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Real Change Newspaper
Table of Contents
May 1, 2000, Vol. 7, No. 9
Headlines:
- Paul Robeson
- The Big Issue
- Poison from Above
Table of Contents:
The Militant. Activist Cheri Honkala Takes No Prisoners. Interview by Joe Martin, Pages 1, 10
| What’s the KWRU, and why does it matter?
- Picture: Cheri Honkala awaits the outcome of her trial on the streets of Seattle
- Photo by Christina Larson
- Photo Courtesy KWRU
Mailbag, Page 2
- Fire the Factchecker by Amelia Canaday | Parishioner, St. Mark's Cathedral
- Thief vs. Worker by Richard Hernandez
- Literary Critic by Rodger Seabourn
Opinion: The $200 Fix. Positive Prevention puts a price on poor peoples' reproductive freedom by Adam Holdorf, Page 3
| The price of reproductive rights (soapbox time)
This Just In! MS Voice Box. Six month's free, then you will be charged. By Bob Redmond, Page 3
| (completely untrue}
News You Can Use, (or not) Close to Home, Page 4
- Disabled, dissed, dangerous by Adam Holdorf
- Homeless Again by Adam Holdorf
- Picture: Tent City dwellers set up in the Showers of Blessing parking lot.
- Photo by Dan Caplan
- Census homeless count under par by Molly Rhodes
- Need Not Apply by Molly Rhodes
Robeson Awards Recognize Racial Profiling Fight. Reps. Veloria and Franklin, Gossett aide esteemed for advocacy by Angel Djambazov, Page 5
| Locals rewarded for street justice fight
- Paul Robeson, 1898 - 1963 by Angel Djambazov
The Big Time. Real Change sizes up the world's largest homeless paper by Adam Holdorf, Page 6
| London’s street paper ain’t no Real Change
Poison from Above. Pesticide dousing could harm trees, insects, sick - and homeless people by K. Peterson, Page 7
| The cost of moth-free air
Adventures in Poetry with ©Dr. Wes Browning, Page 8
Poetry, Pages 8, 9
- Testimony or Irritating Forced Male Bonding by Jimmy Henry (This poem previously appeared in Poetry Town, Bellingham, WA and is reprinted by permission of the author)
- "Patriotic Duty" by Reneene Robertson
- Remains by Earle Thompson
- polar by Stan Burriss
Seattle Timeline: From the Files of HistoryLink, Page 11 | (easy copy)
Pictures:
- Street protest along freeway
- Police hold off striking longshoreman
- A welcome home for the First Washington Volunteer Infantry
- Boeing's first factory, known as "the Barn"
- Photos courtesy of HistoryLink
Real Profile: Pam Taylor, StreetLife Quiltmaker by Chris Gordon Owen, Page 12
- Picture: Pam Taylor works at her sewing machine
- Photo by Jessica Jespersen
Tenant Talk. Educate. Agitate. Organize. By Tenant's Union staff, Page 13
What's your game plan? Organizing to win
| (for organizers only}
Classy Quartet Benefits Boomtown. Philosopher reincarnated in brass quartet [The Adorno Sound Project] by Brian Goedde, Page 14
| Boomtown benefit: Adorno for the masses
Classics Corner by Perfess'r Harris (Timothy Harris), Page 14
| (incorrectly classical}
Calendar, Page 15
| (for lefties only}
Citizens Participation Project. ACT NOW! By Molly Rhodes, Page 16
Stop Racial Profiling
- Issue: Governor Gary Locke recently signed into law a bill requiring Washington State Patrol officers to gather statistics on the gender and race of every driver they pull over. Now the rest of the state's local law enforcement bodies should be strongly encouraged to adopt similar policies so the truth about racial profiling can be known.