Tag: BLM
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Homeownership expansion policy
Excerpts I wrote for mayoral candidate Andrew Grant Houston: I am a renter, and I’ve been one my entire life. Though while Seattle is a majority-renter city, I recognize that homeownership is the fastest way to generational wealth. That history is drawn along racial lines. America, since its inception, has entrenched wealth in the ability…
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Home ownership program expansion policy
Excerpts I wrote for Andrew Grant Houston’s policy proposal: I am a renter, and I’ve been one my entire life. Though while Seattle is a majority-renter city, I recognize that homeownership is the fastest way to generational wealth. That history is drawn along racial lines. America, since its inception, has entrenched wealth in the ability…
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Personal efforts during the 2021 legislative session
I encourage folks to join in supporting and/or sharing and tracking these legislative efforts as well! In my work capacity at Sierra Club, I push for, and align with: But in my personal life, I make concerted efforts to also push for items at the legislature in partnership with groups I also align. Here’s what…
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As with all else, the climate crisis and COVID-19 intertwine
Art by Mike Nicholsen As our communities confront the reality of COVID-19 and a recession, there is increasing clarity that low-income people and communities of color face both disportionately high rates of illness and death from the virus, and greater financial vulnerability. But our ability to meet the severe challenge of this moment is hampered…
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King County Ensures Legal Representation During Inquest Process
The King County Council unanimously passed a proposal Monday ensuring public defenders are made available to the families of people killed in officer-involved shootings during the inquest process. via South Seattle Emerald
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Lyles Family Responds to Halt in Police Shooting Inquests
Monday, King County Executive Dow Constantine announced all police shooting inquests are paused while the Review Committee considers reforms and submits recommendations expected in March. via South Seattle Emerald
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#NoNewYouthJail Movement Scores Legal Victory in Court of Appeals
Photo by DJ Martinez The Court of Appeals handed prison abolitionist groups Ending the Prison Industrial Complex (EPIC) and #NoNewYouthJail (NNYJ) a substantial and calculated victory Tuesday morning that could potentially close the money spigot for the youth dentition center they’ve been opposing. via South Seattle Emerald
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Women of color recognized at Charleena Lyles public healing
After the death of Charleena Lyles, a black pregnant mother shot and killed by two Seattle Police Department (SPD) officers, Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant requested a public hearing at the UW’s Kane Hall between the Lyles family and SPD Chief Kathleen O’Toole. The chief, however, declined to participate. O’Toole’s response stated Sawant’s request via email had “a disappointing level…
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Contextualizing the death of Charleena Lyles: National and local patterns where people of color die disproportionately at the hands of police
Seattle’s jagged mountains were shaded blue the morning Charleena Lyles was fatally shot by Steven McNew and Jason Anderson of the Seattle Police Department (SPD), matching that of the community’s reaction to such police violence: tragic and somewhat jaded, topped with anger as sharp as the rocky skyline. Lyles’ death tacks on yet another name…
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