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Good news for antiracist students. Nominations are now open for the #BlackEducationMatters Student Activist Awards, which recognize students in Seattle and King County who fight racism. Award winners will receive $1,000, provided by Seattle history teacher Jesse Hagopian. You may remember that Seattle cops pepper-sprayed Hagopian on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2015. He sued the city and won the $100,000 settlement that he now uses to fund the award. ....
Dare we dream of social housing? The housing justice nonprofit Be:Seattle is hosting a virtual workshop tonight on the subject of social housing, featuring Councilmember Tammy Morales along with Seattle University’s Zachary D. Wood and Tenant Power Organizer René Christian Moya. They’ll talk about building tenant power; the distinction between public housing, affordable housing, and social housing; and making sure that everyone who needs a place to live has one. How about just social concrete?. ....
So is The Seattle Times about to open a used car dealership or what? For some reason the ST has hearts in its eyes for big pavement projects lately. This weekend they ran a puff piece that originally appeared in The Columbian about a glorious freeway project that will surely not cause any climate change this time; and they ran an absolutely baffling editorial defending the mega-lane Alaskan Way Traffic Trench taking shape on the. ....
There’s going to be a rally in support of unionizing Starbucks workers at 4:30 pm today outside the roastery at 1124 Pike St. Even if you can’t make it, here are some ways to support them. So, everything’s back to normal at local hospitals, right? Hahaha no, beds are pretty full and staff are pretty busy. Though infection rates are going down, now there’s a bunch of catching up to do on care that was. ....
The Seattle club Re-bar was known for many things before it got booted and replaced with a piano bar. People knew it as the long-time home of Dina Martina; as the place where Dan Savage put on those weird plays; as the bar that kicked out Nirvana; as the owner of a famously lime-green dressing room wall; as the spot where The Stranger would hold HUMP juries, and where at the end of one jury. ....