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In Remembrance Of Fitzgerald Redd Beaver , Gone But Never Forgotten.

January 1, 2020 by Admin NW FACTS 4 Comments

“I shall pass this way but once; therefore any good that I can do or any kindness that I may show let me do it now. For I shall not pass this way again.”
Fitzgerald Beaver – Founder THE FACTS NEWSPAPER
Photo History : Charlie James interviewing Fitzgerald Beaver at THE FACTS NEWSPAPER OFFICE on Empire Way (Martin Luther King Jr. Way) and Cherry

Forever In Our Hearts.

 

FITZGERALD REDD BEAVER (FITZ) (1922–1992)

Fitzgerald Beaver , Photo History: Friday, Aug3, 1962 News clipping photo of “From My Pen” Beavers Weekly Editorial

Fitzgerald Beaver was born January 18, 1922, in Martinsville, Virginia. He graduated from high school in Martinsville and then attended North Carolina A & T College in Greensboro, North Carolina in the late 1930s.  Beaver left college without graduating and worked as a railroad porteracross the United States. By the beginning of World War II he had arrived in the Pacific Northwest and was living in the city of Portland, Oregon.

During the war “Fitz” Beaver, as he was now known, worked briefly for the U.S. Army as a civilian employee and then was hired by the Kaiser Company in Portland as a shipyard worker. After the war he briefly resided in North Bend, Oregon where he worked at a local radio station.  Finding a career he liked, he moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue radio and public relations training.

“Eager Beaver” Fitzgerald Beaver Photo History : In 1955, Fitzgerald returned to Portland and at the age of 33 became a local radio personality known as “Eager Beaver.”

In 1955, he returned to Portland and at the age of 33 became a local radio personality known as “Eager Beaver.”  In 1961, Beaver moved to Seattle, Washington to manage radio station KZAM-FM, the first black-owned radio station in the Pacific Northwest. He stayed at the station only a few months before launching The FACTS newspaper on September 7, 1961.

The FACTS quickly became a major media presence in black Seattle. The paper’s mission stated:  “We try to pick up where the daily papers leave off” meaning the paper would focus on stories not covered by the major daily newspapers but which were of particular interest to black Seattleites.  He gave the paper a distinctive “pink” color to separate it from its competitors. By the late 1960s, Beaver authored a popular column called “Right On!” that discussed local and regional issues.

Beaver was an eclectic personality who often clashed with other black journalists over news related to African Americans such as coverage of the race riots in Seattle and across the nation in the late 1960s.  His FACTS newspaper also became a community icon.  Its office, on the corner of Cherry Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way, was a familiar landmark in Seattle’s Central District with an old truck situated on top of the slanted roof and a large reader board.

Fitzgerald Beaver – Founder of THE FACTS NEWSPAPER Photo History: Mr Beaver built The FACTS to quickly became a major media presence in black Seattle. The paper’s mission stated: “We try to pick up where the daily papers leave off”

 

Despite his clashes with other black journalists Beaver also hired numerous young black journalists who went on to other newspapers.  Chris Bennett, owner and publisher of a competing African American weekly newspaper, The Medium, and Ernie Foster, publisher of The Skanner newspaper in Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington, were aided by Beaver when they established their respective new

Founding Member Fir-State Golf Club
Fitzgerald Beaver and daughter Marla Beaver
Fitgeald Beaver and granddaughter Brandy Alzene Allen

An ardent golfer, Beaver was a founding member of the predominantly African American Fir State Golf Club. He also served as president of the Boys and Girls Club in Seattle and worked with the Army, Navy and Coast Guard in minority recruiting programs in the 1970s and 1980s.

Fitzgerald “Fitz” Beaver died on
New Year’s Day, 1992 in Seattle, Washington at the age of 69. 

Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth, and their three children, Dennis, Marla, and LaVonne Beaver who are the current publishers of the newspaper.

 

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Washington will have Paid Family and Medical Leave.

