Our Demands

Learn more about our demands

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Demand #1: Rename the park. Andrew Jackson: Slaveowner and genocidal tyrant. Eliminate monuments to white supremacy. A better name for a better park.
Demand #1: Rename the park. Andrew Jackson: Slaveowner and genocidal tyrant. Eliminate monuments to white supremacy. A better name for a better park.
Demand #2: Add Accessible Pathways. The meager Perimeter Trail is wheelchair inaccessible, claustrophobic, and unpleasant.
Demand #2: Add Accessible Pathways. The meager Perimeter Trail is wheelchair inaccessible, claustrophobic, and unpleasant.
Demand #2: Add Accessible Pathways. Allow many more people to walk, roll, and bike to both stations.
Demand #2: Add Accessible Pathways. Allow many more people to walk, roll, and bike to both stations.
Demand #3: Free Public Green Space. Fix the Northeast Seattle Park Desert. Park Equity. We want more than golf.
Demand #3: Free Public Green Space. Fix the Northeast Seattle Park Desert. Park Equity. We want more than golf.

August 2024

Environment FAQ

Our Demands Environment FAQ Civics FAQ 1. Seattle is pretty rainy. Isn’t Jackson Park Golf Course self-watering? No. The golf course drains two-thirds of Thornton Creek’s water flow in non-winter months to irrigate the course, harming salmon and other wildlife habitat. A city study performed in 1994 estimates that the golf course drains two-thirds of the environmentally sensitive north branch of Thornton Creek during non-winter months to irrigate the turf, at a rate of about 1.

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October 2023

Civics & Finances FAQ

Our Demands Environment FAQ Civics FAQ 1. Is Jackson Park really named after that Andrew Jackson? Yes. According to Seattle Park and Recreation archives, Jackson Park Golf Course was named in 1930 after the 7th US president Andrew Jackson. Andrew Jackson owned hundreds of slaves, hoarded wealth created by plantation slavery, and stole Native land by the forced resettlement of tens of thousands of Indigenous people along the Trail of Tears, with the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

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