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December 31, 2008, Vol. 16, No. 2
Headlines:
- Recovery Transforms Lives. Located in Belltown, the Recovery Café has helped people like Shannon Kitchens battle a 20-year addiction to drugs and alcohol: “I credit my sobriety to this place.” But next year, the café will move to a temporary home. Page 5
- Taxi to the Dark Side. Spurred by an offhand comment by a cab driver, journalist Silja Talvi realizes why mass incarceration stands out as our major civil rights struggle. Page 4
- Predictions: Notable locals cast their eyes to ’09, prophesying on the media, immigration, the Iraq War, and even W…pgs 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11
- Nobody said economic justice was easy, or cheap…
- Our Vendors need boots, coats and winter clothing.
Table of Contents:
Building to win: The case for 2009. Thanks to you, Real Change is healthy and strong. We’re organizing an aggressive response to the root causes of homelessness: inequality and racism. Keep the support coming. By Timothy Harris, Pages 2, 3
Just Heard…Page 3
- Respite for Jefferson Terrace by Cydney Gillis
- Noel House purge by Cydney Gillis
Ending our wars. ’08 – ’09.
- Picture: Joe Colgan lost his son, Lt. Ben Colgan, in a roadside bomb in the first year of the Iraqi occupation. Every week Colgan stands outside the Federal Building inviting passersby to sign postcards asking members of Congress to do all they can to end the war.
- Photo by Adam Hyla
Not the “Other”. Mass incarceration is the civil rights struggle of our day, by Silja J.A. Talvi, Pages 4, 7, 11
- Illustration: Solitary by Seth Goodkind
The immigrant rights movement on new ground. ’08 – ’09. Hilary Stern is director of CASA Latina. Interview by Travis Duprey, Page 4
Graduation celebrates achievements in sobriety. “School of Transformation” a course in revival by Cydney Gillis, Page 5
- Picture: Shannon Kitchens is dealing with a two-decade-long addiction to alcohol and drugs with help from the Recovery Café, where last week peers honored her efforts at sobriety.
- Photo by Katia Roberts
Changing the Constitution ’08 – ’09. In workshops, seminars, and publications like “Policy Watch,” Nancy Amidei has helped teach thousands of ordinary people easy ways to make their voices heard in the state capitol, Page 5
Vendor of the Week: Darcie. Page 6
On the future of media. ’08 – ’09. Michael Hood is a freelance writer who watchdogs the airwaves at blatherwatch.blogs.com, Page 6
The novel that never sleeps. Book Review: Lush Life by Richard Price. Review by Rosette Royale, Page 8
Adventures in Irony. © Dr. Wes: Onward to 2010. With © Dr. Wes Browning, Page 9
Faith, Culture, Politics. The World is about to turn by Rev. Rich Lang, Page 9
Street Watch. Compiled by Emma Quinn, Page 9
1st Amendment in Public. ’08 – ’09. Balloonist and magician Mike Berger sued the city over the Seattle Center’s rules admitting and regulating street performers, or buskers, Page 10
Crossword: A Stitch in Time, by Patrick “Mac” McIntyre, Page 10
Farewell, Mr. President. ’08 – ’09. Andrew Himes is former director of the Voices in Wartime education project and author of an autobiographical one-man show called “Revival: How I Got Lost, Got Saved, and Failed to Overthrow the Imperialist Bourgeoisie.” Page 11
Calendar, Page 12