January 1, 2020 by Admin NW FACTS Leave a Comment

At EOI, we always believed that caring for your health or that of a loved one is a right, not a privilege. We began fighting for this right in 1998, and we didn’t stop until we won.
This is what we do at EOI. We search for pragmatic policy solutions to lift up our community members at their most vulnerable times. We build solidarity. We unite coalitions. We listen to those most impacted by the issues. We pursue bold strategies to build a more equitable state, and most importantly, we persist.
Since the passage of Paid Family and Medical Leave in 2017, I have shared what we’ve learned about making paid leave equitable and inclusive with groups across the country who are fighting to establish programs in their states.

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NURSES AND CAREGIVERS MOVE CLOSER TO STRIKE AT SWEDISH AS MANAGEMENT PROPOSALS MISS THE MARK

January 1, 2020 by Admin NW FACTS Leave a Comment

After a full day of negotiations, nurse and caregiver members of SEIU Healthcare 1199NW believe that Swedish-Providence’s proposals thus far do not address workers’ serious patient care concerns or fix ongoing unfair labor practices. Workers are still planning to strike unless a new agreement is reached soon.

“After 9 months of negotiations Providence has failed to offer any real commitment to safe patient care and appropriate staffing levels,” said Whittney Powers, a registered nurse in the emergency department at Swedish Edmonds. “On top of refusing to make a meaningful commitment, Providence has proposed to tie our wages to patient metrics that we can’t achieve without appropriate staffing. We feel set up to fail financially and professionally, and we won’t tolerate it.”

Union members say management’s staffing proposal, which centers on a series of committee meetings, does not match the severity or urgency of their patient care concerns. Swedish-Providence has over 900 open positions across all campuses. Multiple studies show that unsafe staffing levels in hospitals can lead to lower-quality care and patient harm, including falls, infections, medication errors and increased deaths. Nurses and other healthcare workers say they are understaffed throughout the hospital, from registered nurses to environmental service technicians who clean and disinfect patients’ rooms.

“In the cancer treatment center we have twelve nurse openings. Patients can wait one to two and a half hours before seeing anyone,” said Betsy Scott, a registered nurse in the Swedish First Hill Cancer Institute. “Then they go to the treatment chair for another hour or hour and a half before the nurse is free and has the medications to administer. My patients have breast cancer. The staffing issues have gone unaddressed. It is pathetic that we have to accept two to four hour waits for our patients. This has become normal. Something has to be done and it starts with paying staff more.”

Caregivers are concerned about the lack of response from Swedish to their proposals for on-call pay and scheduling. Standby pay for on-call workers has not increased significantly in over 15 years, with on-call workers paid just $4.25 per hour. Once assigned, on-call work schedules can be erratic, and many caregivers are unable to return home between shifts to sleep. They say that instead of being given sleeping rooms, they often sleep in their cars or on unused x-ray tables.

SEIU Healthcare 1199NW members have also proposed important measures to recruit and retain top-quality staff. A key factor in Swedish’s difficulty in recruiting new caregivers is that its wages for frontline workers have not kept up with the soaring cost of living in the Seattle area. Swedish-Providence pays almost 40 percent of its employees below the salary necessary to afford the average one-bedroom apartment in the Seattle area; Swedish-Providence workers commute an average of 84 minutes per day, with over 58 percent of caregivers unable to afford to live near where they work, and over 47 percent struggling to pay their rent or mortgage.

Environmental service technicians, who are responsible for hospital infection control, have repeatedly shared grave workload concerns with management. SEIU Healthcare 1199NW members have sought to improve hospital infection control and reduce the risk of worker injury with a series of proposals to set workload limits to ensure enough time and staff to provide quality infection control, and create a plan for escalating workload and staffing concerns. Swedish management has thus far refused caregivers’ infection control proposals.

Meanwhile, caregivers say they have experienced concerning treatment from management that suggests an unwillingness to bargain in good faith. Swedish has targeted unionized caregivers for discipline when they speak out about problems in the workplace, up to and including terminations, and has withheld information related to core subjects of bargaining, such as health care costs. Fair bargaining requires the exchange of information and unfair labor practices such as these are prohibited by law.

