Dan Leahy papers, 1936-2022

Correspondence with city officials, staff, and reporters. Documents from Association of WA Cities (AWC), including discussions on oil trains, sample resolutions, and arguments. Copies of resolutions passed by WA City Councils, Ports, and Firefighters, addressing dangers of crude oil transport by rail, and censure of the Port of Olympia. Memos on messaging, language, and strategy. Research on local vs. federal regulation of rail. Maps showing location of rail lines, and documents for proposed terminals in WA. Miscellaneous state and federal actions.

Papers by Dan Leahy ("The Virtual Pipeline", "A New Political Order", "Strategy Summit Proposal"). Detailed summary of feedback/responses to analyses, and proposal by PNW actors from diverse organizations ("Purpose of a Statewide Strategy Summit"). 2014 TESC summer class, "Virtual Pipelines: New Oil and the Pacific NW". Syllabus, course readings, sessions, role of students in Statewide Strategy Summit. Statistics game based on Harper's Magazine. "Fossil Fuel Shipping at NW Ports" by Zoltan Grossman.

Representatives from tribes, labor unions, environmental groups, and activists meet to share information and evaluate strategies opposing expansion of oil trains into rural communities. Correspondence with tribal leaders. Participant lists, emails, memos, notes re: organizing the summit. Examples of actions undertaken (business outreach, Oil Train Watch, Evergreen Islands), statements and policy positions, outlines of proposed strategies to implement, and political context. Electoral strategy, Port primaries 2015. WPPA research, including consultants.

Series of planning/discussion/positioning emails, September-November 2014. Summary of summit event. Joint letter to Inslee opposing oil expansion.

Copy of "Washington State Department of Energy Marine & Rail Oil Transportation Study", and Leahy's analysis and critique ("A study in misdirection"). Emails, memos, participant lists, statements, proposed actions, and reading materials, leading to Washington State Council of Fire Fighters (WSCFF) meeting on January 24, 2015. Solidarity Roundtable on Oil (SRO). Joint letters to Inslee, Congressional leaders, and other correspondence. Emails, correspondence, statements, discussion among SRO participants. Evergreen Islands actions.

2016 documents relating to the train derailment and spill on the Columbia River near Mosier, Oregon. News, incident reports, local reaction, firefighters, correspondence with Inslee re: halt of oil train transport. Correspondence and emails re: Spokane ordinance. Lake Megantic statement. Solidarity Roundtable on Oil (SRO): emails opposing the WA Environmental Council position, SRO meetings (3/4/17 and 9/16/17) agendas, members list, meeting summaries, emails. Port commission vacancies. LNG issue.

Train crew size, copy of federal register, Railroad Workers United (RWU) agendas, resolutions, and documents re: organizing a rail safety conference. Emails from SRO participants in support. Washington State Council of Fire Fighters (WSCFF) letter.

WA Tribes' adopted positions on oil trains, fossil fuel risks, climate change. Corporate interests/operations. Documents covering crude oil expansion, transport, risks, and Berkshire Hathaway investment.

Talks on Washington State labor history and organizing, northwest organizing efforts, political institutions, and political eras.

Talks on free trade, resistance to NAFTA and the WTO, the Patriot Act, public education, and refugees and immigrants.

Data and analysis of Business Roundtable: money by member in the 1984 election, outline of talks on origins and purpose, quotes from members, trends, diagram of relationships/links to foundations/media/universities/government/other corporations, executive pay amounts, and WA state foundations ranked by assets (1996-1997).

Leahy talk overview. Roundtable Education Committee: role, members, "standards-based reform", and testing. Charts and FAQs. Partnership for Learning. News coverage. Overview of Teacher Activism talk. Paper on Canadian experience of testing. "People's Summit," APEC, 1997. "Class warfare: Assault on Canada's schools" paper at the "In the Public Interest" conference, 1995. FairTest company goals. WEA policy memo on reform law and role of the WEA, addressed to Terry Bergeson and the Washington Roundtable.

Lessons from Canada. Speech by Boeing Chair F. Schrontz. Bios of Roundtable Education Committee members. Material promoting "standards". News clips. Survey (7/31/97) and summary of issues (8/18/97-8/21/97) raised by teachers for discussion at the Community Think Tank retreat. Evergreen Freedom Foundation publication, "Crisis in the Classroom". Talking points for Uniserve Councils in response to attacks by EFF and Teachers for a Responsible Union. Diagram and money behind the attacks on WEA. "Friends of Center for Education Reform" letter listing resolutions for 1998-99 (school choice organization).

