Tacoma SDS

In 1907, more than two hundred South Asian migrant workers in Bellingham were attacked by a mob of white workers. In the course of one night, an entire community was driven from the town - in the approving words of a local paper, "wiped off the map". One hundred years later in 2007, hostility toward immigrants of color in Bellingham continues. Raids and detentions by government immigration agents are ongoing: so are surveillance and harassment from both government agents and groups like the minutemen. How have the events of 1907 shaped Bellingham as we know it in 2007? What has changed and what remains the same? These issues and questions are examined in the independently produced documentary, "Present in All That We Do."

Written and edited by: Andrew Hedden and Ian Morgan from Western Washington University. It was funded by Community to Community Development, Whatcom Human Rights Task Force and Fairhaven College. It is 52 minutes long.

Tacoma SDS is also working on a documentary about Tacoma's own Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement Prison.