Nurses and caregivers at Swedish-Providence voted to authorize a strike in November. They are joined in strike readiness by nurses and other healthcare workers from the Washington State Nurses Association and UFCW 21 at other Providence-owned hospitals across the state. If a strike is called, 13,000 healthcare workers statewide will deliver 10-day notices to Providence management of their intent to strike. Caregivers say their goal is to achieve a fair union contract, and they are willing to return to the bargaining table at any time.

Filed Under: Business, Health, News, Northwest, Politics

Here’s to women leading the revolution in 2020!

January 1, 2020 by Admin NW FACTS Leave a Comment


A toast to 2019! It was a year of mass global upheavals — the largest in the past decade. People of all ages and ethnicities came together to protest climate change, children in cages and extreme economic inequity. And we can expect revolutionary dissent to continue to grow in the new year. It’s not surprising. The capitalist system is squeezing every drop out of workers. This super-exploitation of the working class has been most devastating for women and people of color. It is the reason so many movements in 2019 had women — usually women of color — in the leadership.

Across the world, female workers led a cascade of strikes this year. Mexican women were integral to huge work stoppages. Australian sisters took on the pharmaceutical giant Chemist Warehouse. Unionized Black women in the U.S.  were at the heart of coast to coast teachers’ strikes. The Chicago Teachers Union was a model of how to get the community behind labor’s demands.  In Australia and the U.S., Radical Women (RW) battled rightwing thugs, defended reproductive rights and abortion clinics. Melbourne members engaged with the indigenous people’s fight against exploitation by mining companies and against high incarceration rates — two struggles led by First Nations women. Seattle RW helped publicize the plight of missing and murdered indigenous women in the Pacific Northwest.

The Alliance of Middle Eastern and North African Socialists asked for help getting support for Iranian revolutionaries, feminists and political prisoners who continue to organize massive civil disobedience actions despite facing deadly repression. Radical Women educated and organized on this issue. In Syria, Kurdish female fighters continued to bear arms against U.S.-sponsored ethnic cleansing. Women similarly led actions in Lebanon, Iraq, Sudan, Algeria, and many other countries. This December, socialist feminists from Mexico, Argentina and the United States met in Mexico City to discuss ways to collaborate in the upcoming year.

This unprecedented wave of organizing is cause for joy, hope, and the resolve to
keep building alliances at home and abroad. Internationalism is at the core of Radical Women’s program—a program that is needed by all movements for social justice if they are to remain focused and principled. Sexism, racism, transphobia and homophobia have no place in the fight for working class liberation. Let us continue with the Trotskyist legacy of feminism and international­ism at a time when workers everywhere are enacting these ideals — both intuitively and from theoretical study. Let us ring in the new year with optimism and resolve to continue building solidarity with women and revolutionary movements around the globe!

You can find fiery Radical Women writings on the RW webpage. Learn more about RW through The Radical Women Manifesto, an exhilarating exploration of Marxist feminist theory and organizing methods. Buy a copy or read it on Google Books.

Donations are appreciated! As a grassroots group, Radical Women is sustained by support from people like you. Please contribute online or mail a check, payable to Radical Women, National Office 5018 Rainier Ave S Seattle, WA 98118 USA.

Filed Under: Community, Community News, Front Page Slider, News, Northwest, Politics

Business owners in Washington start the Year of In THE GREEN . Revenue offers free tax workshop Jan. 8 in Seattle

January 1, 2020 by Admin NW FACTS Leave a Comment

Business owners in Washington are responsible for knowing which taxes to report. To help them, the Washington State Department of Revenue (Revenue) is hosting a free workshop for new and small business owners Jan. 8, 2020 in Seattle.

Call 206-727-5300 or go online to register on Revenue’s education page.

 

Participants will learn about Washington excise taxes, reporting classifications, deductions, tax incentives, sales tax collection and record-keeping requirements. Attendees receive a workbook and helpful reference guide to Revenue’s rules and regulations. Also, attendees may earn two continuing professional education (CPE) credits. Contact the workshop instructor for details.

