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Larry Hildes and Karen Weill Collection on Social Justice Issues and Activism, 1999-2017

Overview of the Collection

Col
Hildes, Larry, -- 1965-2021.; Weill, Karen, -- -2020.
Title
Larry Hildes and Karen Weill Collection on Social Justice Issues and Activism
Dates
1999-2017 (inclusive)
Quantity
1 linear ft.
Collection Number
XOE_CPNWS0384
Summary
A collection containing pamphlets, posters, flyers and published, promotional or education materials relating to social justice issues and activism in and around Bellingham, Washington.
Repository
Western Washington University, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies
Goltz-Murray Archives Building
808 25th St.
Bellingham, WA
98225
Telephone: (360) 650-7534
cpnws@wwu.edu
Access Restrictions

The collection is open to the public for research.

Languages
English, Spanish; Castilian
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Content Description

A collection containing pamphlets, posters,flyers and published, promotional or education materials relating to social justice issues and activism in and around Bellingham, Washington. These materials are a small sample from among the papers of Larry Hildes (1965-2021) and Karen Weill (d. 2020): Hilde and Weill were life and work partners who focused on social justice cases as a Bellingham-based attorney and paralegal. Initial content selections for the collection were made for the CPNWS archives by WWU Associate Professor of Sociology, Dr. Pat Gillham.

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Use of the Collection

Preferred Citation

Larry Hildes and Karen Weill Collection on Social Justice Issues and Activism, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Western Libraries Archives & Special Collections, Western Washington University, Bellingham WA 98225-9123.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

The collection was transferred to the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies by Pat Gillham in December 2022 and comprises content selected from Hildes and Weill's papers by Pat Gillham (WWU Sociology Professor) and/or Dave Tucker (of the Whatcom-Skagit Branch, Industrial Workers of the World, and friend of Larry Hildes and Karen Weill).

Processing Note

Materials were selected for the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies by Pat Gillham, and organized for research use by Ruth Steele (CPNWS Archivist). Collection inventory compiled by Jade Harding.

Processing Note

This collection contains content that researchers may find offensive and harmful, including materials relating to racism, white supremacy movements, acts of violence and sexual assault. To learn more about problematic content in our collections, collection description and teaching tools (including how to provide feedback or request dialogue on this topic), see the following Statement About Potentially Harmful Language and Content.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Description: Banks and Corporations
    Dates: 2011; Undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 1
  • Description: Biosafety
    Dates: Undated (approximately 2000s)
    Container: Box 1, Folder 2
  • Description: Cuba
    Dates: approximately 2000s; 2017
    Container: Box 1, Folder 3
  • Description: Cycling and the Bellingham Naked Bike Ride
    Dates: Undated; approximately 2010
    Container: Box 1, Folder 4
  • Description: Environment and Climate
    Dates: 2014; Undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 5
  • Description: Environment - Coal port/Gateway Pacific Terminal
    Dates: approximately 2012-2014
    Container: Box 1, Folder 6
  • Description: Global Justice
    Dates: approximately 2010
    Container: Box 1, Folder 7
  • Description: Farmworkers
    Dates: Undated; 2006-2009
    Container: Box 1, Folder 8
  • Description: Fire this Time
    Dates: 2016 December; 2017 October
    Container: Box 1, Folder 9
  • Description: Food Justice
    Dates: Undated; 2009
    Container: Box 1, Folder 10
  • Description: Glen Beck Mount Vernon Protest Flyer
    Dates: 2009
    Container: Box 1, Folder 11
  • Description: Healthcare
    Dates: approximately 2010-2012
    Container: Box 1, Folder 12
  • Description: Hildes (Larry) Business Card
    Dates: Undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 13
  • Description: Housing and Homelessness
    Dates: Undated; 2003
    Container: Box 1, Folder 14
  • Description: Human Rights
    Dates: Undated; approximately 2006-2012
    Container: Box 1, Folder 15
  • Description: Immigration and Immigrant Rights
    Dates: Undated; approximately 2002-2012
    Container: Box 1, Folder 16
  • Description: Immigrant and Immigrant Rights (poster)
    Dates: undated (approximately 2000-2012)
    Container: Box MC_L01, Folder 1B
  • Description: Indigenous People and Treaty Rights
    Dates: 2005-2009
    Container: Box 1, Folder 17
  • Description: LGBTQ Rights
    Dates: Undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 18
  • Description: Mead, Ed, The Theory and Practice of Armed Struggle in the Northwest
    Dates: 2003
    Container: Box 1, Folder 19
  • Description: Occupy Bellingham
    Dates: 2011
    Container: Box 1, Folder 20
  • Description: Olympia Protest
    Dates: Undated
    Container: Box 1, Folder 21
  • Description: Peace; World Peace Forum
    Dates: 2003-2006
    Container: Box 1, Folder 22
  • Description: Peace
    Dates: approximately 2002-2009
    Container: Box 2, Folder 1
  • Description: Policing and Police Brutality
    Dates: Undated; approximately 2003-2011
    Container: Box 2, Folder 2
  • Description: Prisons and Prisoners
    Dates: Undated; 2006
    Container: Box 2, Folder 3
  • Description: Sensible Washington Bellingham
    Dates: Undated
    Container: Box 2, Folder 4
  • Description: Songs of the Northwest
    Dates: 2015
    Container: Box 2, Folder 5
  • Description: Student Protest and Activist Groups
    Dates: Undated
    Container: Box 2, Folder 6
  • Description: Trump Election

    One document

    Dates: 2016
    Container: Box 2, Folder 7
  • Description: Journal of Anti-Racist Action Vol. 17
    Dates: Spring 2004
    Container: Box 2, Folder 8
  • Description: Latin America and US Foreign Trade Policy
    Dates: Undated; approximately 2008-2010
    Container: Box 2, Folder 9
  • Description: Vancouver Olympics Protest
    Dates: 2010
    Container: Box 2, Folder 10
  • Description: Veganism and Feminism

    One document

    Dates: Undated
    Container: Box 2, Folder 11
  • Description: Vigilantes; Minutemen
    Dates: approximately 2005
    Container: Box 2, Folder 12
  • Description: Votes for Women
    Dates: approximately 2010
    Container: Box 2, Folder 13
  • Description: Perilous History of White Supremacy in Bellingham/Whatcom County Photocopy

    Photocopied booklet

    Dates: August 2015
    Container: Box 2, Folder 14
  • Description: Women
    Dates: Undated; approximately 2003-2010
    Container: Box 2, Folder 15
  • Description: Worker/Labor Rights
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 2, Folder 16
  • Description: Five Days over Seattle Y2WTK0 Radio Station Audio Document
    Dates: 1999
    Container: Box 2, Folder 17

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Subject Terms

  • Lawyers -- Washington (State) -- Bellingham -- Archives.
  • Legal assistants -- Washington (State) -- Bellingham -- Archives.
  • Political activists -- Washington (State) -- Bellingham -- Archives.
  • Political participation -- Washington (State) -- Bellingham -- History -- Sources.
  • Social justice -- Washington (State) -- Bellingham -- History -- Sources.

Personal Names

  • Hildes, Larry, -- 1965-2021 -- Archives.
  • Weill, Karen,-- -2020 -- Archives.

Geographical Names

  • Bellingham (Wash.) -- Politics and government -- Sources.

Form or Genre Terms

  • Ephemera.
  • Primary sources.

Other Creators

  • Personal Names

    • Gillham, Pat -- (Patrick) (com)
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