremism-as-a-plague-sweeps-the-land-zealots-see-a-gift-from-heaven/ Sat, 01 Aug 2020 08:00:00 +0000 https://www.hcn.org/2020/08/01/as-a-plague-sweeps-the-land-zealots-see-a-gift-from-heaven/

Extremist pastors are using the COVID-19 pandemic to push their conservative religious ideologies.

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]]> 120908 What really is antifa? https://www.hcn.org/articles/north-social-justice-what-really-is-antifa/ Fri, 05 Jun 2020 08:00:00 +0000 https://www.hcn.org/2020/06/05/what-really-is-antifa/

Effie Baum, an ‘everyday anti-fascist,’ talks about President Trump’s threat to designate the movement as a terrorist organization, and corrects the record.

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