Almost 105 years after its downtown Bellingham offices were raided by the FBI, the Industrial Workers of the World union (IWW) has reestablished itself in Whatcom and Skagit counties, fighting for worker's rights and radical change in Washington’s northwest corner.
The September 1917 raid, where union membership lists were seized, furniture was set ablaze and records were destroyed, changed the course of the radical anti-war organization in the region for decades, all but decimating t
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