 

Date: Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020

Time: 1 – 4:30 p.m.

Location: Dept. of Revenue, 2101 4th Ave. SE, Suite 1400 (cross street Lenora), Seattle

 

Contact Revenue’s Rick Stedman with any questions about the workshop: 360-705-6624 or .

 

Revenue offers several ways for businesses to learn about taxes. Visit the education page to view a complete schedule and to register for upcoming workshops. Business owners can also watch a short streaming video version of the workshop online.

Filed Under: Business, Front Page Slider, News, Northwest

Revenue offers free tax workshop Jan. 16 in Kirkland

January 1, 2020 by Admin NW FACTS Leave a Comment

Business owners in Washington are responsible for knowing which taxes to report. To help them, the Washington State Department of Revenue (Revenue) is hosting a free workshop for new and small business owners Jan. 16 in Kirkland.

Call 425-984-6224 or go online to register on Revenue’s education page.

Participants will learn about Washington excise taxes, reporting classifications, deductions, tax incentives, sales tax collection, and record-keeping requirements. Attendees receive a workbook and helpful reference guide to Revenue’s rules and regulations. Also, attendees may earn two continuing professional education (CPE) credits. Contact the workshop instructor for details.

 

Date: Thursday, Jan. 16

Time: 1 – 4 p.m.

Location: Kirkland Library Meeting Room, 308 Kirkland Ave., Kirkland

 

Contact Revenue’s Rick Stedman with any questions about the workshop: 360-705-6624 or .

 

Revenue offers several ways for businesses to learn about taxes. Visit the education page to view a complete schedule and to register for upcoming workshops. Business owners can also watch a short streaming video version of the workshop online.

Filed Under: Business, News, Northwest

Happy New Year Pacific Northwest 2020

January 1, 2020 by Admin NW FACTS Leave a Comment

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An inmate housed at the King County Correctional Facility passes away

December 31, 2019 by Admin NW FACTS 1 Comment

An inmate who had been booked into the King County Correctional Facility passed away Monday, December 30, 2019.

On Monday, December 30, 2019, a 35-year-old female inmate passed away.  She had been booked at the King County Correctional Facility in Seattle on an investigation for drugs.

 

The King County Medical Examiner’s office will conduct a review to determine the cause and manner of death.

 

As part of the standard review process for jail-related deaths, the Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention will work with Public Health – Seattle & King County to conduct an internal investigation. The Seattle Police Department will also conduct an independent investigation.

 

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Holiday Spirit Comes to Georgetown, Othello, and Many Other Tiny House Villages

December 25, 2019 by Admin NW FACTS Leave a Comment

Georgetown and Othello tiny house village residents came together Friday evening at South Seattle College Georgetown Campus for a festive holiday celebration and dinner.

Tables were loaded with gifts and food gathered by LIHI board vice president Melinda Nichols, Alice Lockridge, and SSC Georgetown Campus faculty and staff, including Judy Reed and Betsy McConnell-Gutierrez who organized the event for the third year.

Thank you to the North Bend Water Aerobics class for donating blankets; to Linda Uno for donating coats; Anne Wetmore, Pinky Dale, and Nancy Mason who donated time and gifts; and to the Sallal Grange for donating food.

 

Toys and clothing were donated by residents of Snoqualmie Valley with Debby Peterman and the Snoqualmie Valley Kiwanis collecting and organizing the gifts.

 

Tiny house villages are celebrating the holidays this week with dinners, cookie decorating, twinkling lights, and visits from Santa.

Filed Under: Community, Community News, Front Page Slider, News, Northwest

Twinkling Lights and Snowflakes Glow at Whittier Heights Tiny House Village

December 25, 2019 by Admin NW FACTS Leave a Comment

Snowflakes hanging from fishing line seem to float over the twinkling Whittier Heights Tiny House Village thanks the work of LIHI employees Theresa Hohman,  Kori Arnson, volunteer Jeff Hegenauer and village residents. They are planning to leave the lights up through February to brighten the dark days of winter.

Filed Under: Community, Community News, Front Page Slider, News, Northwest

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