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Posts Tagged ‘Apartheid’
November 16th, 2015 - 2:41 pm § in The Ave Scene
Seattle Apartheid: How things got this way
Seattle, now the nations most segreagted (i.e. “white city) should undertand more about how things got this way … Combating Anti-Semitism at the Laurelhurst Beach Club By Anne Levine The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith (ADL) was established in 1913 to combat anti-Semiti[...]
September 22nd, 2015 - 3:26 am § in Jews
Yom Kippur: The Era of Jewish Apartheid
(Huffington Post, Sandy Goodman) 57 percent of Orthodox Jews prefer Republicans and the OJ Families Are As Large a Catholic Families were a Century Ago! The American Jewish community is coming apart at the seams. Its vital center is collapsing, and the entire group is increasingly polarized by ru[...]
July 23rd, 2015 - 5:21 am § in Uncategorized
UPDATE: Is my home racist?
Edward Alan Clark , Biobuddhist DOES SEATTLE’S TRADITION OF SINGLE FAMILY HOMES REFLECT RACISM? Page 25 of Seattle Mayor Ed Murray‘s Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda report cites the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project’s research on racially restrictive coven[...]
June 21st, 2015 - 9:14 am § in Misc.
A Lesson for Seattle from Charleston
“Mother Emanuael” is fated to become a home to ghosts, a museum frequented by curious white folks. I am a Jew. On my first visit to Amsterdam I went to the Jewish museum. The museum outraged me. How can MY people be treated as if we no longer exist? I felt I was surrounded by [[...]
June 19th, 2015 - 12:49 pm § in Misc.
NAZI IN SEATTLE: Discuss on Facebook
Devon Dsquared Deloney Since that guy was openly wearing a symbol of hate on his arm which is basically like a f*** you to everyone around him. If I was there I would have called him a bitch to his face and ripped it off his arm and the moment he tried to react […][...]
June 11th, 2015 - 1:30 am § in The Ave Scene
Keeping the minorities out of politics In Seattle
FACEBOOK: Cindi Laws makes the point that the candidate forums have “gone off the rails.” Moderators are frightened of activists who come not to encourage speech but to dominate it. This results in boring meetings, so controlled that candidates do not even get to answer each others&[...]
A Letter to the UW Faculty About Sawant
Faculty tend to avoid demagogues, an avoidance that McCarthy, Hitler, Huey Long, and the Tea Party have shown is very risky. Now Kshama Sawant is running a very well funded campaign for reelection to the Seattle City Council from our neighborhood, District 3. My wife and I voted for Kshama i[...]
May 22nd, 2015 - 7:58 am § in America, The Ave Scene
FACEBOOK: Does Seattle Need To Build Poorhouses?
Sarajane Siegfriedt FACEBOOK Erica C. Barnett wrote, “Cognitive dissonance is strong with these candidates. Most of the eight had no problem saying they want to see lots more affordable housing in one breath, and saying that they also support higher taxes on all new development in the next.&#[...]
Anthony Washington: Seattle Apartheid
EACHOTHER Growing up, Washington State History made no mention of Chinese American history, Japanese American history, nor Filipino American history. If not for my grandparents, I would have no clue what Filipinos have endured during their time in Seattle. If not for Tsuki Kaneko-Hall, throwing piec[...]