November 16
Seattle Sites of the Day:

45th Street Clinic
Community Health Network of Washington: Clinic Profiles

"45th St. Clinic offers basic medical care and many other critical health and social services. ... to meet the complex needs of our low income and homeless patients - providing necessary health and support services that private practices won't do and that are outside the scope of any health care legislation.

"45th St. Clinic is the only low cost clinic in North Seattle providing adult dental care. Our dentists provide a full range of preventive and restorative dental services to children and adults. Homeless people, our prenatal patients, and people with HIV/AIDS are designated priority patients.

"Half of our prenatal patients, and 20% of all agency clients, need translation services. Most of our providers and support staff are bilingual Spanish speakers, and other language translators are available as needed.

"... provides prenatal and obstetrical services to low income women, who are at high risk for complications of pregnancy associated with poor nutrition, chemical dependency, homelessness, and lack of health care. ...

"The Homeless Youth Clinic is an evening walk-in clinic for street youth ages 12-23. Services include primary medical care, mental health counseling, substance abuse and HIV counseling, walk-in social work services, parenting classes, laundry vouchers, transportation to the Clinic, referrals for dental care, and health education."

Bethlehem Farm
Bethlehem Farm: School of the Americas Watch
School of the Americas Watch

November 17 - 19 at Columbus, near Fort Benning, GA

"11th Annual vigil and action to close the School of the Americas (School of Assasins). Part of a ten-year history of nonviolent dissent and civil disobedience. U.S. tax dollars are being spent to train human rights abusers, torturers and murderers."

From soaw.org:
"SOA-trained troops consistently head the list of human rights abusers in reports on Latin America."

Info: Tacoma Catholic Worker (253) 572-6582 or guadalope@juno.com

Jim Woodring

Jim Woodring is a Seattle cartoonist who suffers from color saturation, creaturitis, escapism, third-dimensionality, incomprehensible pulsating emotionalism and what is worse, a strange love of imperfect yet glossy and romanticized frogs.

"The basic themes for the program are participatory design, software development, community informatics, social networks and globalism. ...

"The Partnership Project is the primary component... Each student will work in a team with other students over a three-quarter period developing web-based software for a community that has submitted a proposal. ... Students will use the same suite of public domain tools...

"The three quarter project will culminate with a 'Community Information Systems Partnership Fair' (better name TBD) on June 6, 2001."