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Seattle Community Network |
Sunday
May 21, 2000 |
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May 21
"In Quang Tri... one child a week is killed or maimed by landmines and unexploded bombs left over from the Vietnam war. ... With global citizens working alongside the Vietnamese to clear mines, plant trees and provide mines awareness education, the legacy of war can be transformed into a healthy future for the children and families of Vietnam."
"The percentage of our citizens in prisons has also increased, approximately tripling in Washington and the nation since 1980. We now have five times as many of our citizens in prison as Canada, which has comparable crime rates except in murder by gun, and seven times as many as most European countries." ... "... We need to find ways to achieve public safety which are cost effective, and which are fair to victims, their families, offenders, and our communities. To do so, we need to substantially reduce our reliance on prisons." ... "A major reduction of prison populations could be achieved by providing community management and appropriate treatment for most nonviolent offenders, who currently make up 37% of all prisoners. ... "Providing treatment, rather than imprisonment, for drug offenders, who make up 24% of all inmates, would also provide substantial cost savings to taxpayers. A comprehensive California study has found that every dollar spent on substance abuse treatment saved taxpayers over seven dollars in reduced crime and health care costs."
"... take the tour and see Seattle as I did for five days in March 1999." "When I visted Bulgaria in May 1999, the country I found was a stark contrast to dreary land I had read about when I was younger."
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May 21 - May 27
Seattle Site of the Week:  
South Seattle Community College Parent Cooperative Preschools
"Our supportive environment will offer you: genuine connections with others, friends to talk to who really understand parenting, caring people who respect you just the way you are, professional staff trained in Early Childhood Education. "When you enroll your child in a Parent Cooperative preschool you are simultaneously enrolled in a vocational course through South Seattle Community College titled 'Parent Education Child Study Laboratory.'" ... "A key part of your learning will come from practical experiential participation in your child's preschool lab." ... "Attend preschool with your child once per week, serving as an assistant teacher." ... "Building upon a young child's natural curiosity, we encourage children to explore experiment, imagine, create, solve problems and interact within a carefully planned developmentally appropriate preschool environment. Children climb, slide, balance, build, pretend, dress up, tell stories, hear stories, work puzzles, paint, sing, dance, manipulate sensory materials, make discoveries, make choices, assume responsibility, learn to cooperate, make friends, develop, grow, and have fun!"
May 20 - 23
May 18 - "The critical importance of CPSR's Shaping the Network
Society symposium was underscored by the seizure of B292
broadcasting equipment by security forces in the former Yugoslavia.
Station manager Veran Matic who was scheduled to discuss the importance
of a 'public sphere' to 500 attendees at CPSR's Seattle symposium was
compelled to remain at home after the seizure. Matic and other B292
employees are currently working to keep the news flowing using Internet
streaming technology. Veran Matic's name card will still be displayed
at the symposium in front of his empty chair. A statement from Matic
will be read at the symposium and symposium organizers are exploring
other ways of ensuring that his important message will not be
silenced."
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