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Seattle Community Network |
Saturday
September 23, 2000 |
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September 23
The members of the Northwest delegation to Iraq returned on August 19, with first hand reports of conditions in Basra, a large city in southern Iraq. On Sunday, September 24, former UN Assistant Secretary General and humanitarian aid coordinator Denis Halliday, who supervised the UN oil-for-food program in Iraq, will speak at the University of Washington's Kane Hall at 7:00 p.m. After years of efforts to improve conditions in Iraq, Halliday resigned from the UN in protest of the scale of human misery caused by the UN and US sanctions. "Denis Halliday is expected to discuss the proposals he offered to the U.S. Congress last May for resolving the conflict and humanitarian crisis. ... Halliday has been nominated, with Kathy Kelly, for the Nobel Peace Prize for their work on the humanitarian crisis in Iraq."
Sunday, September 24, 7:30 p.m. at Community Action Network, 115 Prefontaine, near 3rd and Yesler. "Seattle Public Theater presents The Color of Justice, a Theater of Liberation forum production featuring the stories of people of color around their interactions with police and white privilege. "Theater of Liberation, inspired by the work of the Brazilian activist/director Augusto Boal, is audience interactive. Come and make a stand for justice and an end to racial profiling and excessive use of force by police. "Admission by 'pay what you can' donation. Info: John Sullivan (206) 328-4848 or sheijo@hotmail.com."
"The Jubilee 2000 Northwest Coalition will hold a rally... followed by foot procession to the Federal Building for a 4:30 human chain encircling the Federal Building." "Call for the cancellation of the debt of the world's poorest nations... true debt relief for over a billion people. With the Congress in closing days of budget negotiations and the International Monetary Fund and World Bank meeting in Prague, Czech Republic, this is a crucial day." "Info: Jubilee 2000 Northwest Coalition, (206) 323-0300 x337."
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September 17 - 23
Seattle Site of the Week: 
Real Change News
Listen to the Poor
- Aug. 15
Real Change News is a Seattle newspaper written by the homeless and formerly homeless, published on newsprint every other week. Each current issue is now available on the Web. Anitra Freeman, a director of the SHARE and WHEEL homeless housing groups, which operate self-managed shelters, recently considered how Seattle's government, nonprofits and homeless residents might together approach the planning for the new transitional housing that is to be funded by the Gates Foundation grant and by matching funds many of whose sources are still unknown. Here are a few excerpts from Anitra's comments. There is much more in Real Change's current and recent issues. "This July, the Gates Foundation announced a gift of $40 million that will help women and children who are homeless or in danger of becoming homeless in King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties. ... "Seattle's Office of Housing estimates that 24,800 families were turned away from shelter in these three counties last year. The target of the Healthy Families Program is building 1,500 units of transitional housing and providing five years of support services. ... "Just how many will be helped depends on how the Healthy Families Program is implemented. "In the summer of 1998, Mayor Paul Schell pledged $500,000 toward additional services to get homeless women and children inside. "WHEEL pushed for a public process to decide the use of that money, and the result was a cooperative effort among city officials, service agencies, and homeless women themselves that led to the Women's Referral Center, Hammond House, the beginning of expansion of Angeline's, and an ongoing group project known as the Community Action for Homeless Women. "With that model to work from, a fund of $40 million could drive a cooperative effort that could change this region like no traditional, competitive process could. "One of the factors in the success of the Community Action for Homeless Women has been the involvement of homeless women themselves. "...the Healthy Families Program is only one step forward on a very long road. ... Homelessness will be ended when we each do what we can." |
