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  • Activists blockade Seattle Federal Building for 14 hours in protest of ICE arrests

    2 weeks ago | gossipguy.net | Guy Oron

    Hundreds of community members participated in a 14-hour-long protest against ICE at the Seattle Federal Building this Tuesday, June 10. Activists mobilized against the arrest and detainment of migrants after their immigration court hearings by Immigrant and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

  • Raids, victories and fear: Where Washington stands after almost six months of Trump’s immigration crackdown

    3 weeks ago | gossipguy.net | Guy Oron

    Nearly six months into his second administration, U.S. President Donald Trump’s xenophobic crackdown has created an atmosphere of fear and hostility for immigrants in Washington State. But as federal authorities fail to meet expectations and actually achieve record levels of detention and deportation, they are increasingly resorting to bolder and more arbitrary methods to fulfill their quotas.

  • UW calls the cops on student protesters who demanded an end to ties with Boeing

    1 month ago | gossipguy.net | Guy Oron

    This article was written in collaboration with Real Change news. You can find it in the paper’s May 14 issue. A little before 5 p.m. on May 5, dozens of students and their allies entered and took over the University of Washington’s (UW) new Interdisciplinary Engineering Building (IEB), setting up a protest occupation.

  • Washington Senate’s version of rent stabilization would have limited impact on landlord profiteering

    2 months ago | gossipguy.net | Guy Oron

    To view interactive charts, open post in browserOn April 10, the Washington State Senate passed HB 1217, the rent stabilization bill that would establish a cap on how much a landlord can raise the rent in a year. Yet, prior to passing the legislation, the senate passed several floor amendments that substantially watered it down and curbed its potential to prevent excessive rent gouging.

  • Seattle swept homeless people 2,500 times in 2024, marking continued record levels of displacement

    2 months ago | gossipguy.net | Guy Oron

    For a second year in a row, Seattle carried out more than 2,000 sweeps of homeless people throughout the city in 2024. New data, obtained through a public records request, shows that Seattle’s Unified Care Team (UCT) removed a total of 2,504 encampments, vehicles and tents in 2024 — an average of 6.8 removals a day. In 2023, the city swept unhoused Seattleites 2,205 times.

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