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SAY HER NAME People gather for the anniver- sary of Charleena Lyles’ 2017 killing by Seattle police, p.4

CALL IT ‘CH, CH, CHANGES...’ The area mostly known as chop is ever-changing and changing things, p.6

DIAL BACK Seattle City Council confronts $300 million deficit and what to do about police, p.3 How is our city faring amid protest and illness? Start on page 2. REALCHANGE REALCHANGE 2 OPINION June 24 – 30, 2020 June 24 – 30, 2020 NEWS 3 covid-19 and child care: It’s time Real Change exists to provide opportunity and a voice for low-income and homeless people while taking action for economic, to fix this struggling system REPORTER’S social and racial justice. By GINA PETRY of essential workers? What about the able to all families. Washington state must NOTEBOOK Real Change offices Guest Writer children of city transit workers, taxi and overhaul its regressive revenue structure 219 First Ave. S., Suite 220 rideshare drivers, and Instacart delivery to tax the rich and corporations to pay for Seattle, WA 98104 daca lives 206.441.3247, www.realchangenews.org he coronavirus epidemic has personnel? it. Large employers should provide child dramatically changed child care State officials are urging workers not care on site. Enacting a statewide policy The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a BOARD OF DIRECTORS T in Washington state, while raising deemed “essential” to keep their children of 30 hours work for 40 hours pay would move by the Trump administration to Yolanda Altamirano (President), Malou Chávez, clues about how to repair an inadequate at home. And for many parents laid off or also lighten the load of working parents end the Deferred Action for Child Arriv- Shelly Cohen, Matthew Hayashi, Hannah Hunthausen, Pamela Kliment, system that has gotten much worse. telecommuting, this feels like the safest and child care providers. als (daca) program, indefinitely extend- Jim Lauinger, Maria Elena Ramirez, Mary Riski Child Care Aware Washington, a option. But what is wrong with this pic- In the current statewide emergency, ing protections against deportation for statewide referral agency, says covid-19 ture? Once again, it assumes women will child care programs must be significantly hundreds of thousands of people in the EDITORIAL STAFF Staff Reporter Ashley Archibald has contributed to the closure of 1,303 find a way to provide this essential labor, expanded and opened to all workers and United States. Editor Lee Nacozy child care programs statewide. This is free of charge as they always do — on top children of all ages with fully funded food daca was set up under the Obama Features Reporter Kamna Shastri catastrophic. Not having stable child care of working for 79 percent of men’s wages, and support services. No more piecemeal administration to provide people who Art Director Jon Williams is a losing situation. The lack of social plus cooking, shopping, cleaning and car- measures with different requirements! had been brought to the country without REAL CHANGE STAFF investment in child care and early educa- ing for sick family members and elders. Laid-off child care providers should be documents as children an opportunity Circulation Specialist Wes Browning tion limits future school achievement for Affordable, quality child care allows hired to staff the programs as unionized to work and go to school without fear of Organizer Evelyn Chow Volunteer Manager Katie Comboy kids, as well as opportunities for mothers. women to lead full and productive lives, public employees. deportation. The Trump administration’s Managing Director Shelley Dooley Some steps have mitigated the impact. which is why my organization, Radical Wom- Child care workers are at great risk of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Communications and Development Gov. Jay Inslee has eased pressures on en, is committed to gaining it. Mothers infection and need the best safety precau- announced an abrupt end to that program. Associate Alexis Estrada Founding Director Timothy Harris providers by waiving several requirements who cannot get child care are pushed out tions using the latest scientific practices The 5-4 decision found that the way Field Organizer Neal Lampi for licensed child care workers, including of the workforce, required to stay at home and recommendations from the workers that DHS tried to stop the program was Vendor Program Manager Rebecca Marriott Lead Organizer Tiffani McCoy requiring federal fingerprint background with no hope for economic independence themselves. This includes plenty of clean- “arbitrary and capricious.” Those terms Vendor Case Manager Ainsley Meyer checks in the licensing process. and no escape from violent situations. ing supplies and protective equipment. are embedded in the Administrative Pro- Office Manager Ari Shirazi The King County Council invested Child care is also a class issue. Over 60 Extra funding should be offered to Holding space: Protests around the U.S. after the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd have been long-lasting and effective. cedures Act (APA), which gives a blueprint Development Director Camilla Walter $2.2 million to provide free child care for percent of working-class and poor women small child care businesses struggling Occupying blocks of Seattle’s Capitol Hill became a mainstay; the crowd gathers for speakers at Pine and 12th streets. See story, page 6. for how agencies deal in policy. VOLUNTEERS eligible families of essential workers — work outside the home. They struggled to to stay open. Families who are providing That means that the administration Editorial Committee Susan Storer Clark, medical professionals and support staff, pay for child care even before the covid free child care in their homes should re- or Congress can move forward on other Laura Ditsch, Willie Jones, James Jenkins, Dagmar Matheny, Paige Owens, Tiron Rowe first responders, child care providers crisis blew up the economy. Ninety-seven ceive state compensation for each child, Precariously rebalancing city budget changes to immigration policy or another themselves and others, such as grocery, percent of child care workers are women, now and permanently. attempt to wind down daca, assuming Contributing Writers Rabbi Olivier BenHaim, Hanna Brooks Olsen, Wes Browning, pharmacy and transit workers. many of them people of color and im- The failing Washington state child By ASHLEY ARCHIBALD Mosqueda’s “Jump Start Seattle,” which is bonds sold for profit, not retirement ac- they do not run afoul of the courts again, John Helmiere, Michelle Galluzzo, Dave Gamrath, The city of Seattle has $1 million month- migrants. Their incredibly low wages care system can be fixed, and this is just Staff Reporter also formulated as a payroll tax. counts, real estate sales or investment making it an uncertain reprieve. The rul- Kelly Knickerbocker, Joe Martin, Patrick “Mac” McIntyre, Jill Mullins, Oscar Rosales Castaneda, ly earmarked for child care that will serve illustrate the continued devaluing of a start. It is critical for the future of chil- The proposal levies a tax percentage losses. An estimated 30 percent of Seattle- ing also only provides protections for daca Susan Storer Clark, Megan Wildhood, Mike Wold over 700 kids of health care professionals, “women’s work.” dren, families and workers. n $300 million shortfall due to co- based on a business’ size and compensation ites would pay the 1 percent capital gains recipients, not for other undocumented

Photographers and Artists Alex Bergstrom, first responders and grocery store workers. But hope is not lost. This crisis pres- vid-19. Three progressive revenue rates. Businesses with payroll between $7 tax, which would raise roughly $37 million people in the country. Matthew S. Browning, Sam Day, Natalie Dupille, These are important first steps, but ents the opportunity for a better scenario! Gina Petry is a social worker, Radical A proposals and one initiative aiming million and $1 billion would pay a .7 percent per year, according to the press release. That means there is still work to be Jeffrey Few, Valerie Franc, Susan Fried, Seth they are not enough. All of these measures The ultimate solution that’s needed Women organizer, former employee of for the ballot. A massive civil rights uprising tax on total employee compensation from Also at play is the SPD budget. Accord- done, said Kamau Chege, a Kenyan-born Goodkind, Derek Gundy, Lisa Hagen Glynn, Lara Child Care Resources and coordinator Kaminoff, Ted Mase, Dave Parish, Joseph Romain, apply only to preschool and school-age now and going forward is a system of calling for — at least — halving the police bud- $150,000 to $499,999 and 1.4 percent on ing to the 2020 approved budget, the City daca recipient, in a press release. Wes Sauer, Katie Wheeler of the Sisters Organize for Survival kids. What about the infants and toddlers publicly funded, free, 24-7 child care avail- childcare campaign. get and reinvesting in community programs. compensation over $500,000. Council appropriated more than $409 mil- “daca shows we know how to fairly Copy Editors Pamela Bradburn, Merry Nye, The Seattle City Council has a lot to Bigger businesses would be charged lion for SPD, making it the most expensive examine each case to provide people Morgan Wegner work through over the next few weeks as more: 1.4 percent for the first range and 2.1 department in the general fund. It’s also what with the stability they need to keep con- Real Change Volunteers Yolanda Altamirano, DIRECTOR’S CORNER | Timothy Harris, founding director it tries to realign the city’s budget after a percent for the second. Mosqueda calls a “black box”: She has re- tributing to their communities and their Cathie Andersen, Carla Blaschka, Maridee That would bring in an estimated $174 million, Bonadea, Pamela Bradburn, Chris Burnside, rare confluence of events pushed funding quested a granular analysis of SPD spending, country,” Chege said. “What