Open Letter to Support Ballard Nickelsville

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 …

Housing for All Coalition seeks humanitarian solutions to homelessness in Seattle

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 …

Building participatory democracy in the Puget Sound

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 …

Spokescouncil Meeting – Saturday, January 7

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 …