Director’s Corner: When an RV becomes a political firestorm

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Real Change has caught on in Whatcom County

by Becky Spithill | October 30th, 2019

As Real Change readers may know, Whatcom County has joined you. To work as a Real Change vendor, Jeremiah used to sell the only copies of Real Change in Whatcom, in front of the Bellingham Community Food Co-op. He had to drive to Seattle to pick up his...
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We [Can] Have Nice Things [If Corporations Let Us]

by Cliff Cawthon | October 30th, 2019

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It’s official: After an ugly custody battle between Sony and Marvel, along with its parent company, Disney, Spider-Man is back in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As a fan, this felt sudden and, shockingly, all came down to money. The realization of Spider-...
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The Middle Ground by Sam Day 10/30/19

by Sam Day | October 30th, 2019

Contact Sam Day at sam@samday.com View previous editorial cartoons by Sam Day. Read the full October 30 - November 5 issue . © 2019 Real Change. All rights reserved.| Real Change is a non-profit organization advocating for economic, social and racial...
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Our life’s wanderings

by Rabbi Olivier BenHaim | October 30th, 2019

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Most of our Judeo-Christian holidays evolved from millennia-old agrarian festivals. Thanksgiving is no exception, and neither is Sukkot, its Jewish predecessor, both stemming from ancient fall harvest celebrations. In the Near East of yore, these...
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Let’s put a restaurant as high as we can without so much as a barber shop or a haberdashery on the way up

by Dr. Wes Browning | October 30th, 2019

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Something I’ve learned over the years: Seattle can’t ever have anything cheap. Not since 1962, when we spent millions of dollars to put a spinning restaurant more than 500 feet in the air, completely out of reach of the average, out-of-shape pedestrian. The...
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Cultural appropriation as colonial residue

by Oscar Rosales Castaneda | October 23rd, 2019

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Fall means an abrupt change of the seasons in the Pacific Northwest, as perpetually overcast skies arrive for their months-long stay. The season also brings a tangible and figurative connection between life and death, as evidenced by the popular cultural...
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Trump and company want the ’50s back but without the funding

by Dr. Wes Browning | October 23rd, 2019

Real Change columnist

Every time I sit down to write a column, “insert column here:” faces me, because I put it there the night before. There are times that’s the only way I can get started. This is one of those times. I hate this week’s news. I want to go back to the good old...
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Perspective from Katie Wheeler: Halloween costumes

by Katie Wheeler | October 23rd, 2019

Spooky scary costumes 2019
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Op-Ed: Don’t do Blackface, and take your refusal further

by Bri Little | October 23rd, 2019

The season of Halloween is here, and many of us are nervous for reasons unrelated to fun and harmless spooks. The real horror lies in the inevitable donning of Blackface by White people and non-Black people of color. It seems that every year around this...
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Director’s Corner: When an RV becomes a political firestorm

by Tim Harris | October 16th, 2019

Dori Monson dubbed it #RVgate, thus setting the lowest bar for “scandal” that the world has ever seen. Someone parked a used RV on a street in West Seattle and, for a couple of fever-dream days, Seattle freaked. For those of you fortunate enough to have...
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