we need now Cathy Clemens, Jim Freier, Candace Gallerani, his week, Real Change vendors ity has made a able to purchase 2-ounce bottles of Real inequity to the forefront. excluding the higher pull from businesses that pay including how much has been spent on the is to expand these protections to all immi- Michelle Galluzzo, Anne Jaworski, Carlo Jones, Estimates of the impacts of the huge job in excess of $1 billion in compensation. Kevin Jones, Ron Kaplan, Jesse Kleinman, are back out on the street, earn- dramatic dif- Hand Sanitizer to sell for three dollars police response to protests for George Floyd. grants, end the practice of deporting our Pamela Kliment, Daniel Kramer, Joe Martin, T ing an income and directly expe- ference, and along with the newspaper. losses and slow reopening of the state and The Jump Start Seattle spending plan Floyd’s killing by former Minnesota Police neighbors and reinvest in public health Dagmar Matheny, John Maynard, Patrick McIntyre, local economies due to the coronavirus have falls into four primary buckets: housing se Juan Montes, Carl Nakajima, Eileen Nicol, riencing the caring community that our has shown our Thanks to a generous gift from - Officer Derek Chauvin unleashed a movement and essential workers instead of harmful Deb Otto, Maria Elena Ramirez, Merri Jo Seil, amazing readers have provided for more vendors that Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard, we are able been known for nearly two months. curity, support for immigrants and refugees, across the country calling for defunding police, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Lawrence Soriano, Susan Storer Clark, Jeremy to subsidize production costs so that At the end of April, Budget Director Ben if not outright abolition. People occupying the operations and bloated police budgets.” Tarpey, Moriah Vazquez, Jed Walsh, Mike Wold than 25 years. when times business support and food security. As you know, Real Change offers much are tough, they vendors earn 500 percent profit on each Noble told the council the city could lose as Mosqueda, who chairs the budget com- space around the East Precinct in Capitol Hill The city announced a partnership The Real Change Homeless Empowerment Project is a more than an income to those who work can count on bottle sold. The hand sanitizer project much as 20 percent of sales taxes and a simi- mittee, said a “call to action” was initiated in are united in calling for a minimum 50 percent between the Seattle Office of Immigrant 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Real Change is a member of the North American Street Newspaper Association selling the paper. We are a vast network of their friends. also provides new work opportunities lar amount of business and occupation tax. the council by Sawant and Morales, as well cut to the existing police department budget and and Refugee Affairs (OIRA), the King and the International Network of Street Papers. people who care for those who struggle. Your kind to vendors who work in our small-scale While those two were among the biggest hits, as constituents, for more services, small- the reallocation of those funds to serve Seattle’s County Bar Association (KCBA) and the REAL CHANGE ON SOCIAL MEDIA People who take a personal interest in our gifts have helped us set vendors up for bottling operation. almost no revenue source seemed unscathed, business loans and affordable housing. Black communities. Washington Chapter of the American Im- vendor’s everyday success. success in other ways as well. Throughout the past three months, and the true costs were unknown. The councilmembers agree on the need for At least three councilmembers have migration Lawyers Association (AILA) to The past three months have tested With your support, we have invested your support has allowed us to continue City councilmembers have now come progressive revenue, ensuring that the revenue voiced outright support for the concept, provide free legal consultations to daca our community in ways we never could $10,000 to remodel our vendor bathrooms publishing our award-winning paper dur- out with a trio of plans to raise and spend is progressive in both its assessment and spend- including Sawant, Mosqueda and Morales, recipients. @RealChangeNews have anticipated. None of us have ex- and provide “no touch” sinks and toilets ing these challenging but hopeful times revenues from Seattle’s wealthiest busi- ing plans, and that there is money immediately while others have expressed a desire to perienced the dramatic disruption of a to protect vendors from the spread of co- of uprising and pandemic. Last month, nesses and people, varying by method of available to get out the door to struggling con- look at the budget but held back on an exact Coronavirus closures global pandemic before. We had no idea vid-19. We have devised methods of social Real Change received five awards for revenue generation and ambition. At the stituents, Mosqueda said. commitment, such as councilmembers Lisa of what to expect or what our future distancing for our vendor center, and are excellence from the Society of Profes- same time, several councilmembers have “I’m hopeful that those three pillars that, Herbold and Alex Pedersen. Libraries will remain closed at least LETTERS TO THE EDITOR might hold. providing masks and hand sanitizer to sional Journalists. expressed interest in considering cuts to I hope, unite us all on council and especially Taken together — and with the backdrop until June 30 and eviction moratoriums Have something to say? Real Change appreciates letters to the editor. Send them to editor@ But we knew one thing for sure. 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Our gutsy ad- The first — sponsored by councilmem- is a lot of commonality in why a progressive together in a short time. n and policies signed by Mayor Jenny Dur- touched and grateful for the support you tancing have moved Real Change staff vocacy department is finding new ways bers Kshama Sawant and Tammy Morales revenue proposal is being put forward by kan on June 18. have given. meetings to Zoom, we have turned our to support the many opportunities for early in 2020 — is the biggest, proposing a folks here and the urgency to make sure Budget meeting schedule The city will also continue to suspend Thanks to you, our vendors have felt community room into a robustly supplied systemic change that this extraordinary 1.3 percent payroll tax on companies that something happens,” Mosqueda said. 10 a.m. session 2 p.m. session enforcement of paid parking on city June 24 June the warmth of this caring community food and toiletries pantry. Your cash and moment offers. spend more than $7 million in compensa- The next day, Councilmember Andrew Amendment propos- Discuss amendments streets and will not boot vehicles with un- during this difficult time, even when they in-kind donations have allowed us not As we enter the final week of the Real tion, which would raise over $500 million Lewis revealed a capital gains proposal to als; revenue/covid-19 to budget-rebalancing paid parking tickets until further notice. were unable to see you face to face. only to help our vendors, but also to de- Change Spring Fund Drive, we are thrilled annually. The tax excludes certain busi- fund affordable housing, permanent sup- ordinances vote legislation The decision lined up with Gov. Jay July 1 July Your generous support of the Vendor liver supplies to homeless encampments to report that we have less than $6,000 left nesses, like nonprofits and grocery stores. portive housing and homelessness services. 2p: Public hearing Inslee’s executive order, which also Revenue vote* Relief Fund has enabled us to provide cash throughout the city. toward meeting our essential $100,000 Accompanying legislation would try to This tax would be more narrowly tailored 3p: Rebalancing vote extended residential evictions and com- and gift cards each month to help ease the Over the past three months, volun- goal. We are incredibly grateful for the get future gains from the tax immediately and bring in less money but is not intended to mercial tenant protections through Aug. 1. July 8 July financial pain of unemployment. Thanks teers have given more than 1,100 hours of amazing support that this community to people in need. Other proceeds would go replace Mosqueda’s proposal, of which Lewis Much of city and state life have been Revenue vote* Rebalancing vote* to you, nearly 200 vendors have received their time sewing masks for our vendors consistently provides. to a “green new deal” for creating union jobs is a cosponsor. Instead, it would support Third shut down since Inslee’s March “stay-at-

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ON THE COVER 20 July our weekly paper online and directly tunity to innovate an exciting new income support to 219 1st Ave. S., Suite 220, Se- an attempt to get on the November ballot. “We need to tax wealthy individuals as but allows some businesses to reopen. n The Seattle police force has caused Full council meeting; dissension for several years. support our vendors through electronic and employment opportunity. When ven- attle, WA 98104. Thank you again for all The second, discussed in the June 17 well as corporations,” Lewis tweeted. * If no vote yet rebalancing vote Illustration by Derek Gundy. Protest donations on Venmo. Your kind generos- dors return to work this week, they are of your inspiring and heartfelt support. n budget meeting, is Councilmember Teresa The tax would levy only stocks and — Ashley Archibald photo by Mark White; see page 4. REALCHANGE REALCHANGE 4 NEWS June 24 – 30, 2020 June 24 – 30, 2020 NEWS 5 Photos by Mark White Pandemic offers scientists unprecedented chance to ‘hear’ oceans as they once were

When the covid-19 pandemic sparked an extreme economic slowdown, sending cruise ships to port and oil tankers to anchor, a group of scientists pounced in a bid to record the oceans and their inhabitants “without the cacophony of humankind.”

