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2022-08-23Victory Against All the Odds: The Story of How the Campaign to Stop a Third Runway at Heathrow Was Won
This document recounts the successful grassroots campaign that defeated plans to build a third runway at Heathrow Airport in the UK, taking on the aviation industry, international business, and the UK Government. Written by campaign leader John Stewart, it outlines the strategies, tactics, and coalition-building efforts that led to victory, offering lessons for community advocates fighting airport expansion. While focused on Heathrow, the document provides a relevant model for understanding how organized opposition to airport growth can succeed against powerful institutional forces. -
League of Quiet Skies Voters event featuring Representative Mike Pellicciotti
A League of Quiet Skies Voters (LOQSV) public event at which Washington State Representative Mike Pellicciotti is introduced or speaking, as shown by the projected slide bearing the organization's logo and his name. Two people stand at a podium on stage before an audience, with the event being recorded on video camera. -
2019-05-01Advocacy credentials email from Debi Wagner to Sharyn Parker
In a May 2019 email to Sharyn Parker, Debi Wagner outlines her extensive advocacy history related to Sea-Tac Airport and aviation environmental issues, including serving on the Burien Airport Advisory Committee, co-founding US Citizens Aviation Watch in 1998, and co-authoring Burien Resolution 375 in 2015. Her experience spans noise, air quality, and climate change concerns, with roles on the Port of Seattle Energy and Sustainability Committee and the UW Ultrafine Advisory Panel. Handwritten notes on the document also reference Resolution #408 for the Burien Airport Committee in 2019 and membership in the Clean Air Network, a regional group of air quality experts and educators. -
2019-01-26Fred Felleman, Tree Planting
Three people pose together outdoors in a wooded setting during what appears to be a fall or winter event. Visible branding includes an Arc'teryx vest on the center figure and a North Face beanie on the left figure; the left figure also wears a lanyard with a badge. -
Senator Jeff Flake confronted by #METOO protester
I can see this image shows a confrontation in an elevator between a man in a suit and a woman, but I cannot identify a clear connection between this scene and Sea-Tac Airport noise policy based solely on what's visible in the photograph. -
2011-01-06Over My Head: An activist group fights an airport expansion
Over My Head, written by Debi Wagner and published in 2011, is a personal account of a grassroots activist group's fight against a Sea-Tac Airport expansion. The book explores the community's struggle with toxic aircraft emissions and an unusually high number of cancer deaths among nearby residents. It blends personal narrative with environmental advocacy, documenting the health and quality-of-life impacts of airport noise and pollution on surrounding neighborhoods. -
2011-01-06
Over My Head: An activist group fights an airport expansion
Book by Debi Wagner published by Trafford Publishing (2011), ISBN 978-1-4269-5465-8. Personal account of a grassroots activist group fighting a Sea-Tac Airport expansion, covering community organizing, toxic emissions, aviation pollution, and cancer deaths in airport-adjacent neighborhoods. Subtitle: ‘A personal story of community, grassroots, toxic emissions and far too many cancer deaths.’