Emerald City Resource Guide - Real Change
Access the online Resource Guide database here. The guide is distributed through a network of over 200 partners including a peer network of vendors, service providers, metro bus drivers, emergency first responders, and more. As more agencies move their information online, this printed guide is available for people who do not have reliable ...
Revisiting ‘Streetwise’ | June 30 - July 6, 2021 | Real Change
2021年6月30日 · What the reception to Seattle’s greatest film can tell us about the city’s on-going homelessness crisis. June marks the debut on DVD of a 37-year-old treasure of Seattle film history: Martin Bell, Mary Ellen Mark and Cheryl McCall’s 1984 documentary “Streetwise.”. An incredibly moving portrait of the daily life of Seattle homeless ...
Real Change over 30 years | Sept. 18–24, 2024 | Real Change
2024年9月18日 · By Dominique Morales | September 18, 2024. Real Change is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. To recognize the milestone, the newsroom produced a retrospective issue focusing on the last three decades of jobs, journalism and justice. Real Change is celebrating with an event titled “The Power of We” on Sept. 21.
Guy Oron | Real Change
By Guy Oron | October 9, 2024. This week marks one year since the Palestinian armed group Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023. The operation, also known as Al Aqsa Flood, killed 1,200 Israeli civilians and soldiers. Israel’s retaliation has leveled the entire Gaza Strip, killing more than 42,000 Palestinians, most of whom are women and ...
Nowhere to lay their head: Hundreds of migrants making camp at …
2023年11月2日 · Ten minutes away from the Southcenter mall, a humanitarian crisis is brewing. More than 350 asylum-seekers, most of whom have arrived in Washington in the past few months, are staying on the grounds of Riverton Park United Methodist Church in Tukwila, a suburb of roughly 21,000 people just south of Seattle.
Bending toward justice - An interview with Ken O'Keefe
2010年10月13日 · Among those on board the flotilla's largest ship, the MV Mavi Marmara, was Ken O'Keefe, a peace activist and business owner. The flotilla didn't make it into Gaza. Israeli Defense Forces boarded the ship in international waters, resulting in nine deaths and numerous injuries when the people on board the Marmara resisted arrest.
Seattle City Council passes SODA and SOAP banishment laws …
2024年9月27日 · On Tuesday, Sept. 23, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell signed into law two controversial ordinances, known as Stay Out of Drug Areas (SODA) and Stay out of Areas of Prostitution (SOAP), intended to address concerns around public drug use and sex work.
Public toilets are a necessity for the housed and unhoused
2019年7月24日 · This pathetic pace will not do. Seattle needs non-water-feature related toilets, and we needed them yesterday. The January 2019 point-in-time count found more than 3,500 people living without shelter in the city of Seattle. This means that, despite four years of a “homeless state of emergency,” nearly half of homeless people still live outdoors after the …
Life, Death and Dignity: Robert Fuller planned every detail of his ...
2019年5月22日 · A partygoer leans over to speak to Robert Baxter-Fuller. Photo by Wes Sauer Robert Baxter-Fuller sits on his bed in blue pajamas. The clock, above, ticked down the minutes until 3 p.m. when Fuller would ingest his life-ending medications.
2024 Elections | Real Change
2024年10月9日 · By Guy Oron | July 17, 2024. Voters are poised to decide the future of Seattle’s transportation system after Mayor Bruce Harrell and the Seattle City Council approved an eight-year, $1.55 billion ballot measure on July 10. The new transportation levy is set to replace the nine-year, $930 million Move Seattle levy, which passed with almost 59% ...