by Alycia Ramirez
Looking back through the last five months of current events and daily protests in Seattle, one might think that the wheels have finally come off. However, the truth is that Seattle has a long and deep history of racism, white supremacy, police brutality, and protesting that goes back to the city’s founding.
Continue reading OPINION: Segregated Seattle — How Our Racist and Exclusionary Past Has Shaped Our Presentby Ben Adlin
Artists and other creatives who call Burien home are banding together to establish a state-certified creative district, a move they hope will reinforce the local arts scene, boost the economy, and curb displacement of the city’s creative class as the Seattle-area real estate market continues to boom.
Continue reading Burien Plan Would Establish a Creative District in the Cityby Paul Kiefer
(This article originally appeared on PubliCola and has been reprinted under an agreement.)
A pair of amendments to the King County charter on the ballot next month open a door for significant reshaping of the King County Sheriff’s Office (KCSO). The measures have sparked two opposition campaigns — one closely tied to the King County Police Officers’ Guild (KCPOG), which represents sheriff’s officers — that have cast the amendments as radical attacks on law enforcement, while the measures have received limited vocal support from the most prominent local police accountability advocates.
Continue reading Next Month, King County Voters Will Decide On the Future of the Sheriff’s Office. Here’s What’s at StakeThe Morning Update Show — hosted by Trae Holiday and The Big O (Omari Salisbury) — is the only weekday news and information livestream that delivers culturally relevant content to the Pacific Northwest’s urban audience. Omari and Trae analyze the day’s local and national headlines as well as melanin magic in our community. Watch live every weekday at 11 a.m. on any of the following channels, hosted by Converge Media: YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, Periscope, and whereweconverge.com.
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Today on the Morning Update Show:
Councilmember Girmay Zahilay
Trader Joes fires employees over BLM protest
Black Coffee NW opens in Shoreline
Gone too soon – Damoni Nelson
Stephanie Morales and the Liink Project
Who Am I Short Film Directors
by Miriam Zmiewski-Angelova in collaboration with Storme Webber, Brit Reed, Leanne Rye Brock, and Kailyn Jordan
Since the 2014 passing of the Native led resolution to turn the second Monday of every October into Indigenous Peoples’ Day, replacing Christopher Columbus Day (murderer of Indigenous peoples, rapist, and prolific slave trader), the holiday has honored the legacy and solidarity of Indigenous communities in Seattle for years. Today, on Indigenous Peoples Day 2020, it is a somber reality that we cannot celebrate in the same ways as the past because of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. Our country is also facing the compounding effects of public outcry against the ongoing violence and deaths of Black and Brown bodies at the hands of law enforcement, increased incidences of threats and violence by various white supremacist groups, the collapse of many healthcare, employment, education, and housing systems due to a struggling economy, and an incredibly contentious presidential election.
Continue reading Reflection: Black-Native People Are Living Proof of Our Ancestors’ Strengthby Alvin Horn
Here in the south side of Seattle, and mainly the Skyway area, we have seen an erosion of moral code or street codes of civility that once kept violence away from citizens. However, the legacy of violence in America is a divisional tool injected into our communities. Chickens have come home to roost. From house to house, streets to avenues, and in open areas leading to our school halls, we have become desensitized to commonplace gun violence.
Continue reading OPINION: No Duty to Retreat as History Repeatsby Elizabeth Turnbull
Next week, residents will move into the first phase of a new supportive housing project in South Seattle called Hobson Place. Located in Rainier Valley south of Judkins Park, the site consists of 85 housing units and will eventually include a clinic specifically designed to help individuals who are without homes — providing care for both medical and behavioral health needs.
Continue reading Hobson Place Aims to Provide Housing Alongside Vital Servicesby Brett Hamil
You can now order “Modest Incremental Change NOW,” a collection of my Sunday Comix spanning the entire messed-up summer of revolution, copaganda and liberal cooption in Seattle. Order your copy at: https://bretthamil.bigcartel.com/
Brett Hamil is a writer, cartoonist and performer living on the South End of Seattle. He produces the weekly comedy show Joketellers Union and the political comedy talk show The Seattle Process. The Seattle Weekly (RIP) once called him “the city’s premier political comic.”
by Beau Hebert
Dear The Beauster,
My 7-year old daughter asked me why Donald Trump ignored warnings about the Coronavirus until it was too late. No matter how I try, I cannot think of a suitable answer. Can you help me?
Sincerely,
Tongue-Tied Columbia City Mom
Continue reading Dear the Beauster: Why Can’t Our Commander-in-Chief Take COVID Seriously?by Alexa Peters
Winter blues, low spirits, whatever you want to call it — many Americans become depressed when the winter sets in. This type of mood imbalance, tied intimately to seasonal changes and shorter days, is known in the latest edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) as a major depressive disorder with a seasonal pattern, or more commonly as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).
Continue reading For SAD Sufferers, This Winter Could Be Tougher Than Ever
