REALCHANGE April 15 – 21, 2020 FREE PANDEMIC EDITION APRIL 15–21, 2020 n VOLUME 27 NUMBER 16 n REALCHANGENEWS.ORG The city’s simple recipe for proper hygiene WHAT WENT WRONG? p.3 CIVIL UNREST: Until the pandemic, the world was engulfed in protests over economic inequality | p.4 SPIRITUAL DISTANCING: We celebrate our religious holidays in live-streaming confinement | p.6 REALCHANGE REALCHANGE 2 OPINION April 15 – 21, 2020 April 15 – 21, 2020 NEWS 3 Government surveillance has Hygiene facilities for Seattle’s unsheltered Real Change exists to provide opportunity and a voice for low-income and homeless people while taking action for economic, spread with the COVID-19 pandemic have diminished along with plans for more REPORTER’S social and racial justice. NOTEBOOK Real Change offices By ASHLEY ARCHIBALD 219 First Ave. S., Suite 220 By UMBERTO BACCHI where infected people have been. under quarantine. Staff Reporter Bernie bows out Seattle, WA 98104 Guest Writer Identities were not published but the A QR code in the bracelets is meant en. Bernie Sanders announced 206.441.3247, www.realchangenews.org information that was enabled web devel- to pair with a smartphone app to iden- ane Doe starts her day at a food April 8 that he would suspend his he coronavirus pandemic has opers to build detailed maps tracking the tify those who break the 14-day isolation bank to eat. Usually, she’ll go from presidential campaign, making for- BOARD OF DIRECTORS S Yolanda Altamirano, Malou Chávez, pushed governments globally to movements of patients. period. J there to physical therapy or park in mer Vice President Joe Biden the presump- Shelly Cohen, Anitra L. Freeman, impose draconian lockdowns, a spot where she can use her computer tive nominee for the Democratic Party in Matthew Hayashi, Hannah Hunthausen, T Pamela Kliment, Jim Lauinger (President), travel bans and tighter border controls in INDIA THAILAND for schoolwork. On Fridays, after therapy, the November general election. Maria Elena Ramirez, Teresa Reeves, a bid to stem the spread of the contagious People suspected of having the coro- Thailand has rolled out a mobile she heads up to Everett, bringing boxes of While Sanders started strong, more or Mary Riski, Chukundi Salisbury virus. navirus in India have received hand app that anyone arriving at an airport food to a household in need. less tying in the Iowa caucuses and winning EDITORIAL STAFF From China to Russia, containment stamps and are being tracked using their must download to help monitor where “I try to be as useful as possible,” Doe in New Hampshire, Vermont and Nevada, the Staff Reporter Ashley Archibald measures have often come with height- mobile phones and personal data to help they have been in the event that they test said. Real Change agreed to keep Doe tides turned when Biden won South Carolina Editor Lee Nacozy Features Reporter Kamna Shastri ened surveillance, as authorities use enforce quarantines. positive for the virus. anonymous because she is a victim of with considerable support from Black voters. Art Director Jon Williams artificial intelligence (AI) and big data to Government officials are also pulling domestic violence. Biden solidified his lead on Super Tuesday keep tabs on the population, alarming hu- out citizen and reservation data from air- TAIWAN But Doe, a vehicle resident, doesn’t after moderate candidates Pete Buttigieg REAL CHANGE STAFF man rights activists and privacy experts. lines and the railways to track suspected Taiwan is using location data from have a place to do basic things, like take and Sen. Amy Klobuchar simultaneously Circulation Specialist Wes Browning Organizer Evelyn Chow Here is a list of countries’ technology to infections. smartphones to ensure that people who a shower or use the restroom. Compound- dropped out and endorsed him. Volunteer Manager Katie Comboy track and contain the outbreak. are quarantined stay in their homes. The ing the problem, she spends much of her Biden also took Washington state and Managing Director Shelley Dooley SINGAPORE Communications and Development system alerts police when people move time in a wheelchair, rendering it impos- King County by a small margin the week Associate Alexis Estrada CHINA Singapore, which has been using po- away from their address or turn off their sible to use some of the public restrooms before Super Tuesday, further hurting Founding Director Timothy Harris Authorities across China have rolled lice investigators and security cameras phones. in the city. Most of the restrooms built to Sanders’ chances — he had won the state Field Organizer Neal Lampi Vendor Program Manager Rebecca Marriott out “big data” measures, adding to a host to help track suspect carriers, launched Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Photo by Mark White in 2016, before Washington ditched its cau- Lead Organizer Tiffani McCoy of monitoring tools already being used, a contact-tracing