by Susan Fried
Families who went to Rainier Beach Action Coalition’s Back2School Bash, in its 20th year, found more than just free school supplies — a host of services and vendors, food, and entertainment around supporting and celebrating children and families in Rainier Beach.
Continue reading PHOTO ESSAY | Scenes From the Rainier Beach Back2School Bash 2023by Tobias Coughlin-Bogue
(This article was originally published on Real Change and has been reprinted under an agreement.)
Restaurants run on hierarchy, or so I’ve always been told. There’s got to be someone in charge, someone giving orders, in order for the whole thing to run right. Whatever situation you find restaurant work analogous to, be it the military, a sports team, or an orchestra, there’s someone calling the shots.
Continue reading Can a Worker-Owned Restaurant … Work?by Phil Manzano
More than 4,000 — that’s how many shell casings Seattle police have recovered from shooting incidents this year, as well as a record number of guns recovered, 869, even as the number of reported shootings have gone down.
Those numbers are the backdrop behind Sunday’s early morning shooting that left three dead and six wounded when gunfire broke out at the Rainier Hookah Lounge, according to Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz.
Continue reading 3 Dead, 6 Wounded in Weekend Shooting at South End Hookah Loungeby Luna Reyna
Music, laughter, the aroma of good food, and a generally cheerful and familial lightheartedness usually emanate from the parking lot when Marty Jackson, executive director of SE Network SafetyNet Program, and her team at Boys & Girls Clubs of King County are in the Rainier Beach Safeway parking lot. “We want people to come in, we want people to come here and be able to decompress. We want you to feel loved in this space,” Jackson said.
Continue reading SE Network SafetyNet Responds to the Recent Shooting at Rainier Beach Safewayby Ken Gillgren
Way back in 1970, when I was a senior in high school, I attended an elective class on mass media and learned you can’t assume something is true just because it showed up in The New York Times. The entire class was about the ways in which logical fallacies, appeals to emotion, and other tools for influencing public thought and opinion have long lurked in the channels of mass media — including those we have come to see as authoritative, and the presumptive “guardians” of public integrity and truth.
Yet even though I’ve long been aware of this troubling pattern, I was still enraged to read the insensitive, fear-mongering “hit piece” in The Seattle Times entitled, “Lawsuits say Rainier Beach parking lot where 5 were shot a magnet for violence.”
Continue reading OPINION | Demanding Media Accountability in a Time of Broken Trustby Marcus Harrison Green
(This article is copublished with The Seattle Times.)
One violent incident can’t negate the impact of ongoing work to curb gun violence in the Rainier Beach community.
Continue reading OPINION | Keeping Perspective When Trauma Strikes a Sacred Placeby Vee Hua 華婷婷
by Phil Manzano
The blue awnings with tables and chairs stood in sharp contrast to the yellow police tape and the flashing red and blue lights of a multitude of police vehicles at the western corner of the Rainier Beach Safeway’s parking lot Friday night.
Continue reading 5 People Wounded When Gunfire Erupts at Rainier Beach Safeway Friday Nightby Chardonnay Beaver
On Saturday, May 13, Liberated Village held their Arts & Education Festival at Alan T. Sugiyama High School. Free to the community, the festival featured live performances from young Seattle rapper Skye-Dior and DJ Vitamin D, meals from The Original Philly’s (“Philly’s Best”) and Rooted on 23rd, presentations, and outdoor information booths.
Continue reading The Liberated Village Arts & Education Festival Celebrates School Without Wallsby Ari Robin McKenna
While working to rebuild Rainier Beach High School throughout the cold, dark rainy winter, Israel Presley carries up to 60 lbs in his belt and pack. His pack often includes three drills (each with different bits), a double-jack sledgehammer, “cowbells,” “come-alongs,” and a “yo-yo” — a retractable lifeline that allows him to move about the jobsite, but would catch him should he fall.
Continue reading The Hopes and Fears of a Former Student Working to Rebuild Rainier Beach High School
