Monks in Tibet are burning themselves alive as an act of sacrifice unfathomable to most people. Tsultrim Dorjee, President of the Tibetan Youth Congress in Seattle knew two of them. Dorjee spent this evening with a few members of Occupy Seattle making foam core coffins that will be draped in the Tibetan flag and marched [...]
On November 30, 1999, long before having become a journalist, I packed several rolls of 35 mm film and my Minolta SRT, and went downtown, early in the morning to see the protest of the World Trade Organization. On December 3, I wrote a letter to a friend describing the entire day and some [...]
There were a few cigarette butts on the ground in the commons area of Nickelsville, late in the morning of Wednesday, September 30. Janice Connelly, of the Women in Black, picked them up. “Don’t you guys have a can,” she asked. “This is not alright.” They always put their cigarettes, smoked to the filter, in [...]
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In front of A half block from Mayor Nickels’ house, in West Seattle, last night, about 40 homeless people, and a few with homes, in support of their cause, laid down mats and plastic and whatever they could make beds out of, and slept side by side on the 6 ft wide median between the [...]
This afternoon, I spoke with Port of Seattle Seaport and Realestate Media Officer Peter McGraw to get a better understanding of the port’s relationship with Nickelsville. He said there were no conditions for them staying there. From the start, he said that “we’ve made made it clear that they’re there illegally.” “The port doesn’t have [...]
One mile south of the West Seattle Bridge, Terminal 107 park has been home to a homeless camp named Nickelsville for one year now. Saturday the residents and its supporters celebrated its birthday. Wednesday, the port police will clear it out and arrest those who refuse to move on. Some believe Nickelsville is a political [...]
If you don't have enough quarters for the dryer, try hanging your laundry from the high-voltage power line outside your window.Nickelsville, a homeless camp in West Seattle, is scheduled to be swept by the port police on Wednesday, September 30. If this sweep is like those from the past, police will go through the camp at Terminal 107 park, and give the homeless people living there the chance to leave. If they refuse, they will [...]
King 5′s Evening Magazine reporter, Meg Coyle interviewed Keith Harris Wednesday morning, in the “Cental Park” lot, where at least 14 mini-parks will be set up on Friday. Cameraman Darrell Benedict shot footage of the croquet game set up by Harris and members of Feet First, an advocacy group that promotes walkable communities. Harris said [...]
Sarah Durkee, Jeffrey Goupil, and Jon Zegers build the platform for the wall of air. At least 14 mini parks will transform the lot at Belmont Avenue and Pine Street, Friday, into a one-day-only, public park. Also, many parking spots from 85th and Greenwood in Ballard, to Rainier and Ferdinand in Columbia City, will [...]
If you’ve passed the corner of Pine and Belmont lately, you may have noticed a large sign attached, geurilla style, to two, long-unused, notice-of-proposed-use-action-sign posts. The large, prime-real-estate parcel of land behind it has gone (mostly) unused and without proposition for a year now. After it’s brief use as a parking lot last summer, it’s [...]