By MAURICE TAMMAN and one another, more easily. The 130 recording stations used by Amid the pandemic and the lock- People gathered, left and above, June 18 for a remembrance and program about racism and police Reuters Generally, the group will be look- the researchers are a hodgepodge of lo- downs that ensued, major ports in the brutality, showing Seattle Black communities have endured as Black people have all over the U.S. ing to see if the whales and other sea cations and sensitivity in that channel. Northeast of the United States, such mammals adapt to the quieter oceans Part of the planning process included as Boston, Philadelphia, New York leven years ago, environmen- by lowering their volume, communicat- identifying and recruiting partners who and Baltimore, saw a nearly 50 percent tal scientist Jesse Ausubel ing more efficiently or shifting their operate listening stations run by gov- drop in ship and boating traffic in April Seattle police killing of Charleena Lyles localizes Black- E dreamed aloud in a commence- habitats. ernments, universities, environmental compared to the same month in 2019, ment speech: What if scientists could Some of the project’s listening posts groups and other agencies. according to MarineTraffic, a ship- record the sounds of the ocean in the are connected to land via cables, but The humblest station is four kilo- tracking firm. lives protest and amasses similar stories, three years later days before propeller-driven ships and many of them are not and the record- meters off the Spanish coast and oper- Large European ports, such as boats spanned the globe? ings have to be retrieved by ships. Now ated by the Polytechnic University of Lisbon, Antwerp, Le Havre and Rot- They would listen to chit-chat be- that economies around the world are Barcelona. It records sound up to 10 terdam, saw about a 25 percent drop in By ASHLEY ARCHIBALD But reliving Lyles’ death wasn’t what The families believe law enforcement First, they want Kent, Federal Way, tween blue whales hundreds of miles reopening, the quiet oceans group has kilometers away. At the other extreme the same month, the firm said. Staff Reporter the family had come for. They came to laundered outright lies through newspa- Auburn and Renton, as well as the two apart. They would record the familiar started gathering the soundscape data. are six stations, each with multiple “I think there’ll be some variability reclaim the narrative built by incomplete pers and television programs, accepted police officers who shot Lyles, to drop chirps and clicks among a pod of dol- It won’t be until the end of the year, hydrophones, operated by the Vienna- in different places, which is quite im- media characterizations about her life, by an industry dominated by white lawsuits that are preventing a full in- phins. And they would do so without however, that the researchers will have based Comprehensive Nuclear Test portant to test this,” Tyack says. “It isn’t hree years ago, two Seattle po- to build one of their own and to call for people who don’t question police reports quest into Lyles’ death. King County the cacophony of humankind – and cleaned up the recordings and can com- Ban Treaty Organization. Those sta- really a controlled experiment, so it’s lice officers arrived at the home justice. and were looking for a story. sought to reform the inquest process, develop a better understanding of pare them to previous years for changes tions can not only pinpoint underwater better to have 50 different sites, some T of Charleena Lyles, a 30-year-old They were not alone. “When the police get done, you kill which had not been updated in 15 years, how that undersea racket has of which noise is much lower pregnant mother of four. Lyles had called The family members of 19 different their character,” said Kimberly Handy- but various cities and individuals sued. affected sea life. and some of which it isn’t, to be them — she was afraid that there was people killed during encounters with Jones on the morning of June 18. “You are the only ones who know It was a flight of fancy, more able to look at the impact of the a burglary in progress at her housing the police across the country joined Her son, Cordale Quinn-Handy, was what happened that day in that building aspirational and inspirational reduction.” complex in Sand Point. them. The Forced Trajectory Project, as shot and killed by police in St. Paul, where you snuffed out her life, and our than a plan. Still, Ausubel says he already The Seattle Police Department would they’re known, had traveled from their Minnesota, when he was 29 years old. family deserves answers,” said Katrina At first, Ausubel says, he sees anecdotal evidence that later report that Lyles — a 100-pound respective hometowns with the stories Handy-Jones started a foundation in Johnson, referencing officers Jason (very fancifully) suggested a marine mammals are changing woman, potentially experiencing a of their loved ones. They came to sup- his memory — they give headstones for Anderson and Steven McNew. year of a “quiet ocean,” during their behavior. mental health crisis — was armed with port the Lyles family, as many of them families with children lost to police and Second, they signed onto the demand which shipping would come to “There have been observa- a knife. Both officers shot, killing her in had been supported in their time of grief. community violence. They’ve distributed to defund SPD by 50 percent, a demand a halt, or at least slow down. tions near Vancouver of orcas front of three of her children. Because, as the Forced Trajectory 14 headstones since Sept. 2019. echoed by protesters in the city and a Then a month. And finally, just coming closer to the city than On June 18, close to the three-year Project says, “families are the front- To those who knew her, Charleena handful of councilmembers. a few hours. was customary, and off Scot- anniversary of her death, Lyles’ family lines.” Lyles was Leena, a cousin, sister, daugh- Finally, they want the resignation As far-fetched as even that land,” he says. gathered on a soundstage in Magnuson “I started fighting because I didn’t ter and friend. of Mayor Jenny Durkan. Durkan came was, a small fraternity of about Orcas, dolphins and hump- Park, backed by a huge image of Lyles, have a choice,” said Victor Dempsey, of “For one, Charleena loved to smile, to them before she won the 2017 may- 100 similarly curious scientists back whales, which commu- and told the hundreds of people present New York. His brother was killed on July so when you are out there chanting her oral race and promised to be different, picked up on his vision. In 2015, nicate using high-frequency to turn and look at a building across the 4 in front of Dempsey’s three-month- name, please put a smile on your face,” Johnson said. they published a plan of how to sounds that don’t travel par- street. old nephew. He reached out to grieving Isabell said. “Another thing about Char- “She lied.” conduct the International Quiet ticularly far, often congregate “See that building right behind us? families who knew the pain that he was leena, she loved to dance. She didn’t have Fred Thomas, whose son Leonard Ocean Experiment, should the in shallower waters. They may That’s where they took her out,” said going through. all of the best moves, but she would do Thomas was killed by Lakewood police, opportunity ever present itself. have moved closer to once-busy Lyles’ second cousin, Shaenae Isabell. That pain is loss, but for many of the a little something something. So, when said he did not have a demand. But he When the covid-19 pan- ports and harbors, he specu- “So, we’re going to let them know we’re families — who had held a press confer- you’re saying her name, put a little some- had a request. demic sparked an extreme lated. here today, right?” ence earlier the same day — it was also thing something something with it.” “Families are the frontline, but there economic slowdown in March, The group hopes to publish a Isabell called out, “Say her name!” watching the names and histories of As the sun dipped slowly down, hold- is no frontline without people behind sending cruise ships to port paper this summer that gathers “Charleena Lyles!” the crowd boomed their loved ones dragged through the ing stubbornly onto the June sky, the us,” Thomas said. and oil tankers to anchor, they anecdotal reports of changes REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson back, their voices reaching across the media, distorted into caricatures that night air was filled with remembrances In that moment, surrounded by hun- mobilized. Last month, they observed in recent months. At field, past the road to the building Lyles they could not recognize. of Lyles, an ode to George Floyd and dreds of people, it seemed like someone finished cobbling together an An empty shipping dock in the Port of Los Angeles, California, as the global outbreak of covid-19 continues, April the end of the year, a group led called home. There’s little chance some- The drip, drip, drip of public docu- calls for change. The family has very was now, finally behind them. n array of 130 underwater hydro- 16, 2020. The Port of Seattle also scaled down while maintaining “critical Port facilities and operations.” by Tyack will report how much one inside wouldn’t have heard it. ments that show people at their worst. specific demands. phone listening stations around the volume went down. And fi- the world – including six stations that in human and animal noise alike. nuclear explosions anywhere on the nally, next year, the researchers aim to had been set up to monitor underwater The focus of the serendipitous proj- planet, but also eavesdrop on whales publish a full analysis of how the reduc- nuclear tests. ect is on the so-called SOFAR (Sound an ocean away. tion in sound changed the behavior of “Well, we’re not excited that covid Fixing and Ranging) channel, a natu- Ausubel, the director of the Pro- marine mammals and other marine life. happened, but we’re happy to be able to rally occurring ocean stratum in which gram for the Human Environment at “What did the pre-industrial ocean take advantage of the scientific oppor- sound can travel long distances. New York’s Rockefeller University, says sound like,” Tyack says, “and how are tunity,” says Peter Tyack, a professor of It’s where large baleen and fin he and his fellow dreamers were ready, marine ecosystems going to respond marine mammal biology at the Univer- whales sing for a lover or join in a even if their plan seemed unrealistic. to that?” n sity of St. Andrews in Scotland and one friendly chorus. But it’s also where “We spent a lot of time planning: of the early instigators. “It would have the human racket from fishing boats, How would you try to set up this kind Courtesy of Reuters / INSP.ngo just been impossible any other way.” tankers and motorboats, as well as oil of study, even though we realized that Tyack says the recordings should rigs and wind turbines, gets trapped it wasn’t really practical?” give scientists a never-before glimpse and then propagated around the world. But the plan, Ausubel says, antici- of the ocean with little human interfer- Sound waves travel farther and pated moments of opportunity such as ence. It’s a bit like looking at the night faster in water than in the air. That’s an extreme weather event, not a pan- CORRECTION sky if most of the world’s lights were especially true of the bass notes of demic. In last week’s issue, RC June 17, 2020, turned off. a whale’s song, the low grinding of a “Immediately after a hurricane or we misstated Marsh P. Johnson’s He says some research suggests ship’s shaft, even the rumble of a nucle- a typhoon, it’s very quiet for a day or participation in the fight for GLBTQ large whales have adapted to man- ar explosion. Those sounds can travel two because of the fear of large waves rights. Johnson was not a founder of made noises by raising their voices and hundreds or even thousands of miles, or storms,” he says. “Fishermen don’t the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) but their pitch. He speculates that many bending around the planet by bouncing go out to sea; shipping routes are was instead a member of the group The crowd alternatively stood and sat, above, during the memorial program scheduled for 6 to 9 p.m. that species also have moved to quieter re- up and down in the SOFAR channel, a changed; oil and gas platforms may be and joined later. The GLF founders surrounded a stage, left, in northeast Seattle’s Magnuson Park near Lyles’ home. gions of the world so they can find food, kilometer-deep band of water. shut down.” include Martha Shelley and Karla Jay. REALCHANGE REALCHANGE 6 REALCHANGEJune 24 –FEATURE 30, 2020 June 24 – 30, June2020 24 – 30, 2020 7

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The space in and around chop is being used for community and protest, left. Discussion circles are springing up, and people are leaving chairs in circles and with signs marking them as discussion cafes, above.

