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Real Change Newspaper
Table of Contents
August 23, 2006, Vol. 13, No. 35
Headlines:
- Sorry, Charlie. Call it the chicken of the sea, but there’s nothing cute about canned tuna’s high mercury levels. Page 2
- White Noise. KBCS confronts an era when listeners across the country are tuning out their radios. Page 3
- At Ease? Soldiers, suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, too often return to a country unwilling to help. Page 4
- And Then SOEM. Seattle’s Office of Emergency Management learns some lessons from Katrina outcome. Page 5
- InHuman Bondage. Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary finds people of color suffer a collective affliction: post traumatic slave syndrome. Page 6
Table of Contents:
The Change. Ad-hoc group pushes for transgendered policy in county jails. By Rosette Royale, Pages 1, 12
| Quote by Lincoln Rose, Seattle Trans Jail Policy Working Group
Resettled and Homesick. Tate Lazard survived Katrina only to experience great loss by Cydney Gillis, Pages 1, 12
- Picture: Theard “Tate” Lazard and his sister joined their mother in Seattle after the Hurricane. He still misses New Orleans, which “is not a place. It’s a way of living.”
- Photo by Sherry Loeser.
Editorial: The Six-Ounce Problem. Tuna, America’s affordable seafood, endangers mothers and infants by Laurel Dykstra, Page 2
Change Agent: Cindy and Craig Corrie by Rachel Rubinstein, Page 3
- Picture: Cindy and Craig Corrie
Radio Static. Community radio station aims to balance talk, music. By Cydney Gillis, Page 3
| Quote by Steve Ramsey, KBCS general manager
Just Heard…, Page 3
- Separation by Cydney Gillis [RE: I-87, I-88, Great Schools for a Great City Campaign. Initiatives will appear on separate ballots]
- No food by Adam Hyla [RE: 13 Coins restaurant new owners threw out union contract, Elana Dix, Seattle Alliance for Good Jobs and Housing for Everyone]
- Needlework by Adam Hyla [RE: Richard Nimmer, Public Health’s Dept. needle exchange needs a new home, Downtown Seattle Association]
Walking Wounded. PTSD challenges veterans and communities alike. By Angie Jones, Page 4
| Quote by Edward Tick, psychotherapist
Poetry, Pages 4, 7, 9
- Id I.D. by Artis
- Snakeheads by Artis
- You think they want your money by David Lawpaugh, Page 7
- His legacy by Larry Crist, Page 9
In Light of Katrina. City disaster-response agency adjusts approach, worst-case expectations. By J. Jacob Edel, Page 5
Interview: Still Bearing the Scars. People of color need to tune into the internal damage wrought by Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. Interview by Silja J.A. Talvi, Pages 6, 7
- Picture: Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary believes African Americans are suffering from Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome.
- Photo courtesy of Faith Holmes.
Force and Beauty Truly Rendered. Book: The Iliad of Homer. Translated by Richmond Lattimore. Review by John Siscoe, Page 8
Swimming to New Islands. Film: Heading South. Directed by Laurent Cantet. Review by Lester Gray, Page 8
- Picture: Charlotte Rampling and Menothy Cesar in Heading South
Adventures in Irony. Down with the Lifeless by Dr. Wes Browning, Page 9
Street Watch. Compiled by Emma Quinn, Page 9
Letter to the Editor: Page 10
- You’re Punished by Stephen Rosenshein
- Response by Timothy Harris
Classified Ads, Page 10
Calendar. Compiled by Dena Burke, Page 11
Director’s Corner by Timothy Harris, Page 11
First things First. Get Involved. Take Action., Page 11
End the Unfair, Arbitrary Death Penalty
- Issue: Despite its own study demonstrating racial and geographic inequalities in the use of the federal death penalty, the U.S. government continues to carry out executions. In the past year, federal judges in New York and Vermont have ruled the federal death penalty unconstitutional based on concerns ranging from the likelihood of executing someone who is actually innocent to the lack of due-process safeguards in the 1994 Federal Death Penalty Act.
- Policymakers must no longer ignore reality: The system of capital punishment in the United States is administered unfairly, arbitrarily, and in a way that risks executing those who are undeserving of death. A temporary freeze on executions would allow us to resolve these problems and re-examine the role of the death penalty.
Copy of issue was obtained from microfiche in the University of Washington Suzzallo Library.