Although there are dozens of available plots that would work well for Nickelsville, City officials have not yet offered a reasonable site for relocation. In addition to a city ordinance that limits the duration of stay for sanctioned encampments to two years, the Ballard Nickelsville community has expressed a deep …
by Katherine Jacobs On Sunday, September 3rd, neighbors from the far corners of Seattle gathered in the basement of the Columbia City Church of Hope to get hopeful and nerdy about social ecology. What is social ecology, you ask? Great question! It’s a theoretical framework that offers an alternative to …
By Matthew Lang If you live in Seattle, you’ve noticed it. It’s been painfully present: the housing and homeless crisis. It’s only getting worse: the current official estimate of unhoused people living in King County is 11,600. Of that number, 5,485 of them sleep every night without shelter. Most will …
History textbooks notoriously overlook deep historical patterns. When we are taught in school about the colonization of the Americas by Europeans or the abolition of slavery, our teachers present them as if singularities. Abraham Lincoln was an enlightened savior*. Vladimir Lenin is painted as single-handedly overthrowing the Russian Tsarists in …
Please join us on Saturday, January 7 at 3 pm for our first Spokescouncil meeting. This meeting will be an opportunity for Neighborhood Action Groups from all over Seattle (and outside the city!) to connect, share, and cross-pollinate. We will also be voting on proposals regarding NAC organizing structure, and …
There are 38 days left until Inauguration Day. If you want to join the Trump resistance but aren’t sure how to plug in, or if you have fears and ideas to share, please come to a local Neighborhood Action Council meeting — there are a bunch coming up in the …
Friends, neighbors, strangers and comrades! Strange and wonderful things are afoot in the good city of Seattle! Though we live in troubled and swiftly darkening times, the strength and courage and inspired energy we saw last Sunday gives us hope. If you were unaware, on Sunday, December 4, the Seattle …
Come join us for chance to gather together and learn how to support each other and heal. https://www.facebook.com/events/187189638405404/