same incidents. economic demands, demands for defund- People are dancing, medi- As protests continued for over a week, ing the police and investing in Health and tating and otherwise hold- the Seattle Community Police Commis- Human services and demands around the ing space at Cal Anderson sion and other community leaders met educational system. Black Lives Matter Park, above. People are HOLDING SPACE with Mayor Jenny Durkan and Police Seattle-King County and King County Eq- also making their way The paradox of chop is social justice in many factions Chief Carmen Best, urging them to call uity Now also have a long list of demands along Pine Street, below. for police officers to stop using non-lethal that overlap. The demands call to dis- By KAMNA SHASTRI | Staff Reporter weaponry, including teargas and flash- mantle structures that have divested from bang grenades, and not to suit up in riot and detracted from Black communities: gear. Even after Best banned the use of Defund and abolish the police department, n a Sunday afternoon within the Capitol Hill Organized Protest tear gas, police sprayed protesters with ban armed force, end the school-prison (chop), Angel is stationed at the No-Cop Co-Op. The co-op is filled another type of gas that same evening. pipeline and provide reparations for those It came as a surprise to civilians when who have suffered at the hands of police O to the brim with food, Gatorade, water, blankets, toilet paper, SPD pulled out of the East Precinct build- brutality, among many more specifically tampons and face masks so that protesters and people in the zone have the ing, boarding up windows and removing worded demands. personal and pricey items. By the evening Additional demands to the city are to materials they need. The scent of hot dogs grilling mingles with pancakes of June 8, the line of officers facing an “degentrify” Seattle through rent control on a griddle. “It’s beautiful,” Angel said. “I just hope people can sustain this.” endless sea of protest had disappeared. and giving back spaces to Black com- Protesters proclaimed the area “Free munity in the Central District and create The co-op has a sign inviting people to send pizzas to chop if they can’t be Capitol Hill” and shifted the spatial layout an alternative to 911 calls that would be there in person. Angel takes several Domino’s boxes to distribute to people to facilitate community-led interactions. staffed by mental health specialists to respond to crises. Finally, the document Street blockades are set up where Pine intersects with north-south streets and alleys, in the area looking for lunch. She said that two weeks ago, she couldn’t have Demands concludes that “the history of Black and from 10th Avenue to 12th, like this one guarded by Oberon. imagined something like chop. “It’s weird — me and lots of other people of chop — initially called the Capitol Hill Native Americans be given a significantly Autonomous Zone/chaz — grew out of an greater focus in the Washington State edu- Salisbury, the citizen journalist, ob- Rapid change color say they were starting to hate people before. I’m smiling at everyone now.” urgent need to mobilize around police of- cation curriculum,” and anti-bias training serves, however, that the lack of central- On the early morning of Saturday, June ficers’ excessive use of force against Black should become a mainstay in all industries ized leadership could be problematic “be- 20, around 2 a.m., after a night of celebrat- Since its conception, chop has been patterned Black Lives Matter statement people, a symptom of institutional racism and professions. cause the police, city — they do not know ing Juneteenth, Salisbury’s livestream portrayed as an autonomous zone, seced- within the first week of chop cropping up. and biased policing. Alongside the rest of who to negotiate with.” broke the news of a shooting that took the ing from the state, as portrayed by sensa- Citizen journalist and Converge Media the nation, protesters demanded to defund chop controversy While streets have been cordoned life of one person and left another in critical tionalist media coverage around the United founder Omari Salisbury has been report- and even abolish the police. While President Trump’s tweets and off with cement and plywood barricades condition. By late Saturday afternoon, the States from outlets like The Hill and Fox ing about the protests every day for weeks, A simple look at the city of Seattle’s national media have characterized the leaving room for homegrown interactions, SPD blotter had posted police body-cam News. It is a constantly evolving space live-streaming meetings and documenting 2020 budget shows that the margin be- area as some kind of a lawless state, it is many people in support of the anti-racist footage of a group of officers responding and a challenging story to cover. But on the rapidly changing movement since it tween funding for public safety and funding nothing close to that. Salisbury said that movement and other organizations in- to the situation. By the time police had ar- the ground, and through candid footage began in early June. “You could get five for human services is vast. The 2020 ad- on any given day, there is nothing out of the volved are concerned that the party-like rived, the victims had already been taken on social media, the chop appears to be a people with five opinions, and they are all opted budget for the Seattle Police Depart- ordinary. But, recent shootings marred the atmosphere is distracting from the press- to Harborview Medical Center in private grassroots, organic ecosystem of commu- right,” he said, noting how the chop has ment stands at $409,111,751, as compared sense of stability. ing demands. Mainly, to defund the police vehicles, according to Salisbury’s report- nity springing from the seeds of protests. an amalgamation of people, priorities and to $235,999,578 adopted for the Human Currently chop has no centralized and bring equity to Black communities who ing. One victim, a 19-year-old Black man, There’s Conversation Cafe, one of many groups who have grounded themselves in Services Department. While SPD funds leadership — which is seen as a way either have been systematically underserved and died. No suspects have been identified as book clubs and discussion groups, and the space. go toward police personnel and operating to sustain the movement or hamper it, de- under resourced due to institutional racism of this writing. spaces for Black, Indigenous and people of The barricaded stretch of Pine looks costs specifically around the goal of public pending on who you ask. in every area of public life. Later Saturday, Cal Anderson Park was color (BIPOC) to connect and hold space like a social justice block party that has safety, Human Services has to handle a “I’ve seen people show up without a In an effort to re-center Black voices full of discussion circles organizing around for one another. had free admission since SPD’s abandon- long list of services including harm reduc- leader telling them to show up,” said for- at chop and remind people what this better safety methods for the protest area. There are idea boards where people ment of the East Precinct building at 12th tion, housing and rent services, community mer mayoral candidate Nikkita Oliver on a movement is about, organizers spear- One man stood at the center of the play- can write their visions for justice on sticky Avenue. The cops’ retreat from there was building and youth services for a fraction video posted on Twitter, noting that people headed a Juneteenth Blackout at chop field with a bull horn calling out “anybody notes and post them on walls and several preceded by more than a week of protests of SPD’s operating expenses. This inequity have come bearing supplies, food and medi- with space for healing and celebrating that has any topics for conversation that memorials for George Floyd and the mul- against police brutality. Thousands filled is at the center of the chop’s main demand: cal equipment of their own accord. Black community. “What we need from wants to figure out how we can continue titude hurt by racism and police violence. Pine and 11th and 12th every evening in Defund the police and redistribute that “I think one of the things that killed our non-black allies are donations of to move forward positively needs to be There is even a bell-ringing station, where this mixed residential-commercial area. money to community and social services. the civil rights movement was that we money and supplies and the willingness in this discussion right here.” Volunteers people write down their ideas and ring the Protesters were met daily by uses of force Under a damp night sky on June 8, kept having figureheads as opposed to to support by quietly protecting sacred followed, gathering in a wide circle at the bells attached to others’ ideas they agree from the police, including tear gas and rub- after the police by and large left the East diffused leadership,” Oliver continued, space for black healing,” the Facebook center of the field. with. ber bullets. Over the span of the protests, Precinct, Black people spoke out, referenc- “so when those figureheads were assas- event page stated. The day’s events in- On Sunday, a Twitter account called Art has cropped up everywhere, and the SPD Office of Police Accountability ing a list of 30 specific demands. Posted sinated by the U.S., it was easy to kill our cluded yoga, meditation, grief ceremonies Voices of chop posted a widely circulated the stretch of Pine Street between 11th and received over 17,000 individual reports of on Medium.com, the demands are in four movement and we settled for civil rights and sound healing. 12th avenues was adorned with a colorful, police misconduct — many of them for the categories: changes to the justice system, over human rights.” See CAP HILL Continued on Page 12 REALCHANGE REALCHANGE 8 FEATURE June 24 – 30, 2020 June 24 – 30, 2020 OPINION 9

