THE ALMIGHTY could not have set a better theater piece. It was still in the cool morning of a hot, cloudless summer day, with an… Continue reading
Glen Milner doesn't look like a terrorist. The soft-spoken, 54-year-old electrician is a longtime peace activist who, in 1999, managed to get Army recruiters banned… Continue reading
Mercifully, there's been very little this season in the way of millennial retrospectives ("Top sports moments of the past thousand years," and the like). Too… Continue reading
TWO YEARS AGO, the tremendous triumph of the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Seattle protesters—beyond igniting a global movement—was that it brought the WTO out into… Continue reading
Neighbors busted on Wright Runstad's construction site at Amazon.com's headquarters.
BAD NEWS travels fast. It also travels a really long way.So I'm sitting on the back deck of a house in the woods of coastal… Continue reading
In planning the (mostly) nonviolent actions against the WTO, activists are blending old protest tactics with newer, less passive ones.
Four years ago the Republicans ran for governor a candidate, Ellen Craswell, who believed that homosexuals should be put to death. But times have changed… Continue reading
AT LAST, SEATTLE'S love affair with the World Trade Organization has ended.Last week, Phil Condit and Bill Gates, official co-hosts of the 1999 WTO ministerial… Continue reading
Put Kris Kime down as the first death directly attributable to the Paul Schell Re-Election Campaign.Granted, there are a few intermediary steps involved. Public officials,… Continue reading
FOR ANYONE WHO considers himself or herself an environmentalist (and that's a lot of us), the display of anti-whaling activists trying to stop the Makah… Continue reading
LIKE A SOLID MAJORITY of the Puget Sound area's residents, I wasn't born and raised here. As such, I suspect my first experiences of Seattle… Continue reading
LAST WEEK, in a vote that meant nothing and everything for policing in Seattle, the Seattle Police Officers Guild gave a resounding thumbs-down to police… Continue reading
The editorialists at Seattle's dailies are all atwitter over recommendations, issued last week by a coalition of Seattle business community groups, that purportedly provide Mayor… Continue reading
So "Boeing" is "leaving" Seattle.Good.Amid all the mawkishness about the loss of part of Seattle's soul, the ghost of old Bill Boeing, and so forth… Continue reading
One of the more curious bursts of civic activism recently is taking place up on Beacon Hill, where customers are beseeching the Library Board .… Continue reading
"Borking" is a political term that has entered our discourse in recent years thanks to the right wing. It refers, derisively, to the process of… Continue reading
It's not illegal to be poor in Seattle. Well, actually, yes, it is. Sometimes.The impound law that, at the behest of City Attorney Mark Sidran,… Continue reading
While lesbian activism is in the streets, gay men are out at play.
THERE'S NO QUESTION that the United States, and the rest of the world, needs to take forceful steps—not just to bring Sept. 11's perpetrators to… Continue reading
