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Whose Streets? Take Back the Night Vigil
The Puget Sound region has seen a sharp increase in Hate Crimes against the LGBTQ Community in the past few months. At least five reported incidents occurred in Seattle in the last two months alone. Last Saturday the Queer Ally Coalition held a vigil and march to “Take Back the Night.”
Reporter: Benjamin Cleaves
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Army Resisters Growing in Number
Whatever happened to Lieutenant Ehren Watada, the first commissioned officer to resist serving in the Iraq War on moral grounds? And what about other resisters? According to local members of Veterans for Peace, not much has changed, except the number of resisters is growing. Once a month, a handful of veterans and supporters set up banners and pass out literature in downtown Seattle.
Reporter: David Griffith
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Green Acre Radio Returns: Flooding!
We are happy to report that after a bit of a hiatus, Green ACRE Radio has returned to One World Report. You might remember that the segment on environmental and conservation issues in the Puget Sound region lost its funding last year. Fortunately Green ACRE Radio Producer Martha Baskin found new funding from a different source and is back. In this story she focuses on the Snoqualmie River Valley. The valley has some of the area’s richest farmland. Fierce floods, exacerbated by climate change, ravage the valley regularly. But for the same reason, it remains off limits to development and ripe for farmers willing to feed Seattle’s growing appetite for locally grown food that meets sustainable practices.
Reporter: Martha Baskin
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Global Warming...We’re Doomed.
Last night on the KBCS program Voices of Diversity, Joaquin Uy and Francesca Lyman hosted a discussion on Global Warming and what people are doing to slow climate change. There were two guests on the program. Sheida Sahandy is the City of Bellevue Assistant to the City Manager and Chairperson for the Environmental Stewardship Initiative of the City of Bellevue. And David Gershon is the founder of the Empowerment Institute and author of the book, Low Carbon Diet: A 30 Day Program to Lose 5,000 Pounds.

To hear the entire program, go to the Voices of Diversity archive page.
Editor: Havens Tipps
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Healthcare Equity
Over the past few years, the organizers at the grassroots lobbying organization Washington Community Action Network or Washington CAN noticed a pattern in their membership. People weren’t accessing healthcare. In some cases, this was because they felt unwelcome. In other cases, the costs were prohibitive or there were language barriers. This in combination with national data showing that communities of color have higher rates of illness and mortality, motivated the organizers at Washington CAN to join the Northwest Federation of Community Organizations to study access to care at hospitals around Seattle. They released the study results this past Tuesday, on the steps of Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle’s First Hill neighborhood. Washington Community Action Network Organizer Fatima Morales took time out of her preparations for the press conference, to speak with One World Report’s Jill Bolduc, about the study.
Interviewer: Jill Bolduc
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The Common Language Project
The sale and possible closure of the Seattle P-I has called local attention to the growing, nation-wide media crisis that has particularly affected print journalism. This crisis has driven many journalists to search for alternative models of reporting the news. One such model is the Common Language Project. The Common Language Project is an on-line, multi-media news magazine that focuses on under-reported international and domestic issues. The organization is also a non-profit that receives funding from a variety of media, foundational and community sources. One World Report’s Shann Thomas sat down with the Common Language Project’s Executive Director, Sarah Stuteville, to discuss the origins and issues of the current media crisis, as well as how non-profit journalism can fit into the changing media landscape.
Interviewer: Shann Thomas
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Open Government...Open Sesame
Last week, we interviewed Chris Leman, a Seattle resident helping spearhead the movement for Open Government in Seattle. “Open Government” is the term used to describe the movement ensuring relatively easy access to public documents and advocating transparency in all forms of government. We now take a step back and look at the Open Government Movement at the state level. The Washington Coalition for Open Government educates about and advocates for open public records and open public meetings issues. Toby Nixon, its president, is a former state legislator from Kirkland who talked about the Coalition with One World Report’s Technology and Privacy Reporter Peter Marshall. Havens Tipps edited this interview for broadcast.
Interviewer: Peter Marshall
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Credits
Joaquin Uy is the executive producer. Special thanks to reporters and writers Martha Baskin, Robbin Block, Benjamin Cleaves, Antonio Dileo, David Griffith, Tara Hayes, Peter Marshall, Audrey Quinn, Mark Taylor-Canfield, Shann Thomas and Karen Westerlind. Jill Bolduc is the engineer. Havens Tipps is our audio editor. Special thanks to The Olympian, Real Change News, The Seattle P-I, The Seattle Times and Washington News Service.