smartphone app to al- RUSSIA standards are not open since public build- “It is still safer for me to use Seattle streets as a toilet. I won’t get anyone else’s germs,” wrote cuses, where Sanders excelled. That year, Vendor Case Manager Ainsley Meyer such as facial recognition and phone data low authorities to identify those who have Police in Moscow have used facial ings are closed due to COVID-19. Jane Doe. City Auditor found that Seattle needed 224 additional public restrooms to serve Hillary Clinton won the primary election Operations Associate Ari Shirazi Development Director Camilla Walter tracking. been exposed to people infected with recognition technology to catch more than It’s left her with few options. its population. Now there are six open around the clock. but lost the caucus, which was how the These include apps monitoring the coronavirus. 200 people who violated the terms of their “I simply use the streets as my toilet. state allocated delegates. VOLUNTEERS daily temperature of students preparing Records of the encounters will be self-isolation or quarantine. If no one cares about people like me, why Caucuses are notoriously less repre- Editorial Committee Susan Storer Clark, Laura Ditsch, Willie Jones, James Jenkins, Dagmar to return to school or assigning people stored locally on each phone and the should I care about my city anymore?” sentative than primaries because they Matheny, Paige Owens, Tiron Rowe color codes based on their travels, time data will be encrypted. The app will not IRELAND Doe said. responsibility to meet the hygiene needs Some handwashing stations require require people to physically go to a cau- Contributing Writers Rabbi Olivier BenHaim, spent in outbreak hotspots and exposure access other information, such as a user’s Irish health authorities said the gov- Doe is far from alone. of people experiencing homelessness,” foot pumps to dispense water, which some cus site and line up for their preferred Hanna Brooks Olsen, Wes Browning, to potential carriers of the virus. location, and its functionality will be sus- ernment is to roll out a voluntary phone- With public buildings, private busi- Council President Lorena Gonzalez said. people with disabilities can’t operate. In a candidate. This primary season, Nevada John Helmiere, Michelle Galluzzo, Dave Gamrath, Kelly Knickerbocker, Joe Martin, Patrick “Mac” pended after the epidemic subsides. tracking app to alert users if someone nesses and some homeless shelters shut, “Before COVID, our strategy in this space letter to public officials, Doe threatened tried a hybrid model, allowing people to McIntyre, Jill Mullins, Oscar Rosales Castaneda, SOUTH KOREA they have been in contact with develops people experiencing homelessness have was unsatisfactory. The COVID emergency to file an ADA complaint. caucus in person as well as indicate their Susan Storer Clark, Megan Wildhood, Mike Wold In South Korea, private software de- HONG KONG even fewer places to use the restroom has made it even more unsatisfactory.” “As a disabled person sleeping in my support remotely. velopers have set up websites and apps to Hong Kong has been handing elec- and shower, leaving a growing mess on That point was underscored by tes- van, I deserve a restroom that is acces- Sanders informed supporters of his Photographers and Artists Alex Bergstrom, See SURVEIL Continued on Page 11 Matthew S. Browning, Sam Day, Natalie Dupille, help people track cases and shun places tronic wristbands to overseas arrivals put the streets of Seattle and a further public timony from outreach workers Jessica sible and meets safety standards. I don’t decision in a live-streamed speech from Jeffrey Few, Valerie Franc, Susan Fried, Seth Goodkind, Derek Gundy, Lisa Hagen Glynn, Lara health hazard that threatens people living Kwon and Dawn Whitson, who work on deserve men walking in on me. I deserve his home in Vermont. He made it clear Kaminoff, Ted Mase, Dave Parish, Joseph Romain, outside. the front lines of the homelessness to be able to wash my hands when I am that while he was exiting the fight for Wes Sauer, Katie Wheeler At a meeting of the City Council’s response and, now, the coronavirus re- done using the bathrooms,” Doe wrote in the nomination, he would stay on future Copy Editors Pamela Bradburn, Mason Duke, DIRECTOR’S CORNER | Timothy Harris, founding director Select Committee on Homelessness & sponse. the letter. “It is still safer for me to use Se- ballots to amass delegates and attempt Merry Nye, Morgan Wegner Housing, service providers and outreach Whitson spoke of a client she found attle streets as a toilet, I won’t get anyone to influence the party platform for the Real Change vendors are resilient Real Change Volunteers Yolanda Altamirano, lief Fund and the coronavirus has changed everything. workers expressed frustration as they who was covered in menstrual blood, else’s germs.” Democratic National Convention.