The Seattle-based activist has been a vocal critic of Tacoma's Northwest Detention Center Maru Mora-Villalpando received the notice just before Christmas: a certified letter from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that marked the start of her d ...
2 Feb 2018 - Aaron Burkhalter
BOOK REVIEW | In her memoir, 'Shrill,' Seattle writer calls people to task but also into dialogue If two people are sitting in broken chairs and they fall, who takes the blame? Is it the chair? Or the person? Seattle author and former staff wr ...
19 Sep 2016 - Aaron Burkhalter
Advocate and author Ai-Jen Poo says domestic workers are an integral yet overlooked facet of the nation’s economy Domestic workers make up a sort of “shadow economy” in the United States. These people, who provide child care, senior care, house cleaning a ...
31 Dec 2015 - Aaron Burkhalter
Seattle artist and activist talks about his photojournalistic Facebook project Homeless in Seattle Rex Hohlbein built a nonprofit on the back of a simple Facebook page on homelessness called “Homeless in Seattle.” Hohlbein’s more than 16,000 followers see ...
30 Jun 2015 - Aaron Burkhalter
Alan sometimes drank until he blacked out. When he regained consciousness, he’d find himself at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Wash. The 54 year-old, who requested his last name be withheld, has tried to quit drinking several times. He attended Alc ...
2 Jul 2014 - Aaron Burkhalter
Kshama Sawant took her oath of office Jan. 6 in front of hundreds at Seattle City Hall. She plans to take home an “average worker’s wage” and donate the rest of her $120,000 annual salary to a campaign to create a $15-an-hour minimum wage and other social ...
22 Jan 2014 - Aaron Burkhalter
Seattle’s Larry Clum spends hours each week walking the streets of downtown Seattle. A mental health counselor for Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission, he meanders through Pioneer Square, down Alaskan Way, underneath the viaduct and into Westlake Park. Clum tr ...
11 Jul 2013 - Aaron Burkhalter