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Table of Contents
October 30, 2003, Vol. 10, No. 23 (says 20)
Headlines:
- Bad Budget Medicine
- Revenge of the Jail Guards
- Classics Corner
- Angela Davis
- Dorothy Day
- Thomas Merton
Note: Page 6 is followed by Page 11. The Mockingbird Times was inserted in-between.
Table of Contents:
Out of the Box. Black Writers Evade Stereotypes, Find Their Voice. By Susan Platt, Pages 1, 12
| Quotes by Santiago Vega, Georgia McDade and Condé “Frenchy” La Motte
- Picture: Poet and Performer Santiago Vega
- Poet Condé “Frenchy” La Motte was co-director and producer of the Black Experience Theater in the 1970’s. He has been a doorman at the Sheraton for 21 years.
- Georgia McDade’s writing celebrates survival. “The most amazing fact is that I am here, considering where I started from,” she says. It is her mission to help as many people to write as possible.
- Photo by Brooke Kempner
Mailbag, Page 2
- Agree to disagree by Don Ricks, currently sharing a house, hopefully for a while
CORRECTION:
- In “Seattle’s Cruel Summer” (RC, October 16), Koolaid was mistakenly referred to as Half-Pint. She does not go by the name Half-Pint.
Opinion: Nickels’ 2004 budget would turn thousands away from health, human services. By Tony Lee, Page 3
News You Can Use! Close to Home. Page 4
| Living and dying outside
- Music to his ears by Adam Holdorf [RE: Joe Fulton]
- Charter Amendment 5: Districts dispute
- Locked Out
- Picture: Two hundred Darigold workers were sent packing from their Rainier Valley plant August 30, 2003, and a quiet protest continues outside the facility. The truck and dairy workers, represented by Teamsters Local 66, are in a dispute over benefits with Darigold’s owner, Westfarm Foods.
- Photo by Ken Dean
- Let’s do the numbers by Adam Holdorf [RE: One Night Count counted 1,734 found outside]
- Live to tell by Adam Holdorf
An I for an Eye. Jail guards plot revenge with Initiative 18. By Polly Keary, Page 5
Adventures in Poetry: Neighborhoods rule! with © Dr. Wes Browning, Page 6
Poetry, Page 6
- Surfaces by Elizabeth Romero
- Blink by Loraine Campbell
Street Watch. Compiled by Emma Quinn, Page 11
Book Reviews: Pages 13, 14
- Saving Grace. Book: The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage by Paul Elie. Review by Michele Marchand
- Beyond the Jail Cell. Book: Are Prisons Obsolete? By Angela Y. Davis. Reivew by Silja J.A. Talvi
Classics Corner: By Perfess’r Harris (Timothy Harris), Page 14
Calendar. Compiled by Sandra Enger, Page 15
Citizens Participation Project. ACT NOW! Page 20
Vote No on Initiative 841
- Issue: Initiative 841 would eliminate workplace safety rules that protect thousands of wage earners from injury and economic disaster
Mockingbird Times November 2003, Vol. III, Issue II, 4 pages