June 21
Seattle Sites of the Day:

POCAAN

"We are committed to develop, implement and promote comprehensive multicultural HIV/AIDS prevention models..."

-	Community Organizing - ... institutional and attitudinal change...
-	Community Based Education and Outreach - ... reaching high-risk individuals...
-	Peer Education - ...
-	Community based Service Liaison - ... providing advocacy within the systems to ensure that barriers to access are addressed and systems changed."

"The volunteer opportunities at POCAAN are as diverse as the programs we offer and are only limited to your imagination!"

Seattle programs:

-	AIDS Clinical Trial Unit (ACTU)
-	Youth
-	Family Healthcare Program
-	Incarcerated Women of Color
-	Infant Mortality Project
-	Kaz Jones Advocacy Program
-	Men who have Sex with Men (MSM)
-	Kaz Jones African American MSM Project
-	Victor Rivera Latino MSM Project
-	Sexual Health Intervention Project (SHIP)
-	Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Project
-	Women At Risk (WAR) /Heterosexual Men At Risk

Tacoma programs:

-	NDURA
-	Count on Me

Yakima programs:

-	Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Project
-	Migrant Outreach

Seattle Lesbian Cancer Project

Saturday, June 24 - Lesbian Health Forum 'Out Loud: The Closet Is No Place For Lesbian Health Care' at Broadway Performance Hall, on Broadway just north of Pine. 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Registration begins at 9:15 a.m.

Saturday, June 24 - Rainbow Women's Health Fair - Noon to 6:00 p.m. at Pilgrim Congregational Church, 509 10th Ave E at Republican, just east of Broadway. A health and wellness fair for sexual minority women. Free health screenings, demonstrations, entertainment. Info (206) 323-6450.

"According to the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF), the sanctions have directly contributed to the deaths of half a million children under age five and continue to contribute to over 5,000 'excess' children's deaths per month.

"The sanctions against Iraq have been widely condemned as a form of warfare, a weapon of mass destruction, directed against the civilian population. Among their effects are collapse of the economy, widespread chronic malnutrition, and breakdown of the public health system.

"However, sanctions are being maintained at the insistence of our U.S. administration. As Seattle Times editor Mindy Cameron recently wrote, 'Last month, [I was] asked the question that lingers: Someday, when the world knows what went on in Iraq after the Gulf War, they will say to Americans, "Where were you guys?"'

"Visit the CCPI web site, contact us at (206) 789-5565 or bp307@scn.org, or attend an upcoming event to HELP END THE SILENT SLAUGHTER OF THE PEOPLE OF IRAQ."

- Andrew Fung