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Real Change Newspaper
Table of Contents
June 15, 2000, Vol. 7, No. 12
Headlines:
- Renters Summit
- Wrap-up
- The Return of Rape Relive
- Workers Priced Out of Seattle
Cover designed by Wes Browning
Table of Contents:
Let Them Eat Cake. The Slow Decay of Downtown Dental Care by Adam Holdorf, Pages 1, 10
| Dental Service takes a dive
Mailbag, Page 2
- Youth talk back by Candice Bolger, Youth Undoing Institutional Racism (YUIR) member
- Soon to be Homeless? By Elaine Brodeen
- Tents Times by John R. Austin
Opinion: Priced Out. Seattle’s hospitality industry spawns poverty-wage jobs by Dana Wise, Page 3
| The price of hospitality
This Just In! Scandal in Las Vegas. By Bob Redmond, Page 3
News You Can Use, Close to Home by Adam Holdorf, Page 4
- Not easy being Green [RE: Ralph Nader, Green Party]
- Down to the wire [RE: Initiative 725, Sally Soriano]
- WT-Over [Seattle Host Organization fails to pay Seattle security costs for WTO]
- Investigation in progress [RE: Debbie Jean Cashio’s murder]
- A City on the go [RE: Hosting the Tent City in West Seattle]
The Strong Survive. One year after Seattle Rape Relief closed, CARA gears up by Sarah McCormic, Page 5
| The grassroots rape relief
- Picture: Theryn Kigvamasud, community organizer for the Black People’s Project, celebrates the opening of CARA.
- Photo by Sarah McCormic
Room for Change. Renter’s Summit provides platform for next steps by Trevor Griffey, Pages 6, 7
| Renters of the world, unite!
- Picture: Aline Carton of the Tenant’s Union encourages involvement at the Renter’s Summit.
- Photo by Sabine Koschorreck
- Picture: Belltown resident Robert Canamar voices his housing concerns.
- Photo by Jason Guyer
The Marginal Lifestyle Sticky Al: Notice to “New in Town.” Page 8
Poetry, Pages 8, 9
- Frank by David Thornbrugh
- Shooting a Video by Mercedes Lawry
- Head Trip by Reneene Robertson
- One More Nuclear Waste Dump Won’t Matter by Marion Sue Fischer
- front page by Stan Burriss
- Short Letter to Maxine by Earle Thompson
Tooth and Nail by Adam Holdorf, Page 10
- Picture: Pete Tocco has lost 14 teeth
- Photo by Adam Holdorf
Seattle Timeline: From the Files of HistoryLink, Page 10
- Pictures:
- The Masthead from the First Seattle Feminist newspaper publication
- Loggers worked long hours to feel large trees such as this one
- 1970’s billboard brings unemployment message home (Will the last person leaving Seattle – turn out the lights)
- Photos are courtesy of HistoryLink
NEW COLUMN: Street Watch. Compiled by Arielle Levin Becker
The splendor of being a vendor by Patrick Bissell, Page 12
Notes from the Kitchen by School’s Out, Hunger’s In by Liz Smith, Page 12
| Summer lunch programs
Tenant Talk. Educate. Agitate. Organize by Mark Chattin, Legal Action Center, Page 13
| Your right to quiet
Real Profile: StreetLife artist Reneene Robertson by Chris Gordon Owen, Page 14
Classics Corner by Perfess'r Harris (Timothy Harris), Page 14
Calendar, Page 15 | Compiled by Kristen Alexander
Citizens Participation Project. ACT NOW! Page 16
Support Organic Food for Poor Children
- Issue: On June 30, a panel for the state’s Women, Infant and Children (WIC) supplemental nutrition program will be deciding whether to allow mothers participating in the program to purchase food that is labeled organic