We Are Firelands
Firelands is made up of powerful leaders, a growing membership, a staff team, and a board of directors.
Our Members
We are working people in rural and small town WA: mill workers, veterans, nurses, cannery workers, loggers, childcare providers, grocery workers, cooks. We are parents, students, and retirees. We are renters, homeowners, and mobile homeowners. We are teens to seniors, immigrant and US-born, Hispanic/Latino, white, Indigenous, Asian-Pacific Islander, and Black. We build our ever-growing membership through joyful, welcoming events, deep listening canvassing, and trainings.
Our Leaders
Firelands leaders are members of our base who commit significant time, energy and skill to organizing. Leaders learn together through our rigorous, bilingual popular-education trainings and events. We advocate, carry out deep listening canvasses and develop organizing and social-emotional skills and shared analysis of the problems we face, the solutions we can win, and an abundant vision for the future.
Our Board
Firelands is guided and supported by a multiracial and multilingual Board of Directors made up of Firelands leaders and movement supporters.
Our Staff
Our team of 11 bring expertise in organizing, leadership, fundraising, training, advocacy, policy, communications, and storytelling. The heart of Firelands staff is our organizing team, working on the ground to build power, support leaders, grow the base, win victories, and cultivate the strength and unity of our people.
2019
Firelands is Founded
After knocking hundreds of doors and hosting listening sessions about affordability, working families join together to launch Firelands and fight for a Good Life in rural WA.
2020
United Leaders/Lideres Unidos training is launched
Over the course of four months, 25 Firelands members participate in rigorous organizing training, learning how to build campaigns and invite our neighbors to join us.
2023
Record turnout at Firelands May Day Carnival
750+ people join our annual May Day Celebration for Working Class Power, coming together to enjoy games, share food, and learn about how we can deliver an affordable life for all.
2024
Voters across rural WA say “Tax the Rich!”
In a landslide vote, following relentless organizing by Firelands members, working families in Grays Harbor and Pacific counties overwhelmingly choose to uphold the capital gains tax on extreme Wall St. profits and the Climate Commitment Act to tax corporate polluters.
2025
Firelands helps win statewide rent stabilization
Renters and manufactured homeowners across the Harbor and the Peninsula come together, take on the corporate real estate lobby, and help win first-ever limits in WA on annual rent increases.
You + Firelands
It’ll take all of us to Rebuild Timber Country and deliver a dignified life for all in rural WA. Are you with us?
