FOR PDF OF ENTIRE ISSUE, CLICK ON LINK BELOW
199703A.pdf
Real Change Newspaper
Table of Contents
March 1 - 15, 1997, Vol. 4, No. 4
Headlines:
- Face of Our Neighbor: Homeless Women Claim Their Space
- Birth of a Radical: Memoirs of a Street Activist – Ron Casanova
- Gridlock’d: Art Meets Life at the Movies
Cover Photo by Ron Campbell, Black on Black Productions
Table of Contents:
Vendors of the Month: Kim Patzin and John Musser, Page 3
Mailbag: Pages 3, 21
- Letter to the Editor by:
- Lorraine Thomas | Seattle
- Jay Herzmark | Seattle
- Frank Beeckman | L.O., Oregon
- Michael Smith | Seattle
Renters Beware: New State Legislature Bills Endanger Tenant Rights by Davis Oldam, Page 5
Face of Our Neighbor: Homeless Women Claim Their Space in Seattle Community by Alice Quaintance, Page 6
Photo by Ron Campbell
Pour and Proud, Determination: The Marcher’s Sign Reads: Homelessness is not acceptable. End it now!
The Other Seattle: My Day as Tourist Among Our City’s Homeless by Mary Park, Pages 8, 9, 23
Photo by Chris French: Spend a luxurious night in a former parking garage. Noel House is Seattle’s best for homeless women.
Birth of a Radical: A Homeless Activist’s Story of Transformation and Renewal. Pages 10, 11, 28
Book Review: Each One Teach One: Memoirs of a Street Activist by Ron Casanova with Stephen Blackburn. Review of Timothy Harris
Picture of Casanova at a Philly Demo. Photo courtesy of Curbstone Press.
Caring for Kids: Our Place Day Care Seeks Room to Grow by Susan Forshey, Page 12
Locked Out: How Two Addicts Try to Fight Their Way into the System: Gridlock’d, Pages 14, 15
Movie Reviewed by Bruce Triggs.
Tupac Shakur and Tim Roth on their hands and knees looking for a way to get clean. Photo courtesy of Gramercy Pictures.
A Few Good Cops: Gun-Free Officers Help the Needy, No Questions Asked by Laura Buzard, Pages 16, 27
Do Something:
- Skilled or Semi Skilled Finish Construction: Seattle Habitat for Humanity
- The Millionair Club
- Random Acts of Kindness Week & Storm ’96 Service Campaign: Volunteer Chore Services
- Volunteer Drivers Needed: SHARE
- Board Member: University District Food Bank
- Fresh Produce to Low Income People: Lettuce Link
- Join the Fight for Tenant’s Rights: The Tenants Union
- The Washington Low Income Housing Network
- Help Homeless Children: Our Place Daycare
- Rose House volunteer
- Tenants Union Hotline volunteer
- Mediation Services for Victims and Offenders, volunteer editor needed
- Become an advocate for Abused and neglected children: WA State Assoc. CASA/GAL
Activist Tools on the Net | The Internet: Not Just for Geeks Anymore by Anitra Freeman, Page 18, 19, 27
New On The NET: Pages 20, 21
- Welfare-to-Work on Slow Track
- Health Panel: Remove Needle Exchange Ban
- Demise of Contract With America
- Gov’t Cuts Off Aid to Disabled Immigrants
- INS Rules Could Aid Disabled Immigrants
Adventures in Poetry: Ignoring Ignorance with © Dr. Wes Browning, Page 22
Poem: Tumbling Down by Jessie Ventaloro, Page 23
Poetry:, Pages 24, 25, 26
- Welfare Wolves by Patricia Palagi
- At Times by Trinidad Apodaca
- Fruit Salad on 9th and “I” by Jude Rosowski
- Full Service Beauty Salon (photograph: Ebony collection, ca 1940) by Elizabeth Romero
- Bonding by Janette L. Moening
- Untitled by Sally Johnson
- Untitled by Storm, September 28, 1996
- Shelter Me from the Shelter (unattributed)
- Rise by Bob Redmond
Calendar, Pages 29, 30, 31
Citizen’s Participation Project: Help Keep Child Care Affordable, Page 32