"Strategy Game," for Eastern Washington Councils: an exercise in strategic organizing to defend public education. Planning memos, agreement between Eastern Washington Restructuring Network and Leahy, WEA letters and announcement, first draft game elements, faxing info, pre-game moves, questions for post-game evaluation. Strategy game packet: scenarios, roles, teams, directions, game outline, players' moves. Post-game evaluation: report(s) of results from the Moses Lake WEA Strategy Game (2/18/98)

Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) structure and mission. Elway Poll on education reforms. Campaign to-do lists. Outline showing structure of education in WA state. Announcement and candidate speech. Labor Council endorsement questionnaire. Letter to Paul Redmond (WBR). Campaigning: news clippings, statements, interviews, endorsements, issue papers, meeting notes, education policy. Economics of land grant colleges (1996 and 1941), with a note from Richard Grossman.

Planning and inspiration for the event: emails with details for bringing in Ritter and Jamal, expenses, venue, ticket sales, publicity for event, invitation, postcard. News coverage. Background info on the war. Articles by Ritter and Jamal. Documents re: subsequent Support the Truth events in Spokane.

Material relating to the formation of a new political party in Washington State: memo on rules for forming a political party in WA, search committee memo, and "Mechanics of Party Formation". Top contributors to incumbents in 1988, and powers as a result. Scoping memos: "Washington Equity Party", "New Washington Party". Search Committee (1991). Penguin Plan and funding. Statement of Principle. Correspondence. Holding a convention to get on the ballot (1992). Project New Tomorrow invitation. Draft party statement to get signatures. Outline of earlier 3rd party efforts. Center for a New Democracy paper. Documents relating to national New Party efforts (1991-1992).

Jack Task Force formation and reports. Friends of the Westside Center. Lessons, and lessons learned, for organizing downtown. Extensive correspondence: City Council, owners, realtors, architect, Daily Olympian, community members. Minutes of community meetings, and statements from meetings. Flyers, postcard. Report of visit to property owner location in British Columbia. Council minutes. Appeal of City Approval. Hearing Examiner rulings, revisions to site plans, and City Staff responses. Appeal to City Council and findings. Council member letter to Foodmaker Inc. (Jack in the Box owner), Corporate documents.

Submission materials and correspondence with the City of Olympia for office park development (via public records request) connected to Decatur Street. Corporate developer info and SOS filings. List of private owners abutting Decatur. Correspondence and minutes from other Neighborhood Association outreach efforts. Mothers' Day walk, 2001. "Decatur Raiders" role. Oly City Council agendas. Signers on neighborhood opposition petition. Correspondence between neighborhood actors, city and county departments, and planning commission. Communications among and with neighborhood residents. Statements. Council election materials (including traffic volumes), arguments, strategies, organizing materials, photos, flyers, public hearings. Council decision to withdraw funds from Decatur expansion.

Neighborhood rep presentation of alternative analysis at City Council study session, parallel to Regional Planning Staff. Delay Decatur until Westside Traffic Study conducted (included). 2007 election positions: pledges from candidates to oppose opening Decatur. Council minutes, and renewed petition signatures. Council study session and regular minutes. Comp Plan and recommendations for public participation process (2004). Planning Commission positions. Emails to remove Decatur connection opening from Oly Comp Plan. Opposition letters from residents. New connected streets policy eliminates evaluation; decrees all connections be made. Outline of changes in Comp Plan (2012). Outreach to council candidates (2013 and 2015), and candidate statements. SWONA request to remove Decatur connection from Comp Plan. Assemble Decatur Raiders.

Organized letter-writing campaign convinces City of Olympia to select Habitat proposal to develop mixed affordable housing on city-owned property (versus all other applicants proposing market-rate rental housing). Outreach to community, letters to City (69), award to Habitat. Copies of all proposals/RFQs.

