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October 31, 2002, Vol. 9, No. 23
Headlines:
- Moral Chaos in The Grey Zone
- Bye Bye Lillian
- Keeping the Drunks Outdoors
Note: Page 8 is followed by Page 13. The Mockingbird Times was inserted in-between.
Table of Contents:
Courage. Rich Ring said no to murder. Now he’s in jail. Rich Ring was trying to stop a crime. For that, he got sent to prison. By Adam Holdorf, Pages 1, 15
- Picture: Rich Ring
- Photo courtesy of Siobhan Ring
Mailbag, Pages 2, 5
- R-51: it’s about jobs by Bob Markholt
- On the Monorail: irresponsibly flippant by Kristina Hill, Vice Chair, Elevated Transportation Company (ETC)
Opinion: No Biggie. “Wet” housing saves money and lives. By Adam Holdorf, Page 3
News You Can Use! Close to Home, Page 4
| The right to camp, the need for work
- National news digest, October 25, 2002. News from around the U.S. and Canada provided by the Street News Services. Compiled by Molly Rhodes
- Sidewalks, not shelters by Adam Holdorf
- Fair Food
- Picture: Rick Sawyer addresses a room of stadium concessions workers minutes before they march through Pioneer Square to Seahawks Stadium, demanding fair wages and benefits from their employer, Aramark. Aramark runs the food stands at both the Key Arena and the new Seahawks Stadium.
- Photo by Zack Cardenas
Street Talk: Local reaction to housing for homeless alcoholics. Interviews and photographs by Mark Albonizio, Page 5
- Dan Wickersham, (Commodore Hotel)
- Tabitha Markham, (April Cornell, Westlake Center)
- Robert Arambel, (workplace unknown)
- Greg Raece, (unknown employer)
- Robert van Bogart, (work place unknown)
- Dee Lewis, (13 Coins)
- Jaaya, (student)
- Ana Lopez, (student)
- Shannon Swifka, (Downtown Barnes and Noble)
- Jennifer Golson, (Pike Place Flowers)
- Oren McGonigal, (student and part-time worker)
Adventures in Poetry: Better dumb than mean with ©Dr. Wes Browning, Page 6
Poetry, Pages 6, 7
- for vision by Stan Burriss
- Untitled by Jerry Luithle
- Four at Night by Marion Sue Fischer
- MASKS by Marion Sue Fischer
- stay flowers by R. Ungrigh
- Watermelon Sunday by Marion Sue Fischer
- Insulted by Marion Sue Fischer
Untimely Passage: The Lillian Apartments, 1908 – 2002: Rest in Peace. By R.V. Murphy, Page 8
| The end of the Lillian apartments.
- Picture: Colleen Dooley of the Cascade Neighborhood Council fought to save the Lillian.
- Photo by Casey Kelbaugh
Shelter, A to Z: A question-and-answer by Anitra Freeman, Pages 13, 16
| Defining homelessness
- Illustrations: Graphics by Eleanor O’Neill
“The House is on Fire”: Testimony from Rich Ring, Page 14, 15
- Below is Rich Ring’s testimony before a Georgia federal court on July 9, 2002. He was charged and later convicted of criminal trespass onto Fort Benning at Last November’s protests against the School of Americas. On July 12, he was sentenced to pay a $500 fine and spend 90 days in prison. Ring is being questioned by a defense attorney.
- Picture: Rich Ring sits for a group portrait with his 36 co-defendants standing trial in federal court in Georgia this summer.
- Photo courtesy of the Atlanta Indymedia Center
Spilt Milk Mishaps: Letter from Rich Ring, Page 15
What you can do. Close the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHiSC)
Street Watch. Compiled by Emma Quinn, Page 17
Grave Gray. Film: The Grey Zone. Directed by Tim Blake Nelson. Review by Adam Holdorf, Page 18
- Picture: A young Hungarian girl (Kammelia Grigorova) survives the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau and complicates the efforts of a band of armed insurgents in Tim Blake Nelson’s The Grey Zone
Classics Corner: Romans and us. By Perfess'r Harris (Timothy Harris), Page 18
Calendar. Compiled by Sandra Enger, Page 19
Citizens Participation Project. ACT NOW! Page 20
Make the Indoor Winter Response Shelter Happen
- Issue: The winter response shelter outside the King County Administration building in downtown Seattle can continue only with your support.
Mockingbird Times November 2002, Vol. II, Issue 10