02 Question Inevitability: Does Seattle Need A New Jail? - Tim Harris (Part One)

Presented by Real Change and the Seattle University School of Law, January 28th, 2009, Pigott Auditorium


Timothy Harris is the founding Director of Real Change News and has led several successful organizing campaigns in Seattle, including the 2001 Initiative 71 ballot measure to increase shelter and other resources for homeless people and the 2006 Downtown For All campaign to increase the affordable housing dollars raised from downtown high-rise development. Harris also founded the Spare Change homeless newspaper in Boston in 1992 while working as Executive Director of Boston Jobs with Peace, an organization that organized direct action style protests with homeless people while drawing connections to militarism and other misplaced federal budget priorities. He has taught Homelessness, Poverty, and Streetpapers at the University of Washington as a visiting lecturer since 2003 and is the author of the popular homelessness bog Apesmas Lament: apesmaslament.blogspot.com.


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