AUTHOR INTERVIEW: ‘Sacred Ground: The Chicago Streets of Timuel Black’ THE MIDDLE GROUND | By Sam Day By Timuel Black | Northwestern University Press | January 2019 | 216 pages | $24.95 Notes from El Noroeste

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Structural racism is killing people in our communities hese last few weeks I cringed as I awaited erasure as our society, T afflicted with perpetual amne- sia, forgets this moment and allows it to reemerge later. Like clockwork, anger manifests over the killing of yet another person of color. A damn pandemic did little to deter state-sanctioned violence from happening yet again. Mass dem- onstrations in favor of police account- ability arose in many cities, and it is true Photos courtesy of StreetWise, Chicago that we have to take all precautions to Left, Mama (Mattie Hardin McConner Black) and Daddy (Timuel Dixon Black). Center, Timuel Black in the 1956 yearbook of Roosevelt High School in Gary, Indiana, one of his first ensure that all who participate are able teaching jobs. Black taught social science and introduced Black history. Right, Black’s wife, Zenobia Johnson Black. They met while campaigning for Harold Washington in 1982. to do so in the safest way possible given our current reality as we grapple with a global pandemic. Demonstrators admit that there is a fear of contagion, and de- CHICAGO’S ANTECEDENTS spite this fear, untimely death resulting from police violence continues unabated In his book, ‘Sacred Ground: The Chicago Streets of Timuel Black,’ the historian provides accounts throughout the United States. of Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood from the Great Migration to the present. Indeed, a long-standing and unad- dressed pandemic of structural racist Black’s Bronzeville is rich with music, community and activism. violence is what is killing many people of color — and African Americans especial- By SUZANNE HANNEY that it was said a musician could just hold didn’t start singing until he left Chicago their bands,” Black tells me. “Yes, it was a ly. These are also communities that are StreetWise, Chicago a cornet in the air and it would play itself. In with the big bands, when he had to make talent search, and the search was concen- disproportionately impacted by covid-19. the days before air conditioning, there was a living in California. It wasn’t that he trated. Most of the African Americans of Institutional violence via police brutal- ronzeville is sacred ground to his- not only music in the air, but also coming didn’t like school. When he would come the period had formal musical training in Dungarees are funny even ity is a cause for public health concern torian and social anthropologist out of neighbors’ windows, Black recalled. back to Chicago for any reason, he would symphonic and classical music, but since in many of our communities. One can B Timuel Black — not so much for its In 1927, the opening of the Savoy Ballroom stop at DuSable and talk about his experi- they couldn’t get jobs in Chicago, they follow proper protocol, maintain spatial brick and mortar but for its oral histories, at 47th and South Parkway (later known as ences there.” turned their talent to jazz and blues. Benny when nothing else is distancing, wear a face cover and still be its networking and its music. The music, Dr. Martin Luther King Drive) moved the Dyett had been attending Illinois Goodman also came looking for talented at risk of summary execution based on he explained, is “jazz with an African beat entertainment area farther south. School of Medicine when he started per- musicians for his racial orchestra.” one’s skin tone. and a European melody line that affirms The school system itself reinforced the forming with local orchestras led by Ers- Black’s other DuSable contempo- here’s been a lot of good news into the firing decision, that violates Title The situation is so dire that the King we are all sharing this Earth together and music culture, thanks to Captain Walter kine Tate at the Vendome Theatre and by raries, meanwhile, included Ebony maga- lately, but I’m having trouble find- VII. It’s only about sex to Gorsuch, but the County Public Health Board has declared that there is no monopoly on joy.” Dyett, first at Wendell Phillips and then Carroll Dickerson to help pay family medi- zine publisher John Johnson, realtor/ T ing any humor in it. way he applies his misunderstanding lets racism a public health crisis. This is by Black, who is now 101, came up from at DuSable High School. Between 1931 cal expenses, according to his archive at author Dempsey Travis and the Rev. The end of the Aunt Jemima pancake Adventures transgender anti-discrimination rulings no means an exaggeration. According to Birmingham, Alabama, as a baby with his and 1961, Dyett trained more than 20,000 the University of Chicago. Dyett finally left Abraham Patterson, pastor of Liberty syrup brand is good news, but it’s hardly in Irony stand. a National Vital Statistics Report from parents shortly after the race riots of 1919 musicians, including vocalist Dinah Wash- medical school and worked as a musician Baptist Church. funny in itself. What might be funny I see humor in that only because I’m 2017, non-Hispanic Black males had the intensified segregation in the neighbor- ington, saxophonists Gene Ammons and for a decade before he was hired at Phillips World War II began on Black’s 23rd would be if Aunt Jemima was replaced Dr. Wes Browning a mathematician and I’ve taken courses lowest life expectancy at 71.5 versus non- hood, which meant that residents were Von Freeman, drums/multireed player in 1931. He later received bachelor’s and birthday: Dec. 7, 1941. He served with an by a smiling Ward Cleaver. The humor in advanced mathematical logic from a Hispanic white males at 76.1. A 2019 Na- forced to develop their own businesses and Joseph Jarman and pianist/vocalist Nat master’s degrees in music and served on Army supply unit that landed on the beach is what we’ll have when we see what the “Foreign children brought here at an early certain constantly giggling, near-sighted tional Center for Health Statistics Report to rely on each other. When he was growing “King” Cole. both the Black musicians’ Local AFM 208 at Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944. A new brand is. Maybe a glob of syrup with age, who learn English and assimilate to professor who kept saying “The trick is also presented higher mortality rates for up in the 1920s and 1930s, “Bronzeville was Black sat alphabetically in front of and then the merged AFM Local 10-208. He visit to the Nazi concentration camp at eyes and a mouth and a spoon feeding on American culture and values and prin- to just turn the proof-tree upside-down! non-Hispanic Black adults aged 25 and a place of much poverty and some wealth, Cole at Wendell Phillips and then DuSable, acquired the “Captain” title as bandmaster Buchenwald in central Germany in 1945 itself? That might make me laugh if it were ciples, shouldn’t get to work here, or they Hahahaha!” while his assistant (his wife), over from 2000-2017. The common theme a center for music and sports, and a terrain until Cole dropped out of school during for the Eighth Regiment Infantry Band of was a life-changing event. Nearly 250,000 done tastefully. will only make people like me look bad.” in dungarees, danced around and drew is that in both papers, African American where demonstrations could break out at junior year in 1934. Cole had been playing the Illinois National Guard. people had been imprisoned at Buchen- It looks like Aunt Jemima will be fol- In more good but unnerving news, the proof-tree right-side-up and then adults have not only higher mortality any time,” according to Black’s archive, the piano until early in the mornings at a Saxophonist Jimmy Ellis said in wald — Afro-Germans, ethnic minorities, lowed by Uncle Ben, Mrs. Butterworth the U.S. Supreme Court has seemingly upside-down for us to see side-by-side on rates, but lower life expectancy as well. which is held at the Carter G. Woodson club to help support his family. However, Black’s earlier book, “Bridges of Memory: homosexuals and Jews — and nearly all and the Cream of Wheat chef holding a prohibited LGBTQ discrimination in the the blackboard, all while laughing hysteri- The cumulative effect of structural regional library. because of restrictive covenants that Chicago’s First Wave of Black Migration,” had died of disease and starvation, as a steaming bowl of cream of wheat. That’s workplace. The ruling is very complex, cally. I took that course twice. The exact racism is deadly and police violence is a “Even when the Depression was at its prevented Blacks from moving out of that Dyett’s students were already good result of medical experiments or execu- all positive, but being as these are all prod- perhaps because Justice Neil Gorsuch is same course. Voluntarily. It was rich. microcosm of this larger structural dis- worst, the sense of poverty never seemed the community, DuSable was extremely musicians by the time they graduated: tion. Black was overwhelmed by the smell ucts of mega-corporations, I dread any surprisingly complex. Gorsuch says Title To me, logic is inherently funny, as advantage. Social determinants of health that overwhelming,” Black wrote in “Sa- overcrowded and adopted double and “[Dyett] had the awareness to know that, and by the sight of the remaining skeletal new branding. Remember the Marlboro VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 applies is its absence. No one should lose a job play a defining role, as do access to food, cred Ground,” as told to Susan Klonsky, triple shifts: Cole was assigned to an 8 ‘Hey, I don’t care if you don’t like me. If prisoners. Man? They trotted him out to sell filtered to biological sex and only biological sex. because of someone else’s ignorant logic. housing, employment, education and edited by Bart Schultz and published last a.m. school day instead of one that began you want to play the horn, then you’ve After coming home to a segregated cigarettes. Not blue jeans, not boots, but A classic conservative stance. But then, I’ve learned to accept whatever rea- health care, which are critical to quality year. “We always lived in and around fairly at 9:30 or 10 a.m. got to practice and do what I say.’ Total Chicago, Black earned a bachelor’s degree filtered cigarettes. There’s always some he goes rococo on that theme. It goes like soning justifies progress, equality or doing of life. To address this emergency, it must prosperous neighbors: among doctors, law- “Our division teacher refused to let discipline was required. And you’ve not in history from Roosevelt University and a psychological hook intended. Look: a man, this: Let’s say you have someone working what’s right. be openly acknowledged as fact. yers, railway porters and postal workers.” that happen,” Black said, as we talked only got to be able to play the music — it’s master’s degree in sociology and anthro- unquestionably male, smoking filtered for you who has presented as female and King County is now in Phase 2 of re- Healing goes beyond simply prac- The Great Migration of African Ameri- via phone. “He said, ‘You didn’t come here also how you looked, how you dressed: pology from the University of Chicago. He cigarettes. You should, too. What will they begins to present as male. You can’t fire opening from the coronavirus lockdown. ticing self-care as it is often imagined cans from the South during World War I to play music; you came here to learn.’ everything. ‘Whatever you’re doing, if it’s taught at DuSable, his alma mater, and at try to do to get us eating pancake syrup the person based on that. Gorsuch says if I have no idea how that decision was with vacations and beauty treatments. meant that the area between 22nd and 55th [Cole’s] father was so disappointed, but not in order, get out of here.’” Farragut and Hyde Park High Schools. He consisting of high fructose corn? Madison the person had been read by you as male reached. Yesterday we thought it would It delves into deeper understanding of streets doubled in population between 1910 it was a practical fact in those days that Black recalled that he had always won- was an assistant director for the federal Avenue will have to work overtime on that. at the outset, and then came out as male, be another week at least, and suddenly accountability for historic injustices and and 1920, with small families crammed money was very important to the welfare dered how anyone could stay in Dyett’s Chicago Teacher Corps and a dean and In other good news, daca is back alive they wouldn’t have been fired. Therefore, the county’s application for Phase 2 was brings with it an intentional mending of into kitchenette apartments. Mom-and- of the family, so Cole dropped out of class, yet students would beg to get back vice president for academic affairs at after the Trump administration tried to firing the person for being transgender accepted. I don’t know what changed. It’s these wrongs. This can be seen through pop stores provided first jobs for teenage school. I said to myself, ‘My god, how is he in after Dyett had kicked them out. Wright College and Olive Harvey College, kill it, because John Roberts joined with would amount to discriminating against all good, though. I’ll take it. a truth and reconciliation process; the delivery boys. So-called “Pearl’s Kitchens” going to make it?’ He was not singing then In addition to leading various bands respectively. the four liberals at the Supreme Court and someone for being female. Please, if you’re seeing this online, removal of structural impediments — independent restaurants — created because he played piano with younger at the school in the daytime, Dyett wrote As a teachers’ union activist, Black ruled that the administration hadn’t been At no point does Gorsuch validate know that our vendors are getting back to that limit equal access to education, places for conversations to be held between people like Dorothy Donegan and Dinah and arranged music for the singing, danc- was elected president of the local Negro killing it according to the rules. You can’t transgender people, at least not as far as selling the print version. Look for and sup- workplace and health resources; and people as seemingly far apart as gamblers Washington, who could sing. He was such ing and skits in the annual Hi-Jinks show, American Labor Council (NALC), which just kill government programs willy-nilly, Title VII is concerned. In his transphobic port them. It’s been about three months of of course, reparations, which will help and preachers. a fantastic pianist that when we were hav- which he would rehearse at night. was headed nationally by A. Phillip Ran- it turns out. You have to have reasons, and view, the person was and is a woman, but barely hanging on for them. n meet immediate material needs. We are And always, there was music. In the ing teachers’ meetings, we had a piano in “Hi-Jinks was a community event and dolph, who picked him to be the Chicago they have to be good reasons. As before, cannot be fired for expressing otherwise in a state of emergency as one pandemic 1910s and 1920s, “The Stroll” — as State almost every room, and we would put a bandleaders would come, like Cab Callo- coordinator for the 1963 March on Wash- I dread the next step. What will the good if a man can announce his masculinity and Sound off to Dr. Wes: takes hold. I hope the other one that has Street between 26th and 39th streets was card on the door and charge people who way and Duke Ellington, in order to find reasons end up looking like? He’d say, not be fired. If the person’s “sex” entered [email protected] been so deeply imbedded in our society known — was so thick with nightclubs wanted to hear Nat “King” Cole play. He some of these young musicians to be in See SACRED Continued on Page 11 is not forgotten. n REALCHANGE REALCHANGE 10 CROSSWORD/CALENDAR June 24 – 30, 2020 June 24 – 30, 2020 FEATURE 11 62 Mustachioed painter of limp watches SACRED Continued from Page 8 Shore, Hyde Park or Kenwood — and Working Those Quads 63 Letter-shaped opening (1-4) Puzzle by Patrick “Mac” McIntyre 64 Stink to high heaven that’s just what Black and other returning IN MEMORIAM | DANIEL LONG 65 “Sad to say ...” ington, where Dr. Martin Luther King veterans did after World War II when they ACROSS delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. wanted to start families. 1 Indiana menacers DOWN Black wrote in “Sacred Ground” that, as An unintended effect of this new mobil- 1 P e n n y ____ 5 First year law student, informally (or the an activist, he needed the leadership of ity, however, was that “now young people 2 What sailors and beachgoers breathe (2 difference between a Tibetan priest and wds.) (3,3) someone like King. in Bronzeville were not growing up with an Andean pack animal?) (2 wds.) (3,1) 3 Royal home “He articulated the feeling that many of doctors and lawyers and other successful 9 Rival of ancient Sparta 4 A moisturized thud 14 Gather, as the harvest us carried from our childhood to our young people around them, the way I did,” Black 5 Oil cartel (Abbr./Acron.) 15 Liver spread adulthood: ‘I’m tired of the segregation,’ as wrote in “Sacred Ground.” “Those success- 6 International defense acronym 16 2016 Disney film set in Polynesia Rosa Parks said. ful people were moving out. My generation 7 Words to a traitor (2,2) (Lat.) 17 Word after “cold” or “prank” 8 Rough shelter with a uni-sloped roof (4-2) “By that time, I had been in World could have done more to welcome those 18 Jazz singer ___ James 9 Aggregate, as wealth War II and had seen what can happen to later arrivals from the South.” 