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Table of Contents
February 1, 1998, Vol. 5, No. 2
Headlines:
- Shopping Cart Soldiers
- Trouble in the University District
- Making Peace with Neighborhoods
- What Would I Do For a Fix?
Cover: MLK Day March, Photo by George Hickey
Table of Contents:
Vendor of the Month: Linda Bear, Page 3
Art Matters: StreetLife Gallery Needs Your Help. By Timothy Harris, Page 5
The Crisis to Come: Security House Tenants Win Round One. By Patrick Batson, Pages 6, 17
- Picture: Mary Baldt has lived in Security House 20 years. She won’t have to move, yet.
- Photo by Patrick Batson
Trouble in the U-District: Landlords Under Fire, Rooming Houses Under Scrutiny, By Bob Redmond, Page 7
- Picture: Rich Kruchalis from DCLU handles a question.
- Photo by Bob Redmond
VOTE for Recovery: Addicts Learn Self-Worth. By Brian Peters, Page 8, 20, 21
Stop I-200 by Mary Park, Page 8, 22
- Picture: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day March.
- Photo by George Hickey
After Sand Point: A Call for Unity Between Neighborhood Activists and Low-Income Housing Advocates. By John Fox, Page 10, 11
Book Review: Madman’s Memoir: Vietnam Vet Writes Surrealist Masterpiece. Book: Shopping Cart Soldiers by John Mulligan. Review by Timothy Harris, Page 12
Tenant Talk: Lockouts and Abandonment. Thanks to Legal Action Center, Page 13
Volunteer Seattle. www.speakeasy.org/~seavol, Page 14
- Changing the World: Washington Low Income Housing Network
- St Mary’s Food Bank
- Mamma’s Hands
- Fight Poverty in Your Community. Women in Community Service.
- Seattle Habitat for Humanity
- Help the Homeless. Downtown Emergency Service Center
- Slumber Party! Rose of Lima transitional housing program
- Help Teach Citizenship. CCS-Refugee Assistance Program
- The King County Literacy Coalition
- Washington Council for Fair Elections
- Books to Prisoners
- Be a Volunteer Tutor. Youth Tutoring Program
- Interested in Helping Refugees? Refugee Federation Service Center
Not Forgotten. By Abby Staten, Page 15 [RE: Joe Martin, Lee Giroux, Chaplain Sue Wanwig, Catalina Condeff, Lutheran Compass Center 16th Annual memorial for the poor and homeless who died in 1997]
- Picture of … at Memorial
- Photo by Benjamin Benschneider/Seattle Times
New on the Net: The Big Picture, Page 16, 18
- Push to raise mortgage insurance limits [RE: Andrew Cuomo, Housing Secretary]
- Immigrants hustle for last-minute citizenship
- Clinton Considers Minimum Wage Hike [RE: President Bill Clinton, Mike McCurry, Press Secretary, Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.)
- Surpluses for Baby Boomers [RE: Shafroth, Senator Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.)
- Study: Few Hopes for Urban Students [RE: Terry Crowder, Social Studies teacher, Emerson Educatin Center]
- Lawyers for Poor Battle Budget Cuts [RE: Greater Boston Legal Services, Dorothy Lohmann, Legal Services Corp.]
- 80% in Prison for Drugs [RE: National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse drugs report, Charles Hynes, district attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y.]
- More People May be Hungry in U.S. [RE: Sister Christine Vladimiroff]
Adventures in Poetry: Opus One, Ready or Not with © Dr. Wes Browning, Page 19
Creepy Joe: Morning Glory. By Lin Lucas, Page 21
Real Change Index: The Real (Sorry) State of the City, The Operation Nightwatch count of the homeless, October 24, 1997 found 607 people sleeping on the streets in Seattle. By MaryEllen Gerak and Bob Redmond, Page 22
Poetry, Page 24, 25, 26, 27
- What would you do for a fix? by Mark D. Goldfinger, reprinted from Spare Change, Boston
- Stretch by Stan Burriss
- Coffee by Nancy Dunlap
- Together, For All Of Us by Lonnie Nelson
- Avoiding My Fate by Marion Sue Fischer
- Transportation by Anitra L. Freeman
- A Night in March by Elizabeth Romero
- Off the Rez by Earle Thompson
Homage to Microsoft. An Acrostic Puzzle by Timothy Harris, Page 28
Calendar, Page 29, 30, 31
Anacrostic. Homage to Microsoft, Page 32 (Answer: “When wealth and the wealthy are honored in a city, virtue and the virtuous are prized less.” Plato’s Republic)
Citizen’s Participation Project, Page 32
The No Good Very Bad Bill: Landlord-Tenant Preemption Back for Seconds
- Issue: Barely a month into the 1998 Legislative session and already SHB 1043, the highly damaging Landlord-Tenant Preemption Bill, has once again reared its ugly head…Users of the Real Change back page may remember this bill from last session, when our hard work and collective participation helped to bring about a narrow- and very temporary – defeat.
- As many tenant and housing advocates predicted, the issue of preemption did not go away. Quite the contrary. On January 21st, the Washington State House of Representatives passed SHB 1043, effectively prohibiting local city and county governments from passing any future landlord/tenant laws, with only a few minor exceptions allowed for safety.
- SHB 1043 is now in the Senate Law and Justice Committee. The bill will more than likely be voted on by the full Senate by the end of February. If 1043 is not passed, the bill is still likely to be voted on in the Senate in some form.
- Advocating Organization: The Tenants Union, special thanks to Arlen Olson