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Table of Contents
April 27, 2005, Vol. 12, No. 16
Note: Issue says Vol. 11, No. 17 in error
Headlines:
- Year of the Rat. Reform in the Catholic Church will have to wait, but the issues aren’t going away. Page 2
- Spared. Legislative session better than most expected. Page 3
- Job Site? Neighborhood activists ask “who benefits” at New Holly. Page 4
- Unforgiven. Third World debt relief movement gathers momentum. Page 5
- Indian Owned. Activist Charles Wilkinson on institution building in Indian Country. Page 6
Table of Contents:
Errors Up North. Lawyers sue over Snohomish County’s electronic voting machines. By Cydney Gillis, Pages 1, 10, 12
Smooth Ride. Volunteer crew makes a Deliberate Difference with troubled people coming out of King County Jail. By Jason Siegel, Pages 1, 12
- Picture: Cindy Spanton launched a volunteer effort to ensure that, upon release, mentally ill inmates of King County Jail have the help they’re entitled to.
- Photo by Meagan O’Shea
Opinion: Changing the Guard. New pope points up slow pace of religious reform. By Thaddeus Spae, Page 2
Change Agent: John Saddlemyer. R.V. Murphy, Page 3
- Picture: John Saddlemyer: holding down the fort on Broadway.
- Photo by Sean Ellingson
Spared. Legislative session ends on a high note. By Cydney Gillis, Page 3
Just Heard..., Page 3
- Picked up by Sean Reid
- Gone to the dogs by Adam Hyla [RE: Dog Parks on Capitol Hill]
- No Dancing by Adam Hyla [RE: Judge James Robart, Mike Berger]
Coming to Terms. SHA, activists haggle over construction jobs in poor neighborhoods. By Breeana Laughlin, Page 4
| Quote by Wanda Saunders, LELO
- Picture: Where’s the work? Marchers outside the soon-to-be-razed Rainier Vista housing project on Saturday, April 23, 2005.
- Photo by Ken Dean
Short Takes, Page 4
- Caveat Voter by Cydney Gillis [RE: ESSB 5339, Christine Gregoire, UniLect]
- Disenfranchisement: dysfunctional by Adam Hyla [RE: ACLU, Kathleen Taylor]
- Harried Boaters by Adam Hyla [RE: Glen Milner, Jay Inslee, Patty Murray]
- Picture: Religious officiants, public officials, and other mourners gathered Wednesday April 13, 2005 for the periodic interment of poverty-stricken people who died in King County and had no next-of-kin. A granite bench was erected in their honor last year at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Renton. It bears some lines from the folk song “Wayfarin’ Stranger.”
The Unforgiven. Cancelling poor nations’ debts is a matter of fairness, say visiting activists. By Anitra Freeman, Pages 5, 9
- Picture: Jonah Gokova of Zimbabwe, Magda Lanuza of Nicaragua, and Ana Maria Nemenzo of the Philippines want the World Bank and other lenders to cancel the debts incurred to their countries by corrupt, undemocratic leaders.
- Photo by Justin Mills
Native Renaissance. Lawyer and historian Charles Wilkinson on how Indian activists redeemed Native history, restored treaty rights and brought far-reaching change to Indian Country. Interview with Charles Wilkinson by J. Jacob Edel, Real Change Intern, Pages 6, 7
- Picture: Native American student demonstration against Bureau of Indian Affairs, Seattle, 1971.
- Photo used by permission of the Museum of History & Industry
- Picture: Charles Wilkinson
A Lass, a Lone. Book: With or Without You by Lauren Sanders. Review by Rex Browning, Page 8
Poetry, Pages 8, 9
- Exit Strategies by David Thornbrugh
- Job Security by Elias Padilla
- Acrostic by Estella Wallace
Adventures in Irony: Barbarism and Barbarella with © Dr. Wes Browning, Page 9
Street Watch. Compiled by Emma Quinn, Page 9
Letters to the Editor, Page 10
- Bounds for the forest by Maria Abdin | Seattle
Classified Ads, Page 10
Calendar. Page 11
Director's Corner. By Timothy Harris, Page 11
First things First. Get Involved. Take Action. Page 11
Raise your voices on issues where you can make a difference
Copy of issue was obtained from microfiche in the University of Washington Suzzallo Library.