19 “Jeez, what a bummer!” (2 wds.) (2,3) 10 Fraternity ____ (off-campus housing, 20 Financial and membership records for human beings shooting each other. I had What did he wish the Great Migration’s maybe) national drivers’ assistance grp. (2 wds.) seen Buchenwald and had the feeling that first wave had done for those who came 11 Carefully thought-out strategy (2 wds.) (3,8) (incls. abbr.) across race lines we were going to return North in the 1940s and ’50s? (4,4) 23 Word-saving Lat. abbreviation 12 Drunkenly reveling (3 wds.) (2,1,4) home and bring about peace on Earth. Dr. “We integrated too fast,” Black says, in 24 Obiter ____ (incidental remark in a 13 Mass part that means “holy” in Latin King articulated those feelings so early our telephone interview. “An example of judicial opinion) (Lat.) 21 Pods containing beans used to make 25 Old slang for a habitual drunkard in my teaching career. I heard this hand- solidarity continuing despite class is China- chocolate substitute 27 Before, in verse some young man from a very upper class town. They continued to have their political 22 Little piggy 28 Pistol, in old gangster flick slang African American family identify his tired- and economic base despite the fact they had 26 Luxurious sheet material 32 Surname of the only M.L.B. brother trio 29 Poet’s planet ness with the opportunity for equality and been isolated since the 1890s.” to play in the outfield 30 Man’s name that’s an alphabet run so I went South for the various marches. Just the same, the networking came 33 German dessert (OTTER anagram) 31 Instruments for Yo Yo Ma and Pablo 34 Hat-trick and a hole in one, essentially He was an inspiration because he was together for the election of Harold Wash- Casals (Ital. pl. ending) 35 Alert issued by national consumer universal.” ington as the first African American mayor 33 New York strip alternative complaint processing grp. (2 wds.) (3,8) President Lyndon Johnson had encour- of Chicago in 1983. Washington was a few 34 “Sophie’s Choice” Oscar winner 38 Open faced sandwiches often spotted in 35 Baseball head shot? aged Dr. King to bring his campaign to a years younger than Black, another DuSable school lunchrooms 36 Neck wreath Northern city in order to break housing graduate and a returning World War II vet 4 0 L i v e a n d ____ 37 Consume food 41 Indian bread segregation, Black said. One of Black’s own who also attended Roosevelt University 38 Like one declining to 37-Down, perhaps 42 Member of the 2nd largest branch of DuSable classmates, the Rev. Patterson with Black. (3 wds.) (2,1,4) Islam of Liberty Baptist Church, had been a few When Mayor Richard J. Daley died in 39 Holiday Inn competitors SOLUTION 44 Bit of butter 42 “____’em, boy!” (canine attack directive) years ahead of Dr. King at Morehouse Col- 1977 after 21 years in office and Ald. Wilson 47 Condition that may be retrograde or 43 High-tech firewall invader lege and particularly wanted him to bring Frost, the Black president pro tem of the selective (MAIN SEA anagram) What’s in 44 “____ Fear” (1996 Richard Gere/Edward 49 Home planet his mission to Chicago. Chicago City Council, was kept out of the a Name? Norton legal drama) 51 The ____ Four (early Beatles sobriquet) Black was also among those who en- mayor’s seat, Blacks began to seek more 45 Number one Hun June 17 Issue 52 Home base for workers enlisted into couraged King to come to Chicago in 1966 power, Black wrote. 46 Grad student’s big paper (HEISTS a nationwide New Deal employment anagram) to help tenants organize against slums, In 1982, Washington agreed to run — if Donate an old car to program (2 wds.) (3,8) Solutions to 48 Bloodhound’s guide although he had misgivings about the dan- the community could register 50,000 new 56 “You snooze, you lose,” e.g. this week’s 50 Carne ____ (Taco option) REAL CHANGE 58 Laker legend Bryant ger. Dr. King was hit in the head by a rock voters and raise $100,000. 5 3 ___ s l a w puzzle 59 French friends during a fair housing march in Marquette Black and Renault Robinson, the Daniel Long, a Real Change leader 54 Ready and willing’s partner will appear 60 Place where locks get changed and dos Park on the southwest side. It was a level founder of the Afro-American Patrolmen’s 1.877.537.5277 55 Docile in the are done? of violence he said he had not even seen League, visited Ed Gardner, the founder By BRIDGET MOUNTAIN just like he promised. But like most of realchangenews.org/index.php/site/giving 57 Moo ___ gai pan next issue. 61 Fashion monthly in the South. and owner of Soft Sheen hair products, Contributing Writer the vendors at Real Change, as soon as “There were people who were white whose wife was a DuSable grad, and he lost his job in trade labor, he couldn’t Calendar compiled by Michelle Galluzzo. Got something we should know and Black and Asian who could support Dr. Gardner committed $250,000. Johnson “I don’t give up,” is the motto that continue to pay for his apartment and about? Email it to [email protected]. The deadline for calendar King’s nonviolent resistance in the South, Publishing’s John Johnson and real estate Daniel Long used to live by. If you knew was booted out. He ended up at a shelter Streaming to stay sane submissions is nine days prior to the date of publication. but they were not going to do that in the magnate Dempsey Travis raised $1 million Daniel, you were sure of two things: in Seattle and his friend Brenda decided Events for optimal physical distancing North,” Black explained. “They were not more from smaller Black businesses: car He would defend his opinion even if he to bring him into Real Change. On his going to take a beating and not retaliate. dealers, gas station owners, insurance knew he was wrong just to be right, and first day there, he met the love of his June 28 Amanda Panda Morgan and Marco open to all, whether you’re wanting to have underlying conditions or are Marquette Park and Cicero would be too executives. With support from Hispanic he loved country music. He would blare life, Darcie. Farroni and be hosted by Dani Tirrell write a blog post or an essay. All words pregnant, etc.) you can head to the violent against Dr. King.” leaders like Jesus “Chuy” Garcia and Luis his speakers full of Kenny Chesney, Luke “We used to fight like cats and dogs Bookin’ Around Greenwood and The Congregation. An accom- have power. Hugo House and Otuonye market at 3 p.m. as that hour will be Nevertheless, Black said that he didn’t Gutiérrez, and white community organiz- Bryan and even some old school Johnny and even though we weren’t together at Scavenger Hunt plished dancer, performer, choreogra- will be hosting multiple sessions; you dedicated to you. This is a great op- think another northern city could have ers like Slim Coleman and Helen Shiller on Cash so the whole neighborhood could the end of her life, I always watched out Phinney Neighborhood Association & The pher and dance educator, Dani’s work can sign up for one or more at the link. portunity to be in the community and given Dr. King a better outcome: “He would the North Side, Washington beat the white, hear. Even if it got him in trouble. for her. When she died the week after my Seattle Public Library, Greenwood; 7 a.m.–9 currently focuses on queer, gender support it and get delicious produce. not have had the kind of support from the Republican candidate for mayor. Daniel grew up in Olympia. He spent birthday (October 2018), I was heartbro- non-conforming and Black experience. p.m., free: tinyurl.com/yadekze7 Tukwila Village Farmers Market leadership — political and religious — in Black’s role had been to help craft all of his childhood in foster care. “I ken,” Daniel said. Without Darcie taking Greenwood residents and friends, get Food Innovation Network, 14350 Tukwila any other city that he had in Chicago.” Washington’s platform and to organize was raised here in Washington; all my him under her wings and showing him excited for the book scavenger hunt! July 5 International Blvd., Tukwila; 4–7 p.m., free: Dr. King’s 1966 campaign ended with a young people to carry out voter registra- life I was in foster care and was in 21 the ropes, Daniel wouldn’t have been as The Seattle Public Library and Phin- July 1 tinyurl.com/y8782lwz ney Neighborhood Association have Baking For Kids And Teens — summit in which the Mortgage Bankers tion. In the process, he met, courted and different homes,” Daniel said. As soon dedicated to the Real Change community The Tukwila farmers market provides teamed up to create an awesome, all- Reading Through It Book Club: By Teens Association agreed to make loans regard- married Zenobia Johnson, “the lasting love as he turned 18, he was put out on the as he was. fresh produce and a great community 4–5 p.m., Zoom, free: tinyurl.com/ycv8eyka ages hunt around the neighborhood. ‘The Fire Next Time’ less of race, and city officials agreed to of my life,” who had been on Washington’s street. Since then Daniel was on and In 2003, Daniel went back to school Third Place Books, 7–8 p.m., Zoom with vibe. The produce is grown by im- Treats by Ash is offering a live baking Over 25 book-cover posters will be build housing of limited height. However, congressional housing task force. off the street his entire adult life. When and got his GED. This past year, he de- registration, free: tinyurl.com/y7xymp27 migrants and refugees. The market session for kids and teens to follow placed in local businesses, and all you by March 1967, Dr. King called a press The cycle that started with Washing- Daniel didn’t have anywhere to go, one cided to go to online college and study Third Place Books and The South accepts snap benefits and will double along. Hosts Ashleen (14 years old) and have to do is snap pics or jot down the conference to say that city officials had ton’s election continued with the election of his past foster moms offered for him graphic design. He was always dedicated Seattle Emerald are joining to host a them with snap Market Match. Public Taran (6 years old) make the lesson titles and where you found them. At virtual book club about “The Fire Next health and safety