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Real Change Newspaper
Table of Contents
March 1, 1998, Vol. 5, No. 3
Headlines:
- Street Drunks Get the Big Stick
- No Boundaries: Real Art at the Benham Gallery
- Initiative 688: Labor Gears Up for Minimum Wage Campaign
- An Addict’s Life: Shame, Blame, and Heroin in Seattle
Cover by © Dr. Wes Browning
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Vendor of the Month: James Lee Rainee, Page 3
- Picture: James Lee Rainee
Readers React: Real Change Survey Say's We're On Track. By Timothy Harris, Page 5
Public Drinking: The Carrot and the Stick: Street Drunk Plan Saves the Best for Last. By Timothy Harris, Pages 6, 7, 24
Labor: 1-688 Kicks Off: An Honest Day's Pay for an Honest Day's Work. By Janice Price, Page 8
Firsthand: An Addict's Life: Blame, Shame, and Heroin in Seattle. By Anonymous, Page 9
People: "They Call Me Bix": Talkin' about Trouble with a Disobedient Jesuit. Interview with Bill Bichsel. Interview by Michele Marchand. Page 10, 11, 26
- Picture: Bill Bichsel, SJ with Rita Peterson at St. Martins on Westlake.
- Photo by Erin Shirk
Women's Day: Women's Work Is Everyone's Business. By Abby Staten, Page 12
Cheap or Free: Three Penny Theater: Pay-What-You-Can: A Boon to the Hoi Polloi. By Ruth A. Fox, Page 13
Photography: No Boundaries, an exhibition by Andrew Firth. Story by Julie Eagleton, Page 14, 15, 16, 17
- Photo Essay / Photos by Andrew Firth
Seattle Volunteer Opportunities: Page 18
- Chicken Soup Brigade
- Washington Low Income Housing Network
- St Mary's Food Bank
- Mamma's Hands
- Women in Community Service
- Seattle Habitat for Humanity
- Downtown Emergency Service Center
- Rose of Lima Transitional Housing Program
- Northwest Women's Law Center Information and Referral Phone Line
- CCS-Refugee Assistance Program
- The King County Literacy Coalition
- Books to Prisoners
Housing: Messin' With The Mantra: A Modest Proposal from the Gang of Eight. By John McLaren, Page 19, 22 [RE: Flo Beaumon, Sinan Demirel, John Fox, Ginger Segel, Matthew Fox, John Shaw, Diane Lee]
New on the Net, Pages 20, 21
- SF May to Nonprofits: Pay Union Scale [RE: San Francisco, Mayor Brown}
- States to Vie for Welfare-to-Work Bonus Money
- San Francisco May Allow Homeless to Live in Cars [RE: Police Commission President Pat Norman]
- Clinton Panel Divided on Race Issue [RE: President Bill Clinton, The Race Initiative Advisory Board, William Julius Wilson, sociologist, Robert Woodson, director of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, Raquel Rivera Pinderhughes, professor]
- Groups: Citizenship Bill Foils Voting/Civil Rights [RE: Becky Cain, President of the League of Women Voters, Rep. Stephen Horn (R-Calif.), Rep. Bob Dornan (R-Calif.), Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.), President Bill Clinton]
- Food Stamp Debit Cards Ease Shame
Adventures in Poetry: Kid, You're Hooked with © Dr. Wes Browning, Page 23
Seattle Street Youth perform an annual Theater of Liberation event under the guidance of Seattle Public Theater, Page 25
Obituary: Catherine "Cathy" Gustafson, May 17, 1954 - Jan 25, 1998, Page 27
Poetry, Pages 28, 29, 30, 31
- Old Dreams by OPUS23
- Jesus is Stripped Of His Garments (Good Friday on the streets) by Carol in Tacoma
- We Can Have It All by David Thornbrugh
- Patronas by OPUS23
- Blue (a true story) by Roberta Guthrie Kowald
- Reality by Marion Sue Fischer
- Homeless by Bridget Reilly
- The Promise by Roberta Guthrie Kowald
Anacrostic, Page 32 (Answer: “To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor man in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardship.” W.E.B. Du Bois)
Calendar Page 33, 34, 35
Citizen's Participation Project, Page 36
Yes on SHB 2459: Accountability Preserves Housing Options for the Poor
Advocating Organizations: The Seattle Displacement Coalition, the Puget Sound Council of Senior Citizens, OPEIU Local 8 and the Downtown Human Services Council. Special thanks to Rep. Velma Veloria of the 11th District.