Internal city staff emails prior to developer (MAJ) application. Legal notices. Extensive correspondence from community and others. Public meeting notes. Emails re: traffic analysis, and other elements of the application. Notice of Land Use Approval, and appeal to City Hearing Examiner (HEX). Motions, briefs, staff reports, neighborhood position paper, and other documents. HEX decision affirming approval. Additional emails questioning errors in City documents. Fees for reconsideration, list of funds collected, request for reconsideration, reply briefs. Hearing Examiner order rejecting. Reflections, poem. Organizing documents, "Decatur Raiders" (ad hoc community group). Community and business opposition/formal comments. Correspondence with City, Council Members, architect, landowner (1919 Harrison), developer. Research, 7-11 ownership, correspondence. Neighborhood Association resolution opposing, flyers.

Pre-application phone records and emails between developer and city staff. Notes on testimony and exhibits from Weidner (petitioner), MAJ, and staff witnesses. Analysis of OMC, processes, and staff mistakes. Errors by staff engineers, etc. Post-decision attempts by staff to re-write OMC provisions. Parking variance example. Mystery of prior "buffer" agreement.

Transcript of the initial appeal of the 7-11 approval before City Hearing Examiner, 9/7/2011

Fundraising. Brief filing appeal. Correspondence, emails, research, council "action". Request to City Council to settle suit by overturning appeal. 7-11 attorney threat. Cost of transcript for Superior Court record of funders. Community meeting update. Demonstration photos/city hall presentation. Community debrief. Correspondence to/from City Councilors. Parties' briefs to Judge Sutton. Presentations to transit, council. Notes from oral argument to Sutton. Attorney correspondence on issues. News articles.

Memorandum and Corrected Opinion. Follow-up motions re: reconsideration/strike/clarification. Proposed orders. Sutton's order. Loser's motions to reconsider and responses. Attorney memo to Leahy on strategy, arguments. Parties' briefs on reconsideration. Transcript from Superior Court hearing. Proposed resolution to City Council, cost of challenge, statement re: Comp Plan authority. 7-11 (MAJ) appeal to Court of Appeals and motion to dismiss (granted). Draft of paper analyzing the failures of the City in its approval process. Final report on 7-11 approval and reversal ("The Persistence of Uncoordinated Growth").

Preview course for environmentalists and union members (working in pairs) to explore common ground and plan for fall "March to Miami" for the FTAA meeting. Planning documents, fundraising correspondence, participant bios, course materials.

Cross-country bio-diesel bus trip from Olympia to Miami, making stops at towns en route. Planning memos, invitations, Board minutes, fundraising correspondence, budgets, mailings. Cities and towns visited, talks and participation reports. Flyers from Steelworker locals. Analysis, skits, FTAA lyrics. Captioned photo essay of the March to Miami (M2M) journey. Documentary film of the march, "Driving it Home."

Press clips re: actions and towns en route. Press releases, brochures, ASJE at the WTO in Seattle, booklet and maps.

ASJE organization documents: annual report of accomplishments, Board retreat, minutes, reports through the end of 2002.

Leahy begins term as Executive Director. Brief history of ASJE, born at WTO in Seattle. Membership, monthly Board agendas/meetings, finances, memos, emails, outreach, working group reports.

Organization conferences: Midwest Environment-Labor Summit, S. Bend, Indiana (February 28 - March 1, 2004). National Conference in Chicago (April 2004), workshops and participants. Comprehensive list of donors. Financial accounting. Leahy's departure as Executive Director.

ASJE newsletters, and other publications on labor-environmental issues.

Contents: Leahy and students marching with Atenco farmers. Expulsion order. US Press coverage, Mexico Press coverage. Completing the class. Letters of support. TESC President (Les Purce) actions; TESC Provost (Riveros-Schafer) actions.

Administrative appeal to Mexico. Mexican Consul letter of apology. Looking for legal help. Open letter to the community. Whistleblower complaint and state auditor investigation. WA Executive Ethics Board reprimand. Reviving the San Patricio Batallon.

Contents: Origin, correspondence, celebrations, travel, research, fund-raising, "credentials," official letters of support. Funds raised to rebuild earthquake-damaged kiosko in San Patricio. Participants, histories.

Contents: Correspondence, newsletter, events, role in new high school (prepatoria), official recognitions, contest bringing two San Patricio-Melaque (SP-M) students to the US, first TESC "Nation State" class home-stays in SP-M.