protocols will be ideal for kids even vaguely interested reneged — this is according to Dr. King’s of Carol Moseley Braun as the first Afri- to crash on her couch down in Portland to taking care of others and bettering the end of the day, submit what you Time” by James Baldwin, a non-fiction followed, so all visitors please come in baking. Jokes, trivia and lots of info archives at Stanford University. can American woman senator and then until he could get on his feet. That didn’t himself for them. Daniel had a streak in found for a chance to win a gift certifi- book of two essays that focus on race with face coverings. There will also will be incorporated through the one- World War II and the 1950s had brought the election of Barack Obama as the first work out and Daniel couldn’t find work him that made him protective of his com- cate to a local business. All you need relations in the context of our society, be hand-sanitizing stations as well as hour session, and you will have baked a second wave of the Great Migration. Just Black president, Black said. He is proud long enough to sustain him. So he moved munity and especially his Real Change to enter is three book-cover sightings history and religion. The book can be coordinated exit/entrances and crowd good in the end! Details forthcoming at as with the first wave, war prevented Eu- that the Obama Presidential Library is to Texas. community. “I take care of the people — the more you find, though, the more purchased from Third Place Books; regulation. If you’re at high risk (60+, the link. Prep your kitchen. entries you’ll get. This is a great way to ropean immigration, so jobs in steel mills, coming to the South Side, although he Daniel’s plan was to soak up the around me,” Daniel said. whether you’ve read the book or not, explore the neighborhood and prime stockyards and war production had to be admits that he wished its location was not country music and work on the shrimp When the Real Change community you are welcome to join this discussion for the reopening of public libraries. filled domestically. Mechanization had Jackson Park but Washington Park, “where boats. “I went to work on the shrimp found out that Daniel had died, it didn’t about one of Baldwin’s many endlessly begun to reduce the number of farm jobs Michelle Obama and I helped her husband, boats and ended up going in the opposite come as a huge surprise that it was de- relevant and enlightening works. available in the South and Blacks were ea- and where Harold Washington and Carol direction. I went to prison. When they fending a woman from a man. When Dan- June 29 ger to leave racial discrimination behind, Moseley Braun were inspired by the leader- say don’t mess with Texas, they mean iel saw actions he didn’t think were okay, When You Move/ I Move: The Black Lives Matter Write-In according to the Smithsonian Institution’s ship in the area around Washington Park.” it,” Daniel said. Daniel spent 15 years he always saw it as his moral obligation Conversation with Katrina Otuonye American Experience website. “Change is going to come. What role down in the prison system in Texas and to help, even if it put his life in danger. Hugo House, 5:30–6:45 p.m., register at 3–5 p.m., Facebook Live, donations encour- This second wave, however, “had been will you play?” Black asked, as a closing promised his cell mate that within six Daniel was someone you could hear link, free: tinyurl.com/y8y2rbxf aged: tinyurl.com/ycqykxpc deprived of the opportunity to get a good thought before our conversation ended. months of getting out, he would have an coming a mile away, with or without his Looking for a way to process the cur- Several acclaimed BIPOC dancers will education, to be able to vote and to orga- “Obama is a dramatic example, as is Carol apartment. When Daniel said he would music. He was someone who would pet rent events? Writing is a great resource gather to discuss the recent loss of nize, because most of them were from plan- Moseley Braun, and the breakthrough of do something, he almost always did. He every dog that he passed and always to channel thoughts and worry. The work, the ongoing challenge of being tations,” Black recalled, as he talked on the the early restrictive covenants. I want the decided to try his luck in Seattle because spoke up for what he believed in, even if write-in will hold space for you to Black in dance, the current state of actually sit down and write away from line. “There was a separation class-wise.” reader to feel optimistic through reading it was back in his home state and — being he knew he was in the wrong. He is leav- the arts and the continual murders of distraction. You’ll be given writing In 1940, the U.S. Supreme Court banned the history of one man who lived 101 years the biggest city in Washington — offered ing behind a huge hole at Real Change. Black trans women and femmes. The prompts, time to write and time to restrictive covenants. African Ameri- in the community he talked about.” n so many more resources than any other Our office will be a little quieter and less panel will consist of David Rue, Randy connect with others. This workshop is cans could now move out of crowded town could. fun without him. Ford, Ron Gatsby, Markeith Wiley, Bronzeville and find more space in South Courtesy of StreetWise / INSP.ngo Within six months, Daniel was inside We’ll sure miss Daniel around here. n REALCHANGE 12 FEATURE June 24 – 30, 2020

CAP HILL Continued from Page 7 complish. Later Sunday, June 21, around document that detailed a recommitment 10:40 p.m., another shooting took place, to the message of the movement — that leaving a 17-year-old wounded. As the Black Lives Matter and BIPOC voices are day before, he was transported to Har- the ones that should be leading. “First, borview by a private vehicle, treated and we would like to acknowledge that no then released. organization, protest, or revolution is perfect,” it read. “We must be willing to Grassroots rising collectively learn and react quickly to chop is an evolving paradox and mistakes within our movement. We do many things at once: a place to congre- not want to see what was started with gate around shared racial-justice goals, the intention of lifting the BLM message approached in a few different ways, destroyed before us all.” while simultaneously seeming like a The document suggests specific tourist attraction filled with people gaz- community-led actions and options to ing, holding up their phones to capture increase security and communication the rarity. at chop. These include creating “safe Instances of community members use” areas for drug and alcohol use that problem solving against dissention have become commonplace in the late or distraction have also been ever- night hours, and creating open hours present, online and on the ground. Just for chop (8 a.m.-8 p.m.) and creating a one example of this is a video posted more streamlined and robust system for on social media where a group of com- communicating across volunteers and munity members successfully deter and Photo by Ted Mase service providers in the area. deescalate someone ready to smash Several corner-store factions provide sustenance for people (and pets) at chop. There are no names attached to the windows of the abandoned precinct the document but those involved are building. referred to as BIPOC and white-ally Some people have characterized sageways to approach gun violence and chop responded to the mayor’s com- community members. The account the occupation of the place as a way to night-time activities in the area. Best ments; some say their groups were not later tweeted an intention not to lead imagine and exemplify the community announced plans to come back to the consulted by the mayor’s office at all. but to follow the guidance of BIPOC action that could be bolstered if police East Precinct in a way that works with Undeniably, chop holds space for the leadership. In addition to Voices of were defunded and those dollars were the community. imagined changes and futures BIPOC chop, “Capitol Hill Organized Protests invested in human services and commu- Andre Taylor, who founded Not This have been dreaming of and striving to see. (official account)” emerged and warns nity networks. Time and whose brother Che Taylor was But what will come of the protest zone, its against fraudulent accounts created At a press conference Monday, June killed by police, said he has been on the changing methods and challenges is yet by opponents. There are several more 22, Durkan said, “It’s time for people to ground speaking with chop organizers. uncertain. chop contains multitudes and social media accounts affiliated with go home” and to open Capitol Hill for He mentioned that as a place, chop does is unfolding — certainly a story to be told chop and groups involved. business, residents, employees, while bring up some dangers. However, “chop is by the many voices we haven’t heard. n All of this comes after almost two also allowing space for peaceful pro- not a place — it’s an idea,” he said. “Don’t weeks of speculation and mixed mes- test. She noted the city is working with minimize the idea of chop.” This reporting was up-to-date at press saging around chop’s goals and what the Black-led community organizations such After the press conference, multiple time, June 23 midday. truly grassroots organizing aims to ac- as Not This Time and Community Pas- social media accounts involved with