Jason Redmond via Getty Images Correction 12/7/2021: In our original statement, we stated that Sawant was reelected three times. She has in fact been reelected twice. Sawant has won three Seattle City Council elections in total, but the first was her 2013 election where she took office, rather than being reelected to it. Tomorrow, Central Seattle voters will determine the…
Victoria Winter | The Seattle Collegian Moving through the pockmarked world, warm eye contact with strangers, heaven on Earth — I’m talking about a world that is possible with love, when one can look beyond fear. This is where we drop in. One quick shuffle shot southbound on Broadway. More specifically, I’m heading to Cal Anderson Park to meet my escort…
Jordan Somers | The Seattle Collegian 2021 has arrived, and with this new year comes a heightened sensitivity and alertness to all that had transpired throughout 2020. A new year tends to summon a newfound hope, resolution, and commitment to instilling some form of healthy habit or offering – whether to the individual or to the collective. Yet for those advocating,…
Alexa Villatoro Awaiting an imminent sweep of houseless occupants residing in Cal Anderson park, homeless advocates who claim they are “here to advocate for people who are unsheltered” in King County, and particularly Seattle held a press conference on Thursday Dec. 17. Held in front of a foreclosed house on 11th and Denny currently occupied by demonstrators,…
Alexa Villatoro | The Seattle Collegian Issued late night on June 30, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s executive order authorized all city departments to reply to “exigent life safety, public health, and property issues” in and around protestors’ CHOP (Capitol Hill Organized Protest) zone. Protestors established the zone on June 8, following nightly demonstrations that busied the 11th and Pine intersection with…