Timothy Harris, Executive Director Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:00:00 -0800 webmaster@realchangenews.org 1440 en 12 http://www.realchangenews.org/rss/RC_Logo_vert.gif http://www.realchangenews.org http://www.realchangenews.org Real Change is Seattle's weekly activist publication with an ear to the street. Real Change readers are educated, socially-concerned, and loyal. Our publication is sold by Seattle's homeless, and helps them earn the money they need to get ahead. Each month, more than 200 different vendors are out selling our paper throughout the Seattle area. Real Change is a hand up, not a handout. Our publication strives to create fairness, opportunity and community by covering issues that socially conscious people want to know about, from topics surrounding poor and homelessness, to stories about labor, the environment, public health and civil liberties (to name a few). After ten years, Real Change News went weekly (from bimonthly) in Feb. 2005, and carries a paid circulation of 12,000 per issue. Our vendors pay 35 cents a copy for their papers, which are then sold on the street for a dollar donation. http://www.realchangenews.org/2008/2008_01_16/main_v15n04.html Cydney Gillis, Staff Reporter Video cameras, like the one to the left, will be placed in four Seattle parks — though they don’t fight crime, say privacy advocates... “If you’re a drug dealer or a prostitute, you just move somewhere outside the camera range,” says the ACLU’s Doug Honig... 01/16/2008 9:05:39 AM http://www.realchangenews.org/2008/2008_01_16/drugs_v15n04.html Cydney Gillis, Staff Reporter Educators’ summit in Des Moines. 01/16/2008 9:07:58 AM http://www.realchangenews.org/2008/2008_01_16/torture_v15n04.html Rosette Royale, Staff Reporter In a rally marking Guantánamo’s sixth anniversary, a crowd of over 100 watches “real, live waterboarding.” 01/16/2008 9:09:49 AM http://www.realchangenews.org/2008/2008_01_16/action_v15n04.html Glen Milner, Guest Writer The word is everywhere. How do we make it happen? 01/16/2008 9:10:57 AM http://www.realchangenews.org/2008/2008_01_16/encampment_v15n04.html Adam Hyla, Editor As city releases broad rules to justify the removal of people and belongings, records reveal that sweeps have continued unchecked. 01/16/2008 9:12:35 AM http://www.realchangenews.org/2008/2008_01_16/revlang_v15n04.html Rev. Rich Lang The Christian movement, in the beginning, was characterized through a radical communal commitment of solidarity. The most economically vulnerable, the widows and orphans, were cared for from out of the common purse and contributions of the faithful... 01/16/2008 9:12:50 AM http://www.realchangenews.org/2008/2008_01_16/drwes_v15n04.html Dr. Wes Browning I am totally hacked off. What really steams my trousers is that I can’t tell you why they’re steamed, because they’re too steamed. If I were to explain why, they’d explode. No one wants to see that. 01/16/2008 9:13:20 AM http://www.realchangenews.org/2008/2008_01_16/dircrnr_v15n04.html Timothy Harris, Executive Director The Mayor’s new policy on homeless clearances has been released, and there’s only one way to say this. It’s an atrocity, pure and simple... 01/16/2008 9:14:15 AM http://www.realchangenews.org/2008/2008_01_16/vendor_v15n04.html J.P. Gritton, Contributing Writer When Donald Baca left his native San Jose (“or, Saint Josie, como quieres …”), he was 25 and ready for a change. And though he wasn’t short on youth and optimism, he was a little short on luck: the first driver to pick him up was just kind of... creepy... 01/16/2008 9:15:27 AM http://www.realchangenews.org/2008/2008_01_16/ghost_v15n04.html Reviewer Joe Martin, Contributing Writer "Ghost" by Alan Lightman. “Is something true if it only happens once? If it is experienced only by one person at one time? The seconds and years stretch to infinity, but a thing might be felt only at one moment. It might always be there, the world underneath and the miracle, but felt only in brief, fleeting stabs.” 01/16/2008 9:16:26 AM http://www.realchangenews.org/2008/2008_01_16/murder_v15n04.html Reviewer Elliott Bronstein, Contributing Writer "The Art of Political Murder – Who Killed the Bishop?" by Francisco Goldman. Have you ever been to Guatemala? For decades, tourists and gringo travelers have known the place as a peaceful, colorful, natural wonderland. 01/16/2008 9:27:18 AM http://www.realchangenews.org/2008/2008_01_16/kuttner_v15n04.html Timothy Harris, Contributing Writer As the middle class slides fearfully into financial insecurity, economist Robert Kuttner looks for political leadership and bottom-up organizing... 01/16/2008 9:29:08 AM